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@Gargleblaster@kbin.social

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Ate a platter of 3 different fried insects. I think it was wood worms, bees, and crickets. The bees were the best.

None of them were horrible. Would do it again.

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Like I had to include that many different outlets in order to provide a full picture. FYI, APNews reported about this in late August. The fact that the NYT is telling you about it this week means that something very wrong occurred for two months while they didn't.

The rightwing having a 1000-page guide to their overthrow of the country is what I would call the most important event of this year on US soil.

Do you want to only be told about the climate change rejection and not the other plans? That's what's fucked up.

Goodbye Youtube and thanks for all the fish (infosec.pub)

Youtube let the other shoe drop in their end-stage enshittification this week. Last month, they required you to turn on Youtube History to view the feed of youtube videos recommendations. That seems reasonable, so I did it. But I delete my history every 1 week instead of every 3 months. So they don’t get much from my choices....

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What if an intergalactic porch pirate got to it first and it's just an empty box?

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My dude, you are extremely passionate about this topic. Also, as a mod, you are content arbiter of your sub. Chasing people onto other subs and then claiming they're harassing you is where this fails. It works conversely as well. Many a sub has been started by disgruntled members who left another sub.

Getting someone in trouble for lying on a social media app is going to be harder than you think. News sources get approached by all kinds of people claiming to have news. That avenue is not going to work.

I am not a lawyer, but you should seek out a lawyer to determine if you have a legal leg to stand on here. Does this guy have a lot of money? If so, he may come after you if he has a legal leg to stand on.

My real advice is to protect your sub. Stop there. I couldn't stop neo-Nazis from spreading lies on reddit, and you're not going to be able to control some air purifier salesman. Just keep them away from your sub, and let it go.

By the way, this magazine you're posting on is full of a bunch of people who have left reddit. Coming here to complain about things happening to you on reddit is not going to get you a lot of sympathy.

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First, you prove down to the penny that you're not just saying that while you profit more.

You think you can just keep pulling the same shit?

[Opinion] Trump's plans to become a dictator: It's time to get real about Project 2025 - Chauncey DeVega - Salon (www.salon.com)

Donald Trump is a dictator in waiting. Like other dictators, he is threatening to put his "enemies" in prison – and to do even worse things to them. These are not idle threats or empty acts of ideation: Donald Trump is a violent man who is a proven enemy of democracy and freedom....

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You need to read about Project 2025. The coup attempt is not over, and now the Heritage Foundation is organizing Coup II.

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Speaking of Korea, about 15 years ago a South Korean man went to Amsterdam and blogged about smoking pot there.

He was arrested upon his return and imprisoned because South Koreans are bound by South Korean laws no matter where they are in the world.

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I could say job-related things or my hobbies, but Ima go with Google-fu. Maybe just search engine fu.

I know way too many 'first page people' when it comes to results. No fuckin' way. Learn how to dig. Do not take no for an answer from a search engine without trying a range of strategies to find what you're looking for.

OK, I'm lying. This is part of my job. I teach academic research, and I hear these people with two sources tell me there aren't enough sources for them to do a research paper on a given topic or that all these peer-reviewed journal articles say the same thing.

But it does extend into non-academic life. I was out of town, my older brother needed a U-Haul, drove 40 minutes to a place he knew, but there was a U-Haul less than 10 minutes away that he couldn't find.

I'm surrounded by this.

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No pronouns!

Pronoun make Gargleblaster angry!

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That's probably true.

But you have to spend at least a little time with someone to judge their behavior.

The problem is that people are pre-judged based on their race, gender identity, sexual orientation, religious beliefs or lack thereof, nation of origin, first language, and a boatload of other things purely based on these factors without any personal contact or observation of their behavior.

Hence the word prejudice.

Likewise, people take the misbehavior of one or a small group and and apply it to everyone with the same characteristic.

Hence prejudice and stereotyping.

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Why? Because Trump and his lawyers want to create a media circus around the trial, which would also potentially allow them to influence jurors. They are not under oath in the media and can spin things however they want. This makes clear why we're not going to be playing that game.

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What kind of tabloid garbage source is this?

The Reddit Protest Is Finally Over. Reddit Won. (gizmodo.com)

The last major holdouts in the protest against Reddit’s API pricing relented, abandoning the so-called “John Oliver rules” which only allowed posts featuring the TV host. The article describes it as "the official end of the battle," which seems an overstatement to me, but it's the certainly the end of the initial phase....

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The media has declared reddit the winner multiple times since the protest started.

Fuck the media. There are still 1800+ restricted subreddits.

https://reddark.untone.uk

Who won? Anybody who realized that reddit was commodifying your posts, comments, and contributions and left that shitshack.

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In the US, we colloquially 'go to college'. College refers to higher education in general.

Then, in more academic terms, A university is a larger place of higher ed made up of schools and colleges. You also have liberal arts colleges that do not have these colleges/schools. We also have two-year community colleges that may be more similar to vocational schools or FE colleges in the UK.

Then we get to the level of fun: Boston College is actually a university. :-)

Source: I lived overseas and told people I attended _____ College, which caused them to cross-examine me about whether I have a 4-year degree because in their country people go to university/uni and college is something else. Different places, different terminology.

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Guild Wars 1

Having a character of one main class and a secondary class that could be switched at any time between any of the 9 classes.

8-slot skillbar with one heroic skill that could only come from your main class.

400+ total skills in the game.

Plenty of room for you to make your own homebrew builds, and some classic builds that were outside the box:

The assassin that used a staff (assacaster), the ranger that used necro skills to touch people to death (touch ranger), and the 55 monk, which had almost no hp but so much healing it was hard to kill.

It will always be my MMORPG because of the character design.

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Threads, where you can live in a pretend simulation that your ass isn't owned by Captain Facebook.

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Dragon's Lair, when you look back on it, was a corporate grab in the arcade world. Disney-level graphics when all the other games were 8-bit, and the worst gameplay ever in an arcade game...because it was made by someone who'd never set foot in an arcade.

The only competition it has for worst came later when that hologram game came later where you're a cowboy shooting...Native Americans. Another turd that was all graphics and nothing else.

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This smells like a rightwing double-headfake shit shot. Newsweek is owned by a conservative, and Congress adds seats, not Biden.

The Constitution does not stipulate the number of Supreme Court Justices; the number is set instead by Congress.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-white-house/our-government/the-judicial-branch/

The intent here is to make you disappointed in Biden. It's a trick as we head into campaign season.

Good luck having congress add seats to supreme court while it's divided.

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True patriots respect fellow countrymen without bias against race, gender and/or sexual orientation.

True patriots respect women's rights to make decisions about their own bodies.

True patriots support education.

True patriots support reading, books, and libraries.

True patriots recognize people's right to choose their religion even if it means not having one.

True patriots know that it's patriotic to criticize your country.

True patriots do not marry child brides.

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Now that I've been here a couple of weeks, kbin.social is chock full of recent reddit immigrants saying we need this, this, and this. Are these people going to do the programming? Nope.

We need to focus on posting, responding and communicating so that this place has more content.

People who will remain at an exploitative corporate website to avoid the inconvenience are not people I'm interested in trying to sell the fediverse to.

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Spez MuskTrump

If he didn't say anything, this might very well have blown over.

Instead he's inciting people to leave.

Huffman, also a Reddit co-founder, said he plans to pursue changes to Reddit’s moderator removal policy to allow ordinary users to vote moderators out more easily if their decisions aren’t popular.

We'll see how that goes. I can hear the foundry churning out the AI bots to outnumber the human users.

He said the new system would be more democratic and allow a wider set of people to hold moderators accountable.

Yeah right.

Putting out the fire with gasoline.

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That's the thing. His website isn't great because of him. It was great in spite of him.

I hope hope hope this pushes people who were on the fence off of that platform.

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