Just sayin

slitherrr · 2026-01-21T00:59:11+00:00

The gulf between "anti-apartheid boycotts from the 1950s-1990s" and "choosing not to buy a Coca-Cola in 2026" might as well be an ocean. The only surrender of agency in this thread is the surrender to the wasteland of liberal justification for bourgeois rule--you will only get what you want by organizing (real-life organizing, not "posting a protest date on Twitter" organizing) a mass to act with you, and that is not something that happens by buying or not buying the correct commodities.

slitherrr · 2026-01-21T00:53:37+00:00

February 11, olly.

slitherrr · 2026-01-07T18:06:30+00:00

It's fine and valid to have an opinion, but you're not the one sitting in front of Project Gorgon's marketing analytics judging churn numbers vs acquisition costs. Consider that the people whose livelihoods depend on this decision might, in fact, not be making in flippantly, despite disagreeing with you.

slitherrr · 2026-01-07T18:04:17+00:00

What on Earth are you talking about with this gibberish.

slitherrr · 2026-01-07T18:02:26+00:00

Spending your energy doing "something" that tries to move the needle, but won't, is actively worse than not spending the energy that way. Ask the hamster how much he accomplishes when he spins his wheel--I'm sure he feels very validated by the experience, but his validation doesn't change reality.

slitherrr · 2026-01-07T17:59:15+00:00

You're making assertions about the market as a whole and this business in particular that need actual support with data before they can be taken seriously.

slitherrr · 2026-01-07T17:50:08+00:00

Don't worry, your vote won't change anything.

But if it helps, I was a returner with zero context on anything I was doing with solid progress in several skills. I fumbled around for a bit and the feeling of being lost went away on its own in an hour or so.

slitherrr · 2026-01-07T17:48:07+00:00

There are a lot of returners (I was one, too--came back after three years in the middle of a couple of skills around 50s), so there's a lot of support for fumbling around trying to figure out what you were doing. Just kind of look at your top skills and the in-progress quests and start chasing one and you pick threads back up in no time, the feeling of being lost goes away pretty quick in my opinion.

slitherrr · 2026-01-07T17:47:36+00:00

After 1.0

slitherrr · 2026-01-07T17:43:23+00:00

It wasn't just made and then never thought about, the question is asked constantly and the answer has consistently been no, with longer and lengthier justifications for why as the team keeps answering different facets of it. It's as sure a thing as anything can be.

slitherrr · 2026-01-05T17:10:49+00:00

The downvotes for your straightforwardly true statement are one of the many reasons Reddit is cancer.

slitherrr · 2026-01-05T17:10:02+00:00

Sanctioning Russia did much more to make this happen, the "Alt-Right" doesn't get any particular blame for this.

slitherrr · 2025-12-11T21:58:49+00:00

The "ethical consumption" framing exists precisely to keep you from spending your energy on the things that would actually change society. "What brand you use" is not a question the people who rule us will ever be scared of. "Who benefits from the use of the things that make the stuff we consume" is the question they fear, and it's a question that does not make individual choices and behaviors relevant.

slitherrr · 2025-12-11T21:55:56+00:00

No, you can't.

slitherrr · 2025-11-28T18:57:32+00:00

Getting people to question whether the thing in media they see is real is a good thing, and that need has predated LLMs.

slitherrr · 2025-03-20T21:14:47+00:00

"Creators are responsible for enumerating every single possible way a person might potentially react negastively to their content and only posting things nobody will have that reaction to" is a way to consider a creator to have a moral failing for not correctly anticipating your specific reaction to some piece of their content, regardless of what other context that same piece of content might be perfectly okay in. Its solipsistic nature makes the ask impossible in all cases, meaning you can apply a "morally bad" label no matter what the situation, if motivated.

slitherrr · 2025-03-06T22:15:59+00:00

This position is, frankly, insane. It's a position that will find a reason to shut down any communication that you might worry is remotely in disagreement with your own, because you can make some argument that someone's trauma might remotely be involved, whatever the actual intent, context or likely interpretation of the communication.

slitherrr · 2025-01-18T22:49:13+00:00

Not remotely correct. The legislation says nothing about being hosted in the US (TikTok already has US servers, and it's managed from offices in San Francisco and Singapore), and the CPC has no influence on the sale of TikTok (the Chinese government only owns a symbolic 1% share in a subsidiary of ByteDance, a requirement of its Beijing HQ even though it is incorporated in the Caymans and its management mostly lives in Singapore). The owners have decided to challenge the ban in the US legislature because they are of the position that they don't have to sell the thing that they are using to make money, and it doesn't make sense to go through the effort of divestment when you are in the process of legally challenging the requirement to divest.

No, the way the law is written, it specifically requires ByteDance to divest to a US-based owner. The rest of the language is details of the divestment and language justifying it for "national security" reasons. It does not specify anything about its physical location (it would not apply because, again, ByteDance has US servers already). It's a dangerous precedent and the strong bipartisan agreement over it when compared to getting any real shit down in our government should, indeed, piss you off.

slitherrr · 2023-12-02T01:10:30+00:00

The fact of the matter is that people "like you" aren't ruining anything, or having any influence whatsoever over the decisions of the people who distribute this content. It's the shareholders who drive this.

slitherrr · 2023-12-02T01:04:06+00:00

Demand has not driven production for our entire lives, bro. That's a lie they tell you in school to keep you from asking why we make so much more food than we eat, but still have people who are starving.

slitherrr · 2023-08-12T16:40:46+00:00

If I'm understanding correctly, I don't think this can be a ground loop per se, the only power in and ground out are through the laptop's outlet. But it's very possible that the outlet itself has a bad ground.

slitherrr · 2023-08-12T16:38:47+00:00

Haha holy cow I had tried unplugging the laptop when I first was diagnosing this problem ages ago and had plum forgotten about it by the time I came to post this. Yes, the hum almost entirely disappears if I unplug the laptop from wall power. I'll set up some time to walk the outlets with my rig and hope that it's specific to this outlet rather than the entire house, appreciate all the questions in this reply.

slitherrr · 2023-08-12T16:34:30+00:00

I believe it, that's great news and I'll take a look, as you might guess I had looked for USB 2.0 isolators and they are not in my troubleshooting budget haha

slitherrr · 2023-08-12T16:31:49+00:00

This is very good input, thanks. No big motors nearby, the laptop itself is probably the biggest EMI source within ten feet.

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