In 2026, on Lemmy there are active communities where men are not allowed to post, and there are communities where if you post a differing political viewpoint you will be banned. I hope you keep that energy for the tankie and feminist communities on Lemmy, at least no one is banning you for posting differing opinions here.

Have you thought about playing them some Barry White? I’m pretty sure that will increase their population at least 10x.

It’s not that the ‘rights’ are pro-vegan it’s that saying you are against animal abuse shouldn’t be a political thing similar to the way that you are against child abuse or spousal abuse shouldn’t be political.

(Yeah I know saying you are against child or spousal abuse is somehow a political thing these days, but doing the bare minimum shouldn’t be political, at least in my personal opinion.)

Hence the paradox of veganism, according to the right it’s a woke leftist thing. That is until you hang out with woke leftists and they are like ‘yeah, no we don’t support veganism’.

If there is one thing lemme has taught me is that there are a lot of prominent leftist vegans, but leftists in general do not support veganism, but very often are openly anti-vegan.

Agreed, with the caveat that the plants being grown are not invasive and detrimental to the environment they are grown in. (That is assuming you are growing outdoors, if you are growing indoors then yes you should be able to grow everything within reason)

Exactly, for that price you’re not really getting much aside from a few playability tweaks.

Let me start by saying I get it, sometimes the ‘magic’ of a guitar gets ruined by a well intentioned guitar tech.

That said what you are describing is a complete re-finishing job, and possibly a gutting the guitar down to a husk and replacing all the parts. The paint will easily cost upwards of 1-2k, and swapping out everything with decent parts could cost $500 - $1,000.

The ‘wife’ in the green text said she spent $200, for that price you aren’t getting much, fresh strings, a setup, and possibly a spot level and crown for any high frets. A few minor tweaks, that in theory could be undone.

As a fellow guitar player I’m not certain why this is being down voted so hard? Guitars are made to be modified, so anything that was done can be undone.

The interesting thing is that the wife said she only spent $200 bucks to get the guitar repair. Your mileage may vary, but in my neck of the woods $200 doesn’t get you too much in the way of a repair. They would probably offer to give your guitar a ‘setup’ and a new pack of strings, near me that would cost around $100, maybe a little more. So whatever else they fixed couldn’t have been too invasive, possibly new tuning pegs or resolved any wiring issues?

Everything there can be undone, a setup is the hardest as it would change the feel of the guitar. For the most part the ‘feel’, really only comes down to string height or ‘action’. That’s a quick fix for a guitar tech if brought back to the shop, hell a motivated amateur could probably probably figure out how to make that adjustment with a screwdriver and a Google search.

All that said I totally understand how the ‘magic’ of a guitar can easily be lost in the hands of a well intentioned but misguided guitar tech.

Sounds like the security guard was just a knob

I know of no factory for “vegan” food that kills the male workers days after they are born, and keeps the female workers in confined spaces for their entire lives, while forcibly impregnating them to ensure there will be a future population of workers. But please go on.

As a man I’ve always assumed this was the correct approach. I’ll keep myself groomed as long as you keep yourself groomed, this always struck me as the respectful thing to do.

Ah that makes so much sense, thanks for clarifying! Manufacturers are legally allowed to lie to consumers, that’s much better!

Legally how can you state it is 100% juice when the first ingredient is filtered water, then you add the cochineal extract, and the acorbic acid. I mean it’s mostly juice but it’s clearly not 100% juice. I feel like this is a lawsuit waiting to happen.

Totally watched Elliot Hulse back in the day as well, I never quite understood how working out and self improvement became an entry point for MAGA and right wing authoritarian, but it did.

Back in the day I would watch the Hodge twins, they had a channel on gym culture and another where they would joke around about obscure current events.

Last I saw them they had gone full tilt maga and mainly discussed politics, yeaaa no. I’m out.

Mine also did, but it didn’t really work for me that well to be honest.

My concern is that if he were to drop dead tomorrow that a large portion of his followers will just say something dumb like he’s gone undercover in an attempt to take over the deep state. And then proceed to add him in as a write in ballot for the next several decades.

“I totally found the new way of trolling the libs, I have sex with guys on grinder but the jokes on them because I’m not gay!”

Well because you asked… It’s fake because if you’re a native New Yorker (or I assume if you’ve lived there long enough) you become numb to the nose and stop hearing it. And probably more importantly, people scream at the top of their lungs in NYC all the damn time, New Yorkers DO. NOT. RESPOND. YOU DO NOT LOOK. YOU IGNORE. Eye contact is a great way to get assaulted by a homeless person who is possibly dealing with psychosis.

Lastly NO ONE in New York uses the phrase “badda bing badda boom”, that’s some lame Hollywood trope, I’ve literally never heard anyone use it in real life.

Agreed lemme is probably one of the most negative places on the Internet. I joined because I was hoping this place would grow to be a proper alternative for Reddit, with fun niche content, and its own culture of obscure inside jokes. Instead even after several years it still feels like we are the angry trolls living under reddit’s shadow.

One of the biggest things I’ve found that helped me avoid the politics was to leave lemme.world and fill my personal feed up with subscriptions to content that fits my interest. Politics has ways of working its way into content none the less, but at least I’ve got a fighting chance.

I really do believe lemme is going to struggle to find people who want to stick around unless it starts to embrace fun light hearted content. I’m not sure how we’d do that as a platform, but I do believe that’s one of the big reasons people will struggle to adopt this corner of the Internet as their own.