-Neutral name (sorry SJW)

Boo this person! (I kid, don’t boo them, they’re doing good work and I understand if not everyone wants to be a sh.it.head)

I’d ask how you define evil in this case. To me, an act is evil when the net detriment to the planet and its contents (including humans) is greater than the net benefit it creates, and the actor pursues said act knowing this. I’d argue it scales with the nature and context of the act. It’s hard to say this isn’t real. But yes, we all have the capacity for evil, and also can be complicit in other evils by dint of normalized behaviours (without necessarily being ‘evil’ ourselves)

I do agree that an absolute Evil doesn’t exist, the same way an absolute Good doesn’t exist. But we’re a pile of writhing meat puppets on a moist, moldy rock - we don’t exist on that level in the first place.

You tell your family members to do the same, both when asked about you and for themselves.

All volume scales should be 1-11. CMV.

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I likened it to a room with bidirectional portals yesterday - your analogy is much better, and has been stolen for future use.

Bring a gay homie to this place and treat it like a two for one promotion.

Note: You are probably going to have to be willing to throw down/draw for your gay homie. Edit: Reading more it’s probably just best to not patronize this place at all.

If you have an issue with a given community, find or start an alternative one on another instance. If you have an issue with how your instance deals with anyone, sign up for a different instance.

I urge you to consider this before giving up on Lemmy entirely, it’s kind of the beauty of the federated services.

Eh, everyone’s a little different, and for some it may well be impossible.

Real answer is conditioning, with most of the suggestions being means to get that rolling. The unwritten part is while you’re conditioning youself, you’re probably gonna be miserable for a while, unless you’re one of us folks with a genetic legacy of farmers and soldiers.

There are many calls to adventure, but we often don’t heed them because it means discomfort and risk - sometimes to the degree that your long-term survival is jeopardized with few means to mitigate that (valid), other times just because sitting on the couch seems nicer (more often than not, an excuse - but a choice you’re certainly allowed to make).

If your ability to survive by the trial’s end isn’t compromised, I think everyone should choose at least one adventure for themselves, even if it’s something that makes you feel a little like Don Quixote. It at least gives you something to talk about.

I would love to see someone discuss any enshitification trends with EHR software, as well as any initiatives to bolster FOSS stuff like OSCAR for hospital use cases (far as I know, it’s pretty much just used at the clinic level, with more and more uptake of proprietary solutions for that use case as well here in Canada [obligatory Fuck Telus]).

https://fammed.mcmaster.ca/oscar-emr/

As a cannabis enjoyer, I feel in this case, as is usually the case in my world, quad claims are bullshit.

Non-alcoholic gin and tonics are the shit. If you’re legit looking for non-alcoholic drinks and like G&Ts give it a try.

As I’m certain this is a product of cultural differences (edit: which, now that I actually noticed what community this is, makes sense) this is the most Canadian response I could think of:

All jokes aside, if you like the idea of a fantasy kinda western world that meanders its way through the larger Stephen King-averse (I found I didn’t need to know all the references, but where I did they were nice easter eggs), definitely worth a look.

That and if you like it, you’ll be able to drop nuggets like “Ka is a wheel” in public and look around for knowing looks to identify possible new friends.

I’d take a stab at Stephen King’s The Dark Tower series and see if it captures your fancy.

This was my thinking as well, plus addressing the ‘solution for those without IT experience’ bit. Search for video/article on removing wireless connectivity hardware, grab your screwdriver and get to work.

Still takes some work, obviously, and a lot of people are scared to void warranties/open up consumer electronics, but from the outside it sounds more straight-forward than futzing about with network settings. IMO worth it if concerned about the connectivity bits, willing to do it and the price is right for the TV as a dumb TV.

Alternatively, use used dumb TVs for as long as you can.

Serious question: How much of a brick risk is opening up one of these smart tvs and ripping out the wifi card? Can’t connect to the internet if you don’t have the hardware to do so.

(Obviously pretty high if legit caveman-style ripping out. Could also be really hard, I have no idea).

Aaand Mill Street is now boycotted.

Illegal in Canada too - if it’s not 20 +/- 0.5 oz, you can’t call it a pint.

Can’t say I see the word ‘pint’ at pubs very often anymore, though.

What about patronising as in ‘patronising this business’? A little archaic, but I do hear it from time to time, usually with the ‘pay’ pronounciation.

Then again, if someone is accusing me of being patronising (which happens a lot for reasons I don’t quite understand, but I digress), it’s split odds whether I’m “pah-trun-ising” or “pay-trun-ising”.

English is weird (perhaps this is its wyrd?)