OpenStars

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[–] OpenStars@startrek.website 2 points 6 months ago

You are talking about user-level blocking, whereas iirc defederation is an instance-level blocking that also stops user comments too, as well as votes.

[–] OpenStars@startrek.website 3 points 6 months ago

The “election” is perpetual. People will vote with their participation.

As it should always be.

[–] OpenStars@startrek.website 21 points 6 months ago

Why is "Threats" in double-quotes? The fact that they are "threats" is not in question - these are not "alleged threats"?

I see that it comes from the article, but that only pushes back my question as to why the article does that. It also puts "hard right" and "all-out" (and "holy war" and "race war" and "dangerous" and "evil" and "demonic" etc.) in quotes too, which should not be, but those at least are all more discretionary, whereas putting "threats" in quotes like that calls into question their validity.

[–] OpenStars@startrek.website 29 points 6 months ago

He can love his son and also democracy and justice too - i.e. allow his son to go to what will surely be like a resort vacation spa that they will call "prison" (not bc he's special, just bc he's rich).

[–] OpenStars@startrek.website 0 points 7 months ago

Yeah, I take them as conclusions, summaries, wrap-ups, basically like "Goodbye" or "Well, I'll be seeing you", "It was nice talking to you", "Welp, time to get back to work", maybe something more personal like "I'll see you in an hour at lunch".

The decision may have already been made to stop / pause for now, but the former (OP) statements themselves do not cause that anymore than the ones I mentioned here.

short circuit cognitive dissonance…

Omg I'm literally dying here - except you know what, I'm actually not? I'm saying that it seems overly dramatic language to me. Like someone who heard those words somewhere and thought they sounded cool, without knowing what they even mean...:-P 😎

Though tbf they probably could be used for that purpose sometimes too, yet that doesn't mean that is what they are "meant for"?

Maybe I'm just too old to get it.

[–] OpenStars@startrek.website 10 points 7 months ago

Seems fishy

Not anymore...

[–] OpenStars@startrek.website 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

There are so many things pointing towards ditching QWERTY - WFH jobs, mobile devices, portable keyboards, even virtual projected keyboards rather than physical ones.

On the other hand, laptops are a bottleneck - even if nobody else uses your personal one but you, they still have to make one with a nonstandard layout (will e.g. Apple ever do that?) - and just bc newer, younger people learning how to use computers for the first time could choose a different layout, doesn't mean that many will (I mean at the mainstream level).

[–] OpenStars@startrek.website 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I wonder where they went?

[–] OpenStars@startrek.website 5 points 7 months ago

His words earlier that day:

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[–] OpenStars@startrek.website 1 points 7 months ago

Beauty != Taste

[–] OpenStars@startrek.website 4 points 7 months ago

Someone writing a wall of text when it is not asked for or appreciated may be being insensitive to their audience. On the other hand, I've literally had people ask for it and then someone else steps in to complain, so definitely there are Karens who feel entitled to whinge no matter what you do. Just settle in your own mind whether you are doing the right thing, and let being correct remain your guide as to what to do.

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