Serinus @ Serinus @lemmy.ml

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It's hard to take that seriously when you use "xeeted".

Not if you want to push the site hard to the right!

Yeah, this is probably the way I'd go about it. Dedicated hard drive, separate/no network access, no access to other files. Who cares if it is malware if it can't get to anything.

The four day head start thing being bullshit was a good point. But yeah, I'm not likely to pirate an executable any time soon.

It's worth thinking about what you're putting out there, but you're right. This isn't a Threads specific thing.

You're putting these posts on the internet. You should expect everyone to read them, including Threads and Google and Putin and Kim Jong Un. That's kind of the idea of public posting. They don't even need an API to do that.

But not in 100% of cases and therefore it's not worth trying. /s

It is a difficult problem, because there really are some mentally disturbed people in that population too. You can absolutely tackle the problem slowly and one case at a time lift most people out of that situation. But any solution that treats them as a group will bring along the 10% of them that will literally shit all over everything you've tried to build.

I want to argue that W's damage was more immediate, but I keep finding arguments against that.

W might the the president most to blame for climate change. When Dems win it tends to be with a 50% + 1 majority, or close enough to it, while including senators from places like West fucking Virginia.

Republicans at any time can do bipartisan things about climate. Dems don't have that power.

I'd say any time between 1990 and 2010 was the time where there should have absolutely been enough consensus, and close enough to last minute to actually do something. Shut down all the coal plants in the West. Embargo countries that don't cooperate on climate. That could have been done. (And yeah, we could have absolutely shut down every coal plant in the West if we were willing.)

Then I was going to add another caveat about reading the 9/11 report. I don't fully blame W for that. It's a thing that would have been possible for any president to miss. But he's the one who missed it. I don't fully absolve him of it, either.

W's intentions behind the Iraq war may have been for the good of us all, but the results absolutely weren't.

The war in Afghanistan can be shared mostly between Obama and Trump. We were there for 20 years and couldn't manage to make a safe haven. Could have built fucking walls around Kabul, built up the government only there, and let them work on expanding that control outward for the next 50 years.

I still believe Trump's damage will be longer term. I don't know if he'll be able to outdo W, and he'll never reach Reagan levels of damage. But I don't think we've seen most of Trump's damage yet.

Anything labeled "money" or "finance" or "CNBC" is like this.

Sure, there's that. Also, sometimes I just write bad.

One of my last comments on Reddit was about this.

The biggest difference I've noticed is that people have stopped reading sentences. They'll read all the words and then upvote based on the feeling those individual words give them. They won't consider the meaning of all those words put together.

And yeah, "upvote does not mean agree" is something Reddit has always struggled with, but it has definitely had exponential growth lately.

It has made me start writing more clearly. There are comments I've written that have been wildly misinterpreted from my actual meaning. Part of that is that I tend towards sarcasm, and it doesn't translate well over the internet no matter how absurd I get with it. But I've also started aiming to use more simple sentence structure.

it isn’t sorting by “contribute/doesn’t contribute,” that’s for sure.

It's both. You're not wrong with the groupthink thing, but they absolutely do help to combat disinformation and useless comments. I get that you've made a decision, but you don't need to rationalize away the negatives.

I recently moved from Chrome to Firefox, so I get that. But Apple is a hell of a lot worse about it.

Using the iMessage thing to create social pressure in kids is pretty evil.

You can get a cheap android (but don't have to). You can't get a cheap iPhone.

And are you really going to get your 12 year old the latest flagship android when there are cheaper options?

If every android kid got the latest Pixel, I bet they wouldn't be seen as "the cheap phone".

Plus Apple's been pushing nearly every anticompeitive angle they can. The iMessage thing is 100% intentional. It's not that the android phones aren't capable of working with iMessage. It's that Apple wants to make your experience worse when something happens that doesn't involve giving them money. Because they want you to push your friends into an iPhone, and people are dumb enough to fall for it.

New roof, solar panels, battery, EV, remodel part of the house, new siding, buy a small house in my neighborhood to function as a guest house, take care of my parents, spend a couple months in Europe.

Oh, you meant the rest of it. Government bonds are always good. You can also use more than one bank to expand the $250k limit (which applies per account type and bank). A trust, for example, is insured separately from your checking account.

Past that, I couldn't tell you. Your financial advisor would though, just make sure they have a "fiduciary duty" to serve your interests.

Keep in mind that in these situations it's not always their fault. Sometimes two other people have pulled in straight and they're the third. Then the other two leave, and they just look like an ass.

Or maybe they're just an ass. Can really go either way.

If I clone the repo I expect everything to work, including the readme.

It doesn't matter if it is. The way to do that is to increase your prices, not with hidden fees.

We're not that different with the teens. We effectively say "seven ten", "eight ten", "nine ten". You don't think of nineteen as "nine+ten", it's just its own number. Well, the French take that one step farther.

You have a point. Those are quite different

If you're a European citizen. They'll fulfill this request (after 30 days) regardless, but I don't believe they're legally obligated to for US citizens.

It's just easier to comply with EU laws for everyone than it is for them to figure out if you're a European citizen or not.