I think that’s bread not cookies. It looks like they’re sandwiches cut into shape.

Understood. I appreciate you taking the time to answer these questions. You guys are doing an amazing job. <3

Maybe a bot could even do the part of the moderators and DM a member when they first comment or post. Allowing the user to respond to the bot to confirm if they fit the community and if not then remove the comment/post. A big ask I know but it may be an option if automation is on the table.

Sorry, I wasn’t exactly clear. I’m mostly just curious if you have further plans alongside the move to blahaj to address the issue you raised in this post.

I saw the post in the old community that talked extensively about the issue of outside influence and open hostility to members within the community which are the concerns I’m referring to.

Regarding Lemmy growing, what would be the response to the issue getting worse? Are there any plans for if that happens?

I have absolutely no idea what piefed is, even though the blahaj community has posted a lot about it recently. I’m just glad I can still access this community from the same app.

This is a really positive change. Moving to blahaj will hopefully make a significant impact on the concerns raised recently in this community. I’m glad that you guys have been proactive about protecting this community and have also been vocal about concerns that this community has raised.

Ada is amazing I’d like to also thank her for facilitating this move and also generally for being such a positive influence in so many communities.

I do have a few questions.

In light of the concerns raised, do you have anything else planned to overcome these challenges?

While I see the removal of downvotes as generally a good thing, are there any other means by which the community can self moderate besides reporting posts or comments that go against the overall mission of this community?

Are you, or would you, consider(ing) changing the community from blacklist to whitelist? Like blahaj is overall with their sign up applications. I’m not advocating for this I’m just curious if this is something that’s been considered.

Finally, if Lemmy grows significantly how do you plan to handle the impact that this will have on the community? If we are already having issues with external influences I only see that becoming worse if Lemmy were to see an increase in membership.

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I don’t know if it’s possible but some communities on Reddit had an account age limit to prevent spam, harassment, and also to ensure active moderation had a long-term effect. Is this something we could implement here?

I’ve been waiting for a story like this to happen in the UK for a while now. When I saw this I was actually surprised to see it was in the US. It’s only a matter of time, if it hasn’t already happened.

I will do. Thanks for the encouragement!

Well, it’s taking me a really long time. But the other day I began connecting all the plot points together and figured out a bunch of issues I was having. I added in a new character and that helped put a few pieces into place. So, it’s going slowly but I’m making progress.

Well, that’s a pretty horrifying thought.

Oh, I guess I wasn’t clear! I’m writing a novel.

Though I am also reading Metro 2033 by Dmitry Glukhovsky as I type this. It’s a difficult read as the author tends to ramble but I like the setting.

What is it?

It’s no longer wednesday but I picked my novel back up this week. I had a long break from it because I couldn’t figure out some details but I’m back now and working hard on it.

Not a real answer, sorry. I never found tutorials helpful. I just bought a bunch of clearance items and experimented. A lot of tutorials talk as if you already know what you’re doing so I found them nothing more than frustrating. Also, a lot of the stuff they use is so expensive!

I don’t know if there are tutorials that use cheap items and are actually for beginners (there almost certainly is) but I ended up learning from trial and error. Just make sure if you do what I did you buy some decent stuff to clean it all off with.

Personal assistant for the elderly. It should have been a rewarding job but it wasn’t. The pay was awful, I spent more time travelling between homes than helping anyone, and the clients weren’t the elderly people but the family who often just wanted a free cleaning service (it was a charity).

It was sad to see the elderly rot in their homes. The only excitement being my weekly visits that usually lasted only an hour. They rarely had anything else going on in their week and just had the TV playing in the background.

The families usually didn’t bother with them. If they even had a family. And a lot of the people should have been in full time care but obviously didn’t qualify for whatever reason.

I spent a lot of time wading through filth and piled up trash which hampered their mobility. A lot of my time was clearing it for them to be able to move uninhibited.

My final client I visited in the hospital just before they died. I’d spent a lot of time around them and it was difficult watching them die. I technically wasn’t supposed to visit them but I figured it was the right thing to do. And when they died I sought another job. It was too emotionally taxing and wasn’t paying a livable wage so I just couldn’t continue with it. Ended up handed in my notice before I had something else lined up.

I can only pray that when I reach that age I won’t end up in the same position.

Very true. While my partner does do chores, it is seen that way by some of my family. He is “helping” me. No, he’s doing his part of the chores that we both agreed to how it would be divided up. But no it’s seen as polite of him to “help” me.

He is good for it but I feel that the fact that I have to say that is evidence of the problem. I don’t think the same would be said of me because it’s expected.

Isn’t the superhero supposed to come in around the time to stop these people from uniting to achieve social justice? I was under the assumption that the super hero preserves the status quo and any deviation from it is seen as villainy.

I mean, in the dark knight bane toppled the stock market and promised to give power to the people, and spoke the truth to people about what happened when the joker was alive.

Whereas batman leverages his generational wealth to undermine a socialist revolution and tries to paint himself the good guy after being called out for lying by “sacrificing” himself to save the city. Whereas in reality he was vacationing in France.

The superheroes aren’t the good guys. They’re just cops with super powers.

Superman - the cop that beats up communists

Batman - the cop who beats up the poor

Tony stark - the commissioner who promises the ai facial recognition tech will only be used against criminals. After all “you’ve got nothing to hide”. Is the literal embodiment of the military industrial complex. Also has a lot of beef with middle eastern people.

Spiderman - another cop that beats up the poor but stood up to one CEO so everyone thinks he’s one of the good guys… except that was also only in one of the multiverse places afaik

Captain America - the embodiment of America being the world’s police force

The x-men - supported and maintained the genocide and segregation of their own people because it was more agreeable than violent revolution

Ad nauseam

TL;DR in a superhero story, OP would be the bad guy

Your clothes do not teleport with you

You now lactate and secrete rennet. Making it possible for you to harvest the ingredients and make cheese at will.

You can only shift into a species that you’ve seen before. Can only shape shift into living things (not sentient and mobile inanimate objects)

And you can never return to any species you were previously. It has to be a new one every time until you exhaust the possible species. Leaving you stuck as the last possible species you pick to shape shift into.

The problem is I get the big SAD in the winter. The lack of sunlight destroys me. I love all the sunlight in the summer but I really wish I could also wear my fluffy clothes without boiling alive, they’re so comfy!