I remember reading about digital warfare and how the character of different weaponry can be stabilising or destabilising.

So the example given was nuclear weapons. The consequences of using them are so disastrous that there is no good use case, and so they tend to be stabilising. They discourage use.

Digital warfare is destabilising, because it’s very easy to do and very hard to catch, so you’re better off using it, even without any declared war.

Information warfare is probably very similar, it encourages use, but that’s because it’s very low-stakes. It wouldn’t be very exciting. I imagine it’d make a better comedy than a drama.

Glad to hear it!

Oh but I bet that other person is 14 then. That’s obviously the substance of my critique, you win.

Translation: “I have no way of arguing with this obvious and simply stated fact, so I’ll pretend they’re 14 and think it’s deep and then attack them for that. I’m 28 and this is a worthwhile use of my time.”

It is entertaining.

Holy shit, what an opener, and then the second paragraph is the perfect punchline. I think the wiki editors knew exactly what they were doing.

In one of the original XMen trilogy BTS he acknowledged that he was playing against type. He said he would start his day shooting in the Canadian winter with a cold shower, because it set him on edge and gave him the intensity and low-level anger he needed to play the part. Definitely worth checking out those movies if you liked him here.

You know, I like to think of participating in the fediverse as being part of the construction of what internet culture will become.

It’s literally a chance to be on the ground floor of the next iteration of the internet. Maybe you’ll make something that lasts.

Yes, you don’t get to sit back and passively consume vast swathes of content, but maybe that’s good for your creative process.

I have noticed that a lot of the most irritating and vocal reactionaries come from those two instances, and it’s not improving much. It makes sense - this is an alternative to reddit and the people most likely to leave reddit will include a large number of people who get banned a lot.

If they’re reactionaries, they’re not going to have many instances that are for them specifically - because those instances get defedded - so they will tend to go for the open instances. So those instances get a lot of the worst people.

And if their goal is growth at the expense of quality, then they won’t fix it. They’ll just get worse. The reasons beehaw defederated haven’t changed.

Reminds me of the tyre store that spreads tacks on the road 100m away from their store in the oncoming lanes.

People get a flat, and oh what do you know! A tyre store! What a lucky coincidence.

I asked this question ages ago and it was pointed out that “sub” isn’t a reddit specific term. It’s been short for “subforum” since the first BBSes, so it’s basically a ubiquitous internet term.

“Sub” works because everybody already knows what you mean and it’s the word you intuitively reach for.

You can call them “communities” if you want, but it’s longer and can’t easily be shortened.

I just call them subs now.

Yup, no worries, i just appreciate the way he does things and wanted to share the info :)

Just fyi, Randall who makes xkcd has a very permissive approach and offers hotlinks on the site for easy embedding. I think he prefers that you hotlink rather than reupload.

I keep seeing people talk about Rust, and to be honest I never thought much about it because I’ve never had a reason to use it.

But when so many people in a programmer meme sub are saying “actually no joke Rust is amazing” that makes me pay attention.

So I looked into it and found this: https://github.blog/2023-08-30-why-rust-is-the-most-admired-language-among-developers/

“de_ml” implies pushing against ml

So you can understand then why posts about the crimes of British and US imperialism are off-topic there, right?

Like, I don’t expect much here, but you’ve given me this little hint that you could in theory understand if you wanted to. I don’t think you do though, do you?

You said they pinned “fuck tankies” to the sub. (Not an instance btw)

You know the sub is called “de_ml”

You obviously know what it’s about, that’s part of your point, that it’s an anti-tankie sub. But then you want to have it both ways.

Who are you trying to fool?

Holy shit, you’re still pretending you’re not a tankie. Not a tankie, but you chose the name volodya ilich, which is a deep cut about Lenin’s childhood nickname.

And you’re still pretending you don’t understand what was wrong with your posts. Who are you saying this for? Do you actually think anyone believes you? Is this an elaborate troll? I wish I knew but this is beyond parody. If you are doing parody: you didn’t make it obvious enough. I’m so sorry.

Now you’re conflating tankies with anticapitalism in general, another classic tankie trope. You don’t have a monopoly on the concept, although you love to pretend you do because the only way your ideas could have any legitimacy is if it is literally a binary choice between neoliberal capitalism and what amounts to state capitalism. Just like in your mind it’s a binary choice between US imperialism and red imperialism.

No thanks, I’ll take my actual anticapitalism and anti-imperialism instead of a red flag any day.

You don’t seem to have much self-awareness about this, so I’ll just repeat it: you are not convincing anyone. Let it go. Take the L. I’m sure any attempt to rebutt this will just be you showing your butt all over again. I doubt you’ll listen to this because myopic, tone-deaf self-righteousness seems to be another tankie trait, but at least I tried.

Okay, that’s not how this works, but you seem to be incapable of following the most basic line of reasoning. This wasn’t you defending an argument, it was you mentally shitting the bed. I think I’m done here. Have a great life. Or I guess have a shitty life, since your generation has it objectively worse than everyone else.

They were the most upvoted posts in the community, so no, they weren’t disagreed at all.

I just want to point out that you have said in another comment that they were the first posts, so it’s not exactly surprising that they were the most upvoted at least at one point in time.

Beyond that this is such transparent concern trolling and your posts were so obviously off topic, and your attempts to feign ignorance so woefully unconvincing that they don’t even bear responses. Anyone who thinks this is a scandal is already a tankie like you, volodya ilich, meaning they can’t see this for the transparent bullshit that it is. That kind of credulity is a requirement for becoming a tankie in the first place.

I cannot imagine anybody being convinced by this.