Ah, so I should divide all of the numbers in your graphic in half to get to something reasonable then.

The vast majority of the 100 most common words in English are still inherited Germanic words.

English shares a common Germanic ancestor with German. German and English are sisters.

My wife’s engagement ring was a simple opal design that cost like 40 or 50 bucks on Amazon.

~$200 for the actual wedding rings, ordered off Etsy.

Just use ReVanced to patch the YouTube app to not have ads. Simple as.

So it’s just Zoomer-speak (“Chat, I farted”) instead?

I legitimately got top left wrong first time I looked at this.

To quote a popular hexbear aphorism present in this very thread, “‘Omg rude online’ like there’s no worse sin”.

If that were to become the enforced position of the entire dev team going forward, I promise that I will donate, and provide receipts.

Probably not - for me it’s more that the majority of my negative experiences on Lemmy have come on lemmy.ml, so the sticking point really is your involvement with it.

For a lot of other people in these threads though, it does seem like funding the hosting is the biggest deal. If the server costs for lemmy.ml are as low as you say, splitting off the hosting costs separately in some way (like taking donations directly from lemmy.ml that go into their own account separate from general Lemmy donations, for example) probably would see at least some sort of increase in donations to the overall Lemmy project. Especially if you made an announcement that this is what you were doing and maintained an official “separation of finances” position going forward.

If it wouldn’t be too much extra work, it’s probably worth a shot.

Person1, since you’re new here, this is Cowbee, our resident tankie apologist/propagandist.

The most reasonable-sounding genocide denier and authoritarian regime supporter this side of the gulags. I highly recommend their alt’s comments on Hexbear if you’re interested in their more “mask off” persona. Also, remember the number one rule when interacting with hexbears: never directly engage them.

Edit: Here are some of Cowbee’s Uyghur genocide denial comments, for example, if anyone’s interested. Note the hardline tankie talking points, but couched in the classic Cowbee “reasonable” rhetorical style.

That’s correct. People actively shilling for authoritarian regimes committing human rights atrocities, denying genocides, and aggressively silencing all dissent do not deserve it.

All they’d have to do is develop from behind the scenes and not actively contribute to one of the worst places on the platform, and I’d have no problem donating to them.

But they don’t, and so I don’t, and instead I get to listen to your whataboutism, literally the guy in the “and yet you participate in society” meme.

lemmy.ml is part of Lemmy development as it is used to test new versions before release, take performance measurements and have first-hand experience with the mod tools.

Then you really shouldn’t be surprised that people don’t want to donate when part of that support goes toward an instance that openly and aggressively supports authoritarian regimes, human rights violations, and genocide denial, and brutally censors any dissenting viewpoints.

If I stepped away from lemmy.ml it would make Lemmy worse and cause more problems for other instance admins.

The other option, of course, would be to run lemmy.ml in a way that doesn’t actively piss off the majority of Lemmy users, but that doesn’t seem to be a path you’re willing to consider.

Honestly I’m genuinely torn about the situation. I’ve found such a great place here (outside of the tankie triad, of course), that as much as I disagree with your politics I’d probably donate anyway because of how great Lemmy is as a platform, if only you developed behind the scenes and weren’t personally responsible for one of the worst places on said platform. As it is, as long as both a) lemmy.ml continues to be run the way it is and b) you continue to have an active part in that instance’s abhorrent behavior, I can’t in good conscience give you any financial support.

Most of Lemmy is fine - just avoid the tankie triad of lemmygrad, lemmy.ml, and hexbear and you should be good to go.

Edit: And maybe also the instances that haven’t defederated hexbear in particular, since when they show up threads tend to go to shit, as you’re seeing here, unfortunately.

No u.

Oh wait, you can’t, because even Reddit was smart enough to ban your asses half a decade ago.

Hexbears gonna hexbear.

Horizon: Zero Dawn. Such a haunting, beautiful story.

It’s much easier to wear and police seatbelts

You can’t be serious. It’s far easier to police high BMI, since it’s much more obvious and way easier to spot fat people in public who are a danger to themselves (and to that healthcare system you’re so concerned about) than a small strip of fabric at a distance through the windshield of a moving vehicle.

If you could feasibility do the same for high BMI, yeah, that’d be great

Wow, “we should have cops police BMI” is definitely not the argument I was expecting. You clearly are Australian.

The imposition on the individual would far outweigh the benefit to society.

You’re so close! Soooo close! Just dust off that brain and try to follow the breadcrumbs!

the benefits are undeniable.

Then it should have been super easy for someone in this thread to name one, and yet…

from Australia. So don’t lump me in with your right-wing liberals

Oh, I’m not, trust me. I’m lumping you in with one of the absolute worst countries for personal liberties in the free world. Seriously Australia, get a grip.

Once again, the problem here is that all other objects become deadly internal projectiles in the case of an accident as well. If we really cared that much about the danger from projectiles (human and otherwise), then by law, cars should come with multiple tie-downs all over the interior of the vehicle, and it should be illegal to have an object in the car over five pounds not firmly secured by them.

The reason, of course, that that isn’t mandated is the same as the answer to all of the other questions in this thread: in the end it’s really just about policing people’s behavior and choices (and securing an additional revenue stream for cops, as well as a handy additional excuse to pull people over and violate their rights).

We shouldn’t curtail people’s freedom of self determination just because it will make other people have to do their jobs.