This is probably area dependent, but it’s fairly common for food pantries to give you a bag of random food. They usually try to group things that make sense and that people use and want, but they can only give out what’s been donated and what you get is what you get. Letting people actually pick and choose what they want both reduces waste and gives a sense of normalcy.

The reason IP exists isn’t a whatabout, it kinda sounds like you just don’t want to hear about anyone other than giant corporations benefitting from it.

In what sense is a ladder getting pulled up if IP is respected? Anyone can make a new IP, there’s not a limited supply of imagination. You can’t make everyone like what you come up with or buy it, but why should that entitle you to being able to profit off someone else’s work?

The imbalance against giant corporations isn’t anything to sneeze at, but there are just as many (probably more) small time companies breaking copyright law and hoping nobody notices. For example, stealing artwork to print on cheap crap that you sell below what the creator is selling them for. If they’re in an area that recognizes that copyright then they’re going to lose every time, and they’re not going to have enough money to drag it out. After that happens artists can recover all the earnings that were made with their work. Without that the artist is just fucked.

Alternatively, do read it if you’re having trouble cutting back on fast food spending!

On lemmy, a ban can be a few different things:

1. Banned from the instance your account is on. This means you have to make a new account, usually on a different instance.
2. Banned from a different instance than the one your account is on. This means you get banned from communities you’ve participated in on that instance, and that instance will no longer federate with your account. You might participate in new communities on that instance, and people not on that instance on your instance will see your comments, but people on the instance you were banned from and other instances won’t see them. From the perspective of that instance you don’t exist anymore.
3. Not banned from any instances, but banned from individual communities. You can’t post in that specific community but can still interact with the instance that community is on.

Like someone else said, clear as mud, lol.

Using this as a place to infodump because I just learned it: you know how haikus follow a 5-7-5 syllable pattern? For corridos every line is 8 syllables.

The more you know 🌈⭐️

Okay for anyone who is fried at the moment like I am, map-wiki IS NOT ABOUT GEOGRAPHY.

Not using Nazi terminology is free

I can co-sign this if we can agree that some types of ‘disagreements’ don’t belong on the fediverse, a la the Nazi bar problem.

I’m into birds, and I prefer the forest too! Warblers don’t hang out at the beach, and down the path of seagull identification lies terror…

Your therapist is a gatekeeping fuckass, congrats on starting HRT!

Wait you’re telling me it’s Kickero? 🤯

They probably had you hold your fingers up to a small scanner if you turned 18 in the past 20ish years, not ink and paper fingerprinted you.

Another terrible death related thing: after a while, sometimes after bad news you’ll think “I’m glad [person] didn’t have to live to see this.”

I mean, I didn’t make it up, that’s the dictionary definition of Anglo for American English speakers. I don’t disagree with any of your points, it’s just news to me that “Anglo” is also used to mean “anyone who speaks English”.

You specified Anglo, which is a racial/ethnic group?? I have never heard anyone use Anglo to mean anything other than white people.

I live in southern California and have never noticed a racial aspect to this, most people thank the driver. Either when boarding or just calling out ‘thank you!’ as they leave through the back.

Do you work with younger kids? I have an in-law who teaches middle school and is generally pulling his hair out over lack of parental involvement. Kid-wranglers deserve all the thanks!

Welcome to lemmy! Here’s a post that lists a bunch of active communities, if you haven’t seen it already.

In addition to the communities listed there, I also like [email protected] and [email protected]

Are there any specific interests you’re trying to find communities for?