Every now and then I end up on that site (usually from searching for something and then absent-mindedly clicking to the homepage from there) and get whiplash at just how horrific the whole front page is even on its default logged-out setting for racism, misogyny, transphobia, homophobia, and other far-right talking point news stories.

The sentiment is all very well and good, but I’m pretty confident that we’d get better results if they put their energy into improving the many, many mature open source projects that already exist to do the same things.

I run a site that only advertises itself in one country and is of no interest to anyone else. Cloudflare’s threat monitor lists the three countries that it’s blocked the most attacks from are:

1. USA
2. South Africa
3. Israel

…and I’m supposed to be scared of the Chinese?

They did do exactly that though. The DMC-12 was also an ugly badly-designed flop. It only gained iconic status as a result of its highly modded version in Back to the Future.

I’ve got a theory that they’re using an algorithm to track IPs written by a complete incompetent who never learned about either dynamically assigned IPs or the birthday paradox.

Did the cost of producing them go up $500?

They’re scalping their own cards. It’s naked price gouging, and they’re going to get away with it.

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“I think we can get them to brush their tongues”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwmwB-biQpc

the interesting thing with the votes on that comment is how many of them downvote for disagreeing with it as a direct statement and how many don’t like you calling out the tankies

seconded, every now and then the way I notice I’m not logged in is that there’s suddenly a load of absolute dogshit on my feed.

You don’t owe anyone a second chance if they post something dumb, it’s your feed, block block block. No need to announce it or have any great ceremony, just block and move on.

did someone say beans

They banned me for absolutely no reason.

A year ago whenever I saw someone say this my assumption was that “no reason” was like “I only posted a light-hearted joke about murdering queers”, but Reddit has been such an absolute garbage fire recently that they genuinely do seem to be banning people for the most incredibly milquetoast shit.

yeah, my thought was it’s like saying libraries know more than people.

You can tell how competent someone is at something by how good they think an LLM is at that thing.

Same. Past behaviour is so often a good indicator of future behaviour.

Now either you’re on Bandcamp, or you sell downloads directly on your website, or I’m off to bittorrent.

Fuel protest blockades that caused some amount of supply chain shock have happened at least 4 times since 2000, then there’s been random riots in cities that in some cases materialized out of nowhere (though widely suspected to be a Russian social media op), then covid, and now there’s the super El Nino threatening to cause droughts and global food shortages. So there’s that.

bOtH siDeS!

This right back you unironically. You’re the one banging the drum on a one-note oversimplified position.

and MAGA’s creators and funders appreciate having guys in their pocket representing both parties.

The presidential primaries aren’t for ages yet. This is exactly the time to be campaigning for a better option. Giving it the “if you don’t support this guy you’re supporting MAGA” spiel at this stage is insane to the point of being a pro-MAGA position in of itself.

Can someone explain to an outsider why this guy kept getting heralded as the next great Democrat leader? Every single thing I’ve read about him has been “Newsom deploys extra orphan crushing machines” and other nakedly Republican policies. Does he just have a huge bot farm working for him or something?

If you’ve got some thing to say, spill it, don’t tell me to go over there because some other person has something to say.

Very occasionally someone comes along with a take so completely unhinged that it’s hard to know where to start