cute animals

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Cake day: July 22nd, 2024
  • Elevator7009@lemmy.worldOPto[Closed] Moved to !fedigrow@lemmy.zip@lemm.ee•Consolidating fox communitiesEnglish
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    11 months ago

    I can’t come up with a title

    I have this trouble too sometimes. I figure just approach it like you would alt text. “a picture of a bunny I took today,” “bunny in the evening,” “bunny looks left,” might be boring but it’s accurate, and people are here for the cute animal pictures, not for my clever titling. Thanks for making cool stuff on Lemmy!

    I am confused on if you would rather stay on .world or if you would like to move, or if you are ambivalent. (I personally favor moving and getting you installed as mod on the sdf community, but I’m also not the only user of the fox community, hence the thread!)

  • Elevator7009@lemmy.worldto[Closed] Moved to !fedigrow@lemmy.zip@lemm.ee•How (and when) to consolidate communities? (A guide)English
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    1 year ago

    Oof, made a post about consolidating !bunnies@lemmy.world and !rabbits@lemmy.world, and saw this a few days later. Although since both are lemmy.world no big loss, and I did leave an option for people to vote for creating a new community and moving there.

    So then I figured I was going to message the mod of !bun_alert_system@lemmy.sdf.org. Awhile ago I said it was good for us to stand on our own, make options, but combining our reach would probably be good if we allow the same content (I think they might be different in that the alert system is just pictures and videos of bunnies in real life, and my community also allows other bunny-related content like media about them, questions about taking care of rabbits, though in practice it is also mostly just pictures and videos of bunnies and any other content like links to video games featuring bunnies usually comes straight from me…). But lemmy.sdf.org is also one of the biggest servers (though smaller than .world), and I saw the discussion below about getting people off the biggest servers too, not just the single biggest one of lemmy.world.

    Also, would probably be bad having just put out a poll on consolidating !bunnies and !rabbits, and then doing a second consolidation towards !bun_alert_system.

    What is a bunny lover to do? I feel it is easier to consolidate towards existing communities than to get everyone to agree to move to a new one.

  • Elevator7009@lemmy.worldtoSuperbowl@lemmy.world•Can owls learn to play the trumpet?English
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    1 year ago

    I feel like arguing by technical definitions you could reasonably classify certain things as a sport that aren’t commonly culturally considered a sport, but that do involve physical fitness, competition, skill, an audience, and often coordination with other people. People who really do dance seriously have to be fit, basically every arts field ever is super competitive and requires at least a bare minimum of skill to succeed (yes, I know about all the pop singers people think suck, they still at least attain a bare minimum bar that I’ve seen grown adults obliviously fail to pass. I know enough about music to know I don’t pass that bar either), dancing does have an audience (typical example is people going to watch ballet), and although you can dance solo quite a few dances involve partners or a whole team. But we all know it doesn’t fit what most people consider sports. I do wonder what draws that cultural “line in the sand” that makes it so most people don’t think of dance when they think of sports.

    I don’t dance seriously, so I don’t know much about how intense its physical requirements are, or how much of it surrounds pushing your body to its limits, although I’m pretty sure it is about precisely moving your body in a particular way at the right time, so it is focused on physical activity. Maybe the focus on music and artistic expression instead of just the physical task “takes away” from its sports-ness? (Full disclosure, I speak as a person who doesn’t follow sports, but isn’t a hater of them.) Maybe that it’s not always a competition? People dance at weddings or parties without having anyone try to judge who’s better. But then again, you can run or bike or swim without trying to beat anyone.

    You could also make a similar argument for marching band. Yes, there are competitions! The most well-known ones are associated with DCI, Drum Corps International. Depending on how good your high school/college was at it you might not be aware of the athleticism it’s capable of demanding. (Video is very short) But again, this culturally doesn’t count as a sport. Maybe because there’s a stereotype of more less-athletically-inclined folks participating? Is it like my dance guesses, the focus on music and artistic expression instead of just the physical task taking away from “sports-ness,” or that it’s not always a competitive activity?

    I didn’t play or follow sports growing up. I have done marching band, and I have no particular investment in anything not traditionally considered a sport being deemed as such. I just think it makes for an interesting topic.

  • Elevator7009@lemmy.worldtoSuperbowl@lemmy.world•Emotional IntelligenceEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I know that some animals can feel, but not to which degree and if all of them can. Bugs and fish being certified to have feelings on par with or even more… extreme? in-depth? not sure what word to use—would be news to me.

    This community is probably weighted towards people with high empathy for non-human creatures, people who might be more likely to seek out information about the emotional capabilities of such creatures. This is not a bad thing, but it would explain how people do not seem to know what you seem to deem obvious.

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