I don’t believe in free will, so when I see someone act this way, I don’t even really blame them. I don’t see it as a conscious decision, but more as a behavior they’re helplessly repeating. And people rarely change that kind of behavior unless the motivation comes from within - not from outside pressure.

That’s an interesting angle. But without free will, wouldn’t it be that they could never change the behavior unless it was already preordained?

Raises hand

Honestly it’s easy to get that definition of DEI when it is poorly explained and/or poorly understood.

Plenty of people particularly on the right believe all the explanatory reasoning behind DEI is thinly-veiled “reverse racism”.

That’s fine but it’s disingenuous to say one has no idea what the OP is talking about.

I dunno if I would consider “user error” as a security flaw in the software.

Yeah but those people have been buying fluoride-free the whole time.

Seems like it would be the opposite. It’s not like the government is buying the toothpaste, and sane people are going to be needing proper toothpaste to compensate for the lack of fluoride in their water.

It is possible to get fluoride-free toothpaste but it’s a bit of a niche/specialty item.

That sounds like it would cost 5¢ more to manufacture and install. Won’t someone think of the shareholders?

We are currently clean on OPSEC

holy shit, the IRONY!

They are compromised, it doesn’t even matter if the software on their phones is too.

Yes, what of it? Technically signal is fine from a security/leakage angle. Obviously not from a “govt communications” / public records angle, but there neither is direct verbal comms.

“Algorithmic steering” is okay as long as the algorithm is relatively straightforward, public, and well-understood.

The problem is when the corpos tweak it to suit their mass-market advertisers.

Awesome. That seems like the way to go then!

Are there good alternatives?

I feel like forums really fell behind the times, with shitty threading systems and awkward text formatting interfaces and the horror that is bbcode.

Meanwhile discord handles image embedding gracefully, with markdown formatting and previews.

What’s the next-gen forum system that’s keeping up with modern times? Is there a part of the fediverse that meets this?

Discourse seems the most modern, but not sure if it is open, let alone federated.

Lemmy almost fills it but tends to be too ephemeral and doesn’t handle multiple forums/channels for one broad topic.

I used to bullseye womp rats in my T-16 back home, they’re not much bigger than 2 meters.

Ugh…

Yes, kind of. Problem is that from the right-wing pov “undeserving” is a euphemism, almost a dog-whistle for “brown” or in reality closer to “low on their made-up hierarchy”

Right-wing POV: Why are they undeserving? Because they’re not white. Why do we feel that non-whites are undeserving? Racism. Why do we care about who deserves what? Hierarchy/“god’s plan” which put us on top and them on the bottom.

You start out in 1954 by saying, “removed, removed, removed.” By 1968 you can’t say “removed”—that hurts you, backfires. So you say stuff like, uh, forced busing, states’ rights, and all that stuff, and you’re getting so abstract. Now, you’re talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you’re talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is, blacks get hurt worse than whites.… “We want to cut this,” is much more abstract than even the busing thing, uh, and a hell of a lot more abstract than “removed, removed.”

Or brown.

Does sublime retain contents across restarts like notedpad++?

Depends on the app, it’s not a “windows” thing.