🤦 How could I forget about the infamous Ass-Eating Snails! Are they still on tour? I’m surprised nobody’s put a boot on their bus or something just to shut them up.

At least we’ve cleared up the matter of what “AES” that person’s very determined to not specify 😅 I was thinking it was some crappy NSA shenans or something.

Easy to see when there’s a proxy argument or flamewar going on because few of the comments engage with what’s actually been said 😅 A couple things I see:

1. There’s a false dichotomy between saying “I don’t want purity tests” and being 100% hell-bent on ‘perfect purity’ of some sort. For example, I came back after a break to see people in Linuxy communities fighting against ‘purity testing’ a blatant racist, among others. On one ‘side’ I see “Purity testing is bad!” and on the other ‘side’ it’s “Okay but open bigotry maybe a little bad too???”

2. People seem to be seriously insisting that everyone sit down, shut up, and blindly support the US Democratic Party? Never call anything out, never seek ‘better,’ only accept what’s offered from above 🐎🧟 (pretend that’s a donkey, okay? 😅 ) Anyway, maybe I’m out of line and “lefty” is farther from “leftist” than I think buuuut… no. The left is about a better world, not quiet acceptance. Maybe try hanging out with other liberals and moderates? Could be they’re less eager to argue their own ideas or against what they see as wrong.

tl;dr: True purity tests are for auth garbage but I think what’s going on here is people crying “zomg ur the real nazis” when somebody calls out a bigot.

Kindof amusing to see people call “purity testing” on people who object to someone who’s quoted as being upset by checks notes a lack racial or ethnic purity.

[Sarcasm] C’mon everyone, can’t we just get along and hold hands with racists and other people who consider the rest of us subhuman? As long as what they’re doing doesn’t bother me personally you’re all overreacting and fragmenting this nazi bar community!

Edits: fiddling with phrasing :-\

[Sarcasm] Yeah sure, a “personality clash.” It’s definitely a “large and unfortunate mistake” to drop a developer just because you don’t like the way they routinely bollocks up established, reasoned software development practices. 🙄

C’mon, Reg, have a nap or something and cool off.

Hoorb?

Ugh, people thinking Discord is project management software :| Gross. Frustrating!

I was hoping it’d just pull all’ the lines from Sven’s playthrough v.v https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvdnUGWhybk

Lil doofy they call it a voice “acting” mod if it’s just AI vom 🤷

Pretty bad when one side’s perspective makes them look awful and the other side is the one accusing them of being awful 😬

I don’t know who that is; I’m guessing some popular(ish?) streamer or YouTuber or something. Makes sense that people like that could popularize some undercooked ideas or ideologies.

looks at +5-20 votes Is there an actual reason this comm’s full of fools? Everything actually leftish in “Lefty Memes” gets downvoted. It’s kindof a bad joke at this point.

Imean, for one thing there’s the issue of “why are you here if the actual topic of this place disgusts you?” but then there’s the fact that so many people are eager to jump on and fight over things that aren’t even being said. It’s like a big pack of trolls but I don’t think they even know it.

People come to a meme community and expect a deep, well-reasoned essay on the state of things and the best ways forward from one captioned image :-\ Is there not a dichotomy between nuance and memes?

The comments around here are just wild flailings based mostly on assumptions. There’s nothing to argue with. It’s a picture with some text on it, popularized as the simplest form of humour. Looking at the comments around here now feels like watching a bunch of people arguing with a dog. There’s really not so much being said.

This is kinda baffling, is what I’m getting at. It looks like almost nothing’s been said so people are furiously attacking things that haven’t. 🤷

Very agree here. Less and less is actually GNU, so by what metric do we have to include things? “GNU is an OS?” I’m running two at once? No, it’s three, some of this software comes from BSD. Or is it more? Maybe I’ve got tools developed on/from/for other OSes still! Hell, I’ve got Windows software on this system. Gotta tell everybody I’m running GNU and Linux and BSD and Windows and (…) 🤦

This naming “debate” is absurd.

Edit: I meant to say, it’s really getting too late to push the naming issue as a means of making people recognize how much of “Linux” is GNU, considering the connections are decreasing. Even the kernel builds with clang these days, GNU tools and libs get replaced… I don’t know that I’m happy about this, but it seems plausible (at a casual glance from a non-expert observer) that GNU’s practically on its way out. On the other paw, I’ll be glad to never hear about this naming “issue” again if everything GNU gets buried.

This thread has successfully convinced me that this community is not of people who have ADHD or for supporting same, but of people who hate anyone who does whether that’s self-hate from internalized abusive BS or just plain ableism.

Am interested in finding one that’s isn’t awful, if there’s one hidden away somewhere. Will be blocking this pit.

Ohey, familiar. Lately getting that particular bit of equivocation from my own abusive “family” who’ve been threatening everything from having me jailed to having me “institutionalized,” calling the cops on me to evict me without notice, physical intimidation… Turns out “no” is a grievous offense to such people. The whole “children as property” thing is vile, absurd that some clearly think giving birth yields the ultimate entitlement, to an entire person and their life. I wonder if not getting diagnosed is a ‘blessing in disguise’ :| Tried for a decade or two to tell BioMom I thought I was ‘on the spectrum’ but always just got bullied out of ever seeing a doc. “There is NOTHING wrong with you!!” she’d say, every time. So now I’m a wreck 'cause two people screwed and entitled themselves to getting by with this crap (and more besides). I hope that person manages better.

…Could really use help escaping before I become a data point, actually :-\