To clarify why lemmy.ml is one of the first results: it was the first Lemmy instance. It’s only the second most populated instance, but I imagine the relative age of the site (5 years, as opposed to lemmy.world’s 1 year) has something to do with it.

It also sucks that join-lemmy.org, which comes up before lemmy.ml for me, defaults to recommending random instances. It really ought to recommend making your first account at lemmy.world and switching to a different instance after you’ve gotten used to the platform. I know it’s not ideal to put all our eggs in one basket, and there is a reasonable effort to move communities away from both lemmy.ml and lemmy.world, but for new users it might be kind of confusing seeing people talk about sh.itjust.works and lemmy.dbzer0.com and programming.dev as if they’re more or less interchangeable

Legitimately the reason I dropped .world and made an account at SJW. I don’t want my instance admins deciding what I do and don’t get to see without my input.

Of course, the SJW admins could decide to block it anyway, at which point I’ll make a dbzer0 account

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Close, but that metaphor was not equating either country with a serial killer, I was merely pointing out that one party’s use of bombs does not necessarily make them worse than another party who does not use bombs. Sorry you’re bad at reading

And also, it’s not the infrastructure or clean energy that gets people to not like china, it’s all the censorship and oppression

I haven’t actually met or talked to a lot of Chinese people, on account of not speaking the language, and the Great Firewall. I wonder why that’s there

You’ve acknowledged that I’m allowed to say things that don’t actually threaten the US government. Does comparing Xi Jinping to Winnie the Pooh actually threaten the Chinese government?

Lmao “free speech that doesn’t threaten the government is tolerated everywhere”

This statement would still be true if you were talking about Oceania. It’s totally meaningless. Who decides what speech threatens the government? The government. I can say fuck Joe Biden, fuck Donald Trump, and fuck every member of Congress and the Supreme Court. Can you point me towards someone living in China who’s comfortable openly saying “fuck Xi Jinping?”

Ted Kaczinsky dropped sixteen bombs, while Ted Bundy didn’t drop a single one. I guess that means Kaczinsky is worse?

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/21/technology/google-surveillance-toddler-photo.html

Here’s the article. Imagine losing access to everything that your physical driver’s license can’t help you get back. I would be in jail for one reason or another if google fucked my life over that bad

As for Mark, Ms. Lilley, at Google, said that reviewers had not detected a rash or redness in the photos he took and that the subsequent review of his account turned up a video from six months earlier that Google also considered problematic, of a young child lying in bed with an unclothed woman.

Mark did not remember this video and no longer had access to it, but he said it sounded like a private moment he would have been inspired to capture, not realizing it would ever be viewed or judged by anyone else.

They could have just made this up wholesale. What is Mark gonna do about it? He literally doesn’t have access to the video they claim incriminates him, and the police department has already cleared him of any wrongdoing. Google is just being malicious at this point.

I really want to learn these, but every open-source alternative to fusion has a completely vertical learning curve. If I can’t intuit how to make a 20 mm cube without looking up a tutorial, then rebooting into my Windows install to use F360 will simply be faster

Mint, because it seems like the easiest OS for someone who doesn’t know wtf a flatpak is

The other hard drive has Windows, because Fusion360 doesn’t work on Linux. Hey Autodesk, can you hear me? Make it happen please

here a mislabeled “security update” was auto-installed.

To be fair, you would have to read all the way to the first paragraph to get this information from the article. Hard to blame people for not knowing this critical bit of information when it was buried so deep

A lot of those are already on my list, so I’ll make sure they make it onto my screen this year

I forgot to talk about the many other shows I’ve watched in the last year! Unfortunately I didn’t grow up watching anime so I don’t have the nostalgia for it that most 90’s kids do, but the turn of the century is my favorite era of the medium. I’ve seen a lot from around then in the last year: Witch Hunter Robin, Wolf’s Rain, Ghost in the Shell, NieA_7, Serial Experiments Lain, Key the Metal Idol, Ergo Proxy, Read or Die

I really missed out on this stuff when I was a kid. Ghost In The Shell (the films and Standalone complex) would have been a formative experience for me as a teen

I wasn’t kidding about the one year thing, I’m back! All of these shows were great. You weren’t kidding about Bubblegum Crisis, I can’t believe I put off watching it for so long, it was rad as hell. Noir was my favorite of these suggestions, literally the only thing that keeps it from being a 10/10 is the distracting lack of any blood. Bakumatsu was super interesting—it’s cool seeing a show where half of the characters have Wikipedia pages. There’s a certain kind of person who both has a deep interest in the Boshin War and likes historical fantasy, for whom Bakumatsu Kikansetsu Irohanihoheto is the best show ever made. I can’t bring myself to say that Eat-Man was good, but the concept is interesting, and I absolutely adore Bolt Crank as a character. '98 definitely improved on '97, but I’m fond of both series

I haven’t watched everything in your other comment yet, but I did watch Megalo Box, and it’s one of my favorite shows now—makes it to almost every list of recommendations because of the differences between the first and second seasons. It’s crazy how quickly it goes from shounen to seinen.

? I’m not defending anyone, I’m calling out bullshit when I see it

I don’t really care that you like watching kids through their bedroom windows or whatever

If that doesn’t accurately describe your views, no worries—I said “or whatever,” so it’s fine

These articles are useless without a damn list

If you didn’t want to put words in someone’s mouth then you shouldn’t have said something like

You actually believe Microsoft will launch this and then everybody will be hacked or something.

I’ve never felt like I can’t say whatever I want on SJW

Lmao I remember going all in on Voat for like 2 days before I realized everyone else there was a nazi