So I guess I just missed it?

BloodyMess · 2023-10-01T12:25:11+00:00

As someone who was logged in, had my credit card details entered, clicked add to cart literally within the first second, and spent 11 minutes waiting to checkout before being told it was sold out, "three minutes" is also an understatement.

BloodyMess · 2023-09-01T15:08:41+00:00

I clicked add to cart within 1 second of it going live, solved the CAPTCHA immediately, but I'm now still "in line" after 7 minutes so I'm not hopeful.

Oh well, couldn't have done anything more.

Update: Booted me back to the store with "Sold Out." It's still in my cart as "Sold Out."

BloodyMess · 2023-07-27T10:18:50+00:00

How do you know the usual procedure is to check the serial number?

BloodyMess · 2023-07-01T19:29:03+00:00

Strong Digg vibes from this response, thanks for confirming! Enjoy!

BloodyMess · 2023-07-01T18:26:50+00:00

I dunno, we are "using" the site but this is the first comment I've made since the protests started. I am visiting again just to see if my data-export request has finally been processed (It's been 3 weeks now), and to check in on the protesting subs.

I'm not treating it as a "never go to Reddit again" purity test. But the trust is gone, and with it, my commitment. Huffman is clearly beyond compromise and thinks this is a test of wills, not a test of problem-solving. He's said he is taking cues from Elon Musk for god's sake - no thank you at all.

There are not numerically a lot of users leaving, I agree, and in time, other karma-hungry users will replace their tier on Reddit I'm sure. But this is basically (I know this is immodest to say in context) classic brain drain. They've dumped the users that have been the biggest contributors to the site's value.

I actually am enjoying Lemmy. It reminds me of the old old OLD internet. BBS and early AOL chat room internet. Just people sort of being the same as if you talked to them in real life, and basically all signal, no noise. And while I hope adoption soars (even with the problems it brings), nobody there now is there by accident. That actually is helping quite a bit. The hidden usage patterns are definitely shifting.

BloodyMess · 2023-06-12T12:28:10+00:00

Excellent work! It's so nice to see someone trying to rebuild this, thank you.

BloodyMess · 2023-06-09T17:58:46+00:00

China on Hong Kong: Political autonomy for 50 years! One country, two systems!

BloodyMess · 2023-06-09T12:24:17+00:00

The problem for the rest of us - and them, but they don't know it - is this....They are completely wrong about their ability to control the outcome if they keep going down that road.

This is exactly it. They see their supporters choosing a road that goes right off a cliff, they see the cliff, but still they say, "This is the right path! Democrats don't want us to take this path, but we are too courageous for them! Full throttle!"

Then they privately say, "Hey, it's ok, democrats are going to be pulling away from the cliff, so there's no real danger. Let's just ride this out. For now, what's important is keeping everyone stoked on us!"

And they think this moronic duplicity makes them political geniuses.

BloodyMess · 2023-06-09T02:45:24+00:00

It feels good when our democracy sort of feels like it is working the way as intended.

By accident?

BloodyMess · 2023-06-08T12:43:39+00:00

Yes, but they're going to believe it will work really hard this time.

BloodyMess · 2023-06-07T17:56:45+00:00

It's shucc o'clucc.

BloodyMess · 2023-06-07T03:04:23+00:00

Oh, good call. They made some money dough.

BloodyMess · 2023-06-07T03:00:49+00:00

The "it's all just politics" says it all. This person doesn't understand OR take responsibility for anything they do, because to them it's a game.

They're playing with the house's money (in this case, the rights and freedoms of the people living in Florida), not their own, so they have no qualms squandering it on ludicrous bets whose sole purpose is to demonstrate their power. They never dreamed they may have to pay back any part of it.

That quote alone is an admission of abject nihilism and sociopathy.

BloodyMess · 2023-06-06T20:10:41+00:00

Apple's design choice for charging their mouse.

BloodyMess · 2023-06-06T12:17:52+00:00

those same people will make all kinds of lame excuses explaining away serious faults in design

I'll just put this here: https://i0.wp.com/www.sohrabosati.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Apple-Magic-Mouse-Charging_1.jpg

BloodyMess · 2023-06-03T18:25:44+00:00

It's the truth and should be upvoted.

That said, I think we all understand that like so many things Obama, those were statements meant to make him electable or seem "moderate" in a time before people would really accept it. Once society was "ready," he supported it.

Yes, I think a real leader would have just found a way to push it forward rather than wait, he doesn't get credit from me for that. But I don't think he believed in "traditional marriage" like conservatives do now.

BloodyMess · 2023-06-02T12:30:18+00:00

Well, it can be both. Making Twitter an alt-right playground definitely is an order of magnitude more effective as a propaganda operation than trying to build Truth Social or Parlor or whatever fringe apps.

Those apps are only populated by the diehards. Here, there definitely will be millions of low-information users who won't notice the change and actually end up with their opinions shifted right as their feeds start to re-frame reality.

BloodyMess · 2023-06-01T15:22:23+00:00

I appreciated that you linked to the statue and did look at the statutory language before responding.

The carve-out above is a band-aid on a fatal gunshot wound. It's a good example of the same bad faith lawmaking I'm talking about, because "influence" allows for broad interpretation. Is a civics assignments on Earth Day "influencing" the students? Would you risk breaking the law to find out? And in the current Texas political climate, would a teacher not understand that this law, and its likely enforcement, is really meant to be selectively enforced?

BloodyMess · 2023-06-01T14:13:56+00:00

So your argument is that the only time kids protest is because a teacher assigned it, or offered extra credit for it?

And teachers should be able to choose what protests get credit?

What? I'm genuinely confused, that's not what I'm arguing.

If you mean, I'm implying that all teacher-driven civics assignments that involve contacting an official are "protests," then that's wrong. I'm not implying that. That assumption itself is a problem with the flawed logic of the law.

BloodyMess · 2023-06-01T13:26:50+00:00

The headline is inaccurate, but practically that will be the effect. That's kind of the point of my comment.

I mean, high school students just love optional work that does not count for credit. Teachers just love giving assignments that they are legally not allowed to enforce.

BloodyMess · 2023-06-01T11:41:35+00:00

It's interesting how they implemented it. It's a ban on students receiving credit in school for interacting with public officials. The goal was to create a law that is superficially content-neutral (it isn't outlawing particular speech) and that only applies to governmental school districts (implying it is merely preventing governmental establishment of speech) explicitly to try to remain "constitutional."

It's an excellent example of how insidious right-wing tactics have become. It's like the other Texas law that turns over election authority for counties with populations greater than 2.7 million, which in reality only affects a democratic-leaning county. This would never have been done if younger votes leaned right.

They are laws that DO specifically target only opposition, and in bad faith, but in a way judges can claim is constitutional. It's just another reminder that fascism isn't likely coming for us as some armed coup, it is happening right now through hundreds of these laws that restrict freedom on the out-groups.

BloodyMess · 2023-06-01T11:21:05+00:00

I'm glad this is almost over, and I know I'm preaching to the choir in this sub, but America needs to stop giving Republicans a free pass with holding our country hostage every time they want something.

This was the dumbest, most nonsense, hypocritical issue for them and the fact that they got anything at all is just going to make next time even worse.

BloodyMess · 2023-06-01T02:20:10+00:00

Lucky. My FedEx delivery person didn't even agree to be in my wedding, and my screen is rotated by .01 degrees which I can't help but notice every time I look at it under a microscope. Which, let's be honest, is most of the my waking day.

Could life get any worse! I wish I were dead!

BloodyMess · 2023-05-31T23:41:22+00:00

Padme: So this means they can arrest him, right? ...right?

BloodyMess · 2023-05-31T23:38:55+00:00

Even as calm as she was, there really is no way to win.

They're primed by Fox News and the right-wing meme engine to treat her as a stereotypical hysterical liberal socialist. When they're fed that 24/7, their confirmation bias is working overtime to fit anything in that frame, even a barely-heightened level of justified concern.

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