mathic

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[–] mathic 1 points 5 months ago

Fn or moving the mouse.

[–] mathic 12 points 5 months ago (3 children)

They're also about to make massive layoffs (many employees report not knowing whether they're on the list for next Wednesday (IIRC)), so they apparently aren't doing well as a going concern. I don't know whether there's any connection beyond close timing.

[–] mathic 4 points 5 months ago

Fuck that asshole.

[–] mathic 6 points 5 months ago

It helps it keep vibrant colors longer.

 

He'd get my vote....

[–] mathic 3 points 6 months ago

try subbing rice vinegar for the water,

[–] mathic 5 points 6 months ago

I like the smell of skunk.

[–] mathic 6 points 7 months ago

Remove the valve cores from his tires.

[–] mathic 10 points 7 months ago (10 children)

The only chance we have that I see is the rapid development of fusion into a proper, usable power source, the supplantation of effectively all carbon emitting power plants with non-emitting plants (fusion or otherwise), the effectively complete electrification of the global commercial transport system, and a massive scaling of production direct carbon capture, leveraging the various aforementioned non-carbon emitting electricity sources to make it happen.

[–] mathic 29 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I, my head, shake.

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[–] mathic 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Technically, if you intend to return it eventually, it's not theft.

Theft, under the common law of England, as brought to the U.S., is the deprivation of personal property of another with the intention to permanently deprive them of it. If you don't have that intent, it's not theft. That's why we have "joyriding" and "grand theft auto" as separate things.

[–] mathic 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

No. That's what the sane people wanted to do after the first vote came out as a demonstrably bad decision.

[–] mathic 3 points 11 months ago

I use my kids' step stool.

 

I've been doing the Internet social thing since #hottub and alt.religion.kibology. My services were thus federated before it was cool.

I came to Reddit from Digg after migrating from Slashdot. Made a lot of comments and answered a lot of questions about a lot of different shit; posted a lot of pictures of foodporn. Some of it was pretty handy to a lot of people over time, if the upvotes were any indication.

About 2 weeks ago, I Power Delete Suite-ed the whole of it, editing everything to 'null' ahead of time. Since then, I've been waiting for straggler subs to re-appear (and there've been quite a few!), so I could give my comments within the same treatment.

Today I finally deleted my account.

Looking back, I feel like it's a another chapter of my life closed. My relationship with the collective Reddit userbase has been more significant to me than have been several of those with people with whom I've had sexual intercourse, and certainly more so than with most of my past Internet relationships (never forgot you, though, lara (@umn); PM me if you see this ;)). I now feel vaguely adrift, hoping that Lemmy "makes it," as it seems to satisfy the majority - if not the entirety - of my immediate technical and entitative specifications, but also acutely aware that I'm really after the interaction with the high points of the Reddit userbase.

That's really the thing: Reddit did a really good job of making the Internet social thing doable, both for us net-native, "socially awkward" folks for whom Lemmy is a snap, and for everyone else at the same time. Through occasionally-careful regulation and monolithicism, Reddit did much both to establish the modern incarnation of the venerable BBS and to make it accessible to more everyday, less weathered/jaded folks than I, while still providing a relatively no-nonsense interface for those of us with a more directly functional bent.

I hope that on this, my round 2 (or is it 3 now?) of the federated/monolithic cycle, the good guys win, i.e. open Internet culture gains enough momentum from the Reddit implosion to make something in the Fediverse the new crowd favorite long enough to keep it safe from corporate compromise in the long run.

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by mathic to c/tango
 

Tango was the first thing I looked for after the nearest metropolis, having just leapt from reddit to lemmy.

I'm sure I won't be the only one searching; to you: abrazos and welcome.

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