Even now, my brain won't ever wrap its head around modern countries like Ireland and N. Ireland feeling the need for things like "peace walls" between neighbors.

Your comment sums up a lot of my feelings: a true peace can't be forced from the outside. It's way too complicated and emotional for simplistic shit. And you can see it in the comments around here too. Everyone's wrapped up in intense anger, blame, and reciting the litany of past horrors as justification for new ones.

People moved there because anything inside 128 costs a million dollars. I have friends with pretty good jobs who can't hope to afford to live closer to Boston. MA has their "MBTA Communities" upzoning push but it doesn't go far enough, IMO. We need to eliminate single family zoning entirely.

It's a modern take on the Pidgin concept. Pidgin ran locally on one computer and didn't sync anything between any of your other Pidgin installs. Also, your login details for every account were usually in plaintext on disk. In practice, it feels

Beeper (really Matrix + bridges) is a network service that you can access with a browser, mobile app, whatever.

Ugh, sounds like some of my coworkers and MacBooks. Then you discover that MacBooks are seriously crippled compared to the Linux machine you were using and you get told one of:

1. "What do you mean by $feature? I've never heard of that."
2. "Why would you want to do that?"
3. Run a badly performing Linux VM in a janky hypervisor to do that
4. Pay $10 for this little 3rd party app to fix the problem

Throw in some serious RSI pain from that tire fire of a keyboard and yeah, I have no idea why I switched.

Edit: Work machine. No way I'd pay for Apple with my own money.

I raised this exact point to a relative on a similar issue (people on the road during a major blizzard).

That said, there are many jobs where you don't need to be there in person. Saying "if you feel sick stay home" (or similar) should be encouraged as it's necessary to enforce this expectation that if you can stay home, you should.

I personally wouldn't call this brigading per se but I stand by it as evidence of the eagerness to derail things into wildly offtopic discussions that poison the well for everyone else. And no, just because someone says something first doesn't mean you are compelled to respond until they concede or give up.

After more reading elsewhere, it also speaks to an all too comfortable relationship with political violence. "I'm not saying we put people up against the wall... But if we did, who would go first? The bankers or the factory owners?" The offtopic bit is destructive to community building but the absolute fascination of who dies for what reason is pretty damned concerning.

The soviet combat performance was much less important than the fact that Russia had just broken their alliance with the incredibly war crimin' Japanese Empire. Not exactly something that I would want to call out if I was on Team Red. Just sayin'.

A long winded manifesto justifying mass state executions for political enemies.

This also neatly plays into my other reason for defederation: Hexbears seem acutely susceptible to lengthy preaching and insatiable defense of their ideology. Even if such ideology didn't involve beheading the heretics, it's unwelcome as an off-topic distraction in almost all situations and communities suffer as a result.

It was an extremely bigoted, vulgar, personal attack on an admin in his own thread about why Hexbear deserves a second chance.

An utterly vile statement like that followed by your soft "time and place" non-rebuke does not deserve any benefit of the doubt so yes, I will absolutely jump to the obvious interpretation. Especially in a thread about continued unacceptable Hexbear behavior. "Read the room" indeed.

The death penalty does not bring peace to victims or their families. You reopen old wounds every time the media talks about a new appeal or delay. With life in prison, they stay silent and forgotten.

This gets lost among all the other arguments: wrong conviction, costs, etc.

NeoLauncher needs a top level comment here! It's a lifesaver after Nova was sold off to a marketing company!

So many FOSS launchers are trying this search based or text oriented thing and sorry, I can't stand it. I just need to be able to unlock my phone and hit an app icon from a grid of selected apps and web shortcuts on my home screen.

Beehaw is a locked down walled garden instance

That's maybe a little unkind. If you had been working to nurture a small community (vernacular definition), you too would be super concerned about a sudden influx from Reddit. Assimilation would be impossible.