[-] azureeight@beehaw.org 8 points 1 year ago

You don't see an issue with a MOD starting with

Can we please move beyond this 2010 New Atheism view

That's really not something a mod should say and pretty much dismissing an opinion without even engaging it. I guess atheists are just ok to dismiss and deny an opinion?

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[-] azureeight@beehaw.org 9 points 1 year ago

This doesn't surprise me. I'm always so nervous, every driver seems so distracted. I hear everyone wants to keep their autonomy to drive, (this is in theory if autonomous driving was safe or the roads had rails for example) but they also want to look at their phones and do other shit. 😩

[-] azureeight@beehaw.org 72 points 1 year ago

The people who accept these trade-offs are not normal, and they’re in charge

so this is just inflammatory?

Seriously, I have been trying and slowly learning as Linux too has been developed to be more user friendly, am I "failing"?

This is a really poor take by someone it feels like spent more time on this post and the complaints than trying at all to adapt to the new place.

Like this bit:

So what does Mastodon bring to the table in addition to Twitter, that might justify someone deciding to take the plunge and move to it? There are a few unique things about the platform, but they generally fall into the broad category of “things users don’t care about”. Chief among these is decentralisation.

You wat? I want a place to talk to people, REAL PEOPLE, about topics (and that can be searched using hashtags, which you can).

The point of Mastodon is it isn't Twitter but offers a lot of the socializing of twitter! What?!

They really let just anyone post anything.

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[-] azureeight@beehaw.org 12 points 1 year ago

I have had independent contractors offer it as an option, but most still have a phone number or have too many customers who aren't tech savvy enough to use something like that. There's really no way a reputable business in my area would survive that way.

[-] azureeight@beehaw.org 27 points 1 year ago

Omg I would have absolutely no script for that. They would get the blankest expression and something snarky like "it was impressive how Nestle was able to get market share on water and baby formula in the African market" but knowing my luck I'd probably get unironicly hired with that line when I was trying to be sarcastic. 😭

[-] azureeight@beehaw.org 37 points 1 year ago

Discord. God I hated how I was one of my friends that got everyone to switch, and now I'm the first one out. I don't think they have added a feature that hasn't been an annoyance for a while, and after a year of no mobile notifications working and their staff being incompetent (especially if you are a free user) I'm just over it.

Everyone worshipping it is kind of a turn off too. It's a service y'all, I've had everything from AIM to Slack and I'm sure there will be a million others. Worshipping a corp is gross.

[-] azureeight@beehaw.org 12 points 1 year ago

We are a global people. We could do more, and we actively don't. We should all be ashamed and just because it makes you feel uncomfortable or helpless doesn't mean you have to rationalize the shame of our species.

We need to face it if we'll ever change it.

[-] azureeight@beehaw.org 8 points 1 year ago

You should look more into the story and into the occupancy before you start taking random moral stances cause you want to be rich one day.

[-] azureeight@beehaw.org 13 points 1 year ago

So you should just be left to die if you get shot while committing a crime?

[-] azureeight@beehaw.org 15 points 1 year ago

I never was going to be able to get one of these cars anyway, so I didn't look into them until recently, I was shocked how little oversight and testing the selfdriving has.

Looking into it, using that tech unassisted feels about as mad as getting in a rando's submarine...

[-] azureeight@beehaw.org 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

~I’ve just never heard of anyone trying to dismiss a game for being a JRPG~

And I remember the 2000s where that was common among gamer culture. So what now?

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I'm hoping next year to try to grow a few plants on my apartment's deck. It's half sun and I live in a temperate area where I've had family grow tomatoes, potatos, peas, beans, etc.

I feel like any fruit or veg that can grow on a trellis should, in theory, work. Anyone have any lived experience to share? I'm not terribly good with plants, so I also ask the question "should a novice tackle this kind of project"?

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