We can’t fix it but we could probably fix Miller so he can’t hurt anyone ever again.

He really is a profoundly stupid man. Everyone who supports him should be ashamed of themselves.

Aside from that, there are a distressing amount of people who think violence is never okay. And by violence I mean direct, immediate, violence. Denying someone health care for profit is cool. Telling someone to work an extra unpaid hour or they’ll be fired, and risk eviction and starvation, that’s fine. But the idea of taking an ultra wealthy man’s blood soaked money by force? Fetch the pearls and smelling salts, it’s pearl clutching and fainting time.

Yes, yes, non-violent protest is allegedly more effective*, but I’m not going to be mad if some rich asshole gets his skull cracked.

* but like is it though? we still have a capitalist hellscape

There’s that picture with the “no one wants to work anymore” quotes going back to like 1820?

That’s one of the recurring ironies. Most of the stuff anti-car-culture people are pushing for (eg: more trains, this photo, etc) make it better for the people who do drive

Maybe the design is bad, then.

I still want to see some sort of honey pot for ICE and the other goons. Like leak there’s going to be a big “illegals” celebration in a meeting hall, wait for them to show up, then lock the doors. Fill room with carbon monoxide. Let them pass out and die while looking for their victims.

Javascript could throw an error to alert you that the input is supposed to be a string, like most languages would do.

I’m still irritated about when I was a youth I found a somewhat obvious security hole, and took advantage of it in a mildly funny way, the staff just punished me.

You weren’t supposed to be able to change the desktop background, but for some reason MS Paint had a “set to background” option that worked. So I set the background to a screenshot of the desktop, and then hid all the icons and start menu. Later, the teacher thought the computer was broken because “nothing was working”.

I think it could’ve been a good teaching moment. A talk about not messing shared resources up, and channel my interests somewhere productive. Nope. Just a lecture and week long library ban. Disappointed.

I’m not sure if it’s possible to build a healthy social network.

Smaller communities can work, if they’re well moderated. The small size also helps norms become established.

Once the network gets really big, you have eternal September problems. You have too many bad actors in absolute numbers to deal with.

So yeah, the problem is us but we suck.

Maybe federation would work, since that can keep the moderation workload smaller and distributed.

Saint Luigi deliver us from villains like Facebook

Oh yeah, I think that’s part of the fascism standard set. Like first it’ll be non-christians, and then catholics, and then the “wrong” kind of protestants.

There’s some political cartoon that was like

Gay man pushing a trans person off a cliff. nazi smiling.

Gay man: “Glad we worked together to get rid of the trans menace! What next?”

nazi: [keeps smiling]

Gay man: [concerned expression]

nazi: [pushes gay man off the cliff, too.]

Side note: I hate how markdown doesn’t do linebreaks unless you add two trailing spaces on the end of the line, or add a whole ass extra line break.

Conservatives tend to live in an eternal now- what’s good for me now? This explains why they don’t care about hypocrisy.

People act based on emotions, specifically feeling like they’re part of the in-group. You know the old saying “Would you jump off a bridge if your friends all were jumping, too?” Well, the answer is clearly yes. Most people are stupid like that.

I mean, we all are sometimes. It’s impossible to know and verify everything so we trust our friends. But for some people it’s reached a toxic level of “vaccines are bad” and “banning books is good”

With violence, though a lot of spaces will tell you it’s gauche to talk about violence. Stern words only.

Also, as a USian, even though my grandparents fought the Nazis the US was still garbage at home.

This is correct. They don’t care. It’s just in-groups to protect and out-groups to bind. It’s “what’s good for me right now?”. There’s nothing deeper.

By any reasonable metric they are bad people

Spotify kind of sucks. I’ve been buying music from the musicians (mostly via Bandcamp) for years. Buying one album a month for like $8 means is cheaper than a subscription, and I now have a huge library of music.

Maybe. These aren’t normal times and I feel like being neutral in the face of a rising tyranny when you have a big platform is collaboration.

You proud now MAGAts? Does this make you proud?

They don’t care. All they care about is their in-group is strong and the out-group is punished. They’re shitty people.

Trump is just the highly visible part of a whole cancerous growth. All of the right wing, with its “outgroups to bind and in-groups to protect” worldview, needs to go.