I believe they were using it as an example of failure to corner the market, that is, in reply to the previous person’s comment and not directly to the main post.

Lung cancer killed my pet and I imagine it killed many other people’s pets too. Cancer also killed some of my other pets.

Resetting games is something you can do for every #pokemon version. I think the code involves button presses at the start menu: UP, B, and X simultaneously.

Because most sex workers are grown ass adults and should have the right to do what they want with their own bodies without getting arrested for it? Not everywhere is as backwards as the USA.

What they should really do is permanently ban US tourists from it. /s

@Helvedeshunden

Obvious answer: computers.

I wish we got a bidet but my family decided against it. x_x

@snazzy0933
Maybe try putting up signs saying ‘ARMED AND DANGEROUS’, ‘NO TRESPASSING’ and ‘BEWARE OF DOG’. If you don’t have a dog, you can just play dog barking sounds.
A dog on a chain in front of your door is a pretty good deterrent if you’re willing to do that though.

Do they not know Black Trans people exist?

I have been stung by bees/wasps several times, and the times when I was youngest and the least self aware were the worst. I was in absolute screaming agony as a small child. Then one day as an adult I was startled to be stung and found the experience to be completely different. Sure, it hurt and was really sharp like someone just jabbed a needle into me, but my response was to laugh, not cry. I also have the capacity to just not give a fuck (I recognize the cause of the pain isn’t going to kill me) when I’m in a fair bit of pain and just do something else (provided I can still physically move, which isn’t always a given) and this is helpful for tuning it out.

So from my personal experience, I would say absolutely: animals have it worse, not better.

I’ve had some heavy ideas about this.

Random chance actually means it is very likely there are random clusters of users even in small groups who are closer together than others who could do more locally together. Some kind of mechanism to help figure out if we have a critical mass of protestors/mutual aiders/whatever (without giving away those protestor’s names) for a project would be a good idea, and wouldn’t necessarily have to be very complicated. Maybe a single page that just asks for location and what kind of project you are interested in?

There are also some forms of work that lend themselves really well to being online. Coding, writing, news, encouraging people to vote, sending money to workers on strike. I firmly believe the most effective way to combat unethical companies is simply to start and support worker owned companies where every employee gets a vote on their wages, and ‘starve’ the big companies. I found myself looking at the massive amounts of money raised and wasted in political campaigns by single dollar donations and found myself thinking - damn, with a million dollars, you could start a really small company with that. The second most effective way is probably striking, which, yes, you need people on the ground for that.

We could use an ethical version of Amazon, with a collective of shops that people can visit (the offline side of warehousing is a whole other bundle of issues), and an ethical Paypal. I know that credit unions exist, but I don’t know of any credit union that has a Paypal-like API and easy convenience of simply clicking to pay for things. Uber and other apps. There is a huge amount of labor that we could ‘take back’ simply by providing another venue for people to practice it. Unfortunately, I don’t think the fediverse way of doing things is quite appropriate when it comes to systems dealing with money. It’s one thing to duplicate posts or ads for content for sale, but you don’t want to duplicate credit card information. Open source it maybe and use ‘semi centralization’; the Paypal-esque site can handle logins and money, and the Amazon-esque sites can perhaps do some form of federation and handle actual showing of items.

TLDR: it is definitely possible to do quite a bit online, and I think work reform has some avenues via it that have been severely under-utilized and neglected in the information age, as we tend to think of action as just being about protest. Protests can certainly be useful, but should not be our sole course of action if we want a paradigm shift. I find it extremely striking that when most people talk about action, they almost always mention protests and strikes first, if they mention anything else at all.

I actually had a much longer post, but it complained it was too long. So I think I will make my own thread.

Here’s an idea:
A really simple bot that users can talk to via the fediverse and will spit out responses if talked to, like a roleplay bot. I suggest this because it probably wouldn’t take much time to complete basic functionality, being purely text based, but could be easily expanded to make the gameplay more interesting over time. ‘Multiplayer’ could be done via a command like ‘@roleplaybot I attack @Stardust’ (parsed by splitting/exploding the string) and having some kind of simple database storing HP and such.
Then if that works, maybe a more ambitious version of the game that actually displays images and such, perhaps 2d.
Example commands:
@roleplaybot generate me a dungeon/monster/goblin
@roleplaybot role dice d6
@roleplaybot DM a session between me and @Stardust
@roleplaybot Set my class Rogue Level 1
@rpbot Travel up stairs

Could be a lot of fun. You’d probably be looking at using something like javascript or typical webserver backend like php, ruby, some of the already existing fediverse code you could just start modifying. Take one of the existing scripts that do something on an activitypub response and include the roleplay bot’s stuff. Nodejs seems like an obvious choice for a game + webserver but I’m not sure how much activitypub coding exists for it, haven’t looked.

There are several starter designs past Gen III that I never really cared for. In Gen 4 I tend to just dump my starter.

I’ve started to dislike Zacian. It basically ruined the Pokemon Unite moba game, which was for a brief period actually sorta balanced and not-pay-to-win (except occasionally an overpowered mon for like, two days before it got patched). Zacian ruined all of that. Even after it became available to freebie players, it stayed horribly broken. Admittedly it can be very satisfying to gang up and murder Zacian, but if it gets any kind of lead it will just absolutely delete your team. Likewise I don’t like the eevee-evolutions as much as I used to as the developers over-favor them and kinda spammed them. My understanding is that she (Zacian) is broken in whatever meta she enters, so this isn’t unique to Pokemon Unite which is tbh a shit game that could be fun if the devs weren’t jerks.
On the plus side, the game did make me like Greedent, Zeroara, Eldegloss, Cramorant, and appreciate Mr. Mime who has a really interesting play-style and has saved my ass a few times. Thank you Mr. Mike.

I don’t really like most megas. I will ditto hating rotom.

I love original Raichu because I feel no one loves him. He’s forgotten boi, replaced by his cuter cousins Pikachu and all of Pikachu’s clones. After that is Meowth and Mewtwo because they had personality and backstories in the anime. Butterfree. Aggron. Rattata. Eldegloss, Cramorant and Slowbro. Wooper. Victreebel. I used to dislike some of the stupider/uglier looking pokemon but they’ve grown on me. Like Bidoof.

I like most of the bug pokemon. The original starters and Cyndaquil, Totodile, Mudkip, Treeko. After Gen III I took a break for a long while.

I feel like they botched open world in Violet/Scarlet. What they really need is some kind of difficulty options, like level scaling. I’ve done some hacking and it’s honestly really easy to make a toggle so that enemies are scaled to near your party and bosses slightly higher, or not at all if ‘progressing’/grinding exp is important to you.
Some interactions with wild pokemon that aren’t just murder, catch, or die to. Arceus experimented with this a bit in that you could feed them or accidentally wake them up, but I feel it could go further, like aiding one being attacked by another pokemon.