From the webcomics front Skin Horse plays with this concept with its chapter Choose.

<3 thanks! I try to keep up with Lemmy drama in a passive sorta way, but this was pretty outside my radar.

Right? As another Blahaj denizen, I’d like to know the reason. Several are pretty self explanatory, but still…

Coy-o-tehs

With Germans among the strongest voices opposing Trump and Tesla owner Elon Musk,

The ambiguity of this sentence is great - are Germans opposing both Trump and Musk (yes) or does Musk own both Trump and Tesla (also yes).

This looks like a hazard for the projector.

Do I get a hotdish as part of the welcome wagon?

I wanna, but my job keeps me here for now.

Bah, they don’t even go into the unique part of the f150 froot: it has a drain so any ice in there for tailgating beverages can melt away without being a conplete mess.

Naw. Sent a DM a couple days back to check in, but have heard nothing. Here’s hoping they’re just busy with the real world.

If you never know them, they did their job well.

Yah, but it’s also a pun on those cheap dyes that come off in the wash, said to run.

Can’t help but wanna see this overlaid on a mall map: these hobbits had to get to JC Penny from the Books-A-Million. A harrowing journey of many months.

Do we have any fun infographics to help educate those that aren’t autodidacts?

I’m on that edge myself. Any advice for those looking to go electric?

Fair 'nuff. I hadn’t really considered an alt account.

It isn’t really that odd, considering you’ve only been here a couple of weeks. Mutual Aid is a foundational idea in most if not all anarchist projects and theory.

There may be many scammers, yes, but the goal remains the same - get help to those who need it from those in a position to give it.

As for being part of the problem, I must disagree. Scammers aren’t leeching just this, they’d be present in any system purporting to help others (in gov’t systems this is called fraud), the goal of these grassroots aid projects is to help those who fall through the cracks of more formalized systems and decentralize some aid in case the church/NGO/gov’t can’t or won’t help (see the Hurricane Helene/Katrina responses when FEMA is overwhelmed).

Means-testing recipients is kinda a dick move anyway: those who have demonstrable need will have a harder time getting aid and time/money that should be spent helping are now spent with verification.

Ice is frustrating, but I can never think to ask for no ice, because I don’t put it in drinks I make.

What would prevent the same happening in the next wave of rats jumping ship? They don’t know anything about the servers or their niches, so they pick whatever. Listing all the servers and their missions is a good start for those motivated to join, but for those more on the fence, how do we ease the transition?

What a wild wall outlet. What is that? Three standards?

Those look like Lackadaisy Cats