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Same here basically, cross-eyed viewing is super easy for me but I have to work for minutes to perform wall-eyed viewing. I was really excited to see a post with cross-eyed stereograms.

Occasionally they take the “investigation bungled by police” angle, but that’s the exception rather than the rule.

I AM THE PARK!

Thank you for loving her.

In fairness, space is as far away from the subway as anybody’s ever been.

I feel a thousand years old. People are mixing up George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four and the TV series Avatar.

In Nineteen Eighty-Four, Earth has been split into three large superstates: Oceania, Eastasia and Eurasia. These three states are in perpetual war with one another, with Oceania’s alliances frequently shifting so that the current enemy and ally could change at any given moment and history is rewritten to affirm that the enemy and ally had always been in their present alignment.

Oceania was at war with Eastasia: Oceania had always been at war with Eastasia. A large part of the political literature of five years was now completely obsolete. Reports and records of all kinds, newspapers, books, pamphlets, films, sound-tracks, photographs—all had to be rectified at lightning speed. Although no directive was ever issued, it was known that the chiefs of the Department intended that within one week no reference to the war with Eurasia, or the alliance with Eastasia, should remain in existence anywhere.

“There is no war in Ba Sing Se” is the Avatar line, while “Oceania had always been at war with Eastasia” is generally the line that gets quoted from Ninteen Eighty-Four in similar contexts.

These seem like arbitrary rules. Most random accidents don’t reliably kill people and are also painful. You’re comparing a tiny subset of random accidents to all intentional suicide methods as if they are or should be somehow similar.

♫ I still dream of QAnon ♫

(To the tune of Kate Bush’s “Cloudbusting”.)

Sorry if I’m misreading, but I wonder if you’re mixing up Steve Bannon (71) and Barron Trump (19). The Tweet says “Bannon” and is probably meant to imply the former. Steve Bannon is probably too old to have ever been victimized by Jeffrey Epstein; they are/were the same age.

9:39 “Please understand that social media is not a place to get news and information.”

Now I don’t know what to think about this video I just watched on social media.

You might be thinking of Mbin, the other one of the “big three” (more like big one and the other two). Mbin’s biggest differentiating feature is microblog support. It’s hard to boil PieFed down to one main feature compared to Lemmy/Mbin, but anonymous voting and de-duplication of reposts might be the main ones. However, its focus is still on the (Lemmy-style) threaded side of the fediverse.

The web site has a list of differences between Lemmy and PieFed:

• Comments with -10 score are collapsed by default.
• Communities are organized into topics. See https://piefed.social/topics.
• Image-heavy communities can have a tiled/masonry view, like https://piefed.social/c/pics@lemmy.world
• People who get downvoted a lot end up with a ‘low reputation’ indicator next to their name. You’ll know it when you see it.
• Hide all posts based on keyword filters.
• Keyboard shortcuts.
• Upvotes in meme communities do not add to reputation.
• Better UI design (somewhat subjective!)
• Improved hotness ranking algorithm (subjective)
• Voting is private.
• See also features for healthy communities.
• Each community has it’s own wiki. Demo

This list isn’t exhaustive; one major feature that’s not listed there is de-duplication, where reposts all get combined into a single post with a split comment section (one for each individual post).

The Picture of Dorian Grok.