I see what you’re saying… It’s still comic sans adjacent and it bugs me.

My father uses it on everything and he teaches 1st grade so I just associate comic sans with kids. I used to help out a lot in his classroom growing up.

Seeing stuff like “rape” written in a font that my brain has tied to small children is unpleasant.

Of all the fonts in the world why is it always comic sans…

I play a lot of games that arent like SUPER big so the subreddits tended to be smaller, but at least there were people to talk to about the game and the updates. Like Hunt showdown. There is a sub on Lemmy but its basically a ghost town.

I looked for a couple other games I was playing at the time and none of them had subs or if they did they were dead.

Nothing against Lemmy. It isuy doesn’t have the user volume required to fill out those more niche communities.

I wouldn’t be on Lemmy at all if I hadn’t been randomly banned on reddit without any reason given and they instantly denied my appeal asking what rule I broke.

There are none of the many game specific subs I would frequent on Lemmy. Even if a sub does exist for one of the games I play it has 2 users and the last post was made by a bot about an update from 3 months ago with zero comments.

The porn is worse and somehow even more filled with bots not labeled as bots. Lately I have seen a lot of very clearly bots just spamming porn from reddit subs as links to the reddit which just seems comical.

The general userbase on Lemmy seems to mostly contain people from a pretty specific band of the political spectrum and they are extremely hostile to anyone that even sorta varies from their mindset.

My reddit account was like 12 years old and have hundreds of thousands of post and comment karma on it. I still have no idea why it was suddenly banned with no way for me to contact any human about it.

Lemmy just doesn’t have the same communities I frequented and there is no fix for that other than waiting until there are so many users that eventually that niche group I used to converse with daily finds their way over here.

I’m not mad at Lemmy for not being exactly like reddit, but it just doesn’t scratch the same itch that reddit did because of it’s smaller size and lack of populated niche groups.

I see posts on the “everything” page on Lemmy from the same handful of people which makes it feel like it’s really just a site for those 5 or 6 repost machines to post their stuff 24/7.

I can’t wait to ruin this for every single person I know going forward. Thanks!

I understand how certain things will separate and I mix it in because I paid for it and I’m gonna eat it all.

That’s the best part. It’s actually the same name either way. They just pronounce “dipshit” different than we do is all.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/31/business/media/companies-marketing-black-lives-matter-george-floyd.html

I can tell you without a shadow of a doubt that many many people are driving around on tires that are way below minimum acceptable tread wear here in California. Some of them just don’t understand. Some are incompetent. Some are poor.

When I recently got all 4 of my tires replaced I watched the tire techs warn several customers that the tread on their tires was too low and every single one of them said they couldn’t afford new tires right now so rotate them and let them leave.

A tire tax would likely just increase the number of people trying to stretch a tire way past it’s recommended minimum tread depth for safety in order to save money. This would have a negative effect on road safety in the long run.

Not to mention it would also just incentivise people to put on the hardest and longest lasting rubber they can find meaning that in cold or wet conditions they will have significantly worse performance again leading to more accidents.

The tire tax idea seems like a very bad idea.

…the company that is having trouble keeping it’s doors attached to its airliners.

Another Bang up choice from King Cheeto.

1. Because the people protesting represent in the single digit percentages of the voter base of America. An extremely vocal minority, but still a minority of Americans.

2. Boy who cried wolf situation. Protesting every single thing endlessly for years on end has made the average person stop caring about whatever you’re protesting about. Not saying it’s right but that is how many people view continual protesting.

3. The far left protests lost most of their corporate backing this time around. As soon as the bean counters up top realized that pandering to the social stuff on the left wasn’t going to net them record profits they all dropped supporting the issues like a bad habit. They saw the popular vote change and they all dropped their masks immediately. Remember this in 10 years when the balance swings back again and you see target suddenly pretending to give a shit about gay right again or whatever it is at that time. They only ever cared about money.

4. Lack of unified direction of protests. There are tons of local and small group protests as many people have linked in the comments, but outside of these small tight-knit online communities planning these things the general public has absolutely no clue any of them are happening. There isn’t a single unifying “thing” to rally around like the BLM protests had with George Floyd. When the angry mob can’t direct their anger all in the same direction it loses power.

5. Since modern media runs on outrage (clicks) and they have seen that most people don’t care anymore they have moved onto other things in order to generate the clicks they want to make the money for the big guy.

Listen they gave out a participation trophy to Jimmy Weatherford when I was in little League and that fucker never did a goddamn thing. I’ve suffered just as much if not more than today’s youths.

I’m over 30 and miserable. Don’t count me out on this one.

This is why I just stay home on Saint Patrick’s day. Green is my favorite color and I pretty much never wear it, but if some random person pinches me I am very likely to react by punching them.

I hate being touched by people I don’t know. Holiday be damned.

I keep my Grinch ass home.

I miss when I would wake up and check the news and nothing particularly crazy was going on. Like you would click on the TV and they are talking about a zoo that recently got a baby giraffe or something.