Thanks for trying! In case anyone else cares to comment, it’s neither of these.

Eh. Got sent this from someone else and thought it was funny, figured the watermark wasn’t the main point so it should not matter too much. If the watermark is truly an issue for you, perhaps post or petition the mod to make a rule that you cannot have watermarks in your post, besides those that artists make themselves to ensure they get credit when people inevitably repost the funny thing.

In more blunt terms: I’m posting this on Lemmy and didn’t source it from Reddit myself, what more do you want from me? Should I use an art program to edit this watermark out in the future?

the human

This is my comfortable position. Wonder if that’ll change as I age ;-; (No seriously, I’d like to know so I can do my best to avoid a lot of physical pain I don’t have to have.)

While I appreciate improvements (disclaimer: I’m not Anna), as far as I know, things pad around floors. I checked that same website for “pat” to make sure I wasn’t missing some way that word could be used to describe an animal walking. I am pretty certain cats pad across floors, not pat across them.

Although “padding” is apparently “walking without noise” according to that dictionary I linked, so that might not be the best replacement either considering the sound of the cat walking wakes up the speaker. (I knew the “walking” part but not the “without noise” part until I made this reply.) Then again, http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pad is more generous to us here, not requiring the walking be without noise, so maybe it does work.

The most inoffensive, on-topic, accurate posts and comments get downvotes. I mostly chalk it up to a few trolls, and also accept the possibility I am unknowingly treading on someone’s sensitivities. Goodness knows I’ve seen posts that reflexively make me feel bad that clearly were not intended to do that, stuff posted on Lemmy Be Wholesome that I felt wasn’t actually that wholesome but actually harmful and wanted to downvote despite the mass upvotes. I try to be sensitive and think of others’ feelings, put down common trigger warnings, but also I can’t account for every single possible sensitivity or viewpoint, especially when posting on the internet to the public, and neither can those people who inadvertently made me feel bad or posted something I personally thought did not fit Lemmy Be Wholesome that everyone else clearly thought was wholesome.

I wouldn’t worry about downvotes unless there is a significant ratio of downvotes compared to upvotes.

(I did not create this community, and I am not a moderator of this community, but I’m usually the only one posting anything. Can we change that?)

Thanks for disclosing, usually it is a community’s creator posting it here although there are exceptions, so I assumed you made the community.

This is very much not my lane, but props to you for trying to single-handedly keep what seems to be a non-harmful community going, and good luck with attracting new contributors.

Thanks, I needed this too. On Mbin, not Lemmy, and I have no image in the post and there is also no link for me to click. Just the title “Timeline of Linux Distributions”. I checked on mander.xyz and the image does show there.

It would be nice to do something similar without locking it down to Amazon, a known Bad Company™

I remember reading a lot of these books as a kid and I enjoyed them. Now I wonder what I did with them…

!pokemon@lemm.ee might appreciate

Alright, on Mbin I can see the alt text I gave the Dinosaur Train logo. On Lemmy, I cannot. Would appreciate if other Lemmy users would tell me if they can see alt text or not, as well as if they can see alt text for the following image:

And for a world where the dinosaurs made good use of the supercontinent…

I’m guessing it’s unpopular online because most people are not sanitizing their language like that (some don’t swear online, but they also do it by just not including them in their posts in the first place), and think of it as censorship even if self-censorship isn’t quite the same thing as telling others what they can and cannot say. I see what you are doing as a matter of personal choice, but some people will probably conclude it’s you being sanctimonious even if I really don’t think it is. Might have to do with you writing out and censoring a swear instead of just writing an entirely different word. Although “posting low-effort memes” really does not carry the same energy as “shitposting,” so I understand why that would be a very difficult option to take here.

My second guess is also because this isn’t really a behavior popular with thread-based discussion. From what I can gather, it seems to be popular on platforms like Twitter and TikTok, which people who use thread-based discussion tend to look down on (and to be honest, I have that judginess too. Not for those who use the platforms, goodness knows I rot my brain too, just for the platforms themselves). One reason people might censor themselves there is ironically to skirt censorship: “shit” might get autoremoved, but “shxt” will not and everyone will still know what you mean. I’m not sure if those platforms actually do engage in swear censorship since I don’t use them, but it is a reason I’ve seen people give for typing like that.

However as far as I know Lemmy and Mbin don’t do swear censorship, so although I don’t hold your typing of “shxtposting” instead of “shitposting” against you and think it’s insane to downvote you for it especially since you are not being hostile, I cannot understand why you would do it. I know you want this to be more of a sanitized, not-swearing-all-the-time space both because of the rules and because you said this community was created at least partially to look at memes with your kid. But it doesn’t make sense, in my mind, to swear and just take out the vowels if you don’t want the exposure to bad language. We all know what it means, and if your kid does not, they’ll look it up and get the real word pretty fast. I think people are also reacting to that, so I’m curious why you bothered censoring yourself while still mostly using the swear word.

People also seem to have issues with those asking why their actions are disapproved of instead of intuitively grasping it, and at least online, downvote when people ask to understand why. No question is dumb, it’s okay to learn, unless it’s ‘why do people disapprove of my actions’, you have to just magically know and will be punished both for not knowing and trying to reach out to learn. So sorry about all your downvotes for asking an innocent question.

Title reminds me of http://findtheinvisiblecow.com/

Imagine loving garlic and then being turned into a vampire. Worst tragedy ever

Well, it is pretty to look at. Wonder if the diagram is confusing or if I’m just dumb, because it took me a bit to figure out that circle size corresponded with millimeters. That’s the struggle of knowing 1) you’re not an omniscient genius but also 2) data can be presented in a way that’s confusing to most people, but not being a design expert so you don’t know if you’re just dumb or if it’s a design flaw. And you don’t want to start criticizing stuff when you are not an expert and saying something blatantly wrong, so you just wonder and maybe type out this paragraph online.

Probably because whoever made the meme knows it’s used in Europe but not what measuring systems other countries use. I also didn’t know what measuring systems other countries used, but know that usually Europeans might use metric. I didn’t think hard about it. I saw a meme that did not seem to be misleading and seemed unlikely to offend or cause despair and hopelessness, I decided to post it here. Thanks for the information that I didn’t know.

Also, I wouldn’t mind having US schools teach metric so we can shift to it, but alas I am not a politician and cannot make a unilateral decision for the whole country. While I can bug them to support such a measure, we unfortunately have bigger fish to fry right now. I’m just trying to post levity to help people get through the day, because that matters too.

If you cannot find a buyer immediately…

The entire premise of a “zonk” is that the contestant would be disappointed. Goats were a common “zonk,” and it’s assumed most contestants would have no ability to house, and no use for, a domestic goat.

According to an interview with Monty Hall, several contestants actually decided to keep the animals; although rare, it was allowed since the animals were offered as prizes (and they were a lot more expensive than the consolation cash prize).

from the explainxkcd link, emphasis mine.