PatMustard @ PatMustard @feddit.uk

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What communities are you hanging out in that have no trolls‽ The fact that most places have had to defederate from entire troll instances shows that this isn't some enlightened utopia we're in.

#Don't feed the trolls Common knowledge back in the old days of the internet. Block, report, downvote, whatever, just don't engage!

Oh it's a nice cartoon about rabbits, very child-friendly! The fact that the Wikipedia article has a section called "Effects on children and BBFC classification" that opens with

Watership Down has developed a reputation as a distressing children's text, with Ed Power of The Independent describing the film in a 40th anniversary retrospective as a "classic" but which "arguably traumatised an entire generation".

sums it up pretty well!

Given that they were all Jewish this seems unlikely

Only if you say something. Pick up, say nothing, if it's a robot waiting to hear a voice it will hang up, if it's a real human you'll get a "hello?"

Much better when they were sent off to war, or down the mines like in the good old days, eh?

Remember that all these responses are from Lemmy users, so this is not even slightly representative of a real-world survey!

It's already on toast ya dunce!

Are you a Windows temporary file name?

That's the issue here, we techies are not the target audience anymore. Back when we started using Windows it was aimed at us because you had to understand it to use it. It's dumbed down because it's not made for people who care how it works or who want customisation.

Because most people who don't like nuclear energy think we can all change everything to renewables right away. This is obviously not possible (otherwise countries not bound by the financial interests of oil companies etc. would have already done it); the real options to cover the gaps in renewables (until their tech develops) are nuclear or fossil fuels. Nuclear is significantly safer and less polluting than coal.

Good points, this probably explains why I've not heard much about hydrogen fuel cell cars since modern electric cars picked up. Ultimately the hydrogen cars seem no worse than conventional ICEs, but given that EVs are developing pretty well now there's not that much need for the hydrogen ones anymore.

You deserve those downvotes, it's much better than coal

There are pro-gun people on Lemmy!?

It's weird, everyone was rightly outraged at companies that forced employees to return to office, but that has somehow turned into any working in the office being evil. If you can work fully remote then that's great; some teams get a lot more done face-to-face. It's not a fucking conspiracy by the people who invested in office space rentals!

If someone was giving me it for free? Yeah I'd have the Macbook too, the hardware is lovely (the software not so much).

To buy myself? Chromebooks can be a great deal, and they're ideal for a non-tech-savvy relative who needs a basic computer but that you don't want to be on-call for tech support!

Are hydrogen vehicles a stupid idea?

They're Imperial units in Britain, though most of us know that they're a bit silly

I reckon it's the issue of pseudo-anonymity combined with the lack of tone in a text post. If you're talking IRL it's much clearer that you're making a joke or whatever, but all that gets lost in text. Also you generally know who you're talking to IRL, whereas online you don't know if that comment was written by a professor of ethics or a teenager who watched a single video on the topic and is parroting opinions they are now convinced are correct.

LinkedIn seemed great for me, lots of job listings and it made applying for jobs relatively simple (for the ones that allowed auto-fill)

I hear people post stuff on it but I can't see why that's relevant so I've never looked at that feature