Love micromobility, btw, but would you call it a community (ignoring the term Lemmy uses)? Do people interact knowing each other by name? Do they interact outside of Lemmy?

That’s more of what I meant by “community”. A group that just happens to leverage Lemmy for some communications.

On that note, I miss communities. Here on Lemmy there’s more or less one community (maybe a few due to instance grouping). On Reddit you’ll find things like streamer communities, hobby communities, and gaming guilds. None of them seem to be taking up Lemmy yet.

The only way the latter happens is if states secede

Still seems pretty unlikely at this point, but I could maybe see this. Especially with the whole thing around Oregon and Idaho right now. Could start seeing states reform along political boundaries. Those lines aren’t very clean, but they exist.

I think the rural areas would just lose by mass though. Also, nobody seems to understand the co-dependence between urban and rural areas so splitting them up with weaken both.

True. Seeing all the concept art is pretty cool though. Looking forward to this one.

That’s significantly more than I expected. Also, I probably wouldn’t want to deal with the toilet situation. Would probably be novel for a couple weeks and get old quick.

I’d take a little canal boat in Amsterdam. Though learning Dutch sounds like a PITA.

How about some perspective?

Let’s use Cyberpunk 2077 as a comparison. They’ve spent about $450m over the course of about 10 years. Literally one of the most expensive games ever produced with an unreasonably long development time.

Start Citizen has already taken longer and has a larger budget.

Last time I checked, about a year ago, things were still unfinished in the starting city, and the game was unoptimized and crashed often. Super impressive. /s

They’ve constantly been working on a budget that was only every a fraction of a budget for something like a AAA Star Wars game would get.

I couldn’t even get past this. As of last May they’ve raised over $700m.

Votes show the approval/disapproval of the community. And I think it can be important to crowdsource content curation.

As a hypothetical, if every non-nazi blocked nazi contributors, then a new user might show up and notice a bunch of upvoted nazi content when in fact most active users don’t even see it. I’d rather downvote as much as I can in some cases.

That said, there’s plenty of other things that just aren’t my thing that I’m more likely to block.

Why care?

That’s a very well adjusted point of view.

Don’t be like me, that bottles up resentment that comes out in unexpected ways, which then leads to you being the first one laid off because you’re the least enjoyable to work with.

You came in here with your absolutist utilitarian life above all else or we all die post just to respond with this because someone suggested you to stop eating meat. Beautiful.

I’d prefer if it weren’t. Though that’s not the only use for this thing.

I love this kind of shit. Building things for the sake of it is worth it. Not only as just expression, which may be hubris but it’s still expression. Also entertainment, inspiration, pushing the art of engineering, and just giving people something to do, and all the good that comes with that like personal and trade growth.

A purely utilitarian life is a life only spent on survival. Not a life I want to live.

I’m fairly certain that wasn’t there when I commented but 🤷

They seem to tolerate eating straight up poop just fine. Humans wouldn’t handle that so well.

I don’t understand how the length of the digestive tract would have an effect on spoiled raw meat hosting untold amount of bacteria.

Nice, try RMS, I mean gnu

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