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  • The Bard in Green@lemmy.starlightkel.xyztoFediverse@lemmy.world•Don’t let the media bury himEnglish
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    4 days ago

    JoA never killed anybody. She just went into battle. Many people also believe Saint Patrick committed genocide against the druids in Ireland, but this is an historical myth, originating from the speculation of Elizabethan era scholars. The actual historical record only supports him preaching in Ireland, not being violent (plenty of the people who listened to him were THEN violent).

    However, there are a bunch of saints who led armies (or were just soldiers) during the crusades, at least one saint who was a Viking leader who then converted and helped to (violently) Christianize the Nordic countries (Saint Olaf of Norway), and Saint Peter of Verona was an inquisitor who zealously hunted heretics in Northern Italy in the 1200s (very likely ALSO a torturer in addition to a murderer).

  • The Bard in Green@lemmy.starlightkel.xyztoFediverse@lemmy.world•As an average OG ex-redditor, Lemmy needs to move away from it's base barebones UI to something like Photon by default, here's why.English
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    6 days ago

    I love the Lemmy UI.

    But I’m a gen Xer.

    There’s some great analysis floating around of how different generations actually interpret UIs (and make decisions about how or whether to engage with them) very differently. So there is no “one size fits all” that will make everybody happy. Change the Lemmy UI to something like Photon and I’d be like… “this is dumb.” Making a bunch of very different options is a lot of work. If you want to do it… no one is stopping you. The Lemmy project is opensource and you could go start contributing and making pull requests today. You could go run your own instance and make it look like whatever you want and get the average redditors to join that. I run my own instance. We have a whole two users. It works exactly the way I want it to and federates with exactly who I want it to.

    Frankly, I’m not sure Lemmy needs to go out of it’s way to appeal to the average redditor in order to have a thriving, healthy community. Sure, there are some things I miss about having a giant user base to engage with, but honestly, I’ll trade them for the MUCH MUCH lower toxicity. I don’t know that “growing Lemmy” should be our focus. It’s not like we’re getting paid.

  • The Bard in Green@lemmy.starlightkel.xyztoPolitics@beehaw.org•Why Gen Z Men Voted for Trump
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    11 days ago
    • Sick of feminist and LGBTQ ideology being pushed.
    • Can’t really articulate what that is and what it means, or be specific about what they don’t like about it.

    Sadly, this tracks, this is this entire block of white men pretty much (and is identical to people who complain about “woke” and “critical race theory”). It’s a result of flooding the zone with shit (google that if you don’t know what it means) and if anything, it usefully tells us who’s vulnerable to that (a tragically large number of people).

  • The Bard in Green@lemmy.starlightkel.xyztoPolitics@beehaw.org•Of Course Joe Biden Was Right to Pardon His Son
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    12 days ago

    80 yr old energy is its own thing and it can be glorious.

    A buddy of mine has a story about about his great grandma told him “When you’re old, you can do whatever you want,” and then tripped his shitty, obnoxious cousin who’d been bullying him and picking on him all day and said “Stop being mean to your cousin dear.”

    When the cousin’s mom came to see why he was freaking out, he said “Grandmom tripped me!” And his mom said, “Oh honey, you know Grandmom doesn’t see very well…”