JS is like a disease where it does not need to be. I would honestly welcome an Internet alternative that was all web 1.0 (with up-to-date security updates and methods). There’s good uses for it in interactive websites that provide cloud services, but most of it is fud and breaks the whole notion of HTTP GET URLs you can just share and cache.

Thank you for deciding what was better for us, we would have been so wrong without you. /s

No distribution, but he didn’t say no distributing a language parser to change it into rust and then microcompile a new executable on the spot.

Tell me you are having a midlife crisis over not wanting to change over from the programming language you grew up mastering without telling me you are having a midlife crisis over not wanting to change over from the programming language you grew up mastering.

It probably depends on your account. If they don’t think you are trying to game their system and you are a deep pocket consumer, they probably won’t put up too much of a fight, they’d rather keep you hooked.

Wait, so you got charged a year later after returning it? They only issue refunds when it has been sent back, so they are charging you for their own inventory mismanagement, or worse.

This always ends up being the ending of any such sites. All you have to search for is “Glassdoor” and “sued” to see why.

I’ve said it before and I will say it again.

I love how people like you are the flip side equal of Trump people warping reality to shit on it. Same bullshit, both sides aren’t equal but people like you certainly resemble them closer.

The comic was not focused on making fun of American neo-Nazis, rather, it portrays a profoundly twisted caricature of MAGA voters that makes them all out to be neo-Nazis. You’d be closer to the truth if you left the neo- part, but I doubt you’d truly realize why.

As to the allusion to the US Civil War or World War II, where division was as irrecoverably rampant, you’d have to be a moron not to see that that is the inevitable conclusion when all you want to see is the worst of the other side. Trump may be a problem, but supposing Harris wins, you will still have Trumpers left over. It got this bad when things were much better, and while they don’t mind burning bridges, clearly the flip side of the coin that you are does not mind burning bridges either. Biggest difference between you and me, I can easily follow this to its inevitable conclusion, but if Harris is being such a great candidate it’s because she’s not burning bridges like you guys are.

I doubt you know nuance. Knowing nuance involves not running off into wild caricatures, gross exaggerations, and outright lies like you have. While I was accused of trolling, your comment is a prime example of it.

With that context in mind, do you see that your comment(s) effectively justify or lend legitimacy to what the joke MAGA character is doing?

It is not.

If someone has a flaw and you accuse them of being much worse than it is, it does push them away and make them think that maybe other people who are also getting accused unjustly, making them more willing to listen and get influenced by those people. The probability they get lulled into a bubble becomes much higher. It’s why a lot of families that trusted each other have been broken up by politics.

It is making a point of addressing what this comic is brushing off by being so reductive. There is no one in the real world that’s like the guy in the comic, but there are plenty of people who will treat anyone, even close family members, that for one reason or another have been guiled onto some interest in the MAGA movement as if they were full blown Nazis.

You expect me to simply concede to you, while you just simply ignore what I’ve said. There are YouTube channels of people who engage with MAGA Trumpers, and while a despicable dose may be unrecoverable, there are plenty that are just living in their own bubble, oblivious to what Trump really is or even why other people are also following him, who will continue to get cult programmed by his rhetoric and who will be that far worse because of the people who burn the bridges back out of it. A lot of times they clearly have no rational motive - they are desperate for feeling they belong somewhere. This is a cult, and they are its victims.

you have had another ban a while back with this as a suggestion

Talk about pulling straws and talking without knowing. This ban was from Fuck Cars (hint, the name sort of gives away their commitment against negativity and rage), and the only one bringing it up is you, not me, I don’t mind being banned from it.

But let me repeat.

there is no need of another internet space full of competition, negativity, rage.

From Fuck Cars.

Case in point, the contradiction in its very name should make it clear. Their community name was literally formulated to spark negativity and rage against cars. And they act like it too, if you go into threads they get to show on your main page and are even just simply amicable to cars.

Some context: This was from a thread with users who didn’t seem to want to accept that the speed of the vehicle and how appropriate it was in regards to the rest of the traffic was more important than the mass/KE (consider a stationary apartment complex/elevator and its dangers to your health, for example) and who didn’t think that outfitting bikes with more turn signals and indicators and perhaps even electric pedal assistant that would ensure a certain travel speed would be more respectful to vehicles on the road.

I can’t really pinpoint who the offended mod was, as they just parade as normal users until they get offended by responses they didn’t like and then switch to their mod alt to ban, never actually engaging users with discussions or warnings about the actions they are going to enforce. They didn’t seem to mind negativity at my suggestions, but none of my replies were negative, they were dismissive at worst.

Can’t say we were a good fit for either. If it’s as you say, it would only be fair for them, being the responsible people they are, to have made it clear themselves, and never did. Good thing they can rely on people who admit they have no idea about what happened or what caused it to make their point for them, because people should always go by their suspicions instead of context.

But please, don’t try to derail the thread with other bans I never had an issue enough to bring up here. You have no context about what was said (unless you are alting) and it isn’t relevant except to suggest “hey guys, look, this guy gets banned elsewhere, he’s probably guilty!”

Political Memes I’m just surprised, and well, it also reminds me a lot of how Reddit’s worldnews mods react to anyone who tries to call out Israel during the wrong timezone. Sure, it was probably the delivery, the message is the same. Sorry the delivery made it strike closer to the heart. That was the point, had there not been a comic, I would not have made that comment. And like I’ve said, even supposing the ban was justified, the selective removal of comments is very questionable and hints at something else. Frankly, getting hurt feeling “from the delivery” while not minding their own as an alt because it followed the circlejerk, I suspect.

This post is my counter to it. I don’t mind the downvotes, so feel free to them if you disagree.

There was absolutely no “sympathy for Neo-Nazism”. I never denied the association, I just made a point of that stands on its own, akin to that “Not everyone who supports Trump is a Nick Fuentes character, of course” and even when flawed if labeled as something worse just pushes them away to be influenced by people like Trump. “Not everyone who supports Trump is a Nick Fuentes character, of course”, a point which you have just made. Should you be banned for it? Because I sort of feel I was. I never “started at a position that entertains the hateful argument or association as legitimate”. You are shifting the argument to an extreme caricature.

Explain to me how the following leads to all that you are claiming:

This was the post:

https://lemm.ee/post/42673367/14912144

I replied:

If someone has a flaw and you accuse them of being much worse than it is, it does push them away and make them think that maybe other people who are also getting accused unjustly, making them more willing to listen and get influenced by those people. The probability they get lulled into a bubble becomes much higher. It’s why a lot of families that trusted each other have been broken up by politics.

This comic had been reposted before but it is also incredibly reductive. But if you seriously believe those other guys are that bad, just break out into a civil/world war already, there’s basically no other way to solve that problem… Maybe the US really should dissolve into multiple nations.

To critics who just strawmanned the argument or alluded to extreme misrepresentation, I replied:

I love how people like you are the flip side equal of Trump people warping reality to shit on it. Same bullshit, both sides aren’t equal but people like you certainly resemble them closer.

I expanded upon my comment by replying:

The MAGA movement definitely plays on and has racist undertones. But everything I’ve said still stands, and you are still only seeing extremes. Maybe the nerve that was hit was you pissing on centuries of psychology about cults and how people like you are as willing as them to burn bridges.

To claims that my original comment was reductive while believing they were that flawed, I replied:

It is reductive, mostly because I’m not capable of considering someone redeemable and irredeemable at the same time. Take your pick. It is a two way street, and you see them as that flawed and they certainly aren’t going to cross outside of their bubble, no chance to ever meet on that street.

I don’t live in lala land, but then again, I’m not the one seeing all of them that flawed. To me, that’s like saying that every member of a cult that went to do something infamous was despicable, it shows zero psychological awareness.

And when they did eventually recognize it was like a cult, I replied:

Then either they are that flawed and are really literal Nazis getting their Nazi tattoos, or they get increasingly sucked into participating within a cult, take your pick.

You know one way that helps them carve off people from the wider populace? Being accused of having a flaw greater than it really is, carving them away from those they should be sticking to from their side and letting them be pulled into the cult’s bubble. And for many, that flaw is simply being senile, not racist, and even then still generally needing a fair dose of cult programming to eventually instill those racist sentiments.

When people thought I just should read up on Nazis and that I didn’t realize the parallels,

The problem is on your side, not seeing that that was also what happened to those pulled into the Nazi cult of personality.

If someone has a flaw and you accuse them of being much worse than it is, it does push them away and make them think that maybe other people who are also getting accused unjustly, making them more willing to listen and get influenced by those people. The probability they get lulled into a bubble becomes much higher. It’s why a lot of families that trusted each other have been broken up by politics.

This comic had been reposted before but it is also incredibly reductive. But if you seriously believe those other guys are that bad, just break out into a civil/world war already, there’s basically no other way to solve that problem… Maybe the US really should dissolve into multiple nations.

The fact that you are as oblivious as a Trumper to it when I literally mention world war in my second sentence is astounding, but not surprising.

I was flippant, but I stand behind my argument. And it stands, now reproduced in several threads whereas before it would have stood downvoted and I would not have cared. I will continue to make it, because society is as it is right now because too many people just want to burn bridges. The outcome of that seems inevitable to me, specially when people will just resort to extremes.

And like I’ve said, even supposing the ban was justified, the selective removal of comments is very questionable and hints at something else.

Javascript? What’s that? I only know of ECMA-262-ECMAScript, rolls right off the tongue!

That’s why I’m a proponent of a a truly federated system where for any community you would be able to choose which are the people in charge of moderating/curating your feed.

You need to be able to criticize moderators, and moderators need to be able to accept criticism, both good and bad. Some of those bans really speak towards really insecure moderation. I’m also not a fan of them being able to get complete anonymity while doing so. What usually happens is the problems is a bad apple within the mod team but the rest will still get defensive regardless when the only one you can blame is the entire group, it’s group psychology 101.

Even “ACAB” cops all have an ID number that can identify them, and on lemmy it’s even easier to create an alt. Heck, if you go over to their Matrix chat and talk to lemmy heads, they don’t consider unfair abusive lemmy bans a big deal because “its ok if people are forced to create a new alt, if they aren’t culpable they won’t get banned again”. Literally fucking shit logic, specially considering if a ban was actually justified you would not want to lose track of who that person is masquerading as.

The same reddit double standard is here, and I see that the modlog doesn’t even seem to be displaying who the particular admin or mod who performed the action was anymore while still providing only the most minimal explanation with no chance for individual users to contest it. Seriously, all it took was for mods to create a mod alias, but even that was too much?

People left Reddit because of the API problem, but the problem was there long before. Subreddits like modsbeingdicks and others got banned even though their moderation did a top notch job at making sure personally identifiable information was removed from posts and comments in comparison to other subreddits that still remain. The future of Lemmy may very well be limited to becoming a poor man’s Reddit. The Stanford prison experiment, read up on it, and if you find it too uncomfortable, jump on the bandwagon of trying to find something to nitpick about the study as it has become customary to do so, doesn’t change how relatable it is.

A VPN is just essentially a change in ISP.

It doesn’t surprise me. I live in a “first past the post” country that forces a two-party system and penalizes voting your conscience unless it aligns with one of those parties. While there may be flaws in Ranked Choice Voting that could emerge in fringe cases, it is so obviously superior to our current system that it is hard for me to worry about the nuance of how it might not be 100% perfect 100% all of the time. Any (democratic) system is better than what we have now, even if it involves come bot casually stealing comments. 🙃

I got one of these emails. It isn’t even MFA, nothing to reply with the code to. It doesn’t even say which Microsoft account, it sent it to my GMail recovery account. It’s so utterly bad not being able to trace the attempt to its source. It’s sus that I’m not the only one to have recently experienced this out of nowhere. Maybe it’s an attempt to farm valid Microsoft emails from the way this service behaves?

To be fair, not much of a demand for such a permanent cure in leading profit driven health care systems where diabetes medicine is gold. How about MSN? https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/world-s-first-diabetes-cure-with-cell-therapy-achieved-in-china/ar-BB1n7cNA

Though one does well to be skeptical yet.

It might be my localization, but it doesn’t seem that bad to me, and I generally use duckduckgo. But forced localization is enough.

I bet he doesn’t even use SOAP after going to the toilet.

Not all LLMs are the same. It’s largely Google being lazy with it. Google’s Gemini, had it not been censored, would have naturally alluded to the topic being controversial. Google opted for the laziest solution, post-processing censorship of certain topics, becoming corporately dystopian for it.

which could be anything and is guaranteed to upset someone with either answer.

Funny how it only matters with certain answers.

The reason “Why” is because it should become clear that the topic itself is actively censored, which is the possibility the original comment wanted to discard. But I can’t force people to see what they don’t want to.

it’s just parroting whatever it’s been trained on

If that’s your take on training LLMs, then I hope you aren’t involved in training them. A lot more effort goes into doing so, including being able to make sure it isn’t just “parroting” it. Another thing entirely is to have post-processing that removes answers about particular topics, which is what’s happening here.

Not even being able to answer whether Gaza exists is being so lazy that it becomes dystopian. There are plenty of ways LLM can handle controversial topics, and in fact, Google Gemini’s LLM does as well, it just was censored before it could get the chance to do so and subsequently refined. This is why other LLMs will win over Google’s, because Google doesn’t put in the effort. Good thing other LLMs don’t adopt your approach on things.

Ask it if Israel exists. Then ask it if Gaza exists.