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Those are very well considered points, but Trump is an idiot.

Wait, wait, wait.

Trump, under the direction of parties unknown, is trying to force the EU to buy U.S. energy resources, and that’s the linchpin of his trade war with them?

Is he trying to give Europe a nudge back to Russian oil supplies?

Either my testosterone is high or low but doesn’t the chart above say it covers 16k men and is from 2018?
(I know it also says a longitudinal study, but I wouldn’t consider the inception to be the year the study is from.)

Back then the internet was a bunch of coffee shops. Not literally, of course - but for me it was about 30 people on messenger, my favorite chatroom, a random message board, a small but far flung group of people on LiveJournal, and sometimes even my Neopets guild.
Each was my own retreat. The weird and funny stuff we shared there was created and shared because people had a passion for whatever. It also was great in that you could learn about something, and share it with another group that had not seen it yet.

Today the internet is the infinite cul-de-sacs of meme pages, political messaging groups, and disinformation rings on Facebook, along with approximately 6 people that keep showing up from your friends list of hundreds. Or it’s the screaming gladiatorial stadium of Reddit, where the sheer volume of noise smothers any particular voice. Maybe it’s the infinite lawless Walmart of X or even the carefully manicured Target that is BlueSky.
From mining your attention, to hawking trinkets amidst the spectacle, or attempting to sell a little bit of everything to anyone, the new internet lacks third places. It’s all business, all the time, and you can feel it. Every meme is created to engage with that platform’s broadest audience. Everything is homogenized and lacks uniqueness. All the content has been aggregated and reshared, and in the endless and futile search for validation from the algorithm it’s lost something that makes it meaningful.

And that’s why I like Lemmy. It’s a digital third place.

lol. Nope. Those are getting bought up by private equity and turned into poorly maintained rentals. They’re also being price fixed by a cabal of corporate landlords, so rents will always be maximally extractive!

yay…

It’s not a gremlin, it’s a goblin, and they might also be the same entity as the ethereal being that lives outside of space and time. The goblin is also a deft thief who is capable of stealing physical things, spans of time, and memories.
Also, the vengeful children make fun of me whenever I experience the slightest bit of rejection.

I reduced max power, but keep my AP’s set to auto manage up to that max level.

There’s basically a plane of signal that bisects the house where the RSSI of each AP is the same. It intersects with areas where people commonly are on their phones. Depending on humidity, location of people and pets, or even just dumb luck, devices were just bouncing between the AP’s, fishing for whichever had the stronger signal. Dropping the power levels made it so the overlap between the AP’s was less, and adjusting the RSSI at which the AP would hand off clients upward made it so handoffs were less frequent. Small throughput sacrifice in the transition zone, but without the constant bouncing between AP’s (which has no throughput).

My comment is not targeted at you, but that sentiment.

That’s such an asinine take. They’re clearly just providing cover for nonsense from Trump.
Definitely one of those “if you believe it hard enough, it’ll be true” things for them.
On the one hand, it might do them good to have their bubbles burst as Trump continues to degrade. It could get them to the place where they realize they were lied to by a fraudster. On the other, it’s bad for all of us that he’s so out of it and suggestible while being surrounded by factions representing corporate takeover of the U.S., Christian Fascism, and those who are merely seeking uni-party control under Republicans.

He wears lifts so he’s taller than Obama. That’s why he stands like a centaur that’s had an assectomy.

He’s been doing it for so long that it’s like taking away a woman’s high heels if she wears them daily for years. He just wouldn’t know how to stand anymore.

I want the version with all the African fjords.

The first time I ever experienced this was in a printshop with a bunch of older guys who were definitely not computer illiterate, but all gathered around the monitor for the server that ran our RIP/platemaker to watch commands appear in the terminal when I remoted in from my computer to do something or other. (They would go into the room and work directly on the machine, but it was loud in there and smelled funny, so I remoted in.)

They made jokes about me being a hacker, and although being distinctly boomer-ish, it was high praise coming from some of the smartest people I’ve ever worked with.
(I’ve worked with more accomplished people, and more highly educated people, but not with folks who had built a successful business that dealt with a variety of complex tech from the ground up with their own knowledge and effort. It was a bit charming to have them wowed by such a simple thing.)

When he said revenge tour, he meant everyone who didn’t make him president in 2020 —including the minority that voted for him.