Since krellor answered the main question:
I feel like it would be useful to know exactly how much alcohol is in a can or a bottle.
RL example: the beer in my fridge is 350ml, 4.7% ABV. Doing the maths this is roughly 16.5ml of alcohol, or 13.0g.
My hypothesis: Lemmy has an older userbase, and in general older people feel less of a need to express their emotions. They're busier discussing the topic than highlighting their attitude towards it.
Perhaps cultural reinforcement plays a role, too. As emoticons and emojis are less used, they feel more out of place, so people who'd use them elsewhere avoid them here.
Pay 10 gold to the local priest. Problem solved.
Not enough gold? Sell some old items that I've been hoarding.
No hoarded items? Then how the hell was I cursed on first place, if not by trying every piece of equipment in the way???
The post is clear. That is what matters. If some assumer starts making shit up based on the title alone, the assumer is at fault, not the poster.
I'm a mix of OK and not-OK.
The good: I'm excited with Xmas + New Years' Eve. It's just family but I always get hyped up. Learning how to paint oil on canvas. Got nice gifts for my family, "nice" not as "expensive" but as "things that they'll enjoy".
The bad: lots of things to do. Juggling the will of five people and two cats for the festivities, as I'm the one cooking most of it. (Yes, the cats will get treats. Yoghurt for one, shredded chicken breast for another.) Work is also extra hard those days.
The ugly: I hate summer. Insect thinks that my desk is a love hotel, my feet get swollen, 13:00 and I turn into mush, my cats get more nocturnal so late night/early morning they're "MEOW, MEOW" = "stop sleeping and play with me, stupid human". At a certain point in my life I seriously considered buying a house in the Alps so I didn't need to deal with summers any more.
I fully agree that it doesn't matter for Lemmy right now. The issue is mostly Mastodon and Kbin, as both compete directly with Threads; and in a smaller scale Friendica, Matrix and PixelFed as they compete with FB/WhatsApp/IG.
The main reason why I support defederation is to not have users in Mastodon relying on contacts and content from Threads at all. Because, once Threads pulls off the plug (eventually they will want to), Mastodon won't be some small but stable network; it'll be a shrinking one, and that's way worse.
This might be a major life moment for you.
Nah. ElderWendigo@shitjustworks is clearly a witch hunter, and witch hunters don't usually learn. Five minutes later they get another major life moment: misread something, point hooves and screech, get called out, then delete the comment while downvoting people calling them out, as they run away with tail between legs.
[I kind of wanted them to point out historical falsehoods in my comment though. If there's something false there I'd gladly fix it.]
Portuguese ⟨bisonho⟩. I always used it as "needy", "demanding excessive attention" (like a child). Until someone informed me that it was supposed to be "weird".
Your whole comment is just so much racist whitewashing and ignorance it is painful to read.
In no moment I whitewashed rock, denying its black origins. I didn't even mention the origins of rock. So don't be a liar - or worse, assumptive trash.
The anti-rock movement is deeply rooted in racism.
That does not contradict what I said given that I was talking about that specific claim, not about the anti-rock movement as a whole.
Long before there was any hint of witchcraft in Rock and Roll, it’s greatest threat to christian fundamentalism was in brining black music to white audiences.
I believe this to be correct but it does not contradict what I said.
Your whole comment is just so much racist whitewashing and ignorance it is painful to read.
No, it is not. Learn to read.
This kind of bullshit is how conservatives today get away with claiming racism doesn’t exist anymore.
I'm neither what would be considered "conservative" where I live, nor in USA (where rock is from). And I am not responsible for what your intellectual peers claim. (You might not be a conservative but you bloody behave like one!)
Nota bene: if two were to play this "I'm an illiterate so I make shit up lol" game, you'd be screwed, as it would be really easy for me to label you as an Islamophobic and a nationalist, on the exact same grounds that you're claiming that I'm [ipsis ungulis] "a racist" and "whitewashing rock". Think on why.
Or alternatively you might go back to Reddit. Given that you lack basic reading comprehension, you'd be doing everyone a big favour.
[some are] convinced that rock music is evil and will lead people to engage in witchcraft and draw pentagrams all over their home.
I think that it's pretty safe to say that at least some people around you are stone-cold fundamentalists. This sort of discourse doesn't come from non-fundamentalists.
That said as stupid as "rock is [from the d]evil" claim is, I don't think that it's rooted in racism. Instead I think that it's because some values often followed by rock bands, singers and fans clash directly with some values of Christianity.
Note that some sort of percussion pops up in almost every musical style, across the eras.
Slaves. They created the guitar
This was already addressed, but... come on, acoustic guitars are from Middle Ages Iberia, and they backtrack all the way into the lutes of the Ancient Egypt and Anatolia. (Probably. It's so old that the origins are hard to determine.)
My most enforced boundary is likely "if I clearly told you «no», do not insist". Insisting further won't just piss me off, but also decrease the likelihood that you'll get what you're asking for.