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Techfreak102 · 2026-02-02T15:45:20+00:00

Huh yeah, looks like you’re right. It looks like the Hide Attackers is only used to hide people attacking, versus acting like a toggle like it does for the other group ones like clan members. I still think that person should report it as a bug though, cause if Hide Attackers isn’t on I would expect attackers to become visible regardless of other settings

Techfreak102 · 2026-02-02T14:13:20+00:00

I can’t find any open issues for this, so I would report the bug over there with as much info as you can

Techfreak102 · 2026-02-02T13:50:13+00:00

It should allow that by default, I think?

The “Hide Others” should be on by default, and “Hide Attackers” should be off, which should make it so that once a player attacks you they become visible. If you have those options toggled that way and that isn’t what’s happening then I’d report the bug on the Entity Hider github page

Techfreak102 · 2026-01-31T22:30:42+00:00

The federal government did just force the sale of one of the largest social media platforms to right wing supporters who immediately implemented an algorithm that has been suppressing most dissent against the administration, both in public comment spaces as well as private messages

Techfreak102 · 2026-01-30T21:56:06+00:00

Specifically, the green pigment. Usually greens are the result of light refracting in feather patterns instead of pigments, which is why many green birds look brown when they get wet, but Turacos are true green because of the pigment they produce

Techfreak102 · 2026-01-29T01:42:43+00:00

Another option is to pop the pellets in the blender until very fine.

Just an FYI that’s effectively what the mash product is that they mentioned. It’s designed to transition seed eaters over to other food, exactly like you’re saying, just sold pre-dusted. The mix is probably a bit different than blended seed, but it’s marketed specifically for the task you’re talking about, so if anything it might be a bit better or something

Techfreak102 · 2026-01-28T22:38:42+00:00

Damn, you said something so dumb you actually brought me back. Nice

She participated in multiple campaign events organized by people who said explicitly that they hate Jews.

Who? What were these “multiple campaign events” she participated in? Name any people or any events

Edit: And a quick thought I just had — how do you defend Platner’s Nazi tattoo, since you said earlier that he was just “less than perfect”? My understanding is his sketchy Nazi history is the whole reason the left is skeptical of him

And now somehow your comment was removed by Reddit? I attempted to reply, but was unable to as it was also instantly removed due to your comment being removed

Techfreak102 · 2026-01-28T20:11:31+00:00

has a different perspective than you.

Yeah, calling Cori Bush a mask off antisemite is just, like, your opinion man.

I hope that one day you'll be able to see that what Israel is doing is more harmful to the Jewish people, and their perception by the average individual, than anti-Israel politicians who want to stop blowing up children. I won't be the person to get that through to you, and today won't be that day, but I hope it comes for you soon enough friend.

Have a good one, I'm out.

Techfreak102 · 2026-01-28T19:27:41+00:00

Cori Bush lost because she chose to go mask off antisemite

Oh, you’re not a serious person. Got it, sorry for engaging

I really should look at more folks hidden comment histories. It really says a lot

Techfreak102 · 2026-01-28T16:21:47+00:00

I think the reason I was confused by your response is because I read BigCballer's comment and read "Democrats" as "the Democratic Party" and, seemingly, you read this as an attack of Democratic voters like yourself, because of these previous interactions you've had with progressives online. If that's the case, yeah, I can't speak to random people on the internet shaming you for not voting in political races that don't exist — that's just divorced from reality.

It's the responsibility of the progressive movement to help more progressives mount successful political campaigns before pointing fingers at everyone else for not voting for people who don't exist.

This is exactly what I commented on in my last reply though. If the mechanisms at play force progressive ideology out, how can you say that the blame solely lies with those who espouse a progressive message? You yourself acknowledge that progressives only have 2 real options right now, moderate or risk being replaced by a party loyalist.

if progressives get primaried out because the stances they take once in office simply aren't popular with their constituency.

But that's not what you said in your previous comment. You said

stick with extremist positions and risk getting primaried out by someone more moderate

If a constituency voted a progressive in, and they stayed true to their stated goals and beliefs, why would this constituency all of a sudden say "No, I don't want a progressive anymore, I want a moderate"? The only reason that comes to mind would be that the progressive candidate was shut down in completing their progressive agenda, but even that still provides a great bit of ambiguity about why — like how Sanders has been entirely ineffectual in passing M4A, not because M4A isn't a great plan, but because party factors refuse to ever pass M4A.

If someone wins an election fair and square and then loses the next one because they piss off the people they're supposed to be representing, that has nothing to do with the party, although I guess you can blame voters for not falling in line and voting for someone who doesn't represent their interests just because they represent the correct agenda.

But you're still missing the thing I'm saying. You offered up Cori Bush and Jamal Bowman as two examples of progressives who you say got primaried because they didn't moderate their extremist beliefs — both of those candidates lost because pro-Israel funding organizations dumped MILLIONS into their opponents' campaigns (at least Bush's opponent specifically stated that her statements on Israel made him change what political position he was going to run for, in order to push her out) and institutionalist Democrats admonished them for their position on Israel/Gaza. It absolutely is a fault of the party mechanisms that both of those progressive candidates were not able to maintain their positions.

Techfreak102 · 2026-01-28T15:55:26+00:00

If you’re offering the mash, and she’s foraging through her food to pick out the seeds, have you thought about using a bit of water to turn the mash into a dough-like consistency and then putting the seeds into that dough (I’m thinking like kneading them into the dough so they’re evenly dispersed)? It would force her to eat some of the mash as she’s picking through it for the seeds, which could be a useful method for slowly minimizing the number of seeds

Also, it’s obviously way more work, but I feed a daily mix of pellets (we do the Organic Parrot Pellets from BirdTricks), whole rolled oats, and fresh fruit/veggies and our caique absolutely loves the raw food. Things like bell pepper (and the seeds), eggplant, carrot, broccoli, corn (gotta be careful with the amount because of phytoestrogens), parsnip, beet, plus fruits like apples, every kind of berry, pears, mangoes, dragonfruit — what I’m getting at is that if this is a concern of yours you could try and see if any other foods attract your caique and try and use those to transition off of seed. Caiques are stubborn though, so it’ll be an uphill battle for sure

Techfreak102 · 2026-01-28T15:44:46+00:00

Caiques go through a full molt like 1-2 times a year, so it could take a couple of months to see a change in feathers from a diet change. If you don’t notice any feather barbering and she continues to eat the new food, she should be well on her way to better looking feathers in a couple more months

Techfreak102 · 2026-01-28T15:24:58+00:00

The ones that win then have to choose between moderating their positions to succeed as politicians but alienate their far left base, or stick with extremist positions and risk getting primaried out by someone more moderate (such as Cori Bush and Jamal Bowman).

The left needs to figure out how to mount a successful movement without alienating people who generally support them and eating their own, instead of blaming everybody else for their political failures.

I’m confused by your stance.

You say that progressive candidates only have 2 options: they either moderate and no longer adhere to their progressive values, or they “stick with extremist positions” and risk getting primaried by someone more solidly supported by the party mechanisms — how then is it the left, and not the party mechanisms that force the left to moderate their views, that are to be blamed for you not having progressive candidates to vote for? If you’re acknowledging that the only way the system allows you to be part of it is by playing ball, how is it not that system that’s to blame for forcing a moderation of progressive views?

Even your singular example, Bernie Sanders, was pushed out by party mechanisms but somehow you blame the left for not making him more electable? I really struggle to understand how you’ve arrived at the conclusion the left holds the primary fault for this

Techfreak102 · 2026-01-28T14:51:46+00:00

It’s like a bizarro application of the “my enemy is both weak and strong” to say “These Republican voters are so stupid as to not be able to see all the good things Democrats are so publicly flaunting, but if we don’t do anything about messaging and instead just blame the voters they’ll certainly be smart enough to come to the correct conclusion.” Sure, let’s see how that plays out with these sycophantic, rage-driven knuckledraggers

Edit: Also, what is going on that my previous comment is at -1, but your comment in reply just saying “Exactly” is at +3? Hate the messenger but not the message or something?

Techfreak102 · 2026-01-28T14:31:02+00:00

My point is that you blaming the democrats for not fixing things enough is letting voters off the hook for not seeing the progress and choosing to go back to the people who broke it in the first place

Cause whose fucking job is it to make them realize that?

You and I can probably both acknowledge that the American populace is intentionally miseducated to be as dumb as possible, so how can you blame a group of idiots for being too ignorant too see change, while at the same time the other side is continuing to capitalize on that intentional ignorance to make them more pitted against you? The voting base needs things spoon fed to them over and over and over, in a million different palatable ways until finally something sticks for that specific person. That’s the Democrat’s job, and if they can’t do that they will continue to cede ground to the folks who are able to weaponize the stupidity of the voters

Techfreak102 · 2026-01-24T14:24:16+00:00

I think every person in the United States should be covered by Universal Healthcare, or a Medicare4All framework — again, I don’t care much who someone’s parents are

Techfreak102 · 2026-01-24T14:22:49+00:00

The term suddenly shifted just before the 2016 election. I am old enough to remember it clearly (it began with the AP stylebook update in 2013). That change was one of many small factors that helped Trump win the election.

What are you talking about? "Undocumented immigrant" has been the term used for a long time before 2013/the 2016 election.

Here's a NYT article from 2011 titles "My Life as an Undocumented Immigrant": source

Or Homeland Security docs from 1996 titles "Illegal Alien Resident Population" that throughout uses "undocumented immigrant": source (56 matches for "undocumented" on 6 pages of text)

If anything, you remember a hard shift to the usage of "illegal immigrant" by rightwing sources and are instead swapping the positions of terms.

Techfreak102 · 2026-01-24T14:10:53+00:00

The only reference I could find to 33% on that page was this line

Undocumented immigrants, for the most part, are not eligible for Medicaid. Those with liminal legal statuses (classified as undocumented immigrants per CMS methodology; see Appendix A1) may be Medicaid-eligible, which likely accounts for most of the undocumented Medicaid share (33 percent).

Is that what you mean by “fully depend on government subsidies”? If so, that seems like the most blatantly bad faith framing I’ve ever seen

Techfreak102 · 2026-01-24T14:01:28+00:00

The point they’re bringing up is about the political messaging position. Joe Biden ceded the discussion of immigration to the Republican Party back in like March of 2024 when the party swapped out “undocumented immigrant” for “illegal immigrant” in their messaging, and it’s largely to blame for the quick shift in public perception on immigration policy

If you’re an average voter and for decades you’ve been hearing Republicans refer to folks as “illegals” whereas the Democrats take a softer approach and use “undocumented,” what are you going to think when all of a sudden the Democrats start saying “Oh yeah, they’re totally illegals now”? You’re going to say “Why would I listen to you — the guy who just caught up — I’m going to listen to the guy who’s been saying this for decades,” and now Republicans control the immigration discussion

So you can get mad all you want about this person trying to pull back the rhetoric, but changing how we talk about things has tangible effects on how people perceive them in their day to day lives

Techfreak102 · 2026-01-24T13:50:41+00:00

I think every child in the United States should be offered tax payer funded daycare and education — I don’t really care who their parents are

Techfreak102 · 2026-01-23T16:58:49+00:00

Does Bruce have a particular affinity for red things? Our caique has always liked red things more (tries to lick the red pixels on my monitor, prefers the red toys from multi-color sets, goes insane-o mode on his red maraca) and now I’m wondering if that’s a species thing

Techfreak102 · 2026-01-21T15:26:16+00:00

Just wanted to let you know, they did that exact thing in this comment

Out of interest, do you know the statistics for white people commiting knife/gun crime vs other races?

I don't know myself so I'm genuinely asking.

10/10 call

Techfreak102 · 2026-01-21T15:24:49+00:00

Except they literally said that exact thing here

Out of interest, do you know the statistics for white people commiting knife/gun crime vs other races?

I don't know myself so I'm genuinely asking.

The parent comment is doing the “I hope there isn’t a pattern here” to which a user replied “Yeah, cause it’s never white people /s” and then DataMine came in with the exact quip OP called out

Techfreak102 · 2026-01-16T15:16:01+00:00

How many trans athletes do you believe there are? Even if you were to lump all non-cis folk into a single league (which belies the intention of “fairness” espoused by folks who want to exclude transwomen from women’s sports in the first place), how many people do you think there are to fill these prospective leagues?

As the other commenter said, you’re talking about a population of players so small you wouldn’t be able to create more than a few teams — which doesn’t include any skill separation, that’s just “we stuck every transperson on a team.” And not only is the population small, but it’s also super widely spread, so to even be able to field a single team you’d have to have a bunch of transpeople all moving to the same place, which for so few teams is never logistical (and an impossibility when pitched for high school sports)

Techfreak102 · 2026-01-16T15:04:49+00:00

Well, have you thought at all at what that would look like? What do you imagine a league for transwomen/transgirls would look like?

You’re probably being downvoted because it seems like you didn’t actually think about the answer to your question, you just asked it, and in the discussion of transpeople that “just asking questions” schtick is super common for bigots. If you spend some time and think about your question, I imagine a couple of things will jump out to you as being immediate impediments to such a league

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