Yeah, happening to me too. I think some of the comments are showing in reverse order, too, like the child before the parent.

The slaves don’t own capital because they are the capital!

Nowhere in the definition of capitalism does it require that everyone owns capital; in fact it’s much more the opposite.

Yup. If we’re talking regulations then regulations on how much corporations can donate to politicians should be top of the list (and ideally that amount should be zero), but obviously both the politicians and the corporations like that donations are totally allowed, making it difficult to pass such things…

Regulations are indeed an important part of managing our system as it is, but they’re fundamentally a bandaid to the problems of capitalism.

You gotta catch the corporations doing a bad thing and then tell them not to do it, meanwhile they’re buying politicians to fight against you on it. And it still doesn’t stop them from committing actions that are horribly unethical and extremely damaging to our society and to the environment, they just tone it down a bit at best, or occasionally they’ll have to put a small fraction of their money into a lawsuit without actually changing their behavior.

But the system also makes it so that when people act purely selfishly for money, that it results in good outcomes for everyone.

Why do you think this??

Look at all the constant environmental disasters and harmful products that happen because corporations did the math and determined that paying a few million to lawsuits every once in a while is cheaper than being more careful. “Voting with your wallet” does not work because the big corporations undercut the competition and bombard us with advertising to ensure they will win no matter what.

Hell, most of us are on here because Reddit started doing scummy things in the name of money, and we’re a tiny fraction of their userbase; Reddit is still unfortunately doing pretty much fine. Is that the best outcome for everyone?

And don’t forget that there are a lot of regulations passed in the last hundred years that were necessary because corporations were doing stuff like dumping so many chemicals into our waterways that rivers would constantly catch fire. This is what happens with unfettered capitalism.

Yeah I can’t blame them for posting content. It’s not ideal that 169 and shitposting take up 80% of my feed, but it’s better than nothing, right?

Yeah it’s good! I like this kind of Superman. Still just starting out so he’s not incredibly powerful yet, and the right amount of dorky human guy.

Dungeons & Dragons is a role-playing game, so you play the role of a character in a game world controlled by the GM (the Game Master, or in D&D they’re also specifically called the DM or Dungeon Master). The GM is the person who describes the world and what all the characters in it are doing, except the players control their own characters. The goal of the game is for the players to complete the challenges created for them by the GM, and of course for everyone to have fun while they do it.

Each character has a set of particular abilities that you choose for them out of the options in the rulebook. Dungeons & Dragons is a medieval fantasy game so the options are stuff like Wizards and Paladins (Knights) and Druids and stuff like that. The most basic choices for your character are their race, background, and class: so you could choose to be, for example, a Human Farmer Fighter (a class that uses weapons) or an Elf Scholar Wizard or a Gnome Criminal Rogue (Thief), out of the many, many possible options. You also have stats: Strength, Dexterity, Constitution, Intelligence, Wisdom, and Charisma.

Whenever you do something important, you will most likely have to roll dice. The most common die to roll is a d20 (a 20-sided die). Rolling high is good and rolling low is bad, usually: if you roll high enough, you succeed at what you’re trying to do, and if you don’t, you fail (which doesn’t mean you lose the game or anything, just that you fail at that one particular thing). Depending on your character’s stats and abilities, you might have a bonus or a penalty to the roll, which is why you have to choose your character’s abilities and stats based on what you want that character to do. For example, if you want to play a character that uses a sword, playing a Fighter and putting a high number in your Strength score will give you bonuses to using swords, while playing a Wizard wouldn’t.

The game is designed so that the GM creates a story, but the exact outcome of the story will depend on what the players decide to do with their characters and some amount of random chance with how the rolls go. The most common stories in D&D are usually along the lines where characters play adventuring heroes (more or less) who go around slaying fantasy monsters and gathering treasure, but you can play a game that’s about absolutely anything, really.

Does that all make sense?

Yeah it’s become my go-to because it works well now. Still keeping some other apps installed but I’m pretty happy with Jerboa at the moment.

I’ve grown fond of Connect’s UI pretty quickly. However, ever since they fixed whatever was going on with Jerboa recently, it’s actually been working very well, really smooth and responsive. So I’m on Jerboa right now.

Well, the main thing is that they’re killing BaconReader. I’ve used BaconReader for about a decade now, it just isn’t the same without it.

And then when I came over here to try Lemmy out, I found it’s pretty nice here. Especially with all the protest infighting Reddit has been pretty toxic lately. Or always, I guess.

And there are third party apps allowed here!

I heard about the versions thing. Before this morning it was crashing a lot, but not completely unusable.

If I install from somewhere other than the play store, can I still update from the play store later, or will I have to uninstall and reinstall again? Installing from outside the play store isn’t a dealbreaker for me, but since I also have other Lemmy apps installed to use in the meantime, I’ve been figuring I’d just wait it out, if it’ll be a hassle.

Thanks for the help tho!

Kinda; Jerboa can see and interact with Kbin posts, but you can’t sign into a Kbin account with Jerboa.

I’ve been telling people, the only way this works is if communities migrate somewhere else. Every single blacked out subreddit needs to post their new location on a site other than Reddit. Otherwise people will just stay on Reddit and wait or visit/make new subreddits.

You know, this is a good question.

Googling it would ruin the fun, but I’d assume that it’s an evolutionary thing so you don’t decide to go to sleep in an unsafe situation and get yourself eaten.

Ooh, these look great! I tried using midjourney, does it require a subscription at the moment? The free ones I’ve been playing with have been decent but these look way better.

I’ve used an AI art generator for a few things. Usually I’ll try Google images first and if that fails I’ll try to make something with AI. Sometimes I get something serviceable and sometimes I have to go “screw it, we’re doing theater of the mind.”

Overall it’s useful but it’s not as easy as I think some people think it is. Getting the AI to give you what’s in your head is surprisingly difficult.

I’m the same way; I love characters that can cast spells but still rely on attacking when necessary.

We’ve found them. The AmITheAsshole submitter.

I’d guess even if it’s not that many of the total, most of the highly upvoted stories I expect to be fake.

If you’re writing fiction, you don’t have to have something interesting actually happen to you, you can just write whatever you want, and make it as dramatic as you want. Huge advantage over true stories.