[-] Dee@lemmings.world 41 points 10 months ago

the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, reported last year that roughly 20% of Americans have medical debt

I'm honestly shocked it's only 20%.

[-] Dee@lemmings.world 26 points 11 months ago

Lotta meth in the Nazi party, looks like a bit of meth mouth and a side of tobacco dipping to me.

[-] Dee@lemmings.world 31 points 11 months ago

random US city response, probably

Not random. You just described Houston, Texas.

[-] Dee@lemmings.world 40 points 11 months ago

No doubt, this is the best mushroom book imo. It's on my shelf as I type this.

[-] Dee@lemmings.world 120 points 1 year ago

I'm so happy this is the top comment when I came in here. We're not centralized social media that requires constant content generation to acquire more views and we shouldn't try to treat it as such. Donate to your instances when you can, contribute to communities you care about with posts/comments, and then when you reach the end of your feed log off. How forums are supposed to be imo.

[-] Dee@lemmings.world 25 points 1 year ago

I imagine the same reason so many Americans think of the UK as just London, or France as just Paris. I don't know what that reason is, but I imagine it's probably the same reason.

[-] Dee@lemmings.world 27 points 1 year ago

Are we okay with this?

It's their instance, their rules. You can join another instance that doesn't defederate from them or make your own. That's the beauty of the fediverse design. It doesn't matter if we're okay with it, we have options to get around it unlike with centralized platforms.

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Background: in Pathfinder undead characters can't be healed by normal healing spells, instead they take damage

[-] Dee@lemmings.world 35 points 1 year ago

I'll honestly be shocked if they can get him to shut up about the trial.

[-] Dee@lemmings.world 45 points 1 year ago

It's great to have additional studies confirming this! But this is also what the trans community has been saying for years. Please just listen to us when it comes to our own bodies 🥲

[-] Dee@lemmings.world 35 points 1 year ago

The malware disguises itself as authentic Google ads

Let this be yet another reminder that you should always browse with some kind of AdBlock enabled.

[-] Dee@lemmings.world 90 points 1 year ago

What happened to respecting states rights? So sick of the judicial branch in the US, the most untethered and corrupt branch of them all. Which is saying a lot considering the state of the legislative branch.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Dee@lemmings.world to c/portland@lemmy.ml

Edit: I just saw that another person already posted an article about this six or so hours before this from another news agency, so that's my bad mods. I'll try to check more thoroughly next time 😅

Summary:

Kotek and the Oregon Business Council will convene a panel of local elected officials, business executives and civic leaders beginning later this month...

Dan McMillan, president of insurance company The Standard, will co-chair the task force with the governor.

A final roster of confirmed participants will be forthcoming... Mayor Ted Wheeler and Multnomah County Chair Jessica Vega Pederson have both been invited to join...

The first meeting of the task force will take place Aug. 22, and the group will reconvene in September and October, according to the governor’s office. The group plans to issue a series of recommendations at the Oregon Plan Business Leadership Summit in December.

[-] Dee@lemmings.world 24 points 1 year ago

I don't even know what to say, just completely disgustingly unhinged behavior. The dehumanization of the houseless needs to stop.

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Howdy World (lemmings.world)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Dee@lemmings.world to c/lemmings_world_instance@lemmings.world

Hi, I'm Dee.

I was browsing through the various instances to join up with because I was tired of all the downtime with lemmy.world and I wanted to start using Lemmy as it was intended (spreading accounts out among more instances). That, and Beehaw hasn't been quite as engaging since defederation with lemmy.world and other large instances (which is why I went back to the lemmy.world account in the first place). I get why they defederated and I support their decision, it just was an overall negative impact for me in my Beehaw experience since I was in so many other communities outside of Beehaw.

This instance seemed chill, it blocks Threads and exploding heads so that's a great first impression. There's a few more instances I'd like to see added to the block list but that's a good enough start for me to get comfy here. The low user count has made everything just run so much quicker than with lemmy.world and I can still enjoy the same communities.

Happy to have found this place that appears to be here for the long haul and I'm looking forward to getting to know the local instance community more!

Edit: Sorry for triggering the snowflakes in the comments and for them feeling the need to provide substantial proof for why so many other instances defederate from them by default.

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Dee

joined 1 year ago