TheAlbatross
@TheAlbatross@lemmy.blahaj.zone
- Comment on Request to mod c/conservative 1 day ago:
I’m not so sure. I think there are conservatives who truly believe themselves to be intolerant of fascists and bigots but, first and foremost, they are not representative of conservatives as a whole and therefore may not be best suited to represent and moderate a community of conservatives, and secondly, I’m reminded of the German saying about Nazis at the table. If there is a table of ten people and a Nazi sits down with them and no one leaves, there are 11 Nazis at the table.
- Comment on Request to mod c/conservative 1 day ago:
I spoke about this in another thread, but it seems like a very delicate balancing act to find the right moderator for that kind of community. To be a conservative is to be tolerant of fascists and Neo-Nazis to some degree. In the current political climate, it is inevitable that any right-leaning community will have elements of these abhorrent ideologies. I don’t think fascists and Neo-Nazis should be tolerated to exist in any space. No community as a whole is made safer by their presence, quite the opposite. So any moderator of a conservative community either must not be a conservative themselves or be one of the seemingly minority of conservatives that utterly disavow nationalists and bigotry, but this would put them in a position of poorly representing the community they moderate.
It’s a tricky situation.
- Comment on It seems some higher level moderation of communities may be required 4 days ago:
You’re going to run into this with almost any “conservative” community. To be a conservative, you have to be somewhat tolerant of Neo-Nazis to some degree, with the current way the world is. So you either need a non-conservative moderator or you’ll have a situation where the conservative moderator will perpetually be stepping in to say “now cmon guys, we all wanna have fun but the site admins are really specific about not saying the quiet part out loud, so keep thinking it but not saying it”
- Comment on Same 5 weeks ago:
Why?? Just get something a few years old, it’ll do the same thing anyway
- Comment on Would you do Onlyfans if needed the money? 1 month ago:
Conceptually, yeah, but it seems like a huge hassle to cultivate a following and maintain it.
- Comment on The $1999 Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 makes the rest of the RTX 50 series look suspiciously sensible 1 month ago:
Hey that’s how pricing models work!
Fuck buying that expensive shit, cheaper shit will do everything you want anyway.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
AI slop article
- Comment on Notch says he will work on a spiritual successor to Minecraft 1 month ago:
What happened to 0x10^C ya bigoted fuckkkk I liked the concept of that one
- Comment on I'm less mildly infuriated that I am still getting these stupid political scam texts and more that they are probably working on some people. 1 month ago:
Yah I sent something back in 2016 when I had hope for America, too, and I still get all this crap.
- Comment on I'm less mildly infuriated that I am still getting these stupid political scam texts and more that they are probably working on some people. 1 month ago:
Yah if you gave $18 to Bernie or what have you, you consented for the DNC to reach out to ya through their various apparatus apparently until the end of time.
- Comment on I'm less mildly infuriated that I am still getting these stupid political scam texts and more that they are probably working on some people. 1 month ago:
I won’t forgive Bernie Sanders for failing to fight the DNC when they manipulated and shafted him and then giving them my goddamn phone number.
- Comment on ‘Lower Decks’ Series Finale “The New Next Generation” Review, Plus Mike McMahan Interview 2 months ago:
The stuff coming out in the pipeline just seems kinda… well, Strange New Worlds was pretty good, I’m looking forward to more of that.
- Comment on ‘Lower Decks’ Series Finale “The New Next Generation” Review, Plus Mike McMahan Interview 2 months ago:
That’s the end of Lower Decks?
Paramount doesn’t know how to handle the wonderful IP they own…
- Comment on Is there any security in the communication with Voyager I? 2 months ago:
Naw, go for it
- Comment on What is your Game of the Year? 2 months ago:
Balatro, absolutely. Now that it’s on mobile, work will never get 100% out of me again.
- Comment on Brian Thompson, Not Luigi Mangione, Is the Real Working-Class Hero 2 months ago:
Bret Stephens’ job at the NYT is to create rage bait and you’re keeping food on his table.
- Comment on Can you? 2 months ago:
Lmao that’ll do it!
And demonstrates why OP coulda used some punctuation
- Comment on Can you? 2 months ago:
Alright, it needs some other punctuation, too, but that’s not so bad.
I’m raising my kids by “if you have anything nice to say, say it” and “if you have anything nice you can do, do it”.
- Comment on Can you? 2 months ago:
This reads fine? It could use some commas but otherwise makes sense
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Yah the question fits but the title should be edited.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
The word is trans woman. What you’ve said is fairly derogatory.
In short, yes. Longer, there are some factors at play that can determine this. Some women taking estrogen lose some function in their penises and obviously women who’ve undergone vaginoplasty will face other challenges impregnating someone else.
- Comment on Has Fast Food Gotten Worse, or Am I Just Getting Old? 3 months ago:
No worries, we’re all trying to make it through the best we can and I didn’t feel anything adversarial in your critique, just a desire for you and your fellow worker to be treated with dignity in their labor
- Comment on Has Fast Food Gotten Worse, or Am I Just Getting Old? 3 months ago:
That’s fair. I meant cost as in cost to me, the consumer, which is the price, but I think what you’ve said here is a valuable thing to consider when wondering why it’s so expensive and yet shit now.
- Comment on Has Fast Food Gotten Worse, or Am I Just Getting Old? 3 months ago:
The feeling bad part is aging.
Quality has absolutely gone down, though, while cost has gone way up.
- Comment on Is it expected to tip for furniture deliveries? 3 months ago:
If they come inside your house throw em some cash.
- Comment on Fortnite Chapter 2 Remix and Black Ops 6 nuketown this weekend, which will you be playing? 3 months ago:
Factorio!! This work week has been hell and I have a week PTO starting Monday. So time to put in some effort in an asynchronous multi-player game with a friend.
I’ve been playing Papers Please in the 30 min or so I have for gaming in the evenings lately. I might play more of that to see if I can get all the endings.
Unless the weather is nice. Then I’m going fishing.
- Comment on How do I tell Pennsylvania I no longer live there? 3 months ago:
I don’t think you can stop the calls or texts, elections are a product just like everything else here and those are the ads.
They got your info and you can’t take it back now
- Comment on If I'm stuck in the same area as someone who is clearly sick (runny nose, coughing etc) is there some combo of short/long breaths or nose/mouth breathing that's a better defense against catching it? 4 months ago:
You can wear a mask. I bring one with me on public transit or other places I expect a lot of people.
- Comment on Players are now less "accepting" that games will be fixed, say Paradox, after "underestimating" the reaction to Cities: Skylines 2's performance woes 4 months ago:
Ah Paradox is finding their model of releasing unfinished games and getting around to solving it later less appealing!
That is a little disappointing, actually, as Paradox made some damn good games this way. Crusader Kings 2, Hearts of Iron 4 and Stellaris were all made like that.
- Comment on Block Factory is basically a LEGO factory automation game with diorama building 4 months ago:
Looks rather similar to Shapez 2.