And the problem is?..
Honestly i just had to block /cats. It was 95% of the front page
That explains why I had no idea what this post was referring to. Apparently that community is already blocked.
Same
Is it like a coordinated effort to drown out politics, whats the angle here?
After the US election, it’s needed anyways. We could probably all use a short break from politics
Ive blocked Trump and Musk from my feeds. But they still get through somehow sometimes.
I just want a break dammit!
Well…what if you imagined them having a leaked sex tape? Just squishing their bits into each other, until they’re a sticky moankng gooey mess! Put THAT mental image in your mind!
…yeah, I’ve mentally checked out long ago, and no longer am trying to maintain sanity. Frank Reynolds is right. Lets just get REAL WEIRD with our final days…
Why does musk look SO MUCH like princess leia??? Ahhhh!!!
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I think politics play a very large role in life and that ignorance of it gives us outcomes like Trump, but I would like to hear more about what the motivation for the cats is if that’s also on the table.
No no. Ignorance is not the same as stupidity. Ignorance is the lack of knowledge. Stupidity is the inability to use knowledge.
Every single day since 2016 we’ve had trump in our daily conversations. Every single day we’ve heard every stupid thing he’s done. Every tiny little thing he’s ever said. If news outlets had access to his toilet time, they’d play nightly audio of his poops. There is not a single thing about him that hasn’t been said 1000 times. No piece of information about him that isn’t out there.
And he doesn’t keep himself secret either. He stood onstage and said into a microphone, with cameras rolling, in front of thousands of people, with pride in his voice as he said it, that he would be responsible for the largest mass deportation innititive this country has ever seen. He said if he was elected we wouldn’t have to ever vote again. He said he would use the united states military if needed to “put down” the enemy within.
These are not the words of a man hiding facism. He put it on full display for over a year, and the votes came back that we as a collective country WANT that.
The information is out there in public. Reported on ad nauseam on a nightly basis for over a year.
Trump is not the result of ignorance. Trump is the result of weaponized stupidity.
You have a very cool philosophy and I thank you for sharing, but the definition of ignorance is not the same as unaware. To be ignorant generally implies to ignore the reality or truth.
American Heritage Dictionary has this to say about it:
Ignorance:
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The condition of being uneducated, unaware, or uninformed.
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The condition of being ignorant; the lack of knowledge in general, or in relation to a particular subject; the state of being uneducated or uninformed.
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A willful neglect or refusal to acquire knowledge which one may acquire and it is his duty to have.
I’d normally also include something like Oxford Dictionary definition but for some reason they’ve got a paid subscription model now.
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I don’t think it was coordinated.
It feels like someone shared a photo, others felt inspired to share, and it snowballed since then
Snowballed is the wrong word. Collapsed into a black hole seems more appropriate, considering the subject matter.
The best Lemmy has ever been. The Internet exists for two reasons: Cat picd/videos snd porn. And we got the porn covered too.
on the one hand, it’s annoying having so many photos of somebody’s cat(s) flooding your feed
On the other, after months of election dread and with at least four more years of misery for everyone who isn’t rich lying ahead of us – sure, bring on the cat photos. Good palate cleanser.
Come check it out, or add to the cat photo avalanche
cat JUMPSCARE
I did notice an uptick in specifically black cats. And I was kind of surprised to see it just came from !cat!cat@lemmy.world Normally when you get a high volume of one highly specific kind of content, it’s because a new community has been opened somewhere and the community creator and/or small group of early users are outright spamming it to populate it because communities that sit empty will inevitably remain empty. Of course what they’re doing is bombing the All feed to the point that people who might actually go “Oh hey there’s a black cat sub, I’ll subscribe to that” will block it because it’s the entire fediverse for 50 hours if they don’t.
I have seen this phenomenon back on Reddit, where everyone just started posting pictures of their cat to pay the “cat tax” because it was a simple bandwagon to jump onto. It’s everyone post their cat day. “Hey, I’ve got a black cat too. I want to play. My turn!” I just can’t be mad at that because it’s wholesome social fun but…it’s a problem with Lemmy itself that when a community has any kind of spike in traffic it just B-52’s everyone’s All feed for days.
Why would I block it, it’s black cats. They’re all quality posts, entirely by virtue of being cats.
Fuck, I put up with beans for almost a week, cats are fine
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Why not multiplication dots?
Void is a stupid thing to call a cat. Like come on guys be original there are other ways of saying “nothing” and centuries worth of racist ways to say black.
My aunt when she was a kid named her black cat Nothing.
So when her dad, who didn’t like cats in the house, asked what that sound was from her room she would say ’oh that was nothing’.
This story gets trotted out every holiday.
yeah guys why don’t we just call our cats the hard r, that’s much better
thought it was clear that was sarcasm. Left out the /s thinking “I can’t just say black without knowing where this would obviously be headed”
smh shoulda known
Cat raid 🐱🐱🐱
