TheFonz

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 35 minutes ago

You don't want a ceasefire?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 38 minutes ago

Change FPTP or stfu.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Out of curiosity: what causes the weight imbalance on such a plane? I don't follow

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 day ago

I don't disagree. I live in Italy and half the people keep their dog off leash. And this is in the city. When I lived in the Midwest it wasnt uncommon to see off leash dogs in parks. I'm not saying they aren't assholes, but you gotta pick your battles. Seems overkill to threathen someone's dog with treats.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 day ago

It's hard for me to put myself in a woman's shoes, esp. one walking by herself in the park in an not very crowded area. Did she panic in the heat of the moment and actually feel threathened or was she a narcissistic prick that overreacted? Was he justified in escalating?

It seems to me he was aware that he had power over the situation and used that - even though he had reason to - threaten her dog. Which again: dog had no business being off leash. But is in justification to escalate the way he did? Lemmy seems to have made up their mind. I never both sides them. She clearly took it to an extreme end by involving the police. But again, I don't know the perspective of women in matters of close encounters such as these. And as Lemmy is like 90% men I don't think this convo will go beyond : racism bad; Karen got what she deserved.

Lemmy just seems hostile to women in general. But that's just my perspective. I could be wrong.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 2 days ago

Oook. So we both agree he also escalated the situation? Maybe he was having a bad day or he was fed up with all the off leash dogs. I agree. I think I can totally understand. I can think of a million other ways to handle the situation. If you want him to be your hero that's fine. That lady was going to have her racist feelings revealed one way or another either way she had it coming.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (4 children)

simplest way to get her to leash her dog

It's also an escalation. Clearly he wasn't afraid of the dog. We all agree the dog should have been leashed but it's still an escalation of the confrontation.

I walk my dogs all the time leashed and run into other non-leashed dogs and their owners. I politely ask them to leash up because my dog has trauma and is gets very agitated around other dogs. But one thing I never do is threaten the other owner that I will "lure their dogs to me with treats". That's kinda hostile, dontcha think?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I m curious : what Third party apps worth checking out?

 

My experience on this platform has been mixed so far but one thing I've noticed the most is a significant contingent of the user base is really reactionary in their discourse.

This is a very typical exchange I have here :

User: I don't like this color because it's red.

Me: I don't know, looks more like purple to me. What about red is bad?

User: Why don't you fuck yourself in the face you fucking cuntfuck!

Me: OK...

Like, what gives? I don't have this experience on other platforms. I have arguments but never this shutdown meccanism.

 

I don't know if others are experiencing a similar situation. My all feed is very sparse with engagement. If I sort top six hours or by top 12 most posts have between 5-10 comments. I feel like there was more in the past? Is engagement dropping off? I'm on lemmy.world as my instance.

 

What exactly is a bookwyrm instance and how does it differ from a Lemmy instance?

 

At least on Reddit there was some leveling of downvotes built into the algorithm. This site is making it seem like any slight disagreement leads to downvotes thus encouraging more echo chambers. Maybe it's the communities I'm commenting on?

 

Since updating to the July 7th update the app stays stuck on the loading screen.

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