nobody here is persecuting religion

proceeds to generalize all religious people as the worst of religion

Most religious people do acknowledge all the stuff you’re talking about, and agree with you on how terrible they are. Most of the time when you meet a religious person, you won’t think there’s anything different until you ask them.

Supporting communism’s ideas, while still fairly condemning terrible things done by historical attempts at implementing it.

No

To clear definitions, at least for me"tankies" are a subset of communists, who praises/defends the actions of all/most communist states far more than similar actions from capitalist states. The difference between communists and tankies is a bias in favor of communist states when looking at things like human rights violations. Very few people will self identify as a tankie, since it’s hard to see your own bias.

Why do we need custom backgrounds for our phones and computers? That’s free space that could be ads. Especially good if clicking/tapping on the background causes a full screen, unclosable, unskippable ad. Because a misclick is definitely showing interest in the product.

Browser load times. Slow that down a bit, and you’ve got enough time to pop an ad in between every page load.

Unstoppable - Red, original by Sia

Conceptually useful bots (even if they aren’t always great) like those two I approve of. You can easily ignore them, but they’re there for when you want them.

The meme bots that were on reddit like grond we could do without. They were fun at the time, but I’m glad we don’t have them here.

Probably something using dihydrogen monoxide as a solvent for a mixture of organic compounds

The main idea of the fediverse is that there is one standard (eg. lemmy), with many servers running a copy of that standard with their own settings (instances). These instances all interact in a way that it seems to the user like a single server (federation). At times the owners of each instance will want to block other instances (defederation).

If they cheat and find an answer online, they’ve proved they can use resources available to them to find the answer and recreate it. Honestly I don’t see a practical difference between that and knowing the answer in a closed book setting.

In my (small) experience, people can often be addicted to a specific game rather than to gaming in general. Especially with how games these days are designed to be as addicting as possible because MONEY. A big tell for this kind of addiction is an inability/unwillingness to try new games, even if they’re in a similar genre.

NZ

We had the highest sheep:human ratio of any country. I think we still do, but I’m not sure.

the situation here has nothing with the discussion about Ukraine

The situation is you’ve been banned. They’re just suggesting a reason you might have been banned. One that is imo pretty believable and reasonable.

Unless you got told by the lemmygrad mods that the ban was about your relationship advice, we’ll keep saying you were banned for the Ukraine comments.

Windows 7 business philosophy but with modern windows features would be great.

Kiwis call each other cunts almost as much as aussies. We insult each other just as much, but we have better taste.

Both. Both is good.

Depends on the pillows. Generally, I want enough so that my neck is straight when I’m lying on my side.

No reasonable people are expecting someone that lives rural to bike into town. Going between rural homes and cities is one of the places where personal cars are unavoidable. Ideally, they drive to the edge of town and park next to a subway station that they take most of the rest of the way.

I would much rather have terrible pancakes than under-soaked, under-cooked French toast with a bad mix and stale white bread.

Depends where I am and how much I trust the cooks.

If I’m somewhere that I know is good, French toast. Good French toast is the best of all the options.

If I’m somewhere pretty mid, I’ll probably go for waffles. Can’t reach the same highs or the same lows as FT.

Pancakes are the safest bet. There’s less variation than FT or waffles, so even the worst pancakes aren’t that bad.