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Accelerationists come in two flavors: bad actors and morons.

Lemmy has a fair number of loud, toxic instances, communities, and users. On the other hand, it's easy to block all of them, and it's practically a requirement to enjoy lemmy.

So block with zero hesitation -- the only people that will give you crap about it are the people that are the problem in the first place.

old.reddit.com still works ... for now. I deleted my account, but there's still a few writers on reddit I follow.

"Hey ... so your kitchen is on fire. You should probably grab a pair of pants."

Combined with a working smoke detector outside the bedroom this will save your life. Twice in my career I've gone into a house filled with smoke and had to wake people up to inform them their house is on fire.

Being able to figure out what another person is trying to say is an important skill some people don't seem have. I'm not talking about pretending not to understand to "win an argument" either: some folks are legitimately incapable of it.

On the other hand life is full of those kinds of "bad questions": poorly framed questions, leading ones, arguments in bad faith, etc. You're going to encounter them on future tests and in real life, and often the stakes are higher.

That question might have been shit at teaching about probability but it was a far more important lesson in disguise.

Film of the era also made people look older. Old film is sensitive to UV light, which exaggerates/makes visible "flaws" in skin you wouldn't see or notice otherwise.

Not really.

"We don't have anything definitive and we can only speculate, which we're not going to do."

Also, there's this.

I get the impression she has very little "real world" experience, particularly with people.

You could copy the manual on a xerox machine. Of course some publishers were smart and printed the manual in such a way it any copies came out as an illegibly dark mess.

So naturally you took a legitimate manual, manually transcribed it, and made copies of the copy.

It's not, unfortunately. Anything with more than 0.3% delta-9 by dry weight is still "marijuana".

Hilariously, the farm bill did open the doors for legal delta-8 and delta-10 products -- which was certainly not their intention. A lot of states quickly closed that "loophole" though.

There is a reason China has banned most US-based software in the mainland

I'm not at all saying what the USA is doing is right, but I find it hilarious Beijing is upset about it.

"It's only OK when we do it!!!"

Also Disney once told a family no multiple times regarding putting Spider-Man on their dead child’s tombstone.

This is one of those situations where it's better to ask forgiveness than permission. Even the most cold-hearted corporate ghoul is going to understand the cost/benefit of going after that family isn't remotely worth it.

Yeah, the lawyers are going to say "no". But even if they're stupid enough to sue: some suit that isn't a moron is going to tell them to drop it during the ensuing PR nightmare, and the family will be swimming in donations.

Or buy a Epipremnum aureum -- the houseplant that will laugh at your attempts to kill it.

The plant has a number of common names including golden pothos, Ceylon creeper,hunter's robe, ivy arum, silver vine, Solomon Islands ivy, and taro vine. It is also called devil's vine or devil's ivy because it is almost impossible to kill and it stays green even when kept in the dark.

Wikipedia

They love it when you point out that the term "tankie" was coined by other card carrying communists to shit on tankies. Make sure to mark the "no true Scotsman" space on your bingo card when they respond.

Targeting a smaller, receptive audience is actually better than going after larger and more diverse ones. With the later you're more likely to get called out for your bullshit.

The former is more likely to listen, and a small echo-chamber will eliminate dissidents. That relatively small core group will gladly modify the message to better appeal to the local/culture they belong to, and spread it wide-and-far while obscuring the original source.

It's a highly effective strategy: look at Qanon. It started on 8chan of all places, with a tiny userbase behind it.