Obviously. And a little Breen that lives in his eye.

Right? And Han’s never heard of The Force.

I’m picturing him plugging the mic into a Breen to use him as a talk box.

I hate explaining highbrow jokes.

Do you think I’m lying about my friendships? Why would I lie about them?

Once again, you do not get to tell me about my friendships or how meaningful they are.

Comment sections are no different than sending letters. My friendships with people I met on forums are no different than the relationship between Helene Hanff and Frank Doel except their correspondence was far slower and there was far less of it.

I get that you can’t make such friends. It’s bizarre to me that you think this is a universal thing even when you’re directly being told it isn’t.

Yes.

So you’re saying you find his lack of puke… disturbing.

No. Not hollow.

Just because you haven’t developed any real friendships with people online says a lot more about you than anyone else.

People used to have friendships solely through letters. People who never met and yet thought of each other fondly and shared their lives with each other.

There’s many collections of these published over the years. I recommend the book 84 Charing Cross Road about a very close friendship that developed between a book lover in New York and a bookseller in London who never met in their lifetimes.

No, it was enjoyable long before that. Sorry, you don’t get to tell me what I find enjoyable.

And I thought we were talking about Lemmy here. Lemmy is a discussion forum.

I think that’s still a very narrow view of things. I have made lifelong friends on internet forums. I went to a meetup in August of this year and had the time of my life with the people I finally got to meet face-to-face. I can honestly that it was one of the most enjoyable three days of my life and I can’t wait until we do it again next year. I also have friends in other countries that I met on forums who I’ve been talking to privately for years now.

And, of course, you can learn things from forums too. There’s plenty of things people post on Lemmy that contain interesting information. Communities like c/science has lots of interesting and informative posts.

With money.

^{(I’m lying. I paid for it with a goat and three bushels of wheat.)}

That’s all the internet is good for anyway.

What an extremely narrow way of looking at a vast network of computers containing most of the world’s knowledge. Do you mean to say you’ve never used the internet to enlighten yourself in any way? Read a scanned-in book? Watch a digitized documentary or lecture? Nothing?

I spend hours poring over the amazing things available on the Internet Archive. So much media that you can learn from!

Substance farmers in third world countries even find uses for the Internet- all kinds of farming tips. There was an article I read some years ago about a village in sub-Saharan Africa where they basically had one guy who had internet access and farmers were constantly coming to him to get farming advice.

But you think the only thing that the internet is good for is venting your frustrations?

Honestly, that statement makes me sad for you.

Many times. No audiobook. I think it might be a javascript error?

Yes, again, letting the perfect be the enemy of the good. Very few people here want the money spent on Israel.

That doesn’t mean acting like everything else that the Biden administration does is worthless because of it. It is possible to have massive criticisms of a political administration and acknowledge when they do something good.

Domestic clean energy manufacturing is a good thing. Bringing jobs to former coal communities that are depressed communities due to the coal no longer being mined is a good thing. Climate mitigation is a good thing. This helps with all of those things.

Pretending everything is awful because one thing is awful achieves nothing. Neither does making every Biden or Harris thread into a complaint about the U.S. aiding Israel. Who exactly do you think you’re going to convince here? How does this constant complaining help Palestinians?

What do they consider music from the 60s and 70s now? That was classic rock when I was a kid.

Paleo rock?

Are you under the strange impression that it’s just as easy to improve things whether or not harm is being mitigated?

Because I’m pretty sure it’s easier when it is.

Which is why this will improve things. No, not on its own. Nothing is ever improved on its own when it comes to complex systems. You are reducing one of the most complex systems we know about, climate, to simple black-and-white terms.

That’s an awesome name for a law. I’m guessing it’s a Maori term originally.

Edit: Waka is a Maori word for a canoe. So I guess it means jumping out of the canoe?

Nope. That is not what you only said.

You also said this:

It won’t improve anything. Any progress that could be made will be undone by the massive carbon emissions from war. At best it might slow climate change slightly.

My guess is you said it because you either do not understand or do not accept the concept of mitigation and why mitigation is a good thing.

And slowing climate change gives us more time to fight it.