I know this is my own personal experience, but diehard Apple fans in my circle have started to say, “Fuck Apple.” I think they’re PR and goodwill is finally running out.

I didn’t mean it as dramatic as it sounded. I meant it might help him make up his mind. But I made it sound like don’t even be married to her, lol. My partner said to make her not feel comfortable, not sure what that means either.

Sooooo, you’re letting a nazi stay in your home. Your wife is the daughter of a person who chooses to still be a nazi. If you put it in that context, does it make it clearer?

I agree, it’s for the single use plastics, and for food that already has a short life.

No, you’re understanding this wrong. They don’t mean it will degrade on the shelf or in transit, only in soil. If true, this is the shit.

Additionally, the bamboo plastic can be degraded in soil within 50 days or closed-loop recycled (where objects are recycled and used to remake similar products) whilst retaining 90% of its original strength, demonstrating its potential as a sustainable but high-performing alternative to traditional plastic materials, according to details released by researchers.

I’m already playing security and AI whack-a-mole. I think you’re right.

This reminds me that I wish there was a basic course on money and the systems around it, that explains everything like you just did. It’s not magic, but it’s obfuscated behind so many terms and people trying to sell content, that it’s not a simple thing to figure out on one’s own.

I know, I just think it’s funny. Reddit abusing the users again on blast.

Real estate

I saw that you put a caveat in there about it, but I’m going to make it a little more clear.

If anyone here has lived through the dot.com bubble in Seattle (and probably the bay area), they’ll have seen that real estate is great if it’s paid for. If you go underwater on your loan and kicked out, which is how the banks got so much real estate in 08, you’re fucked. There *are no general rules, but guides.

One of the times I was permabanned from Reddit

Lmao, one of the times…

I think people are painting the past with a little bit of rose colored glasses. There was less support in the 90’s, you couldn’t just look up how to do something, be yourself, or understand the basics about anything. We had a 3 “pedophiles” on our street. Were they? I don’t know, it was a rumor. There was no list. It was great in some ways and not so great in others.

Lol, I want to live in your world.

There are trolls. Not as many as other places, but we have them.

Once we isolate key people, we look for people we know are in their upstream – people that they read posts from, but who themselves are less influential. (This uses the same social media graph built before.) We then either start flame wars with bots to derail the conversations that are influencing influential people (think nonsense reddit posts about conspiracies that sound like Markov chains of nonsense other people have said), or else send off specific tasks for sockpuppets (changing this wording of an idea here; cause an ideological split there; etc).

The goal is to keep opinions we don’t want fragmented and from coalescing in to a single voice for long enough that the memes we do want can, at which points they’ve gotten a head start on going viral and tend to capture a larger-than-otherwise share of media attention.

(All of the stuff above is basically the “standard” for online PR (usually farmed out to an LLC with a generic name working for the marketing firm contracted by the big firm; deniability is a word frequently said), once you’re above a certain size.)

https://archive.is/PoUMo

from Bannon:

“The opposition party is the media,” Steve Bannon, who helped run Trump’s 2016 campaign, told PBS Frontline five years ago. “And the media can only — because they’re dumb and they’re lazy — they can only focus on one thing at a time.”

So the solution, per Bannon? Overwhelm them.

“All we have to do is flood the zone,” he said. “Every day we hit them with three things. They’ll bite on one, and we’ll get all of our stuff done, bang, bang, bang. These guys will never — will never be able to recover. But we’ve got to start with muzzle velocity.”

https://www.npr.org/2025/02/07/nx-s1-5289315/trump-week-in-review

The best defense is to call them out on it and then walk away. They’ll downvote the shit out of you, but who tf cares about upvotes and downvotes. If someone is getting downvoted heavily, read what they said carefully before piling on.

These are beautiful and look tasty.

Also, my memories are in color. What is it with this black and white shit?

That’s what did it for me. The admins are the trolls and protect their troll buddies.

I did a few times before I figured it out.

F-droid maybe we’ll find a new good home then?

Seattle is having lovely weather here tonight. I hope you’re having the same.