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  • When do you expect to turn into the next u/spez. Are we talking years or months or weeks?

    Are you a fan of Elon Musk?

    Are you American?

    Which political party do you support?

    Do you have lop-sided eyes and invisible eye brows?

  • Probably the opposite.

    Our "higher reasoning" and "state of awareness" (needs defining) gives us the ability to do thigns other animals can't. For example chronic pain sufferers are taught how to manage their pain with a variety of CBT techniques. Not something you can teach a dog or cat.

    People in intense periods of intense suffering may have thw ability to dissociate from the experience ("go to their happy place") to lessen the pain experience.

    We're not aware animal shave this ability.

    If anything mammals of all kinds that feel pain don't have our higher cognitive ability to help manage and supress it.

    Having said that it's possible we feel more emotionally complex pain. Pain induced from our own minds by remembering trauma or imagining painful situations. As someone pointed out below a dying animal probably isn't thinking about the loss of it's family as it's dying. But it will be feeling the pain of dying acutely.

  • Lemmy.world Support @lemmy.world
    cashews_win @lemmy.world

    Allow 3rd Party Sign Ups

    Allow 3rd Party Sign Ups because they alloow people to more easily migrate. So allow people to login with Twitter/FB?Steam/etc

  • for not sharing their server logs

    WTF do users think they have a right to see these at all? Just because Lemmy is open source doesn't mean you get to run the damn thing.

    Also my condolonces on you being a Canadian.

  • I admin-ed my own vBulletin board around 04-06. The script itself cost about £90 back then. It was so great though. Small community of like-minded people all chattng. It was like a slow-Discord or a more intimate Reddit.

    I installed a ton of extensions for people to play Flash games at one point too.

    One day I accidentally forgot to pay hosting and the site vanished. Lost it all. Never bothered relaunching.

  • Top 3 most upvoted comments always being unfunny puns was getting insufferable on Reddit. Everyone was trying to be a fucking comedian - that's what was popular and got upvotes.

    The early Reddit you could have long, interesting arguments with people and you'd both be getting upvoted because you're both making interesting points.

    It honestly feels like my brain is waking up from a digital coma since coming to Lemmy from Reddit. My own personality and opinions don't feel pointlessly supressed and sanitised.

  • I like your avatar. I was such a huge Sonic fan since the original Sonic on Sega Master System that I spiked my hair from about 8yo to 18yo when I switched to wearing big 2in spiked hair when out clubbing.

    Unfortunately middle age happened and my hair migrated from my head to my back which isn't as good for spiking. :(

  • I feel like my brain is detoxing since coming here. In the literal and figurative sense.

    1. Addiction - I'd degenerated to just doom-scrolling reddit and rarely commenting cos the top 3 comments were unfunny puns with 12,000 others so it never felt worth it.
    2. Regaining Self - I'd become so outwardly sanitised I didn't realise I'd stopped swearing entirely in my older comments. I used to pepper my comments with fuck, bitch, shit, cunt as I do in the real woirld. But with heavy penalties against words like "faggot" (which is fucking idiotic for Brits) I'd started to self-censor to the point I wasn't being "me".

    I'm not saying I hope it turns into 4chan.

    But I do hope it grows into the early days of Reddit. Where people only downvoted things they found useless rather than disagreeable. There were less self-made echo chambers with ultra-sanitised 'drone-like' users where everyone had the same unfunny opinion.

  • For Brits: Swap "Mexican" for "Indian" or "Polish"

    Also buy your spices from Indian supermarkets/shops/sections of Asda rather than getting Schwartz jars.

    E.g. My local Asda sells a jar of Schwartz cinamon for £2.50. The next aisle sells cinammon in a bag of 3x the amount for £1! Same for rice, noodles and many other 'foreign' foods. Polish meat section can often be cheaper than the normal sections.