Zelsabriel

I'm not surprised in the least.

I work in healthcare and I've been so burnt out after working through COVID despite how politicized it was, not knowing if I was risking my life, my loved ones' lives, or my own permanent sense of smell and taste, all while getting told off by ignorant, selfish pieces of crap just for wearing a mask and taking an illness that I personally witnessed kill many people seriously, not to mention being overworked and understaffed for literally YEARS due to a combination of baby boomers retiring while simultaneously increasing the need for healthcare workers by needing more care as they age, coworkers finding other jobs because of their own burnout, and hospital administration trying to maximize profits at the expense of the workers and at the expense of patient care that I just up and resigned from my own job a week ago.

I don't even know what I'm going to do. I withdrew my retirement account early and I'm just taking some time to figure it out right now. Tbh though, the idea of going back to healthcare makes me feel physically ill. And that's really sad because I got into it to help people, but after the way people acted during the worst pandemic we've had in a century I don't want to help anyone anymore. I just want a normal 9 to 5 where I'll have weekends, evenings, and holidays off and very little to zero risk of bringing a contagious and deadly or debilitating virus home to my family.

I'm a woman too, but I have the opposite opinion. The world is already a tough place right now, especially living in the southern US like I do, and maybe it's just because my ND can make emotional regulation difficult, but sometimes I really just want a safe space where I can let my guard down and be myself without a constant fight.

For the same reason, there were certain subreddits that I frequented often on reddit and certain ones I absolutely did not go to. I don't mind l blocking the occasional user or even blocking an entire community myself if it means protecting my mental health, but it sounds like the adminis here were getting an unusual influx of trolls that were making it difficult to moderate this community. That's even more difficult if each individual troll can just go make another account at one of those instances every time they get blocked here.

If people want to access those instances, they can create secondary accounts and visit them. There's no reason we can't have the best of both worlds. Plus, I don't get the feeling they want this to be a permanent decision. It seems like just a stop-gap until they can find a more permanent solution whether that's more moderators, more rules, or more mod tools.

We don't get to pick and choose who's lives have value, even if they do something risky or stupid.

But isn't that exactly what happens? Was there as much of a rescue effort to find the hundreds of missing Pakistani migrants who went missing off the coast of Greece last week? Was it even as widely covered in the media as 5 missing rich people in a sub? Have you even heard that they were missing before this comment?

What about the 5,000 missing and murdered indigenous women who disappear every year? Are we mobilizing the military to find them?

We absolutely pick and choose whose lives have value. That's the problem.

I think that years of struggle just to meet basic needs leads to dangerous anger, resentment, and bitterness. Tbh billionaires are the ones who have rigged the system against us with decades of lobbying and most, if not all of them, would gladly see us dead in a cost benefit analysis if it gained them profit, so I have no problem with people taking pleasure in their misfortune. They made their choices and current public opinion is the consequence of that. No one gets to and stays at billionaire status off of pure merit alone...

Same. I buy exclusively digital for the convenience, but how can they claim this is a physical version of the game when it doesn't physically include the game? It's not even a loophole at those point. It's just a lie.

But I thought they were so worried about the children... /s

I've only lurked so far while I figure this place out, but I've really been enjoying Lemmy and Beehaw, so thank you for all the work you put in (for free!) to make this an enjoyable and safe space, especially with just 4 of you?? (If I understood that right.) Being a moderator is a thankless job sometimes, but you are appreciated!

I actually saw a post yesterday from a lemmy world user about their registration process. They had posted a screenshot of lemmyworld's registration/application with a title about how they joined lemmyworld because they didn't want to write an essay... At the time I was already thinking that I really liked the vetting process here, so it's cool to see y'all taking steps to protect that so quickly.

Again, thank you for doing such a difficult and thankless job! I know moderating a ton of users jumping ship from reddit isn't what you're used to and probably not what you signed up for. But you are appreciated.

I feel like most people make an exception for the 19 year old kid. I haven't spoken to anyone who doesn't feel bad about him, but maybe that's just my circles.

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Exactly. Mississippi checking in. o/

Deep Rock Galactic!

I love that you're sharing these other fediverses. This is really interesting AND helpful, but...

I love the simplicity of Paper.wf for blogging. It's truly elegant; I just click the link and start typing.

Creed? Is that you?

Probably the most tame one in here, but I love to mix mayo with a little mustard to dip my french fries in. Baked potatoes with butter, sour cream, seasoning salt, and malt vinegar are also really good.

I'm not even sure I need to read the rest of the thread after this comment. You win by default! I guess it makes as much sense as anchovies on pizza though.

The irony of the man choosing to use the name Tesla when he's just another Edison.

Actually, even that is probably giving him too much credit...

I didn't need this in my head at 2 am. lol

You should try cream cheese with a spicy pepper jelly on crackers! So good.

My dad used to make this! I forgot until your comment. I never liked it much myself, but it was okay.

Idk how obscure it is, but I was just looking for Zoids Chaotic Century last night and couldn't find it on any streaming service, so I checked Amazon for a DVD copy only to see people want $150+ for used copies of the show... Sucks that it's so hard to find now!

IMO you nailed it. It's not a bad game per se, especially after they fixed some things, but it's no where near the quality of the original ME trilogy.

I don't know if you consider this a spoiler or not, so maybe stop reading here if you're concerned about that... But the thing that bothered me the most was the lack of alien diversity. They went to a whole other GALAXY and both of the new sentient alien species they encounter are bipedal carbon-based lifeforms. To add to the disappointment every race that came to Andromeda is also bipedal and mostly carbon based, so it's actively less alien than the original games even though we're in a whole new galaxy. No hanar. No Volus. No elcor.

And every Asari face is literally the same model except for the crew member you have with you. They all have literally the same face. Idk. It really bothered me.

Another thing that's annoying is you have less control over your squad mates in combat. I really enjoyed the way combat sometimes felt like a puzzle in the OT, bringing certain people for certain enemies and combining powers so each of you are stronger together. It felt like teamwork even though it's really all you. In Andromeda they basically just made the main character OP instead and that's the only one you control.

With that said, it's still fun! And I think it's worth a playthrough or even two. Just don't expect it to be Mass Effect.

Buggy survival dino pokemon

Could've also gone with "war crimes for new hats" 🤠

I would've guessed Rimworld. I once had a cat that kept getting into my alcohol and passing out in the freezer. It kept losing limbs to frostbite until it was finally just a stump that couldn't leave its pet bed...

There may be a lack of content, but at the same time more users don't always mean quality content.

I was on reddit for over a decade and as time went on more and more bots showed up, more content was reposted over and over, and more communities were swallowed up until only the same types of posts were ever pushed through to the top every day. I think it's refreshing to go somewhere where that isn't an issue yet.

That actually sounds and looks delicious though.