Steve
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- Comment on Kid gave a reasonable answer without all the math bullshit 1 day ago:
I had situations like this at least a few times a year in school.
I usually managed to convince the teacher I was right.And yah this kid is almost certainly ND.
Not just the answer, but the handwriting screams dysgraphia. It looks a lot like mine. - Comment on Can deliberate noise harassment still be a crime if it's done every day from 7:30 AM till 10:30-11:30 PM? 2 days ago:
I’ve had success imagining the reaction a bully is looking for, or expecting; Then giving them a reaction that confounds whatever they had in mind. Don’t play their game. Make a new game for you to play. One they won’t understand.
My first thought in this case, is to stop by and give him a list of requests you’d like him to play the next morning. If he immediately refuses, just ignore what he says and thank him, because his sound system is way better than yours. That interaction will confuse the hell out of him. He might just stop. If he does or no, go back the next day and ask why he didn’t play your request list. If he did play your list, go back and thank him, by giving him another list of music from someone else in your family.
That’s just off the top of my head, maybe you can some up with something better. Just remember to make it your game, not his.
- Comment on what’s the difference between “he died” and “he’s dead”? 5 days ago:
They aren’t direct synonyms. As one refers to an event, while the other refers to a state of being. However the confusion is easy, as either invariably involves the other, they can both safely inferred.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Not when you cold and need to start a fire
- Comment on Why do bikes have a solenoid? 1 week ago:
If you’ve ever seen a spaceship show or movie (Star Trek or Star Wars) where control consoles explode, you understand why solenoids are used for high power controls.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Everything.
What’s the alternative? Nothing?
That seems way more booring. - Comment on Where is the best place to address specific issues with Lemmy across all instances? 2 weeks ago:
Still sounds more like a browser problem. Have you tried different browsers?
- Comment on Where is the best place to address specific issues with Lemmy across all instances? 2 weeks ago:
The answer to your direct question, I don’t know.
But the issue you’re having seems more a browser thing to me. It’s the browser that warns you if you try to leave a page with an uncompleted form or text box.
- Comment on Stop Internet Searching and Start Asking on Fediverse? 3 weeks ago:
Of course if one truly can’t afford it, paying for search can seem a luxury.
However I would argue as a counterpoint; If there’s any online service one would consider paying for, it should be search. Search is most literally our “front page of the internet”. It’s our first stop in any quest for information. Even the founders of Google knew early on, that putting adds in search creates a perverse incentive against the best results, favoring instead worse results, so people perform more searches creating more opportunities to show people adds.
$5 a month isn’t much, to know your query will give the results you want, instead of what an advertiser wants.
- Comment on Has Reddit acknowledged the existence of Lemmy? 4 weeks ago:
Do you mean Reddit the company, or the Reddit the community?
I think the answers are “No”, and “A little. It often gets deleted when mentioned.”
- Comment on How I made a blog using Lemmy - a write-up 5 weeks ago:
Part of me hates myself for asking this. You clearly put a lot of effort into this.
Why? There are at least a couple actual blogging options with ActivityPub support. Why try to force Lemmy into something it isn’t.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
So you’re saying, since it’s their call, it makes sense to not have a weird conversion with them?
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
What’s worse, being weird, or just letting this happen?
- Comment on I'm looking for a no frills, physical key EV. Am I looking for something that no longer exists? 2 months ago:
Carice is a cool option.
An old school, no frills sports car, that happens to be all electric.Sure, they’re hand built to order. But in that class, they’re surprising cheep. Less than $50K USD if I recall
- Comment on Are Autocracies more powerful than Democracies? 2 months ago:
I think your questions are more complicated than you realize.
Are Autocracies more powerful than Democracies?
If you separate the from of government from the governing, yes autocracy is a superior form of government. A dictator can instantly marshal resources to face any threat, or completely shift an entire nation, if a direction becomes clearly wrong. The reason they don’t work, is because the leader is always human. Humans make shit leaders, almost always. So distribution of power across a large number of people mitigates the risks of putting it all in one.
Are all democracies are doomed to fail?
Yes. Obviously. Everything eventually fails. The Sun will fail and take the earth with it.
Is the future of humanity, autocracy? For the rest of humanity’s existence?
No. Obviously. Everything eventually fails. The Sun will fail and take the earth with it. I would hope humanity (or whatever species we evolve to) lives past that.
- Comment on I'm looking to buy something like a reverse wheelbarrow, what do I call that? 2 months ago:
I just call it a “Pull Cart”.
Or “Cart” for short. - Comment on Is it a pattern for right-wing people to attack films, series and animations with protagonists from minority groups? Or is this an exaggeration? 2 months ago:
It’s a pattern.
I know it seems strange from the anti-cancel-culture contingent of society, but it’s a real thing. - Comment on Kagi search engine now has a Fediverse search option. 2 months ago:
You’re speculating that Kagi is actually astroturfing on Lemmy. That’s why I asked for an account you believe to be doing it on Kai’s behalf.
- Comment on Kagi search engine now has a Fediverse search option. 2 months ago:
So yah, the social media manager or marketing agency is getting paid. People organically posting because they genuinely like the service, aren’t. The former would be advertising. The later not.
Can you point to any accounts you think are doing Kagi astroturfing. IE being paid to advertise with. Because now it just sounds like you’re speculating.
- Comment on Kagi search engine now has a Fediverse search option. 2 months ago:
If they aren’t paying anyone is it advertising? I’m not sure what you’re actually talking about anymore. Maybe I never did
- Comment on Kagi search engine now has a Fediverse search option. 2 months ago:
Should I ask them about being paid? I’ve been doing it for free all this time.
- Comment on Kagi search engine now has a Fediverse search option. 2 months ago:
I’m not sure they do at all. There are just a bunch of Kagi users here.
- Comment on 3 months ago:
That’s entirely dependent on the interface switching, or some kind of universal interface. That’s the part I have serous doubts about. Keep in mind you have to make a single interface that work better than all the others on their respective native systems. I’m not sure that’s possible.
- Comment on 3 months ago:
That would be cool. Might be useful.
- Comment on 3 months ago:
Which I would never respond to on Mastodon, as it’s terrible for discussions.
- Comment on 3 months ago:
I follow topics and have discussions on Lemmy, keep up with individuals and announcements on Mastodon, and look at cool photos on Pixelfed.
None of my accounts are following anything on other systems.The reason I’m in this community is for discussions like this. We disagree on the nature of using he fundamental architecture of the Fediverse.
I think using Mastodon to engage in Lemmy discussions is extremely awkward without the threading to keep it all organized. Equally, Lemmy is designed specifically around following communities. Following individuals on Mastodon breaks the pattern of the feed. And good luck following either Mastodon accounts or Lemmy groups in Pixelfed.However, having multiple decentralized servers within each system, is plenty of reason for the Fediverse to be better than a centralized platform.
- Comment on 3 months ago:
I have literally zero interest in cross pollination between social media types.
They each have their own interfaces that work best for their communities and content types. You’re always missing something trying to access one from another. - Comment on [PSA] Lemmy account deletion is a mess 3 months ago:
Yes.
Op isn’t expecting an all or nothing. I’m suggesting they should expect nothing. All isn’t even worth talking about.And yes.
I’ve never deleted anything online. Never had a reason to. If I ever imagined a reason I’d want to delete something, I wouldn’t post it to begin with. Because I know I can’t delete it. See how that works. So what if I was wrong, or embarrassing, that’s part of being human, own you’re mistakes and move on. Don’t hide them. They are who you were. They are how you got where you are. - Comment on Why isn't free stuff (public domain/noncommercial) discussed as much as paid stuff? 3 months ago:
Because not as many people know about the free stuff, since it doesn’t have a marketing budget to tell everyone it exists. If fewer people know about it, it’ll be discussed less.
- Comment on [PSA] Lemmy account deletion is a mess 3 months ago:
You’re still missing the fundamental reality of the situation.
Stuff online generally doesn’t get deleted. And almost never because you want it to. I think the EU passed a law about the “right to be forgotten”. But the reality is, that’s like fighting gravity. The effort and resources it takes to truly break orbit are far beyond most people’s, and even most government’s means. Same with truly deleting anything online.