Even if ACAB, once the roommate knows they are an accessory after the fact. Dude was 100% going to be caught so the roommate has to choose between going to prison and $100k. Even without the money, that’s a no-brainier.

Mate, I don’t really care. I responded with the idea that you were frustrated in good faith and just struggling with a bout of well-intentioned 'tism. I’ve been there before so I could relate.

Also, welcome to the internet has been cringe for over twenty years, and I’ve been here since social media was alt.rec.your.mom.

Of course you got accused for defending Kirk because there is no fathomable point to your post other than being disagreeable. The qualitative difference between what was said and your correction is nil. You knew what would happen, your preemptive protestations did nothing but make it clear you knew what you were doing and chose violence. But somehow “Lemmy” is the problem and not your comment.

Well, have it your way. I’m moving on.

There is no actual difference between “Black women” and “You [black women]”. Anyone who feels it is arguable isn’t worth the effort to engage them because they aren’t coming at the conversation from a place of good faith anyway.

Not me, then. Cool. Thanks for letting me know.

I can’t know why you were downvoted. I generally don’t downvote and didn’t in this case. But were I to speculate…

You pointed out a distinction without a difference. And the way you defended yourself preemptively makes you sound like you knew very well you were being pedantic and what the result would be. It doesn’t contribute anything of value to the conversation and leaves one with the impression you disagree it was outrageous to fire her — else why issue a meaningless “correction”?

I don’t know why you did that, but I strongly suspect your downvotes are related to that thought-process.

Here’s the thing: they aren’t asking for a reversal of the policy, they just want a fix to the problem. A solution that the criminal-industrial slave complex can provide…

I’d like to see how sharing someone’s own public words is disparaging their memory. Isn’t that how he’d want to be remembered? Did he recant those words? Because if it is wrong to quote him, that implies those words shame his memory. But then why is it shameful to quote him, but not to speak the words in the first place?

"Could it be? Could the greedy capitalists not have my best interests at heart?

No. It’s me who is wrong."

Prices aren’t going up because people are just starving and going homeless instead of buying.

Poor people hate this one weird trick!

I don’t think the two cross, really. A vibe coder asks for a bunch of features and then starts refining the output, fixing bugs and adding features. A developer knows the specific architecture and from years of writing tasks knows how to break work into manageable chunks and uses AI to implement something they have already defined and know where it fits in. The skill to write a good story isn’t far off from writing a good prompt.

I use AI all the time, and every time I hear someone describing vibe coding it makes my skin crawl.

It is a coordinated effort. There’s a whole website dedicated to it. Something like charliesmurderers.com and it’s not the only one. The hypocrisy of demanding we be held to standards they don’t hold to is… not even a tiny bit surprising or shocking since they’ve been doing it for so long. The whole in group/out group thing is very relevant here.

We aren’t headed anywhere good. If Dems don’t take the midterms, this American experiment is probably over. We are following a classic path and I only know of examples where it has gone to shit, none where crisis was averted, but history is biased towards the things that happened, not the things that almost happened. Cuban missile crisis is the only counter-example that comes to mind.

It doesn’t matter. They are a niche voting block too small to have swayed the election. Stop acting like they are politically relevant enough to be worth poking and just let them be. We gain nothing by pointing fingers at each other when the real villains are right there.

“NatC” is generally considered sufficient.

Yeah, neither have killed Twitter or displaced it enough to affect real change, but they are nice despite — or perhaps because of — being smaller. Like Lemmy, in fact. I don’t know if being here hurts Reddit. I hope so. But more importantly I like it better in these places even if it fails to disrupt the fortunes of greedy assholes.

But the next time something happens to disrupt Twitter or Reddit, alternatives are available and will attracts few more people away. Over time… who knows. Maybe some real change will happen by accident.

I haven’t been on mast for a bit. Custom feeds can do things like give you the posts of your quieter folks, see only posts (not so useful if you could just select certain people to only see self-posts, but useful now), I can get a feed of what’s popular with my friends. Those are examples from my own, but there are tons of custom feeds.

Oh I forgot you can do things like a classifier and labeled, so I can choose to identify myself as a developer and see if someone else labels themselves similarly. There are a bunch of other labelers.

I am aware of the potential issues with subscribed blocklists, but I use a few anyway, and it saves me from doing a lot of blocking myself. It’s not perfect because it is abuseable , but I like having the choice to use it.

Custom feeds, subscribed blocklists, blocking/muting keywords for a period of time. Basically the moderation controls. My mental health is better when I can just turn off certain topics for a bit without abandoning them altogether.

If I remember right, mast has a feature where you can follow someone but only their self posts and not reposts. There are accounts that are repost machines and I don’t want to follow someone if I’m not getting to hear their own thoughts in their own words. I wish Bluesky had that.

I like Bluesky and I’m currently on hiatus from Mastodon, but when you say “too little, too late” it may be that Bluesky beat them there, but at the end of the day Bluesky is still Big Tech bullshit. It is a matter of when, not if, it will be enshittified and we need a replacement.

Bluesky is a breath of fresh air and I like the community and features there. And twenty years ago Google was the awesome upstart punching Microsoft in the balls, and yet here we are today.

This is not good methodology. Like, I don’t hate AI or anything, but this is just a stupid thing to waste time on doing, reporting, and reading. Holy fuck are people grossly ignorant when it comes to AI.

I don’t know if this is planned or sheer incompetence and playing telephone.

But what I do know is, if it is planned, then either:

1. They care mostly about the immediate reaction to the news — trying to stoke the fire of stochastic violence. If the truth comes out in a few days, that’s outside the window they are hoping to create a reaction within.
2. Or maybe they expect the truth, being a non-event, will not be reported by the same outlets that spread the rumors. They outlets will simply drop it and not report on it any more, but the audience will be left with the idea that the kid was a secret trans activist.

It suggests that not nearly enough people think to themselves, upon reading it, “How the fuck do you fit all of that on a fucking bullet? Bullshit.”