zalgotext

@zalgotext@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨1987⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Right? And let’s be honest, I bet that hotdish is fire

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Common Ground⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  We have to agree where we ARE before we stand a chance to agree about what we do from here.

  We don’t do that with self-delusion and deflecting blame though.

  The blame doesn’t rest solely on conservatives for this current situation, sure. Some of it falls on the huge number of people who “protest voted”. Some of it rests on the Democratic party for pretending to be the party of the people, but really just being a milquetoast center-right corporatist party that serves the same masters as the Republican party.

  For any of us to “come together” and “agree about what we are to do from here,” for any one group to trust the other, we all have to come to terms with and accept our share of the blame. Deflecting blame or deluding ourselves with rhetoric like “we didn’t do anything wrong, we were just lied to” is unproductive. No side will trust the other as long as anyone is still making excuses for themselves.

  Be adults, look inward instead of projecting blame, accept responsibility for your actions, and then maybe we can come together to fight against fascism.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve adds "all the Team Fortress 2 client and server game code" to its Source mod tools, letting modders "build completely new games based on TF2" and publish them on Steam⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Nah I don’t really want you to keep talking to me

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People never understand the sacrifices I make for them.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I am trying to focus on longer-term strategy and removing barriers for my team

  This is literally the pragmatic, by-the-book definition of a scrum master lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve adds "all the Team Fortress 2 client and server game code" to its Source mod tools, letting modders "build completely new games based on TF2" and publish them on Steam⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The only one ignoring things is you. You’re ignoring my whole point. Which is that your personal bar for enshittification is lower than any of the definitions we’ve given in this thread, because it’s basically “anything I think is bad is enshittification”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I love the future.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You get all these meatheads with delusions of being some sort of Spartan badass because they took 300 as a documentary.

  And are either too stupid or too ashamed to recognize all the thinly veiled homoerotic themes

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve adds "all the Team Fortress 2 client and server game code" to its Source mod tools, letting modders "build completely new games based on TF2" and publish them on Steam⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It was a feature that they added a long time ago, and it doesn’t interfere with or worsen the experience of buying, organizing, or playing my video games… Plenty of other products and services out there have features that some don’t like or don’t use, but that isn’t the same thing as enshittification.

  I have explained it though

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve adds "all the Team Fortress 2 client and server game code" to its Source mod tools, letting modders "build completely new games based on TF2" and publish them on Steam⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not ignoring anything, I just don’t agree that the steam marketplace, and all the stuff you’re talking about related to the steam marketplace, fits either of our definitions of enshittification.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve adds "all the Team Fortress 2 client and server game code" to its Source mod tools, letting modders "build completely new games based on TF2" and publish them on Steam⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Eh, maybe I’m being pedantic, but I still don’t really see how the addition of the steam marketplace is an example of the steam platform declining in quality. It was a feature that they added a long time ago, and it doesn’t interfere with or worsen the experience of buying, organizing, or playing my video games. Sure it’s a needless addition (in our opinions), but one that I can easily ignore because it’s so isolated from the main product. Plenty of other products and services out there have features that some don’t like or don’t use, but that isn’t the same thing as enshittification. And I feel like the spam would happen regardless of if the marketplace was there or not. That feels more like a moderation problem, not an enshittification problem.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve adds "all the Team Fortress 2 client and server game code" to its Source mod tools, letting modders "build completely new games based on TF2" and publish them on Steam⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Some of these are minor inconveniences, but that’s how enshittification happens. It’s little, creeping annoyances that get worse and worse until it starts to make people look for alternatives.

  Ok, maybe my definition of enshittification is off then. I thought it was when some company offers some product/service for a certain price (or free), then gradually removes features from that product/service while increasing the price. Am I off?

  If that definition is right, I don’t understand how the steam marketplace, a completely optional (borderline tangential) part of the steam platform, qualifies as enshittification.

  And I’m not trying to defend the steam marketplace, I think it’s stupid and terrible and at minimum needs age restrictions. But like, you can absolutely just not use it and your experience using the steam platform is totally unaffected.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve adds "all the Team Fortress 2 client and server game code" to its Source mod tools, letting modders "build completely new games based on TF2" and publish them on Steam⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe I’m misunderstanding you, or what enshittification is, but how is the steam marketplace an example of it?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Current chain of command⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Eh, Vance being invisible so far is just usually how it is for VPs. I think people forget that the role of the VP is basically just two things:

  1. Break ties in the Senate
  2. Remain alive so they can take over if the president dies
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨China renewables capacity additions soared in 2023, growing more than four times faster than the G7⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨China renewables capacity additions soared in 2023, growing more than four times faster than the G7⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  a space-based solar collection array

  I’d like a source on that, not because I don’t believe you, but because that genuinely sounds like a cool and interesting thing to read about

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How does this pic show that Elon Musk doesnt know SQL?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Great explanation, but I have a tiny, tiny, minor nit-pick

  Basically what he said is incoherent to anybody who has worked with larger data.

  I’m being pedantic, but I disagree with your wording. As a backend dev, I work with relational databases a ton, and what Musk said wasn’t incomprehensible to me, it just sounded like something a first year engineer fresh out of college would say.

  Again, the rest of your explanation is spot on, absolutely no notes, but I do think the distinction between “adult making up incomprehensible bullshit” and “adult cosplaying as a baby engineer who thinks he’s hot shit but doesn’t know anything beyond surface level stuff” is important.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tumblr to join fediverse⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  ( o )( . )

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anonymous: Trump is making America weaker and we’ll exploit it - News Cafe⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If the government cant handle “online stuff” they can pitch privatization.

  It kind of already is privatized. Most of the government’s cyber security efforts are handled by defense contractors.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Magnus Carlsen: Chess champion quits FIDE tournament after being told to change jeans⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I play trouser chess all the time

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A scientific discovery⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Huh. Well that explains why those are my two favorite positions

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨this town has been well known for a long time⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You know, as unappetizing as this looks, it probably tastes close to dipping a grilled cheese into tomato soup. I’m keeping my mind open, but good lord they need help with their plating.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yo, Duplo, what you doing on the 24th?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I was a K’Nex kid more than a LEGO kid, but I remember both my K’Nex and LEGO sets coming with manuals that had directions for making dozens of things, all from the same set. That shit was awesome, and was a really good way to teach you the creativity and skills to go off script and make your own creations. Buying a LEGO set intended to make one specific thing seems counter to the original purpose of the toy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ugh i wish⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, I buy meat a couple pounds at a time, and cook it all at once. The leftovers usually get me most of the way through the week, because I’m usually just cooking for myself. A half gallon of the ultra pasteurized milk will usually last me three or four weeks. Raw milk would be absolutely wasted on me, there’s no way I could get through even a small amount before it spoils. I don’t know why you’re getting so bent out of shape by a take that essentially boils down to “people go through meat faster than milk”, it’s not exactly a hot take.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ugh i wish⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
  1. They’re not really having a meltdown
  2. Meat is frequently bought in single meal/single serving amounts, whereas milk is frequently bought in bulk/multiple-serving amounts. Storing milk is a bigger deal than storing meat, because you much more frequently have leftover milk than leftover raw meat. The two aren’t really comparable.
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ugh i wish⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  On the bright side, if H5N1 kills off all its hosts, it’ll effectively eradicate itself

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ugh i wish⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not with that attitude

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube devs be like⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Two big things I’ve noticed:

  1. They removed the Chromecast queue feature. So if I’m casting to my TV, I can either play one video at a time, or I can enable autoplay and see what the algorithm decides to serve me - I can’t queue up a few videos and just watch those, like I used to be able to.

  2. Playlists are becoming harder and harder to use. Finding the button to add a video to a playlist, moving videos from one playlist to another, and managing playlists in general has all become more difficult recently.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨America's Next Health Secretary Enjoying A Meal With His Future Boss and Colleagues⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  IDK, I think Trump is still the most dangerous. He’s the most unhinged, and the Supreme Court recently ruled that he can’t be punished for any of the actions he takes as president. That combination makes him scarier than the others IMO.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Drink it, I dare ya⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Hi, I’d like the ELICHEM5320 pls

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just Terrible⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Or the Midwest United States during pumpkin spice season

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Tom Warren] The PS5 Pro still hasn’t sold out in the US or UK. Looks like the $700 price point will mean this console will be readily available this holiday⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thank you, forgot the PS5 has been out for a while lol