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Some dingbat that occasionally builds neat stuff without breaking others. The person running this public-but-not-promoted instance because reasons.

  • I'd need some examples to get what you mean here. My experiences, both personal and simply observed, is that you can you can roughly split both conservatives and liberals into two sub-groups, although the distinction on the liberal side is a lot more fuzzy.

    There's the emotive/moralizing side that fight based on what they feel rather than any concrete justification. What's right is decided simply by an assumption of how the world should work, either collaboratively or selfishly looking out for yourself only.

    Then there are the logical logical arguments. On the conservative side these end up being a lot more in the form of 'I am right, you need to prove otherwise' while liberals (myself guilty of it as well) will go through these elaborate deliberations backing one point with another and somehow hoping to convince these people who have already decided they're right of their error.

    If you've ever tried beating your head into a brick wall you might recognize the feeling that last one, but it's hardly an obstruction to dialogue, just a frustration of trying to engage rationally with largely irrational beings.

  • Stupid thing is that it's the humanity and empathy of the left that is both the draw and the weakness of the movement.

    Conservatives can come into leftist discourse spaces and either pose as the extreme leftists you describe, or even just the more reasonable end of the conservatives (non facist/maga types, rare as they are any more) an they'll be engaged with in good faith. Since they're ultimately not there for a proper discussion though it results in nothing more than creating chaos and arguments

    Liberal/leftists who walk into conservative spaces are greeted with scorn and derision, treated as lunatics from the start not worth listening to. Since the left would generally be coming in with honest intent though at best they waste their time shouting into an established echo chamber, or worse get convinced that there's a good middle ground to work towards.

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  • This isn't new, cell tower triangulation is a fact of the network operation and is part of how your signal gets handed off between towers as you travel. Airplane wouldn't do anything unless it where to actually disable the sim entirely, and functionally even that doesn't cut it in the USA given that a device without one can still connect to emergency services via any tower in reach.

    This is just the carrier giving a customer the data that would already exist, for a price, which I thought T-Mo actually used to give for free...

  • More a speculative thought, but if those who do pay attention to negative feedback no longer see any, they may not take that into consideration when they put things up.

    Say someone put up a post, saw no backlash on the front end, but then comes to look at the responses and sees a cesspit of hate. That's hardly going to soften any mental harms it might otherwise impose.

    Another thought here is messing about with such things, particularly in making them a default behavior, could disrupt comms where there is a strong voting aspect to it. The 'am I the asshole' type place that, despite the usual attempt to have them adjudicated by some nuanced comment system, inevitably end up using votes as a agree/disagree dynamic.

  • I'm not sure there's a purpose to it the way things are clustered here. Particular for anything of a political/news nature the very same post on one instance and com may get a completely different reaction on another. There are a fair number of people that I think of as 'fire and forget posters' in that they simply fire off posts but rarely interact with them after. Making this the default would likely encourage more of the same behavior, possibly leading to more spam.

  • There's one in particular who for some undefined reason has been able to essentially say 'go off and do this thing' that my own brain said is stupid and impossible, and then I succeeded at doing the thing.

    Probably the first example, when I had finally gotten the idea to do some gym work (which she helped at that too) I commented to the effect of maybe I could look at doing a 5k. So she says let's go do 14k which of course sounded nuts, so we went and did that. Next thing I know I finished a marathon because why not...

  • Just ask NASA for help, pretty sure they had a solution figured out a while ago or there would be chaos in the cosmos.

  • Pleasant as this is, I wonder how they're going to keep the crybaby-in-chief from demanding they stop again as part of his 'dei is evil' crusade.

  • When the correct answer is so obvious it doesn't register...

  • Phobes being phobic, unusual enough not one that had a big history of egregious comments so this was a bit of a drop the mask moment.

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  • Similar to the markings used on trucks hauling hazardous materials. Might be for the fire dept if the place goes up in flames.

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  • Man, what are you driving that you need headphones, all my cars have built in stereos...

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  • A simple couple wires that work without pairing, without drivers, without 3 separate volume controls, and worked on the terribly complicated premise of inserting a plug into a hole. Next thing they'll try and say speakers need a dozen micro wires on a special propriety cable to do what they do better.

  • Was more an observation where I figure it came from, but it seems the LW auto bots take quite the exception to links and suddenly banned me from a dozen or so boards. 🤨

    Is there a list of bad domains that it gets fussy over?

  • I would generally agree, the one extra factor though is that Trump will never admit he was wrong for selecting him to begin with, so there would have to be some kind of betrayal that he cuts him off for. Last I heard he was still saying Pete is a great guy and top choice, so it'll be interesting to see what he spins to blame it on someone other than himself.

  • Sorry Pete, you've become a political liability. Take your $10B severance and hit the bricks beach.