you are thinking in terms of people getting the best for their money instead of people being starved and trying to make a dollar last.

I’m not, actually. When I say “in bulk” I don’t mean a 20kg sack. 500g of rice or dry legumes goes a long way for a low price.

When we were starving we mostly got whatever was on sale or short-dated, so we ate different things all the time out of necessity, but dry goods were always reliable, which is why I asked about them.

I personally think free-range farming in a non-harmful way is great, but you should still consider that the chicken is incapable of consenting. Your relationship with any confined animal is inherently a slave/master one, and I understand why some people object to that. We’re keeping the animal comfortable and extending their lifespan, but we’re also robbing them of agency, and I feel like that’s something worth thinking about.

Where are you buying eggs for one crown each?? Maybe it’s a regional thing?

Sorry if I’m misunderstanding the problem, but aren’t foods like beans and rice which can be ordered in bulk online a good solution for people stuck in food deserts? I would think that anything with a long shelf life would be superior to perishables. (American eggs have to be refrigerated, right?)

TIL gymnosperms are a thing.

This is just how English used to be.

First thoughts: The Antichrist looks like Draco Malfoy if he were the son of the billiards man from Homestuck.

I’m not religious and so do not believe in any prophesies at this time, but I don’t think covid fulfills “…and many people died from the waters that had become bitter.” (Revelation 8:10) The water part seems pretty specific, so it’s something yet to come, and potentially much worse than covid, so that’ll be fun.

The author seems to be stretching things a bit in quite a few places, but it was an interesting read regardless. Maybe Trump will check even more of the boxes in the coming years. Is he doing this on purpose?

e: Realized I hadn’t looked up the quoted verse. There’s supposed to be a star that falls, and that’s what corrupts the waters. Good example of what I mean about the author stretching things.

I think he just connected all the Boxers as necessarily being related by virtue of being Boxers.

We can’t see communities on LW because of federation choices, so that meant no 196 at all for us unless we swapped instances. The meme is saying that we’re helping build this new iteration of the community.

e: Shoot, can I even reply to this post properly with my instance blocked?? I’m not sure how it works.

I literally just made this account after lurking however-long-it’s-been-since-Reddit, partly for 196, and then that happened. 🙃

But then this happened instead! <3

No, I agree that there must be a rule(s) to prevent just this sort of thing. I’m only objecting in an attempt to help moderation craft the best version of the rule for the desired effect. And even with that said, an imperfect solution is better than no solution, so my objection should be disregarded if there’s no way around it.

Possibly there should be new systems in place, such as registering membership with communities beyond simply subscribing, and then it would be very clear who should vote on community issues.

I’m always wary of how such systems can be gamed and how they’ll influence user behavior, but the only downside to trying is your own efforts. Even if you fail miserably, I imagine the exercise itself would improve our understanding of what works, what doesn’t, and how to form better approaches in the future. To succeed in making a system which improves user interactions would be a truly wonderful thing, and may even translate to IRL applications. I would urge you to follow through with this for as long as you feel it’s something you’d like to do.

But it would still be possible for me and a number of trolls/bots to make accounts here and participate in voting, right?

I completely agree with the sentiment of involving the community, I just remember having problems with direct democracy on Reddit and question what the best implementation is.

People on other instances can be community members as well, which is an extra complication on top of Reddit’s problems in the “Who’s allowed to vote?” question.

“All decisions affecting the community and its members as a whole must be backed by a public vote.”

Is there a way on Lemmy to distinguish who is or isn’t a community member? Is there a way to prevent me from rigging votes with a bot army or a group of bad actors?