If your views are not compatible with the moderator or community’s views and they keep getting removed, you are free to go and find a different instance.

Nobody’s getting paid to work here, so the only people that do the work are the people who volunteer their time, and chances are if they’re constantly exposed to the same stupid shit over and over again, they’re gonna get grouchy, they’re gonna get grumpy, and they’re gonna just start blanket banning anything that even slightly aggravates them.

You can say it’s power-tripping, and you can protest it when it’s unequally applied to you. That’s fair, But you just have to live with it because this is not a business, this is not a customer service oriented situation, this is a “make the community as comfortable as possible for as many people as possible while maintaining your sanity” position for the mods.

I am not a moderator. I would not do moderation tasks because I see how stressful it is. I am also not apologizing on their behalf or trying to sugarcoat the situation.

It sucks for you, getting your posts removed. It sucks for a lot of people not getting to interact with those posts, but it’s a take what you can get sort of thing.

The good thing is, if you absolutely do not want your post to be removed, you are perfectly welcome to spin up your own lemmy instance and federate it and then share your post with the entire fediverse without any sort of moderation whatsoever.

Even with that though, the other instances of the Fediverse can defederate with you if they find your whole thing to just cause more headache and hassle than it’s worth to them.

Like, I don’t know how much that surgery costs if you get it done by a doctor, but like, if you’re trans, and that’s something you want to do, that is a hell of a deal.

Could you imagine if Brian Jacques had added six foot river otters into Redwall?

Also, the distance from center of the rotation matters.

For instance, doing a bicep curl with a 10 pound weight with your elbow by your side is easy.

Holding that 10 pound weight with your arm straight and lifting it up to eye height is much more difficult, but for most people without impediments still doable.

Now imagine the difference in distance between the ball and heel of your foot versus the distance between your knee and your hip.

Sorry, your insurance doesn’t cover that, so it would have to be out of pocket.

Bring a cashier’s check for $7,400 to lunch and we’ll take care of the rest! ❤️

I threw it in as a gimme or as a backup if they go AMD.

My real intent is to aim for the seventh gen intel processor or higher, as the intel quicksync encoders are better on the seventh generation than they are in the sixth gen.

That can help with encryption of files and decoding encrypted files for something like an opnsense box or wireguard.

And who knows, they might want to play around with some local AI stuff or jellyfin in the future.

I would recommend going for at least an Intel 7th gen or failing that some sort of computer that has an Nvidia GPU, 1050ti or better.

Those will help as you go further down the line with allowing some CUDA and Intel acceleration features and only adds a couple of dollars to the total cost of the system.

When my dad was teaching me how to ride a bike, I kept falling.

He noticed that I was paying so much attention to the road that I couldn’t focus on riding the bike.

Finally he picked me up, looked me dead in the eyes and said, “You rule the road. Don’t let the road rule you”.

Somehow that phrase immediately gave me the ability to ride a bicycle.

I have shared it with other people learning to ride a bicycle after they have fallen down at least once.

It freaking works.

My only concern is will they find somebody worse?

This is poetry. I read this comic and I became a changed man.

They asked me to do things instead of telling me to do things.

He was explicit about it. He said, I know I’m your boss, I can’t just say go do this thing, but I have found I get better results and have happier co-workers when I ask you to do the things I need you to do instead of telling you to do the things I need you to do.

A specific example would be, instead of, “please clean the lobby”, Saying, xwill you go clean the lobby for me, please?"

And it’s one of those things that’s really, really subtle and really minor. It only takes a small amount of adjustment in it in the way that you speak, and it yields excellent results.