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What are they even talking about? They have done NOTHING BUT win culture wars ever since 2012. If you're all doom and gloom over Barbie, I hope someone forces you to watch Idiocracy where morons like you are even more viciously pointed out.
THE ENEMY IS BOTH TOO STRONG AND TOO WEAK
They have to always feel persecuted while also believing their enemies are pathetic and easily crushed.
Okay how the hell did you post a picture? I haven't figured that one out yet
Press the smiley face button and look at the full list, including Hexbear custom stuff.
Or, to get your own image, press the button just to the right of the smiley face if you have one on your drive.
holy shit, this whole time I was just typing a colon and then trying to remember the names of each individual one. Is this a new feature from the update or have I been doing this wrong for the last three years?
The latter.
I've known all along and refuse to do it. No I will not touch the smiley face and you can't make me
it's always been there, but now the list also allows you to search by tags/keywords not just the designated name of the emote which is neat. This does require the admins to actually tag the emotes tho, which I think is only partially done judging by my difficulty finding some lately
I was legitimately making this mistake and using the old emoji reference website to look the names up for two years
i can feel the pain of this post
I've been able to just paste an image into the reply box as well.
I was giving the crudest introductory version just in case.
Hexbear developed an emote feature on their Lemmy fork years ago, and then converged back to Lemmy's mainline code in order to federate, so they have a selection menu that adds a little image. Anyone can add images with the picture feature (there's a button, or you can copy-paste and image), Hexbear just made a convenient list of hundreds of small images.
You can also click the View Source button on a comment in the [more] options, if someone does something funky and you want to learn how they formatted it. Like
inline code.Hexbear has an emote feature, you can add images on any instance with ctrl+v in chat though. Not sure if you're on mobile.
Idiocracy is a fascist movie about how stupid poor people are having too many babies.
Mike Judge giveth and taketh away
Culture war victories are always temporary - there's nothing to build off of, cus there hasn't actually been any accomplishments. You do a great big whinge, feel a fleeting moment of catharsis. Then, what the hell, see a movie. Yesterday was yesterday, today the kids want to see Barbie.
Also, Don't Look Up
Idk man that movie felt like some lib shit. Sure, it's making fun of chuds, but there was so much winking to its lib audience ('you'd be one of the few looking up, right? Right? At least YOU are one of the smart ones' ) without ever exploring what lead to people not looking up, no systemic critique or analysis. A typical lib circlejerk about how they're better than anyone else.
Idiocracy does the same. Although it sure is funny at times, it's premise comes pretty close to eugenics if you ask me.
Its premise IS eugenics. Not enough of the right people are breeding is pretty damn explicit.
its premise is literally eugenics
I'd argue that the systemic critiques of Don't Look Up include folks simply listening to who they want to without regard to facts, the snowball effect that social media has when it comes to misinformation, and the gap of perception and reality are exploited for someone's gain (even if it's a detriment to everyone).
The premise of idiocracy is literally "what if everyone in there future were idiots and there's one average person from the past added to the mix?" and how they got there is the opposite of eugenics.
lol. lmao even
I think a lot of chuds thought thngs would change when Trump got in.