Laurel Raven

Oh wow, I think I hate that… Condition between the results? Yuck.

Because different servers would have different rules and moderators so if one becomes toxic like that you could block the instance and stick to ones that are actually helpful

Gotta love finding the exact issue you’re having being asked, and closed as duplicate, and what they say it’s a duplicate of isn’t even the same issue and doesn’t apply to you…

One thing I really dislike about Python is the double underscore thing, just really looks ugly to me and feels excessive. Just give me my flow control characters that aren’t whitespace

Cloud, blockchain, now AI… They’re all good for some things but I swear the execs making decisions subscribe to my Aunt Fran’s philosophy with cheese: if a little is good, way too much must be even better!

Not hot and trending, they’ve been calling gay people that for a long time

No, but most of us would be sceptical of how he’ll implement it, if it ever comes to pass at all… He’s announced a number of things I’ve actually agreed with and I can’t think of a single time he’s not found some way to fuck it up

I’m all in favor of this, though he’ll find some way to fuck it up, if it happens at all and isn’t just a way to siphon money out of the government for his buddies

Sysadmins too

Not to mention the power requirements for transferring funds digitally

Was going to say this exactly

Mid second quarter even

The fact that it’s in retaliation for her speaking out about human rights violations, when they have a clear policy against retaliating against employees who speak out about human rights violations

What are you talking about? Law absolutely can specify that something is allowed.

You’re welcome to believe that was permission, I can’t stop you

😜

I’ve not run into that either, but YouTube doesn’t show me ads, fortunately

It’s definitely a dark pattern

You’re welcome to continue believing that, I can’t stop you

Thanks for that downvote, I’ll hang it on the wall with the others you’ve given me

The part where it doesn’t happen, but even with people moving in front of you, you’re still in control of your following distance and speed. If they move in front of me, so what? They’ll be at the following distance I’m maintaining because they’re continuing to move faster.

And even then I’m probably still at or above the speed limit.

So, not only would someone have to cut in front of me, they would then have to match my speed, and then progressively slow down more than me to keep me at an unsafe following distance, and eventually we’ll be stopped on the freeway.

But if the driver keeps going, then I’m still where I need to be.

(Note: I still have no problem doing this while maintaining the speed of the general traffic around me)

I’ve heard your arguments about people cutting in front of you, many, many times, and to this day, having driven in many different locations in many different types of traffic, I’ve yet to have that happen when doing the things I’m talking about. So you can go on saying how it’s not possible and I’ll go on doing exactly what you think isn’t possible anyway, without issue.

(Btw, my adaptive cruise maintains an even longer following distance at its max setting than I do, and even using that I’ve not had people do what you’ve said)

At this point in time, the term “enshittification” gets broadly applied to things being made progressively shittier, which is exactly what the term sounds like it says. Feel free to downvote me for saying that, but it’s how people are using it, and it fits. No part of that word suggests anything about it being specifically about online products and services, so I don’t really get the hostility towards people using it outside of that.