You’re not going to hurt my feelings by using words improperly lol

We’re talking about astroturfing, so yes it is quite literally the difference.

You’re not guaranteed a place where your opinions are the only ones expressed, ever in life.

TikTok is significantly larger and more worth it then lemmy

I do in fact disagree with you, yes. I am not, however, paid for it

Assuming it is picked up and dropped, the fediverse is completely unchanged. That’s my point.

User adoption here is also “basically zero.”

Lemmy is a rounding error in population versus larger sites. It’s a walled garden.

You cannot weaken the fediverse more than the near-total lack of adoption that already exists.

Tell that to the astroturfers simping for FB/Threads…

No one is astroturfing lemmy. People who disagree with you are not paid actors. They just disagree with you.

Right. The really early oughts, when trolling was still a real thing, were so radically different that it’s hard to explain to people these days

Hell way back in the day, 4chan was one of my go-to websites, before the joking and trolling on /b/ really wasn’t joking and trolling any more.

It’s pretty standard 4chan-NEET fare, for anyone who is wondering. Racism, homophobia, xenophobia, trad wives, and quasi-pro-nazi shit.

Not worth your time to check out. Small community of sad nerds.

IDDQD is a cheat for the original Doom, as a random fun-fact. God mode, iirc.

I’ve seen fewer and fewer commies and more people making fun of commies, so it seems like it’s headed the right direction

Specifically, this is from the launch of Shadows of Luclin (3rd full expansion), and showcases the new “Luclin Models” that are still used on Live today, 20 more expansions later.

Obligatory, “Fuck the great timesink in the sky” for SoL. At least it had some cool raids, gated behind all those timesinks.

I’d be willing to bet on the latter point there. Laserdiscs are similarly dead technology. Niche collectors may enjoy them, but they will not be catered to for the average consumer.

I appreciate it.

The problem you describe for Voter ID does not exist. I mean that literally - people who attempt that already get caught. Voter ID laws do demonstrably create a hurdle for certain people who should be eligible to vote to actually do so - they do this by design, because the State could absolutely just mail voter ID cards for free to every registered voter, or allow some 2FA method of voting remotely (as with mail-in ballots) which from context I am already fairly certain you do not support.

Similarly, your take on porn is trying to solve a problem that does not exist. Parental controls are more than capable. I didn’t use them with my teen because I didn’t feel the need to. She has a very healthy understanding of and sense of responsibility toward sex. We are extremely open about sex in my house. I do not, and don’t think any parent would, support strangers coming into my home to dictate what is a healthy sexual attitude for my child.

I am not a leftist, and currently have several leftists yelling at me for correcting their poor assumptions and understanding of how the world works. Not sure why you keep bringing up leftists.

I find it odd that you suggest that I am somehow stupid, and you smart, when I was able to read and parse the ruling and you were not.

I also explained to you why that question you asked seems disingenuous, including referencing the judgment.

This law was not about preventing children from seeing pornography. It was about effectively banning pornography on the state. Same reason voter ID isn’t about limiting voter fraud, but about putting hurdles in the way of people who would otherwise vote against the party that supports voter ID.

Only one of us is being stupid here, and it isn’t the person that is here explaining the judgment.

This is a solvable problem. You can just not log in.

Not sure why you hate people for explaining a judgment to you that you clearly did not read.

No, because in practice that isn’t a thing that regularly happens, and as the tech continues to die out it will be less and less possible.

Most people do not own and cannot use a soldering iron.

If you can add it to a phone that doesn’t have it already, I’m not sure what the problem is, in your view.