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AlligatorBlizzard, in Whaf do you think of hosting an AMA with John Oliver to make Lemmy/kbin officially a viable Reddit replacement?

Could we maybe get Cory Doctorow (and is he worth getting, I don't actually know much about him as a person?), in all of this I saw his essay on TikTok's enshitification getting passed around quite a bit, also he actually knows what the fediverse is.

Stovetop,

That essay was honestly a work of art, and I have a feeling it’s going to remain relevant for a while. I’d love to probe Cory for additional perspectives.

BarelyAdulting,

I don’t know much about him myself, but he was recently on Adam Conover’s podcast and he was super well spoken.

Cinner, in I need to survive for 3 days without pooping, and eating as little as possible. I can pee, but not very often. It can't take up too much space. What food do I pack?

I have the solution because I too have been in this exact situation, but you can't eat much or you'll be extremely uncomfortable.

The day before you go, drink a full bottle of magnesium citrate. This will cause liquid diarrhea and completely empty you out. This is used before Colonoscopies to give the doctor a clear view.

Then for the next 3 days eat very little while taking 3 immodium each day.

You're welcome.

thegiddystitcher,
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Since OP is pulling a Gandalf and keeping his secrets, maybe you'd care to share how you found yourself in such a no-shit scenario?

Cinner,

I'm in solidarity with OP on this one.

jarredpickles87,
@jarredpickles87@lemmy.world avatar

Or liquidarity as it would seem.

lp0101,

Magnesium Citrate does not fuck around. I used it once when constipated and it cleared me out good.

I also barely slept that night and had to take the following day off work, because i absolutely could not stop shitting for almost 24 hours

Cinner,

What's sad is I've been so constipated before (1 1/2 - 2 weeks of no pooping) that I drank a bottle of mag cit. And took some ex lax. And drank some miralax. And that still didn't do much for a few days.

Linnce, in Deleted

I don't think it ruins the joke nor does it bother me. If it helps people see the joke it's fine. Also it's probably useful for those who have a hard time understanding others, like people with autism.

imaqtpie, in Whaf do you think of hosting an AMA with John Oliver to make Lemmy/kbin officially a viable Reddit replacement?
@imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works avatar

I like the idea but we are not ready at all for something like that. It'd be crazy to blow our load too early and draw a bunch of media attention here only for people to come here and find it unusable. If redditors are struggling this much to migrate, the general public has no chance.

See where we are at in 3-6 months and reassess.

Stanley_Pain,
@Stanley_Pain@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

2-3 years is probably a better timeframe.

chickengod,
@chickengod@lemmy.ml avatar

Makes more sense. Gotta mitigate the risk of ruining the UX of the site and the community. This is a good idea in general, though.

pingveno,

I can remember all too well how it went for the r/antiwork mod who was interviewed by Fox. Anything Lemmy does needs to be very deliberately planned by people who know what to say and not to say.

toDie4,

Any chance of a TLDR of this interview?

imaqtpie,
@imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works avatar

The interview itself is the best TLDR. It's 3 minutes 24 seconds of highly concentrated cringe.

Here it is.

Obi,
@Obi@sopuli.xyz avatar

TLDR: dog walker got walked all over on live TV, sub then pretty much died afaik.

SevFTW,

Bit of a longer TLDR including context, I'll call it a TLDDD (too long, didn't deep dive):

Doreen was a moderator of /r/antiwork, she went on Fox News to present the subreddit and why it was so interesting to so many. This wasn't agreed upon by the community or the other moderators.

Fox immediately tried to frame it as people just sucking off the teat of "corporate america" and not wanting to work. In reaction to this, Doreen failed to actually make any arguments that a Fox News viewer would understand and even played directly into the propagandist's hands by using out of context philosophies like "laziness is a virtue" and saying that she worked as a dog walker.

On top of this, Doreen was incredibly unpresentable in the video and looked like your average, basement-dwelling netizen, sitting in a dimly lit room with a 2010s webcam. For the right-wingers at fox, she was the perfect image of what they imagine leftists to be like:

  • Trans
  • Autistic
  • Socialist
  • Unkempt
  • No "real" job (dog walker)

Here's a screenshot from the interview to give you an idea of what I mean by unkempt and unpresentable

https://feddit.de/pictrs/image/6e35196a-41bf-4e72-aaf8-06cc5c4adba8.png

highduc,

I think the sub was just fine afterwards. Probably still is.

SevFTW,

Bit of a longer TLDR including context, I'll call it a TLDDD (too long, didn't deep dive):

Doreen was a moderator of /r/antiwork, she went on Fox News to present the subreddit and why it was so interesting to so many. This wasn't agreed upon by the community or the other moderators.

Fox immediately tried to frame it as people just sucking off the teat of "corporate america" and not wanting to work. In reaction to this, Doreen failed to actually make any arguments that a Fox News viewer would understand and even played directly into the propagandist's hands by using out of context philosophies like "laziness is a virtue" and saying that she worked as a dog walker.

On top of this, Doreen was incredibly unpresentable in the video and looked like your average, basement-dwelling netizen, sitting in a dimly lit room with a 2010s webcam. For the right-wingers at fox, she was the perfect image of what they imagine leftists to be like:

  • Trans
  • Autistic
  • Socialist
  • Unkempt
  • No "real" job (dog walker)

Here's a screenshot from the interview to give you an idea of what I mean by unkempt and unpresentable

https://feddit.de/pictrs/image/6e35196a-41bf-4e72-aaf8-06cc5c4adba8.png

toDie4,

Thanks!

pingveno,

dog walker

Not even walker. They just had to mind the dogs, but they got fired from that job because they were sleeping on the job, then were bewildered that they got fired.

imaqtpie,
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Please delete this duplicate response, it's very long and makes it harder to scroll the thread/see my comment. I don't mean to be rude.

You don't need to be one of the 1st or 2nd level replies over here to avoid being buried.

SevFTW,

I deleted the other comment first, when I realized I didn't reply to the comment asking for more info, and then posted this. Perhaps something fucky with how lemmy served the page to you or deleted the post?

imaqtpie,
@imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works avatar

Oh shit, my bad. I'm almost certain it's because we are on lemmy.ml, this server has been having issues. Sometimes my comments don't show up for hours.

Your other comment still appears for me now, undeleted with 3 upvotes. But if I go to feddit.de I can see it's been deleted.

I should have just let you handle it, woops.

I wonder if you can see my other comment on this thread where I uploaded the video itself? Maybe that hasn't loaded for everyone yet, although it was posted over an hour ago

ilickfrogs,
@ilickfrogs@lemmy.world avatar

I agree, I think following this initial burst of users and our feedback we'll get there with time.

malcriada_lala,

I agree, but it doesn't hurt to think this out for when the time comes.

rm_dash_r_star,
@rm_dash_r_star@lemm.ee avatar

Think I'd have to agree with that, I don't think it's ready for an "event" at this point. It will be at some point, but not yet. Still something to think about.

SilentStorms,
@SilentStorms@lemmy.fmhy.ml avatar

I love Lemmy, but I feel like people are overestimating the ability of the platform. Stability and usability issues aside, there's the question of why would John Oliver come here? We don't have any history of celebrity AMAs, and highest estimates of our userbase puts us at maybe 1% of reddit, or 1 million users. For comparison's sake Ashens has 1.5 million subscribers on YouTube, do you think he could suddenly decide to do interviews and have the pull to get someone like John Oliver?

I think reaching out to Christian Selig or Louis Rossmann as other commenters suggested is more realistic, and would probably be a better experience for everyone involved.

Snuzii, in What are some good ways to be less depressed?

Having a gratitude journal is helpful

Etnies419, in I need to survive for 3 days without pooping, and eating as little as possible. I can pee, but not very often. It can't take up too much space. What food do I pack?

I was here for... Whatever this is...

nepatriots32, in I need to survive for 3 days without pooping, and eating as little as possible. I can pee, but not very often. It can't take up too much space. What food do I pack?
@nepatriots32@lemmy.world avatar

I recommend eating a lot of cheese and absolutely NO fiber. Not sure if it will make you sweat less, but I'm pretty sure if I ate only cheese for 3 days, it wouldn't be too hard to wait till the end of it to poop. In fact, I may need some help at that point... maybe you should eat some fiber like a couple hours before you do plan on trying to poop, and also drink lots of water at that point, too. I personally find cheese very "helpful" in getting myself constipated, and fiber + water to be a great way to smoothen the pooping process.

6fn, (edited )
@6fn@kbin.social avatar

To share the wisdom of Weird Al Yankovic on this topic:

This cheese 'round the clock
is getting me blocked

nepatriots32,
@nepatriots32@lemmy.world avatar

And if we can't trust Weird AL for advice, then who can we trust?

LollerCorleone, in I need to survive for 3 days without pooping, and eating as little as possible. I can pee, but not very often. It can't take up too much space. What food do I pack?
@LollerCorleone@kbin.social avatar

This post is going straight to the fediverse hall of fame!

diffaldo, in I need to survive for 3 days without pooping, and eating as little as possible. I can pee, but not very often. It can't take up too much space. What food do I pack?

try OMAD and drink sugary drinks while in your journey. Godspeed!

StoicLime, in I need to survive for 3 days without pooping, and eating as little as possible. I can pee, but not very often. It can't take up too much space. What food do I pack?
@StoicLime@lemmy.world avatar

We finally got shitposting on Lemmy, lessfgo!

eyy,

shitposting

C'mon read the whole thing man, its a no-shit post.

taladar,

No shit, Sherlock.

Snuzii, in I need to survive for 3 days without pooping, and eating as little as possible. I can pee, but not very often. It can't take up too much space. What food do I pack?

I guess try taking some OTC medicine for diarrhea, should make you constipated.

nihilomaster, (edited ) in Side effects of nitric oxide?

You should watch out because nitric oxide is highly explosive. About the same as nitroglycerin. No but seriously: While it is true that nitric oxide is released in the nasal cavity (always not just during buteyko), the amounts are waay to low to have any noticeable impact. If you are doing breathing exercises any visual effects you notive are probably coming from too much oxygen.

Harpa, in I need to survive for 3 days without pooping, and eating as little as possible. I can pee, but not very often. It can't take up too much space. What food do I pack?

I don't even want to know the answer because it'll be less entertaining than lemmy's collective imagination.

As for the question: I think your biggest problem is going to be inducing a proper clearout shortly before you go on your trip. Maybe laxatives?

Edit: I just realized, is the reason you don't want to go despite having toiles available stuff like hemorrhoids or an anal fissure? Because if so, there are creams for that my friend.

Dazed_Confused, (edited ) in I need to survive for 3 days without pooping, and eating as little as possible. I can pee, but not very often. It can't take up too much space. What food do I pack?
@Dazed_Confused@lemmy.world avatar

This could be a setting in a Stephen King novel. They usually don't end well.

I am really curious about the situation, but all I've to say is be safe and update us.

genfood, in Reddit alts with similar subs?
@genfood@feddit.de avatar

I am sorry, but I identify myself as a lemming.

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