Indeed, lol is not the same as haha

It’s more of a sarcastic vibe. Which fits, because you are definitely not laughing out loud when you write lol

Uppercase LOL feels like a haha fuck them kind of schadenfreude laugh to me.

Perhaps LOL is a softer version of HAHAHAHAHAHAHA, which I use to the same effect.

I was gonna make this same comment.

Cold drip though? That’s some finicky shit. Not worth the effort in my opinion (but is fun!)

Apologies for that. Unless a mod asks me to remove I’m gonna leave it for now

Which government? Makes a big difference since some other better than others.

I’m not saying OOP definitely had no legitimate reason to change the sign, but without knowing, we can’t assume they did either.

The fact they made no mention of it, leads me to suspect it was mostly for their personal convenience.

Also, government = inefficient is some neo-lib propaganda I can’t tolerate. Any organisation can be inefficient (so, so, so many examples of this in the private sector), and governments can and must be set up to be well-run. The alternative is the privatised neo-lib hellscape we (countries in general) continue to not fix.

Difference here is that he was correctly a clear mistake. OOP here did it for their own selfish reasons

We have no idea why the sign was the way it was. They gave us no background. So I’m biased against the sign changer until given a good argument as to why it was acceptable.

This is how I feel about OOP and people thinking it’s hilarious how they messed with the sign.

I just see another entitled car brain who thinks they should be allowed to do whatever they like.

Just the most convenient link as an overview. As far as I can tell the page itself is fairly neutral (other than the criticism section).

Though, happy to hear your perspective of how Stalin’s and Mao’s versions of Marxism–Leninism was democratic.

From many people’s perspective, it definitely was not. And there is no socialism without democratic control by the workers (all of them), in my view anyway.

What account? I don’t see it in any of your modlogs

After checking, either mod logs have changed since it happened to me (it was a decent while ago), or I have fabricated a memory. Perhaps I saw this as a reason when looking through the mod logs of a specific community once. In any case, yeah, it doesn’t exist in my modlogs.

They are pretty heavy with the censorship if you’re pro palestine from what I’ve found.

Haven’t noticed this, yet, though could be because how heavily it’s censored. I mostly engage with that topic on aussie.zone, so this may be why I haven’t noticed.

As a anarchist I have plenty of reservations about both the USSR and China. In terms of internet communities I personally find ML spaces much less annoying than social democrat dominated spaces.

Fair enough, though MLs (the ones I’ve argued with) seem to defend practically everything about them, which is frustrating.

The people who seem to have problems with lemmy.ml:

• Normies/liberals (not me) who don’t like the large number of tankies on the instance (“tankie” is a FAIR description of “Marxist-Leninists” in my opinion) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marxism–Leninism
• Socialists (me included) who don’t like MLs because we believe in socialism democratically controlled by the workers - something MLs seem to pretend to want, but then hold up the USSR and China as examples, which is hilarious at even a cursory glance
• Right wingers, who are afraid of the words “communist” and “socialist”.

Lemmy.World censors a bit, when it comes to calls for violence against rich people (though seem to have chilled recently), which is a bit annoying, but I’ve had multiple comments removed as “reactionary” from .ml.

.ml mods (not all) seem to be very sensitive and very comment removal and ban happy

I’ve seen many normal sounding users on lemmy.ml, but the reputation is not undeserved because there are many MLs on there also.

My pet example is Americans and “ironically/unironically”.

Please don’t do this to me

It’s almost like the “meritocracy” under capitalism is a bald faced lie.

Funnily enough, this is my even more preferred solution haha

I am for public transport centric cities, where you can safely walk across streets, and cities are designed for people, not cars.

I am 100% for everything you’ve said, including socialism.

It’s just I’m also living in the world as it currently is, and if we’re gonna have car-centric hell holes, I at least want to make breaking the rules have consequences, so car centrism is A BIT safer. Income based fines to boot.

Most certainly is a band-aid, though. Do agree.

But I just get pissed when dickheads think speeding isn’t a bit deal, or red-light cameras are just for revenue raising, as if driving a massive hunk of metal is a serious responsibility, not to be taken lightly.

Yeah, love this guy’s videos

Hence my carve out. I don’t support the privacy nightmare the US has.

I do support road safety cameras in general, if managed properly.

People don’t have the right to have no consequences for their dangerous behaviour.

Sounds like a police/privacy problem, not the idea of having cameras at all.

Police should need a warrant to access the videos.

The software should not log licence plates of every single car that comes past.

The software should be open source and developed by the public sector.

I agree what’s in place in the US is a privacy nightmare, but the idea of having cameras in general isn’t fundamentally bad.

Skill issue USA, git gud.

I don’t want the government or private companies tracking my every move

This is an issue with how the cameras are operated. I’m taking issue with people complaining that these cameras exist at all.

People claiming no system could ever be privacy-preserving aren’t being very imaginative.

I agree the surveillance state is bad, but taking a picture of someone running a red light and sending them a fine is a good thing, sorry.

What’s bad is allowing cameras to passively record every single licence plate at all times and store that information. A speed or red light camera should only take a photo/video when it detects someone speeding/running a red light, and no other information should be stored.

So, we agree. This is specifically a US police problem.

But many people argue against speed cameras and red light cameras in general, as if they have the right to endanger people’s lives.

Pit maneuvers are insane, and aren’t done in most other civilised countries.

Gonna be downvoted, because apparently this is car brain central, but the amount of mental gymnastics people will do to make red light camera enforcement “bad” is crazy.

The US’ private company control over these cameras notwithstanding.

Fuck me, so many people die on on roads, and especially at intersections.

You’d have to bury it fairly deep.

I’m Australia at least, you’d just be warming up your beer.

Glass bottles at the beach is a big no no though.