I know, It’s getting so that you just can’t trust unsourced images of alleged tweets talking about political topics on social media anymore.

smh my head

Ash Ketchum certainly has a different flavor in this version of the world.

I grew up in the age of Internet forums, in the ancient days of the late '90s-early-00’s before the (Eternal September) Smartphone dumped every human being onto the landscape.

Having small communities is so much better. I often hear people complain that Lemmy isn’t big because there are not communities with 3 million people like there are some subreddits. Much of the reason that Reddit is shit is because of how big it is.

On the old Internet, you could know the people who were part of the community. I have old friends, that I’ve known for 20+ years, that I met playing MUDs on BBSs. Now, I couldn’t tell you the name of a single person that I’ve ever interacted with on social media in the past year.

Digg and Reddit came on the scene and pulled a huge crowd because we didn’t have The Algorithm to recommend content and these link aggregation sites were the first time people got a taste of that kind of ‘See all of the newest things from every corner of the Internet in a single place, curated by a process that produces good quality results’ that we now just expect from recommendation algorithms.

The old communities were essentially starved of population. Nobody wants to take the social effort required to become part of a community when they can just scroll Reddit mindlessly.

There’s very few people that even had a chance to experience the magic of spontaneous communities full of people working together.

If you still want a taste, check out the Something Awful forums.

The barrier to entry is higher: you have to learn the rules (read the rules), the social norms and there is a $10 one-time fee (so getting banned has some sting to it, read the rules).

In exchange you get an actual community of people. Many of the people posting there (or, in the various Discords now because that’s a thing) have been on SA since they were edgy teenagers and are now professionals with careers. That isn’t to say that there are not trolls and assholes, those exist in any community, but there’s a much higher ratio of good to bad posters.

One of the interesting decisions that they do is that rulebreaking posts are rarely ever deleted. If a person is probated (temp ban) or banned, their comment stays up with a “(User was Probated/Banned for this post)” edited into the post so you can see, and hopefully learn, from the bad behavior. In addition, there’s a ‘Wall of Shame’ section where you can see everyone who’s been actioned against, who the moderator was and the moderation reason.

I’ve always hated the fact that comments on Reddit just disappear. You can never see what a mod removed and there is no reason why it is removed. This allows all kinds of bad and manipulative behaviors to be done by people with moderation access.

Yeah, it turns out that a system that rewards people for simply having possession of something leads to behaviors that are harmful for society.

The problem isn’t landlords, that’s just the group that most people interact with directly. The problem is that our rules (primarily taxes) are setup to reward that behavior and to add burden to people who actually do work for their income.

If you’re a billionaire you can get your effective tax rate to single digits or zero. If you work for a living you pay way more taxes proportional to your income.

With Proton it should perform just as well, or better than on Windows.

There are some pieces missing (NTSYNC, Wayland HDR protocols, etc) but there has been significant progress is Wine/Proton.

It’s far more likely that there is a configuration issue or old software version than it simply being a “Oh, of course it works worse because that’s Windows software” situation.

If he only had a hawk-sized watch, we wouldn’t have this problem

You’re confused. I said “this thread” and not “The OP”.

If you read the comments, do you see a frank discussion of people attempting to locate a gender neutral term for a tech enthusiast or a bunch of people just riffing insulting terms?

Regardless, to address you specifically. You’re trying to “win” an argument using rhetoric in place of reason. You’re not winning the argument, you’re just throwing a punch and declaring victory.

You win arguments by having better arguments, not by coming up with the best clever clapback so that you get more upvotes

This thread is basically “Please help me brainstorm pejoratives”, a very toxic mindset to have.

We were all, at some point, just some really spicy clay.

☝️🤓I mean, it isn’t “most likely”.

Unless there are multiple independent sources of life then, by definition, the last universal common ancestor is the thing that we all originated from

(This is a bad decision, we should support Ukraine, fuck Trump. Genuflection complete)

For people who didn’t read the article:

The clickbait headline is framing it as if there was a recent decision to specifically target Ukrainians. That is not the case.

This is from a January 20th executive order to the DHS directing that they end temporary humanitarian parole programs.

What the article points out is that this would impact Ukrainians too.

It’s like writing a headline that Trump has decided to raise the cost of goods and services for Ukrainian refugees but the article talks about tariffs that will raise prices for everyone. It’s not wrong, but it’s still a misleading headline.

We who?

Make the decision for yourself, crowd following doesn’t replace an informed decision.

You can’t expect Reddit moderators to have the bravery of a hawk

It’s promoting the idea that the opinions of politicians from the 1700s carry any more weight than the opinions of doctors from the 1700s.

Adherence to “what the founding fathers wanted” is a toxic meme. They were historical figures, that’s all.

The Supreme Court uses this meme as a totem to excuse motivated reasoning in their decisions and people are simply conditioned to accept the words of 300 year old politicians over the reality of the present.

We can understand the danger of Trump without quoting from old slave owners, pretending that they carry special wisdom.

You, and everyone up voting you, need to examine yourself to see why you’re preemptively surrendering to Trump and masking it as cynicism.

You’re joining the crowd of capitulation and cowardice, chanting “Resistance is futile”.

This is a Team Trump move.

You’re creating the impression that he’s invulnerable and unstoppable and in doing so making it easier for others to give up.

If you’re burned out, then take a break. The fight isn’t going anywhere. Don’t promote this “Trump can’t be stopped” mindset. It’s damaging the efforts made by the people who are actively resisting him.

for no gain.

Nearly $3 billion USD flowed through the TRUMP cryptocoin rugpull, whoever owned initial coins made very, very large gains.

The $3 billion in quid buys a lot of anti-Ukraine pro quo

But, thanks to the Supreme Court, Trump could go on national TV and say he change US policy on Ukraine because he was bribed and he’d still be immune to any legal consequences (other than impeachment, but never anything criminal).

We don’t blame the whip, we blame the slaver

You should never commit vandalism and this is wrong.

However, from a safety perspective and in the interest of keeping people from falling to their deaths. A 1W laser will burn out the sensors on most every digital security camera from quite far away. (Wear eye protection, don’t stare into the beam reflection).

Never do this, it is a crime, for educational purposes, in minecraft, etc

So soon? I almost had this barricade destroyed

After the 2nd Zion, when The One is returned to the source