just gave me a flashback to when we bought mine one of those digital photo frames, and loaded lots of family pictures to it for it to display as a slideshow.

She picked her favourite picture and made us disable the slideshow and set it to only show that one.

Next time we visited it was no longer on the mantel.

You don’t operate the Bagger 288, it contains an artificial mind. This mind is full of hatred; violence is its sole vocation

Only one way to find out

I run a site that only advertises itself in one country and is of no interest to anyone else. Cloudflare’s threat monitor lists the three countries that it’s blocked the most attacks from are:

1. USA
2. South Africa
3. Israel

…and I’m supposed to be scared of the Chinese?

Women don’t poo

It does explain the weird way that the question answers itself at the end without its author seemingly realising it. There aren’t the numbers to make it mathematically plausible to shift further right if you’re already at that extreme.

On one hand I think I finally see what point you were trying to make, but on the other it reinforces my original point even more that the bar is now that damn low that we’ve got people simping for a marketing strategy like it was some act of philanthropy, because it happened to create a useful thing.

they’re contributing to things that don’t directly generate cash for them.

Who said anything about them not making cash.

You did. Don’t you read your own posts or something?

Eh? How does becoming the main platform for Linux gaming not generate cash for them?

This is true, but also kind of depressing that Capitalism is now so insidious that people treat gaben like some kind of benevolent philanthropist for choosing to sit on a huge ongoing cash cow that makes more money directly to his bank account than he’s physically able to spend, rather than IPO it.

I’ve seen a lot of hysteria around “tankies” since I started using Lemmy and I gotta say I really don’t get it

I used to think this but then discovered that most of the actual tankies are blocked by my instance.

By contrast I pointed my browser to lemmy.ml just now and the front page includes a celebration of “Russia Unity Day”, a reading group for “Soviet Democracy”, and three “good news only” type puff pieces about China. There’s definitely a solid bloc of propagandists out there.

As others have said, they want to run that kind of instance I don’t actually have any huge beef with it. To an extent I think it’s good to have some other perspectives and news sources. Just be aware that that’s who people are talking about when they talk about “tankies”, not the people who post stuff critical of the Democratic Party.

Looks like their opponents did their campaigning for them.

or even enforces its own laws consistently

I’ve got a theory that they’re using an algorithm to track IPs written by a complete incompetent who never learned about either dynamically assigned IPs or the birthday paradox.

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“I think we can get them to brush their tongues”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwmwB-biQpc

the interesting thing with the votes on that comment is how many of them downvote for disagreeing with it as a direct statement and how many don’t like you calling out the tankies

seconded, every now and then the way I notice I’m not logged in is that there’s suddenly a load of absolute dogshit on my feed.

You don’t owe anyone a second chance if they post something dumb, it’s your feed, block block block. No need to announce it or have any great ceremony, just block and move on.

did someone say beans

They banned me for absolutely no reason.

A year ago whenever I saw someone say this my assumption was that “no reason” was like “I only posted a light-hearted joke about murdering queers”, but Reddit has been such an absolute garbage fire recently that they genuinely do seem to be banning people for the most incredibly milquetoast shit.