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I suppose Biden could have him officially assassinated. That’s legal now.

Yup. Fortunately unsubscribing from politics subreddits is generally advisable whether one has been banned from them or not.

Being slightly wrong means more of an endorphin rush when people realize they can pounce on the flaw they’ve spotted, I guess.

Don’t sweat downvotes, they’re especially meaningless on the Fediverse. I happen to like a number of applications for AI technology and cryptocurrency, so I’ve certainly collected quite a few of those and I’m still doing okay. :)

There was a politics subreddit I was on that had a “downvoting is not allowed” rule. There’s literally no way to tell who’s downvoting on Reddit, or even if downvoting is happening if it’s not enough to go below 0 or trigger the “controversial” indicator.

I got permabanned from that subreddit when someone who’d said something offensive asked “why am I being downvoted???” And I tried to explain to them why that was the case. No trial, one million years dungeon, all modmail ignored. I guess they don’t get to enforce that rule often and so leapt at the opportunity to find an excuse.

Downvotes for not getting it right, I presume.

Which makes me concerned that the “Hole for Pepnis” answer has so many upvotes.

Those holes look open to me.

To be fair, his campaign was already on the rocks at that point. It wasn’t the scream alone that did him in.

There’s also a simple toggle to turn Rewind off in the settings menu.

People are really going bonkers over Rewind, it’s almost a sort of mass hysteria at this point. Yes, it appears to be a very insecure and risky feature at this point. So just turn it off. There’s lots of features in any OS that you can set up in ways that will make your system insecure, this is just a particular one of those. Microsoft isn’t going to force it to be enabled, the ensuing legal shitstorm would be epic. I doubt they’ll roll it out to a large audience in its current state.

Obviously it’s not gonna sway anyone who’s gonna vote for him

That’s not true. You’re likely exposed to a very biased sample, there are a lot of people who simply don’t pay close attention to politics most of the time and may just now be getting the rude awakening that Trump really is a fraud. There are people who really will hold their vote over the candidate being a literal felon, and being in prison would hammer that home even more strongly.

And let’s not pretend that the US isn’t a two-party system.

Don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good. Your choices are Trump or Biden.

If you want a music artist that is guaranteed to not come out in support of some political view, you should probably pick a dead one.

Alternately, you could sign up to udio.com or suno.com and generate some of your own. Since it’s an AI making the music you can be sure it holds no opinions.

It’s a cycle. Some of the other current “suddenly popular but as a result doomed” words I’m seeing lately are “grift”, “slop”, and the suffix “-bro.” They’ll likely fade away again once they become ubiquitous and some other new shiny word appears to glom onto.

People find a shiny new word that sounds clever. They start using it so that they sound clever too. They like sounding clever, so they use it a lot. They start using it for things that it doesn’t actually mean, until it loses all meaning other than the most generic “I don’t like that.” The word becomes enshittified and people eventually stop using it.

Needing a substitute, people find a new word…

So the aid bill passed. Guess that means we’re in WW3 now, then?

Or maybe that was just yet more empty rhetoric?

It’s tongue in cheek, but I rather like this one.

Could we throw some folding chairs into the ring with them, at least?

Is it really a problem, though?

It’s both capable and willing, the problem is that not everyone agrees with the solutions being used. And so they say “we’re doing it wrong” instead of “I think we’re doing it wrong.”

Ah, that only happens right after launch when they’re still bunched together. Once the satellites get into their final orbit they spread out. The newer models also have anti-reflection systems that make them much harder to spot, SpaceX has been working with astronomers on that.

Low Earth orbit has been heavily commercialized for decades already. If you mean Starlink specifically, what’s wrong with it?