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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

For the record, that's an incredibly shitty argument.

"LOL GIT GUDER PC"

There's a better solution for legacy hardware on windoze, and you don't know what it is.

Just admit it, or STFU.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

As bluntly, and as often as possible to ensure the demarcation is obvious to all.

Hate to turn your putrid argument around on you, but this isn't as trivial as the annoyance of needing a sarcasm flag to avoid Poe's Law, even though the impact of vaping on adult members of society who do not use it is merely an annoyance which causes their knees to jerk.

And your facts are wrong: Tobacco smoke kills half a million people per year. The jury is out on whether or not vaping is quantifiably medically dangerous at all. There is absolutely no data on harm from 2nd hand vaping, so you cannot say (in good faith) that it's causing harm.

Specifics matter in comparisons when the potential outcome is a total ban on a substance that has helped minimize harm for millions, and is mostly harmless in comparison.

In short - gnash your teeth elsewhere, you smug turd. You're wrong.

Is that clear enough?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Can't just have a royal rumble. You're going to need to iterate ALL of the flavors into factions if you want a war.

I vote everyone vs Arch (btw)

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

This isn't a logo. It's a cry for help from a severely distressed mind.

W̸͖͆H̵̡̹̖͂̂̑̅Ǎ̷̲̩͔̿͜͠T̷̩̫͗'̶̺̩͖͚́̚Ś̴̭̺̼̳ ̶̼̱̗̓̄̾H̸̡̗̫̝͘A̵͍̥̔̾P̸͇͎̾́P̵̙̦̀́ͅE̸̢̧̹͐͝͠N̸̫̲͙̘͝I̵̳͍͇̼̾̋̀̕N̶͚͖̪̒̈́̈G̵͕̱̓̃

̷̛̰̣̠͛͊ ̸̳̼̹͂ ̸̳͕̳̔̈̉͝ ̸̛̲̋̄͘ ̴͎͐ ̸̝̃̽̚W̵͓̙̏̄̀̉Ḩ̶͚͍͗͠A̷̢̹̥͙͑͐͆T̷̫́̉̄̚'̸̧͍͌͆͜Ş̷̗͚̻̓̉͒͠ ̶̣̯̬͑̈́H̷̘͛̇̚A̷̭͗̓͘P̶̭̠̔͒͝P̵̱̯̲̓͌͘E̵̡̪̣͇̕͝N̵͓͊̇̿̋Ì̷̭̯̠͗̈́͠N̴̬̹̲͔͑̈͝G̵͎̖̥͇̀

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (5 children)

I got curious and did the math if $44B was denominated in $100 bills.

That's 496.85 cubic kilometers of cash. Or a pile of money that covers half of the continental US, stacked 1/4 of the height of Low Earth Orbit.

I honestly don't think one could physically burn that much cash since May 2022 in real life.

Edit: more mind bogglery!

The earth is ~40,000 km in circumference, so you could stack the bills almost 28m high around the equator (or circle the globe 256,482 times.)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Child soldiers. Neat.

No other combatants are both easier AND harder to shoot. The only modern parallels exist in Congo, and I cannot fathom it on this scale.

Soviet wars of aggression have always created generational scars, but this will be a tragedy that can never be undone.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

They're getting their fix. He's in the news daily, and coverage of his indictment is ramping up.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

Yeah. The last time I saw such hubris, it had to be shot in the chest as it tried to climb through a window to prevent the certification of the 2020 election.

The government (and the electorate) needs to do many things right to prevent Cheeto or a Cheeto Analogue from sending the US into abject totalitarian misery, and there's not a great deal of evidence that will happen.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Not really - Since they're cheap, easy to lose, and categorically unnecessary if the screws weren't made out of butter. 😆

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Screw extractor kits are dirt cheap $10-$15, and great to keep in your tool box.

I've used mine 10x after I was upset that I bought one for "one screw"

Just drill it, flip the bit, and unscrew it.

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

#fediverse

We need to talk about content/user ranking standardization.

Upvotes/boosts/reduces need to do SOMETHING, and what they do should be unified across instances.

The best way to use these three scores seems obvious to me, and needs a standard to be established.

I posit a simple standard that can be built upon, and used by all:

  • Upvotes increase your "reliability" rating. (This can be used to establish trust as a person who commits bytes to a federated server.)
  • Downvotes decrease that reliability rating. (Admins should be able to use this score to exclude data they're not interested in wasting space for.)
  • Boosts are reposts to your federated identity (mastodon, kbin, lemmy, etc) for visibility to your subscribers. They are instance-agnostic, as they are more a user function than anything.
 

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Paywall removed

 
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