Ah! Sorry to hear you’ve had covid, that’s awful! Hope you’re over it soon! (And not only for the bat posts, for the record.)

The approval process is instance-specific; if you think that’s what’s keeping people away from Lemmy, just recommend they join a smaller instance that doesn’t require approval.

I hope you get a lot of exercise. That’s considerably more calories than most people should consume in an entire day. :)

Nobody actually buys a 2600 calorie milk shake and drinks it by themselves in a single sitting, right? …right?

The Borderlands franchise is really past its prime at this point, anyway. I’ve got absolutely no issue skipping this one. Might pick it up when it’s on sale for $10 in a few years. The franchise really peaked with BL2; it’s been down hill since.

It’s all about that plausible deniability.

“What did you think it meant? Oh my god, you pervert!”

You’re clearly advocating for gun violence without explicitly saying it. I think in most cases the folks who advocate for this are thinking of it in terms of either someone assassinating Trump, or in the whole country rising up and taking the government by force. I’m not going to sit here and discuss why either of those options are more than just, like, hard, nor am I going to advocate for either because I don’t think they’d have the effect any of us are hoping for in practice.

We laugh, but that mom is the kind of person that wholeheartedly supports the ‘You must provide proof of age to access adult sites’ laws that’re poised to ruin the internet.

This is one of those comments that it’s really easy to make from the comfort of your home on the internet, and almost impossible to put into action. I’d go so far as to say it’s even more useless of a suggestion than the ‘Just protest!’ folks.

As someone in the US, I kind of hate comments like this. Not because I don’t agree with you; I’d love for us to stand up to Trump, too, but the problem is, I don’t know how to (effectively) do that, I don’t think many others do, either, and whenever this comes up and I ask the question, ‘What exactly do you want us to do?’, the answer is always non-specific and weak, like “Protest!”, which, I mean… cool? We have been, but it’s not accomplishing much of anything. Really, I think the answer is ‘We don’t know, either’, and everyone else is equally as frustrated as we are and, like us, don’t have a better way to express it than calling for nonspecific action.

All that said, in keeping with tradition, I’ll ask you: What exactly do you want us to do?

There’s also the Machete Order. The TL;DR is to watch the movies in the order of: IV, V, II, III, VI. The reasons why are explained at that link and can’t be discussed without spoilers.

No, EGS is plenty shitty now; what they’re saying is that EGS’s one singular saving grace - the free games they give away - likely won’t last for the reason they outlined.

Not to mention, this is a gross misrepresentation of what’s actually going on.

Not solid state media, though; now we know why the world is shifting to SSDs! It’s all an AI Antichrist plot!

Though, I guess if OP’s magnet is comically large enough, it could just physically damage the circuitry, and it won’t matter. You’re the savior we need, OP!

My solution is just to act like I’m cooking for 12 people, and have leftovers for the rest of the week.

To all you folks who’re downvoting this comment: Are you basing your opinion on OP’s biased, slanted account of this policy, or did you read the actual post from the Feddit admins? You don’t have to answer me, but if it’s the former, maybe self-reflect that you’re here complaining about censorship and propaganda, yet you’re doing so in response to a very propaganda-laden post that misrepresents the actual situation.

The admins are also German, though, and seem to suggest that they feel at risk by this, as well. Maybe it’s just time for another European instance to start up, with admins not in Germany, who feel comfortable hosting this discourse?

That’s a fair concern; maybe the recourse is just to move the community to a different instance? If the community as a whole is largely in agreement, this shouldn’t be a difficult task. Even less of one if the mods agree.

This kind of seems… reasonable? Like, they have and convey a compelling legal reason for needing to do this. There’s plenty of other Lemmy instances where these opinions and statements can be freely expressed. Further, they’re explicitly allowing discourse that conveys similar sentiment but doesn’t go against German law.

I guess my question is, what’s the objection here?

This is brilliant, thanks for the link!