"I won't be pooping for the next three days"
"Tell my wife I exploded and that it was very sad and that the last thing I said was make sure my wife doesn't use my toilet"
Voat was a racist, fascist hell-hole where the most terminally-online and unlikeable people on the internet were corralled together. It was the social equivalent of shooting fish in a barrel.
Lemmy seems to be insulated from Voat's fate because it was a hard left-turn in the face of a platform implosion.
Late June 2023 is going to be a very strange anthropological investigation for future internet archaeologists
"hard as a rock"
I have done two seven-day fasts and four three-day fasts. You'll want to prep with fasting practice and then watch your water intake to make sure you're not dehydrated.
I would pay $50 to know why the fuck you're doing this.
Capitalist media only cares about sexy tragedies and expensive dangers. Focusing on 500 poors gasping their last breaths far from view only serves to remind viewers of how unfair things are on a basic level - and that threatens power.
The thing is, I’ve ***never ***seen such an overwhelmingly bored response from the general public to a Sexy Tragedy like this before. The only person in my life who expressed any iota of distress over the Titan is my dear mother, but she cried when we dropped off our old TV at Goodwill, so.
People are, I think, getting a little bit harder to trick with the song-and-dance of the hyper-rich dying in outstanding ways.
“When the rich are too rich there are ways, and when the poor are too poor there are ways… This is one of the ways when the poor are too poor. When the rich are too rich there is a way, and if I am not mistaken, that way will come soon.” - Pearl S. Buck
So that they have stuff to throw at Paramount+ execs.
Seriously though I've heard explanation like internal-ablative armor thrown around before; better to have the bridge crumble here and there than snap in half and dump everyone into Sagitarrius-A
Between this and the potential Netflix merger/acq, it's looking prettttttttty fucking grim for the alpha quadrant
Over in c/asklemmy, someone asked for advice on how to not poop for three days, and it seems to have officially become The First Lemmy Meme