Pretty standard radicalization pipeline stuff I think. Groupthink gets enforced by mockery and removing dissenting views, accessible memes to get new people interested, sense of community and belonging that is conditional on being uncritical about the dogma. Everything gets framed as being about which side you are on, and discourse is seen as a means to advance the cause and not a way to consider what is true. They are visibly criticizing the US empire, people recognize that as correct and unfortunately buy into the idea that the other side must be the good guys.

I feel like the former is also an argument against dogmatic ideologies, being unwilling or unable to question things can lead to some pretty bad misunderstandings.

So the main complaint is that Pixelfed clients don’t display posts without images even if one has followed the poster? And thinks it incentivizes creation of using multiple accounts/apps when a single one to interact with ActivityPub would be better? That seems like a fair thing to criticize but it seems a little dramatic to paint it as entertainment killing communication.

exactly

So then we would tell the alien we use base 21?

We really need some strong reaffirmations and reinforcement of the 4th amendment

If they can turn off your ability to play the games you don’t own them

Why is Claude sending emails to people who very much don’t want them?

How many routers are required for this? I see it mentions that they should overlap, and there’s a diagram that seems to imply 3 routers, but I’m not seeing it saying what the minimum is or if more makes a difference.

I see the rockets in its missile battery have red tips, so better be careful with it

Good thing it’s mostly reversible

Seems to be. Some relevant info from the wiki:

Aura of Power - Any enemy that attacks you may instead falter or redirect its attack to itself or another target. The chance of this rises linearly with piety, reaching a 10% chance of faltering and 5% chance of redirecting at max piety. (Passive)

Confuse is a monster-only spell that attempts to induce confusion in a single target from a distance. It requires a clear line of effect and must overcome the target’s willpower. The following enemies cast Confuse: … Orc wizard

Confusion is a status condition that causes the victim to move and act randomly until it wears off. Confusion can be extremely dangerous: the victim may attack empty tiles or even allies when they attempt to fight, and may fall into deep water or lava if they attempt to move.

I don’t want to move on from Reddit, I want to contribute to its destruction and/or replacement.

The way to do it is block communities you don’t want to see content from, which is kind of like unsubscribing if you browse All

I don’t want to make accounts on lots of sites and search all of them every time I buy something, so I think of it like a convenience fee if the way an ebay package is wrapped implies the seller arbitraged it from elsewhere.

I don’t know how much has changed since I was doing it, but the main trick was to get the tasks associated with academic studies that were typically higher paid, by using a sniping bot to grab it before others could. So that way you get paid around minimum wage instead of a small fraction of that (if you also cheat by doing multiple tasks simultaneously and hiding it). Though tbh the situation is probably worse now since there have been all those funding cuts to academia.

The channels later returned to monetization when they started adding “fan trailer,” “parody” and “concept trailer” to their video titles. But those caveats disappeared In recent months, prompting concern in the fan-made trailer community.

YouTube’s position is that the channels’ decision to revert to their previous behavior violated its spam and misleading-metadata policies. This resulted in their termination.

It sounds like they only banned them for not having a disclaimer that it isn’t a real trailer, so unless that deters people from clicking on them, I assume others will do the same thing just making sure to disclose.

This whole premise seems pretty scammy. The owner isn’t paying for the property with their own money, the bank is mostly not using their own money as it was newly created by the loan, but they both get to share in the value of what was bought with it, just because they are a bank and a rich person. But now since the factual and legal premises of the loan are turning out not to be true, they collude with each other to hopefully keep it anyway if circumstances change.

This just isn’t a good system for deciding who gets to own buildings in important locations to begin with. Even if everything had worked out and rents were kept at market rate with active businesses operating out of the building for the full duration of the loan, that’s still a bad outcome because it means that the wealth disparity that is the core problem of our society has gotten that much worse, and the beneficiaries weren’t even really limited by their own capital.

Bloat is a valid concern but imo a lesser one compared to the potential for centralized data harvesting.

But in the absence of answers to them at present, I submit to you that its appearance here, structurally speaking, is the direct result of there being no criminal or even substantial political penalties for the architects of the torture program, either at Langley or within the Bush administration.

Recent years have really put into question the whole idea of letting the outgoing administration off the hook for crimes out of some sense of decorum