you are thinking in terms of people getting the best for their money instead of people being starved and trying to make a dollar last.

I’m not, actually. When I say “in bulk” I don’t mean a 20kg sack. 500g of rice or dry legumes goes a long way for a low price.

When we were starving we mostly got whatever was on sale or short-dated, so we ate different things all the time out of necessity, but dry goods were always reliable, which is why I asked about them.

I personally think free-range farming in a non-harmful way is great, but you should still consider that the chicken is incapable of consenting. Your relationship with any confined animal is inherently a slave/master one, and I understand why some people object to that. We’re keeping the animal comfortable and extending their lifespan, but we’re also robbing them of agency, and I feel like that’s something worth thinking about.

Where are you buying eggs for one crown each?? Maybe it’s a regional thing?

Sorry if I’m misunderstanding the problem, but aren’t foods like beans and rice which can be ordered in bulk online a good solution for people stuck in food deserts? I would think that anything with a long shelf life would be superior to perishables. (American eggs have to be refrigerated, right?)

Is that still the case if you’re only microdosing?

That’s such an apt description.

Seems to be working just as well as regular voting.

If copyright law were sensible no one would have to involve him or DC Comics to make whatever Sandman work they wanted.

Doesn’t it matter though? Isn’t delivering the promised product the correct reparations for failing to deliver a product? Pretty sure it was easy to get a refund back then, too.

There’s lots of bad pacing and horrible acting in movies today though. You can obviously watch or not watch whatever, but I think you’re limiting yourself unnecessarily if you put too much weight on the year of release.

None of that makes any sense. An old book and a new book aren’t different in the way a rotary phone and a smartphone are. They are functionally the same object: text on paper.

You could have, for example, a story about someone stranded on an island, and the era it was written in would make almost no difference at all because technology doesn’t have any bearing on the story, and we haven’t changed as a species. The culture of the author would influence things, but that’s true even of media today since we don’t all share the same culture.

Old media can also be very illuminating when it does affect the story because it can teach you something about the era in which it was made. You might think to yourself, “Gosh, people used to be able to feed and house their families on a single paycheck? Why can’t we do that today?”

And yeah, having stuff in black and white is less visually interesting, but I’m not going to rule out something I might find enjoyable just because of that. I watched quite a few old sitcoms in my childhood that I enjoyed just as much as the modern cartoons, and I still enjoy some of those cartoons today alongside modern TV.

Do you think the Home Alone sequels are better than the original?

TIL gymnosperms are a thing.

I’ve never been interested in RDR2 because I’m not into the western aesthetic, but I am absolutely into the aesthetic of being a time traveler or alien or wizard using my powers to help farmers and explode bad guys in an otherwise western setting. If I had any money, I would pay someone to make this.

Moby Dick is good in a way where I don’t care about any of the characters or the story, but I could read Melville describe water or argue that dolphins are fish for the rest of my life, just because of how beautifully he does it.

I don’t understand that at all. What about being old makes something boring by default?

This is just how English used to be.

First thoughts: The Antichrist looks like Draco Malfoy if he were the son of the billiards man from Homestuck.

I’m not religious and so do not believe in any prophesies at this time, but I don’t think covid fulfills “…and many people died from the waters that had become bitter.” (Revelation 8:10) The water part seems pretty specific, so it’s something yet to come, and potentially much worse than covid, so that’ll be fun.

The author seems to be stretching things a bit in quite a few places, but it was an interesting read regardless. Maybe Trump will check even more of the boxes in the coming years. Is he doing this on purpose?

e: Realized I hadn’t looked up the quoted verse. There’s supposed to be a star that falls, and that’s what corrupts the waters. Good example of what I mean about the author stretching things.

I think he just connected all the Boxers as necessarily being related by virtue of being Boxers.

I’m always wary of how such systems can be gamed and how they’ll influence user behavior, but the only downside to trying is your own efforts. Even if you fail miserably, I imagine the exercise itself would improve our understanding of what works, what doesn’t, and how to form better approaches in the future. To succeed in making a system which improves user interactions would be a truly wonderful thing, and may even translate to IRL applications. I would urge you to follow through with this for as long as you feel it’s something you’d like to do.

“All decisions affecting the community and its members as a whole must be backed by a public vote.”

Is there a way on Lemmy to distinguish who is or isn’t a community member? Is there a way to prevent me from rigging votes with a bot army or a group of bad actors?