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Cake day: July 9th, 2023

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  • Just look at my downranks, all anti-anarchist downranks.

    You can tell yourself that, but I just did as you asked and looked at your downranks, all 17 days’ worth, and anarchism is decidedly not the common thread.

    It is your giddily oblivious toxicity, including smug chauvinism, seething misanthropy, aggressive contrarianism, bitter cynicism, and obvious preference for unidimensional, hate-driven, reactionary “hot takes” aimed at picking fights with (“debating”), insulting, and talking over other users.

    That such toxicity attracts downvotes should be no surprise.



  • and nobody will do anything to stop it

    Many are trying, though options are severely limited by the fact that, two years ago, the entire US government was gift-wrapped and handed to fascists by a bunch of democrats who figured “why bother?”

    I don’t know who they’ll run, but I know they’ll be worthless

    It sounds like you think there won’t be presidential primaries. Or perhaps you think you aren’t allowed to vote in them? You are. And what’s more, since participation is quite low historically your vote likely has quite a bit more influence in the primary than in the general election.






  • Personally, I am 100% grateful for this correction, because I didn’t know and since I’ve heard the less accurate ragebait version dozens of times at this point I would have been confused, next time I have to spin up a Win11 image, why I couldn’t replicate the spike I’ve heard so much about. The fact that it’s tied to a particular UI component, one of many that machine provisioning scripts and playbooks commonly disable, means it would have remained a bothersome unresolved mystery to me forever if not for your comment. So thanks.



  • Never understood the light switch and outlet cover paint-over, because those are easily removable. They complicate surface geometry such that you save little to no time by painting over them, in the present, yet increase fire hazard and ensure every related service request is more expensive and guaranteed to damage the wall, in the future.


  • I remember when I started encountering somewhat younger adults verbally spell out chat acronyms like “lmao” and “rofl.” I thought it was hilarious, but eventually realized there had been a social shift. Interactions had become online-first, and for some younger people that was basically all of it, and I wasn’t sure how I felt about that.


  • Pretty common. Experimentally, it seems the implicit formula many use for IM is something like

    Fewer than K words + a period = probability P(deliberately curt) = 50%, where K is at least 5, and P increases logarithmically as K approaches 1.

    Which is how, to someone using this formula internally, “Great.” can denote exasperation, “Thanks.” can imply strained manners, and so forth 🤷


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    At a guess: US is compared to older/better-known authoritarian nation whose foot-soldiers are likened to American corp. media promoting “dear leader” red-state hero worship. But recent popularity of a sexy socialist political party has caused confusion in the ranks due to how unsexy the old red-state MAGA brand is right now by comparison.

    Edit: analogy might be more clear if supreme leader portrait was re-labeled MAGA/Trumpism, GOP/Conservatives, or (really on-the-nose) Trump’s Agenda.





  • You are an incredibly patient and polite person. I doubt I’d make it past the first failed attempt. If he kept up with the patriots after that I’d suggest we “discuss it some other time,” or even walk to a nearby section with “brb.” Either way, I’d never make it to 45 minutes and multiple failures with my blood pressure intact.