I was aware of the treaty and its role in circumventing the democratic process, but was not aware that the anti-cirvumvention bullshit was part of it.

“Safer” in this context meaning “a safer bet for the bank’s ability to reliably undermine your control of your device”.

So far, AFAIK, the “must use app to bank” problem is happening only outside the US where the DMCA doesn’t apply.

I’m clicking this because I don’t believe you and want to listen to the song.

Very popular this time of year.

My city’s public pools close at the beginning of August for some stupid-ass reason.

Personally I actually think class has more to do with it than sexism in general. For example the first professional woman to play golf in slacks was in 1933, while the first black professional golfer was allowed in the PGA in 1967.

It’s weird that you keep saying only “class” when you mean both class and race. Yes, they’re correlated, but they’re not the same and both really are at play here.

I was thinking more in terms of replying to the comments within threads, rather than the posts themselves. But yeah, I guess you’ve got a point that the number of comments under a post might influence its position in some types of feeds.

To be clear, I’m writing from a Lemmy/Reddit/Slashdot perspective. Maybe on Mastodon/Twitter (or, dog forbid, Facebook) it’s different, but I wouldn’t know because I’ve never used that shit.

Emojis are modern-day hieroglyphs.

The point is not to change the troll’s opinion; the point is to discredit them in front of whoever else may be reading the thread.

Also, the other action other than blocking them is reporting them and having a mod or admin remove them for everybody at once.

Both of those are better options than individually blocking.

Blocking doesn’t stop them from propagandizing others.

Fixed the meme:

Or at least, publicly claiming to have done that and selling it to a jury as plausible, even if the actual thing that tipped them off was something else secret and inadmissible.

Detection of AI is based on a list. Not some form of intelligent keyword matching algorithm.

“You said you wanted no AI, so we gave you no AI!”

And more importantly, it’s the same thing as OS X. They shouldn’t be separate lines.

There are also “speed tables” that are even longer and are flat-topped with sloped sides, along with “raised intersections” which are speed tables that take up the entire intersection space.

These days they’re just as likely to hang up on you instead of transferring you to a human.

Yeah, I always felt like I was either pointlessly restating the obvious or it expected me to derive the damn thing from first principles.

Home Depot and Lowes have Halloween decorations in already, but that’s almost kind of reasonable. Ish.

Having Christmas stuff in August is just absurd, unless it’s one of those dedicated Christmas stores that’s open year-round for some reason. (Do those still exist? The only two I knew of near me either went out of business or became online-only years ago.)

That user has a distinctly combative tone in general.