blueskiesoc @ blueskiesoc @lemmy.world

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I did. It was buried in the post. Thanks anyway for trying. Anything helps.

You too, random citizen!

My philosophy on downvotes:

If I don't agree with someone here, I upvote anyway. Not because I'm a Pollyanna, but because I'm happy they're here and supporting Lemmy by posting and commenting. I really want Lemmy to stay up and stable for a long time and provide what Reddit used to provide for the wider community. Reddit still does, but hopefully we can too. I'm talking about political and health issues.

If it's a mean comment, I do nothing and move on.

If something is just messed up, that's a message for the mods. I've messaged once so far. Someone posted information about a person (image and real-life contact info) and said they were performing cosmetic surgery on puppies. The image was of the person flipping the bird, so it was clearly made as a hit piece. Mods got rid of it within a day.

I'm doing my part. I had two posts on Reddit. One was superniche and got 30ish points. Whatever, I was happy. It had useful info for the other people on the sub. Then I posted something to the broader community and got two downvotes in like 1 second, killing it. How did they even look at it? I think someone was sitting there gleefully downvoting every fucking thing. I never posted again.

I've been here since mid June and have made 264 posts, like WTF. I'm having more fun here than I ever did on Reddit and I don't get that sick feeling I used to get from seeing all the outrage posts and mean comments (to everyone, not just me).

Loving Lemmy.

I made a post inviting capybara fans to come check us out.

Meeeeeeeeeee.

But why would my parents take me to a doctor when my mom does all the same stuff?

"It's normal." ...uh, no. Mom had undisagnosed ADHD.

Spiegel: Poland, Germany fail to agree on tank repair center for Ukraine

Thanks and try asking a mod.

I'm not sure what you mean. How to make a community? I also don't know how to create a community.

These are links to similar exisiting communities for asking what things are. Let me know if that answers your question.

I saw in settings today "block bot accounts". I wonder what I'll lose if I select it. I'll leave it for now.

When you make a post, the top line where you can put a url has a small image icon under and to the left of it. You can put your image there and it'll show up on the main page without having to click through. I just learned this a couple of days ago when someone pointed it out to me. I was doing it like you are now.

But I'm not the boss of you. Do what you want.

100% agree

In her hospice care centers, Mother Teresa practiced her belief that patients only needed to feel wanted and die at peace with God — not receive proper medical care — and medical experts went after her for it.

In 1994, the British medical journal The Lancet reported that medicine was scarce in her centers and that patients received nothing close to the treatment that they needed to relieve their pain.

Meanwhile, some doctors took to calling her missions “homes for the dying” since her Calcutta home for the sick had a mortality rate of more than 40 percent. But in her view, this wasn’t necessarily a bad thing.

In response to all the criticism, Mother Teresa allegedly said, “There is something beautiful in seeing the poor accept their lot, to suffer it like Christ’s Passion. The world gains much from their suffering. ”

Source

"One time, this guy handed me a picture of him, he said, 'Here's a picture of me when I was younger.' Every picture is of you when you were younger." - Mitch Hedberg perforrming at Strategic Grill Locations, 1999

Anyway, this post is definitely mildly interesting. Thank you.

I wonder if OP can see replies to replies? I don't know how this works. What I'm saying is, I'm not OP.

I also recently found an invasive species of spider in my yard here in north San Diego, the false widow. Bummer.

I'm not a biologist, but I found this on a google image search.

Pectinatella magnifica

Pectinatella magnifica, the magnificent bryozoan, is a member of the Bryozoa phylum, in the order Plumatellida. It is a colony of organisms that bind together; these colonies can sometimes be 60 centimeters (2 feet) in diameter. These organisms can be found mostly in North America with some in Europe.

Didja poke it with a stick?

I didn't see a link, but here are a few:

!whatisthisthing@lemmy.world

!whatisthisthing@lemmy.ml

!what_is_this_car@lemmy.world

!what_mushroom@lemmy.world

!what_is_this_rock@lemmy.world

!whatsthisbird@lemmy.world

!what_is_this_snake@lemmy.world

I don't see an image. Is it just me?