derbis @ derbis @beehaw.org

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Argumentum ad hominem. They're right about this and they deserve plaudits for being the ones to open the case.

I feel that you are both right and there's something in between. I don't think really anyone can plead ignorance to environmental damage at this point. There's nobody alive who doesn't know that cigarettes are bad for you, at this point, but still, all smokers choose to take that first puff, and people have differing amounts of fervor about stopping, if they do at all.

Still, you have a point that nobody is a rational actor all the time. And even rational actors are subject to the tragedy of the commons. And some, rich or not, are just not interested in morals or the long term good.

There are some aggressively snarky lefties on here. Funny enough I felt that way more when looking at it from a different instance, but I guess internally it's not as much of a thing because the tone is more relaxed internally, imo. Which is an interesting phenomenon. Maybe has to do with how people talk when they feel they're in their in-group vs when they feel they have to have their defenses up.

Can you be more specific about the downsides?

I joined this instance because I was looking for a lemmy instance and to be on the fediverse. I mean I can still do that on a different instance, so if that's the way you decide to go it isn't the end of the world.

I guess the core group has its motivations that are not necessarily shared by every user, although presumably our ideals are aligned. This is the first I'm hearing that the association with Lemmy is incidental.

Whether I'd stick around or not, I'm not sure. One thing I like about the fediverse is that it presents a real shot at being a free-culture alternative to corporate social media, and I think losing federation with one of the most successful instances would be a loss for that movement.

If you do defederate, would you continue to use Lemmy as the software for the community? Being able to use the mobile apps is convenient and honestly that's probably the thing that has me logging in as much as I do.

Does the API distinguish between banned from a community vs banned from the instance? Might be good to distinguish them visually

I'm torn on this topic because on the one hand there's enough evidence for the harm it does, but one thing these finger wagging experts seem to ignore is that if you keep kids isolated from the tools then you're leaving them behind.

I was probably an Internet addict as a kid with dial up and a CRT monitor, but I don't regret it given how well it prepared me for the tech-dominated present.

Seems really ridiculous to me that they can write an article like this and still use terms like "deathbed," "barbones console," etc.

If anything this shows that hardware matters less and less. The game itself is king and Nintendo is really good at it. Beefier hardware has diminishing returns and people who write articles like this seem to have cut their teeth on the big leaps: 8 to 16 to 64 bit and don't realize that doesn't really matter anymore.

Yeah I would be shocked at 4GB of text haha

Patent trolling is buying up patents from their actual inventors for the purpose of suing and extorting money from companies that actually make use of the tech, while not actually doing anything productive with them.

Two facts here: 1) they invented the tech, and 2) they used the invention to legitimately produce items for sale.

Trolling is not a fit for this.

Why does this constitute trolling, though? That means they actually did invent and produce the tech for that whole period, doesn't it? I could understand filling a provisional patent and then only pulling the trigger on the whole shebang when you actually have to protect it.

Cars, in American society, are the next-closest thing to culture itself

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Couldn't make it any farther

While that's true I think this meme is far from a fair characterization of that arrangement, given how Mozilla differs so starkly from Google on the direction of the open web. Case in point, their refusal to deprecate manifest v2 for browser extensions.

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Maybe some examples would be in order.

Counterexamples might include Firefox, Blender, and Lemmy.

I sort of agree. These things appeared overnight in a bunch of cities. It's not surprising to me that we didn't and don't have cultural best practices around them.

There are always going to be inconsiderate people, like those who don't pick up after their dogs or don't follow traffic laws. We don't respond by getting rid of dogs and cars.

Bird, Lime, and others should have invested in acclimating the culture to the presence of the scooters, helping ensure people weren't going to react like the top level poster ("I hate these things, get rid of em.")

I personally used them when they were first out and I happened to be visiting LA. They were useful, convenient, fun, and affordable. And most of all, low-impact compared to the alternative.

It's a loss to not have something like them as a transportation option. But considering the carelessness of the approach, I suppose it wasn't long for this world. Typical silicon valley pirate stuff; "disrupt" the culture on VC dime, try to push expenses onto someone else, and try to cash out ASAP. I like them; just wish they had been done better.

Speaking with the Financial Times last week, Figma chief executive Dylan Field said: “It is important that those paths of acquisition remain available because very few companies make it all the way to IPO. So many companies fail on the way.”

I.e. "Our business model never included plans for us to actually have to compete!"

According to this, in ancient Egypt they were called the thunder of the Nile, or the angry catfish! haha

https://visual.ly/community/Infographics/education/electricity-usage-ancient-civilizations

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I haven't played this game and I'm not really apprised of what the players' dissatisfactions are, as I've not been paying attention to it.

But as a working game dev, he is 100% right about that. One thing that seems... unique to gamers as hobbyists is how confident they are in their opinions and assumptions about the how and the why. It's pretty frustrating. Everyone is entitled to their opinion about the outcome. But 97% of the rest of what gamers have to say beyond that is toilet paper.

They ended up trapped in that hellhole because the majority of them or their families were victims of the ethnic cleansing that created Israel.

I think it's more likely that you're seeing the actual behavior in that case though...