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- Comment on That sounds like a fun thing to do 19 minutes ago:
That’s a beautiful concept. It’d never fly here (USA). People would just use it as confirmation bias that they hate others for the right reasons.
- Comment on Everything is a problem 1 hour ago:
What fantasy world are you living in? How could my glass hold water if I didn’t sign up for a service that sends me spam? How could my table hold a book if I didn’t sign up for the monthly subscription that prevents it from ejecting books into the air? Even my cat came with a ToS that said that by petting her, I give her access to my bank account and first born child. Hasn’t it always been this way?
- Comment on sharks are older than polaris 18 hours ago:
I could explain, but there’s a lot of string theory involved and I only have limited time.
- Comment on sharks are older than polaris 20 hours ago:
Stars have only existed for about fifty years. Duh.
- Comment on I'm setting up a Windows 11 laptop for my uncle. Is there a sneaky way to make it block right-wing bullshit websites? 1 day ago:
I would only block 4chan, patriotfront, and other stuff that most people would never know about where the cesspool is known to be malicious and full of white nationalist instigators, if anything. But then again, it would never occur to me to try to trick a family member.
If your uncle isn’t already lost, you might be able to gently talk about this stuff. There are people who discuss how to carefully offload alt-right beliefs by asking questions that reveal fallacy rather than beating someone over the head with why they’re wrong. You can find better info than I have by searching the web.
My own mother, for example, voted for Trump three times. That relationship is over, sadly. Some people can’t be reached.
Moral: don’t do underhanded shit. Be open about your disagreement, but first learn what approaches have the greatest chance of success.
- Comment on He's camera shy 1 day ago:
I hate to say it, but this graph just made the most compelling argument against the noble Squatch I’ve ever seen. Not that I believed, but this has to be the ultimate hope-killer for true believers.
- Comment on DOGE Put Free Tax Filing Tool on Chopping Block After One Meeting With Lobbyists 4 days ago:
Why would you think they want to help you? Are you a multimillionaire? Do you benefit from cutting social services to fund a tax write off that helps you?
Ordinary people are completely fucked.
- Comment on Wall Street’s AI Bubble Is Worse Than the 1999 Dot-com Bubble, Warns a Top Economist 4 days ago:
While I’m sad that people will be hurt, I’ll dance when this shit collapses
- Comment on The good old days 4 days ago:
One out of three. I kept my hair and I rent in this lunatic market.
- Comment on It really works! 4 days ago:
Aha! Thanks!
- Comment on It really works! 4 days ago:
I don’t get it?
- Comment on You can drive 74 hours and still be in Germany. The American mind can't comprehend this. 4 days ago:
This was brilliant.
- Comment on Jell-OH MY GOD! 5 days ago:
This is straight out of the film Naked Lunch.
- Comment on At least I know what opinions are wrong 5 days ago:
But I do! The ones that are hateful, bigoted, etc… they are wrong and I’m not going to let them influence me. So long, Mom. You voted for a fascist. We aren’t friends anymore.
- Comment on Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier says criminal “geoengineering and weather modification activities" could have played a role in recent Texas floods 5 days ago:
What a rube. It was the jewish space lazers! /s
- Comment on Missouri governor repeals paid sick leave law approved last year by voters 1 week ago:
Repubs are excellent at working directly against their constituents interest and desires.
- Comment on what 1 week ago:
Offering $20 on an item priced at $400 (for example) is not someone not knowing the approximate price. It’s someone looking to get a steal.
- Comment on what 1 week ago:
I’m pretty sick of people treating this like I’m harming myself or the market by refusing to let strangers take advantage of me. Get fucked.
- Comment on what 1 week ago:
If I’m selling a thousand dollar PC (that’s a year old) and someone offers me $50, that’s a shit offer. Like the image that headed this post.
- Comment on what 1 week ago:
Fuck you. I didn’t leave my goods up for a week and only get shitty bids. I stopped posting when the first bid on day one was insulting. You don’t know shit.
- Comment on what 1 week ago:
I have self respect enough to take a loss rather than be taken advantage.
- Comment on what 1 week ago:
I was already deeply discounting. I also give hardware away to friends and family (my old Synology NAS just got a new home with a friend). But for strangers to underbid so hard is fucking insulting. I am generous. I am not someone of which to take advantage.
- Comment on R.I.P Bob 1 week ago:
That was not nice.
- Comment on Virginia Enacts Stupid, Completely Unworkable ‘Social Media Time Limit’ Law 1 week ago:
Techdirt has been killing it since they decided to start covering politics.
- Comment on what 1 week ago:
I used to offload used electronics on CraigsList. I would deeply discount to prevent people from wanting a refund. Then every offer was like this screenshot. I gave up and now I environmentally recycle perfectly good gear that someone could have enjoyed.
- Comment on Instagram wrongly says some users breached child sex abuse rules 1 week ago:
That’s an ok mistake to make that has zero chance of then ruining someone’s life and reputation. /s
- Comment on call of the void 1 week ago:
It made up one of the bridges, I’m sure.
- Comment on Anon does some online shopping 1 week ago:
This is 100% accurate.
- Comment on King forgot his crown 2 weeks ago:
Kinda clever.
- Comment on Just trying to scan my TPS reports 2 weeks ago:
Didn’t you get the memo?