Don’t be a coward, jerk off on your main and your alt!

So your complaint is that it’s really difficult for unknown users, unfamiliar with the rules and conventions, to make edits to wikipedia? Gotta be honest that sounds… like not exactly the worst situation for it to be in.

Yeah there’s some great shit here, for now.

Well clearly no.

… Debian was on twitter??

… Is this a bit? Because thats some unhinged shit to believe if you’re being serious.

Just to be clear here, Putin isn’t responsible for all the worlds evils, that’s just… well, dumb. Sorry but like, who in their right mind could believe that? Seriously, I don’t know how you could possibly arrive at that conclusion.

And hell, he’s not even responsible for all the evils in the US. But he’s very openly and publicly working with the far right parties here, who are in their turn very open about working with him, and that makes him a very relevant current figure. Not… sure what part of that is a revelation.

Er… no, he’s just responsible for all that evil he’s unabashedly doing right now. And is working very closely with the fascist party in our government. As a result, he’s become an important figure in the political landscape of the US.

(Irish ancestry here: Letting them know that you’ve got redheaded relatives is the secret cheatcode to let you stay unconscious during surgery. There’s a whole protocol about it.)

It’s a common english phrase in general, though. Let’s not allow pedophiles to claim it as some kind of dogwhistle.

The modern internet. Millions of hits is very normal - one of my domains is just 30 year old ASCII art of a penguin, and it gets 2-3 million a month from bots/crawlers (nearly all of them trying common exploits). The idea that the google spider would be notably negatively impacted by this is kinda naive. It could fall fully into the tarpit and it probably wouldn’t even get flagged as an abnormal resource allocation. The difference in power between desktop and enterprise equipment is at this point almost inexpressible.

Dude, them not engaging with an unfunny quip you made isn’t whoosh. It’s just them politely sparing you from further embarrassment by not drawing attention to your feeble attempt at banter.

“Proven CIA propaganda” proven… how? Where? Seriously, we’re all genuinely eager for any evidence that these horrifyingly evil crimes against humanity are just the CIA successfully waging a propaganda war instead of… you know, what they usually do. Fuck around incompetently, fail completely, then take credit for any shit that happens so people think they’re actually these great masterminds.

People have been doing that tons - It’s not being censored. Personally I assume this is due to western propaganda overstating the degree of censorship in china and rednote not being set up to moderate the large amounts of english content they’re now getting.

Aww man… He hired someone to manage the unionization process (they were bastards, because obviously they were, who isn’t a bastard that willingly works with management, jfc paul) who he soon fired when they started their union busting intimidation BS, then offered pretty extensive pay and perk increases to his workers. His employees then overwhelmingly voted not to unionize, in a process overseen directly by the WA secretary of state.

Paul is a brilliant mycologist and a truly terrible businessman - to that end, part of the promises he made to his employees was to step back from direct management and hire someone, you know, competent. But he’s also a very notorious hippy and the most vocal proponent of therapeutic psychedelics and psychedelic-enhanced therapy, and certain rightwing fuckwads have been absolutely trashing anyone that advocates anything to do with drug decriminalization. He deserves the criticism for hiring that group yes, fucking hell though even with that he’s done nothing to justify this extreme degree of loathing.

I like the astromycology homage to the man, but boy it must be a weird feeling to have trek fans grabbing your real name as meme account handles online.

I really dislike point by point breakdowns, it’s too easy to take individual statements out of context and the lack of a clear thesis makes it incredibly difficult to respond without resorting to comments of even greater length.

In an effort to combat this, would it be fair to say your position is that while TikTok is bad, it’s okay to still use it because it’s extremely popular, and thus the ability to do things like engage or organize with other people in your subcultures is consequently quite high? “The good outweighs the ill” as it were? Which is a reasonable position to take, to be clear, even if your actual feelings are more nuanced.

(That’s not me being bitchy, I just genuinely do not have the time to respond to every single thing you’ve said there. Explaining the literary difference between explicit and implicit dismissal of evidence would alone take us beyond the character limit, as my self indulgent explanation spiraled further and further into the jargony depths of academic tedium…)

Bud we’re lemmy users. We don’t get invited to parties, even ones thrown by other lemmy users.

Nah, you just come into every interaction cloaked in a miasma of confrontational obstinance. It can be really tiring to deal with.

That is interesting, I didn’t realize that was how it was being argued.

In response to the other constitutional argument TikTok is making, DOJ said the law is not a bill of attainder because addressing national security concerns is not a form of punishment and bills of attainder apply to people, not corporations. (via Merriam Webster)

It does sound like there’s some contention about that, and although the national security bit is as cringingly craven as usual, the applicability of the restriction to corporate entities is going to be an interesting decision to see ruled on.

Glad to see you’re up to your usual form, buddy. Keep on fighting the good fight.