My hot take: good.
I’ve got my kids using Linux on Raspberry Pis, and I honestly want them to break it so that then they have to figure out how to fix it.
I mean, that’s basically how I learned to use computers (except I was using DOS)…
So what you’re saying is that somebody needs to integrate it into the Fediverse.
Sure, nobody in any other part of the country can possibly be bigots and y’all are completely innocent in all this. 👍
If that’s the case, then the evidence connecting those accounts to “Antiyanks” is what the admin should’ve cited, not a bunch of examples of comments that were – considered on their face without context – mostly actually pretty reasonable positions to take.
As it stands now, I have little reason to believe that I could post “just create a secular state that respects people’s right” on that instance without risking a ban.
You say that as if the Democrats aren’t a mostly right-wing party.
for things that really aren’t that big a deal (like Linux vs windows)
LOL, Linux vs. Windows flame wars are literally as old as the World Wide Web, and UNIX vs. DOS flame wars are even older than that. Welcome to traditional Internet culture, undiluted by normies.
(Also, I would argue that copyleft Free Software vs. proprietary software riddled with spying, ads, and other user-hostile dark patterns is a way bigger deal than you’re giving it credit for, but that’s a topic for a different thread.)
I’m not saying capitalism doesn’t have a lot to answer for, but I’m pretty sure road rage has separate and distinct causes related to cars themselves, including but not limited to:
When you’re enclosed in a car you become more anonymous and may feel less accountable for your bad behavior than you would if you were exposed as a pedestrian. Conversely, other drivers are also enclosed so it becomes easier to dehumanize them.
You’re driving what’s likely your most expensive piece of personal property, so you’re prone to be defensive when it’s threatened by other drivers’ behavior.
A car is also a very personal choice that’s designed to provide the comfort of a private space, so it’s easy to feel like the presence of other road users is intruding on your space.
This phenomenon is so well-known that Disney was making cartoons about it 75 years ago.
You’re not wrong, but it’s also an indication of just how thoroughly the Israelis have destroyed their credibility/moral high ground that my immediate thought after reading your comment was that maybe the shooter was Mossad doing a false-flag operation to manufacture that result.
You poor, dumb bastard. You didn’t realize Musk and the Russian oligarchs were already ideological fellow travelers? “Warning” him would’ve only made him invite them in faster.
Even if it’s true that they were sockpuppeting, then the other important question becomes why did they feel the need to evade moderation in the first place? If it’s because their reasonable and legitimate comments opposing genocide were getting removed because some biased mod falsely equated anti-zionism with anti-Semitism, it’s the mod that’s being toxic, not the users.
STFU, ghost of Dallas executive producer Leonard Katzman!
Wait, so are you the one who did this?
If you’re still sharing a single account between multiple users in 2025, that’s kinda on you TBH.
There’s no easy way to “mark video as watched” so that Youtube stops pushing that particular video in your feed but keeps recommending similar ones. (You can mark it “not interested” or “don’t recommend channel,” but those aren’t the same thing.) Even if you aren’t doing something Google would consider naughty like watching via FreeTube, NewPipe, or yt-dlp, there are legitimate cases like watching while logged-out or having a friend show you a video on their device that cause you to have seen a video without that watch getting recorded into your watch history.
It’s only a matter of time.
Free e-bikes is really nice but isn’t the issue usually infrastructure? Shoreline doesn’t look particularly bike friendly.
Well, the article says they’re doing a “mandatory urban cycling class” for people who receive bikes, so maybe that’ll compensate for the shit infrastructure, LOL.
The first image that comes up for it in Google maps is actually a big parking lot
Looks like an old photo. It was posted in 2022, but all the cars shown are from the '70s or earlier, one of the stores is a Woolworth’s, and the store next to it has a name I can’t quite make out but is written in a very stereotypical mid-century modern font.
After a bit of Internet sleuthing, apparently it was of the Aurora Village Center, which has since been redeveloped into…
…a Home Depot and a Costco, just as car-centric as before (if not even more so). Womp, womp. At least they’ve got a bus station and some afterthought bike share lockers on the outskirts of the parking lot wasteland so that makes it cool, right?
Here’s an example of the sort of comments that were unjustly being removed, as cited by one of the feddit.org admins himself. He thinks he was in the right, claiming that some of the comments were from “sockpuppet accounts,” but as I said in reply in that thread, removing comments saying things like “just create a secular state that respects people’s right” should’ve been their “are we the baddies?” realization moment.
Have you been to the south?
If not, you’re just being a bigot yourself trying to scapegoat us to make yourself feel superior.