Yeah, the doomposting is intense on Lemmy. I’ve taken up a policy of just downvoting any negative posts I see, even if I like the post otherwise, just to tamp down the negativity a bit around here.

The best and worst thing about Lemmy is how niche we are. It keeps out the “mainstream”, but unfortunately we’re easily inundated by perpetually-online doomers.

Also, I would recommend blocking users moreso than communities. Once you start looking for it, you realize that like 90% of these posts are made by just a few people/bots.

I don’t do this very often, but when you see Garfield sucking on John’s toes… how do you not?

Yep. Alberta is currently breaking up Alberta Health Services in a clear “Divide & Conquer” attempt.

Usually when a community bans you it means they don’t want you to be there. Could try going somewhere else?

Could probably also appeal, but personally if I get banned somewhere I just accept it and move on. Better for the ol’ mental health.

Love how they make this sound like some incredible feat. When you aren’t bound to license agreements, turns out it’s actually very easy to have a “massive” content library. Literally the only hurdle is storage space.

Give it to someone that needs it.

Phew okay. In that case, I do agree that a hyper-aggressive species could be the Filter, though it’s worth noting that our radio signals have actually reached further than our furthest probe, so I would go off that when doing round-trip destruction calculations. I love Mass Effect’s take on this idea (though I haven’t played 3).

As for why I asked women: Mostly because I thought the non-sequitur was funny.

No offense intended, but do you identify as male? I can’t even be having this conversation if you do.

Yes. I’m a guy, and I would love to get a girl’s take on this.

Do you think Fermi’s “Great Filter” is not necessarily that a civilization destroys itself, but that it discovers a way to destroy the Universe?

Like, maybe the fabric of our reality is more fragile than we realize, and the reason we don’t see “aliens” is that the universe doesn’t get old enough for intelligent life to meet.

Of course, this assumes we are in a statistically “average” Universe, since presumably there could be a Universe in which intelligent life co-evolves within the same solar system.

I’ve read the first paragraph of this post, and I agree. I had the exact same experience with being tested - I scored 99th on things like logic, and terrible on math (weirdly enough). And of course, that’s only measuring a few extra axis, which still falls short of the vast continuum of human intelligence, imo.

Only if you see “being smart” as a one-dimensional axis.

Retaliation isn’t very wholesome.

Don’t expect too much to “happen” and just enjoy the vibes. I would say the book is primarily a character study.

print(‘Holy hell’)

Wrong community?

I never really thought of it this way before, but we really shifted from calling places to calling people.

I consider my current career success to be due to a great deal of luck, but I also can’t deny that a lot of work went into being ready when that moment finally came.

Hard work doesn’t always translate to success, but you can definitely nudge the dice in your favor - especially with a more “holistic” approach to life.

Plus the Pinkerton thing.

Plus the OGL thing.

Plus…

Yeah, as long as they’re transparent about it, I don’t mind at all.

I disagree, I don’t see pacifist values as weak at all , quite the opposite in fact.

I don’t agree with a lot of religious teachings, but this is one thing I think they (in theory if not in practice) get right.