Paragraph #4: Too long with a lot of flip-flop between the author’s stance on digital format and the need for physical. Be confident here and focus on the important part by eliminating the caveats and the “need to cover all the bases”. Once that’s done, this will be a powerful, concise message.

I like where you’re going with this and heartily agree!

Someone needs a decaf.

This. This. This.

We have a reliable means that doesn’t require producing large animals that will, at scale, put more needless pressure on our collapsing ecosystems. Get insulin out of corporate pharmaceuticals and into a basic right to cost-free access model where we, society, fund the production.

Good point!

Ah okay, that makes sense. Thanks!

+1

I was just fine today until I read this. THANKS INTERNET PERSON

Rest easy, Dave. And thank you. 💛

Same! I believe that others struggle with it but I can’t wrap my head around why their experience is so different from my own.

Need? No. But sometimes when I’m standing in a pool of people and despair and I can’t picture things getting better, I kind of just want a BFF little buddy like WALL-E or BD-1 who just gets me without judgement, and doesn’t require me to be its caregiver.

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Damn this is scary. How are we so dependent on the distribution (control) of software, especially healthcare related, through two corporations: Alphabet and Apple. I am not so naive as to believe the open internet or freeware is free of nefarious actors, but the testing and checks and balances would play out far safer than this for-profit stranglehold.

I have no idea how people who aren’t tech-interested, but dependent on these systems, stay sane. What a miserable way to live life.

wander around living seaweed, while being bright yellow.

I could get behind this little critter.

They’re so sweet. The trusting part gets me. Too pure for this planet! 💛

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Well said. There’s a part of me that desperately wants to know there is a true, pure species on this planet that doesn’t stoop to sick levels of cruelty, but that’s not reality. Bambi noms baby birds, cetaceans mutilate each other’s babies, and we do the unthinkable every second of every day. Depressing, but here we are.

From the Beehaw sidebar: “We do want you coming here and sharing links to news articles, websites you find, starting discussions, connecting with others, and in general doing what you see on other social media websites.”

What if the focus of Beehaw and/or Lemmy in general is not as a link aggregation platform but instead a community of topic discussion? People are rewarded for posting links to articles with upvotes which only gives incentive to continue posting the same not-read content that they think the respective subs will like (upvote).

Instead, we should be rewarding people who are actively engaging with the community. Not broadcast posting the way it goes on mastodon or IG, etc., but actual back and forth interaction with the community.

Maybe take away the ability to upvote a link post and reserve that for the actual discussion parts that take place?

Truly it is. Trying to get that added weight back off when your over 40? Every miniscule advantage is appreciated.

^ The Libby app works great for audiobooks, too!