I was making a sarcastic analogy aimed at how dumb the original commenter's request was. I do agree with you.
The community was locked indefinitely 8 months ago by its moderator, and their rationale is stated in the corresponding post.
I think leopards who get their faces eaten by another pack of leopards they tried to get in with are still fundamentally LAMF, but I think reasonable minds can disagree.
Edit: I like seaQueue's "leopard cannibalism" description.
Bezos: "I didn't think the leopards would eat my face if I helped suppress the opposition to them!"
Donald Trump just took his war on the free press to a new level of absurdity, filing an FEC complaint against the Washington Post for — wait for it — promoting its own reporting. Apparently, Bezos&…
The Leopards Ate My Face community is now re-opened
Are we back a little too late? Maybe we're just on time with the US general election around the corner? Who knows! But we're back. Please check out the new sidebar. The community is no longer locked to moderators-only.
What is a "leopards ate my face" moment?
I'm pretty sure this is common knowledge among Lemmy's politically engaged userbase, but with this community having been closed for eight months, I'll try to nail down a (verbose) definition here:
- A person ("the victim") has been treated cruelly and unjustly.
- The victim directly helped in advancing e.g. a statute, politician, philosophy, or organization ("the leopard(s)") via endorsement, voting, activism, etc.
- The leopards have substantially harmed a group of people through cruel and unjust actions ("eaten their faces"), and there is a logical throughline from the leopards to the face-eating.
- The victim knew or reasonably should have known that the leopards would eat people's faces if given the power to. They helped the leopards anyway because they're indifferent to or actively enjoy this group's suffering.
- The victim is then shocked to find that the leopards have eaten their face as well ("I didn't think the leopards would eat MY face!"). Usually, any reasonable outside observer would have concluded that the victim was likely part of the group whose faces the leopards would eat.
- A common element is a lack of an apology to anyone the leopards have hurt, tacitly indicating they haven't learned any real lesson in empathy and only care that they have now personally had their face eaten.
- Another one is the (incorrect and denialist) belief by the victim that the leopards have simply eaten their face in error and need only be informed of their mistake to make it stop. (E.g. pleading on social media to a politician about their specific case).
A prototypical example:
\>Adrian Personson relies on assistance they receive through Social Service. They endorse and vote for the Austerity Party – knowing one of their main promises is to slash spending by making sure Social Service doesn't go to the people who "don't deserve it". The Austerity Party wins against the Social Spending Party and ascends to power. To Adrian's shock, they receive a letter months later stating they've been cut off from Social Service. They take to social media to write an outraged post about how they're a good, honest person who doesn't deserve this.
Oh man, I loved this part of Hengsha in DX:HR. Such an exaggerated and creative depiction of a hypercapitalist, dystopian hellhole.
And be sure not to take them to the polls with you. The stakes have genuinely never been higher, and "they go low, we go high" doesn't work on fascists.
Hey, you shouldn't presume to know what other people do with their free time.
It's funny you should ask that; I was just about to reach out to ruud over Matrix and have been thinking about it for a couple weeks. I'd love to if that's alright with the admin team.
>Not a country
>Donald Trump has repeatedly spoken badly about and deliberately mistreated Puerto Rico
>Donald Trump also routinely speaks extremely badly about the country Puerto Rico is in
I'm glad he's changed his mind at the literal last minute, but it baffles me every day how ignorant people can be.
Petition to restart [email protected], by the way.
You literally said in a comment that you became vegan today in response to this post.
Are you literate? It says "From this day onward, I’m going to be a guy who’s been vegetarian for five years, vegan for two, and decided to moderate and frequent this community about veganism". It's a joke at the expense of people like you who've come here just to concern troll and baselessly claim I'm not actually vegan. Look at the sidebar of the community you're in. Holy fuck.
I know this story didn't happen because there's no such thing as "too many tamales".
I was trying to be very generous by interpreting that as FtL travel beyond the ovservable universe instead of, like you said, "super-universe-crossing-over ability?", but yeah, it's bizarre. Like you said, nothing seemingly precluding abiogenesis a second time.
Okay, so not only can Superman's sneeze destroy several planets at once, but it's specifically so powerful that in the near-vacuum of space, it imparts enough energy to do that. Also, couldn't he have traveled to a supervoid like the Boötes instead of directly into a relatively crowded solar system beyond the observable universe?
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\>Owned by an asset management company that also owns e.g. online gambling sites.
\>No indication of authorship
\>Almost immediate, jarring, and lengthy tangent into "applicable regulations" and privacy policies/data handling
\>When we established the Company [emphasis on the capital 'C']
Definitely written by a legal team masquerading as someone who actually cares about/had any role in founding the platform.
>Owned by an asset management company that also owns e.g. online gambling sites.
>No indication of authorship
>Almost immediate, jarring, and lengthy tangent into "applicable regulations" and privacy policies/data handling
>When we established the Company [emphasis on the capital 'C']
Yup, this was written by a legal team masquerading as someone who actually cares about the platform.
Ngl, this article feels bloviating bordering on AI-generated and/or a padded high school essay. Here's the relevant Wikipedia article. For instance, by the way:
This event underscores the complex relationship between catastrophic environmental changes and evolutionary processes, offering valuable insights into the resilience and adaptability of life on Earth. [thank you, obligatory 'Conclusion' paragraph from all my phoned-in high school essays.]
The Carnian Pluvial Event, also known as the Carnian crisis, has left its mark in geological records across the globe, suggesting a widespread environmental impact. [no shit it had a widespread environmental impact??]
(I'm vegan btw, and I say as much in the post: "it's our responsibility as vegans".)
Wild animals (especially birds), pets, veterans, the environment, and people with asthma don't.
Not only that:
According to witnesses, Bossio said, the 17-year-old was walking away from a separate altercation with a male Harris supporter when he struck Tomasko and knocked her to the ground.
He did it because he was pissed at a male supporter but was too big of a wuss to throw hands with someone who could plausibly fight back, so to solve that, he sucker-punched an old lady. They're not just abusive garbage, they're pathetic cowards.
'My guide dog shakes for hours on fireworks night'
Guide dog charity says firework "bangs and flashes" can stop dogs from working.
cross-posted from: https://rss.ponder.cat/post/52661
Listen, if you can't tell me, in detail, the plan the bomb squad has to defuse the bomber's bombs, then I'm just going to have to assume the bomb squad is incompetent and vote for the bomber threatening to blow everyone up.
The boy, 17, who was wearing a shirt bearing an image of Trump extending his middle finger, was part of a group antagonizing ralliers, the woman said.
Nothing helps stop Trump bleeding support from the senior woman demographic quite like a young whippersnapper punching a 70-year-old woman to the ground for her support of Harris.
Tim Walz is campaigning on the slogan "We Are Not Going Back", implying he's deeply irresponsible and forgot to turn his clocks back on Saturday.
Is this the man we want running for vice president? Knowing he could be off by an entire hour at any time?
The Trump Administration Rolled Back More Than 100 Environmental Rules. Here’s the Full List.
The Trump administration has dismantled nearly 100 policies focused on clean air, water, wildlife and toxic chemicals, and left more than a dozen rollbacks unfinished. Here’s how they add up.
Tim Walz wants you to think he'd be a competent vice president, and yet he's never shown us any indication that he can effectively pleasure a microphone.
I don't know about you, but this tells me that he's never made it to third with a microphone in his life and is afraid we'll find out.
“What’s discipline got to do with winning?”
If you're a vegan in the US....
I know I'm just some guy, but if you're a vegan in the US, I really can't underscore enough how catastrophic a Trump presidency would be for animal welfare. I imagine the demographic of vegans who are also voting Trump is near-zero, but I can also imagine the demographic of vegans staying home on election day is not insubstantial.
Trump has a history of deregulating factory farms and is comically misinformed about veganism. One of Trump's likely cabinet members is an insane carnist who eats bear corpses. The 2017–2021 Trump administration's environmental policy was (and continues to be) disastrous and likely led to the unnecessary suffering of billions of sentient animals – including the rolling back of the EPA's powers through SCOTUS appointments, heavily deregulating the fossil fuel industry, loosening restrictions on imported "trophies" of endangered animals, removing funding for the protection of endangered species, pulling the US out of the Paris Climate Accords, being a superspreader for FUD about important sources of renewable energy, deregulating animal agriculture, allowing the logging industry to run wild on protected forests, and I could go on.
Will a Harris–Walz administration fix animal agriculture? No. Is it likely it would at least try to make it slightly better? I would say so. Is it absolutely, 100%, beyond a shadow of a doubt going to be better/substantially less bad than a Trump–Vance administration? Yes. Not only that, but a 2025–2029 Trump administration would have much, much fewer checks on their destruction of the environment and of regulations against the abuse of animals than their first administration thanks to their prior dismantling of checks and balances.
Please, on November 5th or if your state is still doing early voting, get out there and keep that cruel bastard out of office, and vote downballot too for politicians who are going to be less hostile to animal welfare than Republicans. Human welfare is animal welfare, and that will be in better (not perfect or even nearly perfect) hands with a Harris administration. But moreover, a Trump presidency would be disastrous for non-human animal welfare both through the deregulation of agriculture and through immense damage to the natural environment. Veganism is the reduction of animal exploitation and cruelty by all means practicable, and that makes it our responsibility as vegans to get out the vote and shut this shit down. Trump has already shown us what he would do once, and we can't let him do that again. It's for the animals, and it's for your fellow human.
Edit: a list of just some of the environmental regulations rolled back.