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octopus_ink , (edited )

I just wanted to add that the worker bees with stingers are dead ends in the lifecycle anyhow. Only the queen will lay eggs and only the drones (stingerless) can mate with her. (Unless the years have really screwed up my memory!)

octopus_ink ,

Hey KDE Team: 😘 ❤️ Please don’t ever change!

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You are absolutely correct. All the focus groups and consultancies that were surely involved in something like this and we’re supposed to believe the backlash was a surprise?

This is what is happening at Redmond right now:

https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/a36ed83e-fd65-4fb5-b929-2dcdd718eae2.jpeg

octopus_ink ,

I love the faith, too. Like, of Microsoft, of all people. The “your Xbox is your cable box now” Microsoft. The “Here’s mandatory Kinect, the Wii killer” Microsoft. The Windows Me Microsoft. The “Windows 8 is now a touch OS” Microsoft.

The EEE Microsoft…

In that vein, let me propose a more accurate picture:

Unless not attaching one was your punchline, I think you forgot to attach one. :)

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Ah thanks. I think you underestimate them, they’ve proven they are capable of executing even if everything hasn’t landed.

But I’m never unhappy about a Spaceballs reference. 🙂

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I seriously feel like the headline is 1984’s backstory.

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https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/a033fde8-6733-4815-ad3f-01723eea6dbd.jpeg

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I could agree with you if there weren’t SO. DAMN. MANY. youtube ads.

When I find myself in a rare circumstance where ads on youtube are not blocked for me, I literally cannot believe how bad it is.

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I was hoping the headline meant they pulled out of doing a show in Georgia in solidarity with the cop city protesters. But this is good too.

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One might, but that’s not the definition of controlled substance in this context.

healthline.com/…/what-is-a-controlled-substance

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Of course they don’t.

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Sorry, I’m too literal sometimes.

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This is mainstream Republican ideology these days. And the more Dems move to the right, the crazier republicans get because they have nowhere to go but to the right.

https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/277cfd5d-0cba-4ef0-a16e-065ff2012fdb.jpeg

octopus_ink ,

You mean the party of taking things away.

https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/ab3c9ada-2d6e-4feb-91d9-bfe917b71b6b.webp

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Republicans expecting us to do backflips to defend Hunter Biden as some sort of “gotcha” are completely out of their gourd. He earned this conviction through his own deeds, just like how Trump earned his.

Look at all the tears I’m crying because of my blind loyalty to the Biden family! Ah wait, actually I figure if he did those things then justice was served. Sorry magas.

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I will most definitely be voting for him and anyone else who isn’t a Republican for the rest of my life, though.

I wish I had more years on this earth just so I could vote not Republican for longer than I’m going to be able to!

https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/7b94097a-efe4-4d67-9fab-bca553470d92.png

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I believe they can reform themselves, but like you I know I’ll be dead of old age before they possibly could.

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Theyd have to stop being giant pussies and slightly less dumbass so yeah your lifetime probably not

These things don’t even appear on the top twenty list of things that would have to change for me to vote R.

octopus_ink ,

Literally my exact first thought, but you were more eloquent.

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Like her husband, Mrs. Alito is unbowed by the criticism and controversy — as she makes clear in comments recorded by liberal documentary filmmaker Lauren Windsor.

I bet she is unbowed. Her husband is appointed for life and they are fabulously wealthy. Why wouldn’t she be? Everyone is unbowed when their position is entirely secure and can’t be changed no matter how awful their beliefs or actions.

https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/8cdd596a-c76e-40cb-b510-d6bacf7254f3.jpeg

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I read it as an oblique reference to this:

apnews.com/…/trump-hannity-dictator-authoritarian…

It may not have BEEN that, but I definitely saw it as a swipe against dishonest elected officials, not against democracy

Georgia Republican convicted in Jan. 6 riot walks out during televised congressional primary debate (apnews.com)

A Georgia congressional candidate convicted of a misdemeanor for illegally demonstrating inside the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, walked out of a televised debate with a fellow Republican on Sunday ahead of a June 18 primary runoff....

octopus_ink ,

This is where I get back in my truck and go back to southwest Georgia because I’ve got two races to win

What’s this a reference to?

octopus_ink ,

Ah ok, I thought he meant he was running for some other elected position also. Thanks.

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R is the party of taking things away. You can summarize very nearly everything they do this way.

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An appellate court has ruled that Texas cannot ban books from libraries

We now live in a world where a news article needs to contain this line. (and this is far from the only recent example)

Think about that.

HP bricks ProBook laptops with bad BIOS delivered via automatic updates — many users face black screen after Windows pushes new firmware (www.tomshardware.com)

On May 26, a user on HP’s support forums reported that a forced, automatic BIOS update had bricked their HP ProBook 455 G7 into an unusable state. Subsequently, other users have joined the thread to sound off about experiencing the same issue....

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Those laptops are THEIR products, not Microsoft’s.

Microsoft: All your PC are belong to us.

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Move, Zig!

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…if Dolores Umbridge had been a Bajoran…

octopus_ink OP ,

Not live anymore. But it seems to be looping.

Washington man arrested after fatally shooting teen who had BB gun (www.usatoday.com)

Myers, who says he’s a licensed security guard, was sitting in his car Wednesday to conduct “overwatch” while his son trains because “he has seen numerous crimes occur” in the parking lot, according to the probable cause statement....

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Oh. He was brown.

Was there any doubt?

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Ronald Reagan and the Repubs when black people are holding firearms.

history.com/…/black-panthers-gun-control-nra-supp…

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I know IRL gun nuts, and none of them would identify with this person.

Maybe not, but when they resist any and all legislation to control access to guns, don’t support mandatory training, red flag laws, etc, they accept that people like this can legally get them. That’s an acceptable tradeoff for them. Maybe your gun nut friends support reasonable legislation, it’s possible I suppose.

Ultimately this is no true scotsman territory I think.

A PR disaster: Microsoft has lost trust with its users, and Windows Recall is the straw that broke the camel's back (www.windowscentral.com)

It’s a nightmare scenario for Microsoft. The headlining feature of its new Copilot+ PC initiative, which is supposed to drive millions of PC sales over the next couple of years, is under significant fire for being what many say is a major breach of privacy and security on Windows. That feature in question is Windows Recall, a...

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The list goes on. Unfortunately, with big tech being as they are, their first thoughts turn to “which implementations of AI will aid us the most in scraping userdata and showing ads?”

Don’t forget making sure the peons can squeeze out more productivity for the 1%.

https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/200a6cad-b8d4-42eb-95fa-93e2fd8e783c.jpeg

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the vast majority don’t care or they would have stopped using it a long time ago

Try reading the sentence with this implied bit explicitly added. I’m pretty sure this is what was intended, and is why you are getting the response you are.

the vast majority don’t care (about Microsoft’s continuous bullshit) or they would have stopped using it a long time ago

The bit I added is communicated by the context from the preceeding sentence in the original comment:

MS has been doing this kind of shit for decades and their market share has never changed significantly.

octopus_ink ,

Thank you this looks interesting!

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while a US republican would say a “true patriot” would support a small government that doesn’t restrict the will of all citizens.

I don’t think they say this much anymore since all Republican policies are explicitly about restricting the will of their fellow citizens.

Personally, I feel that referring to Zionism in general as support for Israeli control over the west bank and Gaza

I never used it this way or considered it this way until the past few months. 🤔 Now you’d have a hard time convincing me that it’s not what it means.

octopus_ink ,

This would make a ton of sense if your choice of Lemmy instance were not just that; a choice. It’s not a characteristic innate to your being that you’re born with or something.

Either I don’t understand your objection, or you don’t understand my point. Legitimately it could be either of those. I don’t see what this has to do with most of what I said above.

You can choose to associate with whatever instance you want and swap it up with another account somewhere else if you want at any time (you can prob keep the same username if you want too).

OK, yes… Are you saying I should move my account elsewhere because OP (or some other people) don’t like that my account says .ml at the end? Or because I’m only supposed to have an account on instances where I agree with the political leanings of those who run it?

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And it’s less about the users and more about the kind of lopsided, censorship moderation that happens on .ml

That may be your concern, but it’s not the discusion OP started. That’s the discussion OP claims to have started.

Quoting myself from yesterday:

Subject line: Nothing about moderation or censorship, it’s about smearing the target’s views.

First two sentences: Nothing about moderation or censorship, it’s about smearing the target’s views.

Third sentence: Links to archive.org link that fails to load. (I think they are still under DoS attack) May or may not be about moderation, but nothing OP wrote in the leadup to the link leads me to believe it’s about more than smearing the target’s views.

Then a couple links that sound like they are about discussing moderation.

Then another para smearing the target’s opinions and politics some more.

I feel like those ratios are a bit off if OP is really so bothered about moderation practices.

There’s an awful lot of political views around that aren’t tankie.

Sure, but most of the time you don’t know anything at all about who designs and develops the systems you use. I totally support people going to where they feel comfortable, and I’m a huge believer in defederation as one of the strengths of the fediverse. Block early and block often and all that. OP didn’t spend time on that though, OP spent most of their time on character assassination.

Also, the target of these smears is the main Lemmy dev - not just Lemmy.ml. If OP is so concerned about their influence then OP should move to mbin or something.

octopus_ink ,

First, thanks for the thoughtful and thorough reply.

I am sorry that this is upsetting to you.

It’s not upsetting to me, it’s just annoying. I strongly support the block early/block often culture that seems to pervade the fediverse, even when that is folks blocking me. I also support the ability to defederate, and strongly support (for example) pre-emptively defederating from threads.

Indeed, such decisions at the user or instance level are potentially messy, but the whole thing just seems self-healing over time to me. There’s an equilibrium that needs to be reached, I think, and I doubt we’re anywhere near it yet. Some instances are going to end up isolated, either by themselves or by others, and some won’t. New instances will spring up, instances will shut down, etc etc. People will move around to find a new instance when needed. It’s all really sloppy and the outcome for any one user or instance isn’t necessarily going to match the outcome for another. That’s freedom to me. And not in some maga “free speech means I get to be a jerk but no one can call me out” way, but in a “we’re all empowered to influence our own experience here” way. People can block, instances can defederate, people can deploy their own instance and make it as open or closed or personal or public as they want to. Hot damn.

And all that is going to create friction and people are going to disagree with each other about how to do it and what the right way is, just like we’re doing here.

But, despite your very reasonable rationalizations for OP, and regardless of their intent, this very subconversation and others are evidence that this isn’t what a discussion about moderation practices looks like. It’s what a discussion about publicly calling someone out with a pejorative term for their beliefs looks like. Expressing that opinion, and defending it when required, is the extent of my involvement or concern. I don’t share the beliefs of OP nor their target. Whether folks want to change how they are discussing the issue or not is up to them. That’s also freedom, in my opinion.

I might migrate instances at some point, I might not, we’ll see how things go, but it’s not going to be because of this post from OP. Folks can run their instances as they see fit. They don’t owe me a platform, nor OP.

octopus_ink ,

At least we are enjoying this conversation about it all:-).

Well you’ve certainly given me more to think about. I don’t see much more to debate with you, but wanted to reply anyway so it didn’t appear I was leaving in a huff. Have a good rest of your day.

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When was the last time you had an actual talk with a republican in order to understand what he/she thinks?

Every day until the Pandemic. My republican friends now work in a different office than I do. It’s not hard to see the policies and politicians they vote for though, and I can read the handwritten signs in their yards explicitly calling me an idiot, moron, or traitor for having different views than they do. (I see those every day BTW.)

it collapses the Israel-Palestine issue into a winner-take-all situation

I’m just looking at what I’ve spent the past several months witnessing via news reporting and video clips. I’m not debating what the dictionary says about it. (And in any case, dictionaries reflect usage not prescribe it.)

octopus_ink ,

I already don’t recall but apologies if I ever did slip into that for a moment

No apology needed, if anything I’m the one who gets a little terse sometimes.

that’s some heavier stuff that I am glad you will take time to think about. B/c it is absolutely disrespectful of the admins to the community for them to not follow their own rules

Will do!

also b/c I hope to be able to converse with you again on the Fediverse!:-)

And you as well!

I’m sure we’ll bump into each other again. Whether I’ll still be on this instance or account though? Only time will tell… :)

octopus_ink ,

I use a modified Windows 11 OS that debloats the shit out of it, and disables all non critical MS garbage.

This is it. Everything “just works” on windows.

🤔

octopus_ink ,

I don’t have days of free time anymore to mess with Linux as my main OS.

I get paid to deploy and troubleshoot Windows. I use Linux at home. Do I do this because after spending hours forcing Windows to behave as desired I want to come home and do the same to my Linux box? No, I do it because Linux is reliable and easy, and it’s not built on a premise that someone else knows how I want my computer to work better than I do.

Having to fight against what MS wants (or throw up your hands and accept it) is now baked into Windows. Even if I had to spend hours to use something else, I would.

I don’t intend this to disparage you, I say this because comments like quoted always ruffle my feathers. As if everyone who uses Linux has said, “Welp, I know this takes hours a day of my time to use, but dammit I’m just stubborn.”

NO, this is not what using Linux is like for the majority of people who choose to use it, even for gaming. If it’s like that for you, then you need a different distro, or different hardware, or you aren’t actually as comfortable with Linux as you think you are.

And it’s OK not to be comfortable with it, no one sprang from the womb knowing Linux - but to imply that Linux requires hours of time to use vs Windows is IME very false. Yes, it requires people to learn new things, but no one came from the womb knowing Windows either - most of us have just been exposed to it continuously and have invested that learning time without even realizing it since we’ve always been “forced” (to one degree or another) to use it.

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There simply are usecases that don’t work out of the box with Linux that do on Windows because the companies don’t support Linux.

I know this to be true, but generally folks who are in a corner case know they are a corner case and express it as such when they make such comments. 99.999% of people will never have to experience what it’s like to produce music on any platform, for example.

I tried to explicitly capture this in my comment:

NO, this is not what using Linux is like for the majority of people who choose to use it

octopus_ink ,

But meh, maybe agree to disagree.

Fair! I have some rebuttals, but they are likely to end up with a conversation that would be fun in person over a beer but cumbersome and a lot of typing via text. 🙂

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Linux is not a mainstream OS and quicker you guys accept that then maybe we can move past this bullshit of having a free and open source OS that is unfriendly to use and move in to fixing the issues that’s preventing people from switching.

Man, I don’t care if anyone switches or not. Convincing people to switch isn’t something I consider any kind of priority, and I don’t think it should be a priority for anyone. Linux is here, and happily used by many without these hours and hours of problems, and it’s constantly getting better. It’s there for the folks who want it. Windows has been on a downward spiral since Win2K went EoL, and each and every year I’m more and more surprised by the abuse they heap on their users. But, it’s fine with me for that to be fine for some folks.

I disagree with the specific sentiment I quoted for the specific reasons I described. I don’t claim it’s for everyone, nor that corner cases don’t exist. It’s entirely fine for us to disagree on this.

Edit–

I went back to reread my comment to see what was so offensive or could have been taken so negatively. I do think I should have included a “probably” near the beginning of the sentence below. Aside from that, yeah.

If it’s like that for you, then you need a different distro, or different hardware, or you aren’t actually as comfortable with Linux as you think you are.

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