JohnnyEnzyme

I’d heard about them before, but prefer to reserve judgement until I see things with my own eyes, or at least directly see how they’re treating others.

Eventually, at my community, I posted a comic examining some of the various self-strife between Israeli folk, and from out of nowhere 3-4 Hexbear users who’d never taken part before materialised and began ranting about Israel and calling me and the community some pretty awful things. After that, I started paying a little more attention to their user comments across the Fediverse. Just… yikes.

Hexbear is run and populated by toxic extremists largely unable to deal with middle ground and a spectrum of opinion, last I checked. I’d consider this a fortuitous omen to block the whole instance and dust your hands off as a job well done.

Whoops, yeah, I meant biggest bubble in Insecta.

Out of curiosity, how much time and effort did you spend in building and fine-tuning your feed?

Also, did you make any special effort to get connected to other parts of the FV?

Very cool, and would also be nice to see the main subdivisions labelled accordingly.

For example, Coleoptera should be the largest ‘bubble’ in the arthropod group, I think?

Thanks for the clarification. I was indeed just parroting what I’d heard & read several times, without really understanding the mechanisms involved.

Also, (and I’m no kind of expert) it seems there’s a lot of graft involved in the spending, such as $67 charged for a screw, and that kind of thing. A good bit of it due to a kickback-type arrangement between the politicians involved (think Dick Cheney) and the defense contractors who get awarded the deals.