I’m not either. I read a few articles when I thought about buying a Tesla back when and the lamination on the outside of their windows seems to make the glass much more durable.

From what I gather most car manufacturers today do the same lamination trick.

Just a quick heads up, ninja rocks do not work with modern car windows.

Dunno sounds more like psychopath behaviour …

plus it’s their CEO, or their community manager in their name, directly addressing the questioner and going “you don’t understand, under our big tent approach only 5% of people we give money to are controversial, let’s not address your concerns and move on.”

While I agree in principle, the response from the CEO, was: only like 5% of people we give money to are racist Nazi bigots “controversial”, let’s agree to disagree and move on.

Which is massive narcissitic, non-empathic behaviour. It’s giving me less “you don’t matter because soon you’ll be dead”-vibes and more “I am literally unable to understand your concerns and empathise with you”-vibe, which to me personally is much more damning.

…and considerably longer to develop certain aspects of a field. I’ve seen Professors whose work came to fruition 20, 30 years later. It wasn’t the person themselves, but the team they assembled around them ( which also takes lots of time).

Make use of that second link.

I get that participation is important, but why does it feel like google is outsourcing good, sane management decisions?

I agree about the liability part. My interest was piqued during the so called Twitter files, when reporting was something like the bosses of twitter, Facebook and Wikipedia sat in a weekly (or was it monthly?) meeting, where they were told what controversial topics to “tamp down” on. I found it very weird, especially since I cannot imagine how one “tamps down” on a wikipedia article?

I think the much harder part is how would you go about democratising a website?

Yeah, my working theory is violent narcissists have a much harder time beeing casually violent, so they go ever more totalitarian, because then they can be violent without repercussions again…

I switched to /e/ a while ago, they have a feature called advanced privacy. commercial Lemmy clients like Connect and Raccoon have trackers embedded and are blocked automagically. ^I use Jerboa btw^

Might be - on the other hand, /e/ already supports f-droid out of the box, so there may be a possibility just google play will be going away…

Look at postmarket OS. Unless you are really lucky, texting, calling, wifi, etc is not or barely working.

The problem is we haven’t figured out a mechanism to properly punish the asshole, because queue jumping almost always works in their favor.

I use drip on android. Did not know they had an ios version.

Plaster Lathe. My old nemesis. Probably with reed or peat for stabilization, so it explodes everywhere once you touch it… Wish you the best of Luck.

Also: napping is important at our age.

As someone who electrically renovated houses without beeing an electrician. If you find an electrician who is willing to work with you: do a full planning of the house. (What lines go where etc) ask them to go over this, and pay them for their time. If all goes well this will cost them an evening or three (depending how many flaws they find in your design). Do the wiring and drilling raw sockets yourself. Buy the top sockets wholesale, then have the electrician make a fixed price for installing sockets and wiring your fuse box , it will be much cheaper.

At which point do people let go of the whole MAGA/Trump moniker and just say “Republicans”?

Good writeup. An additional thing I would like to add are the “well regulated militias” whose initial purpose was to act as thugs for big plantation owners (the untouchable billionaires of yesteryear), and their continued authoritarian white supremacist heritage…

I’ve always wondered about the Venn Diagram between Racists, Fascists and Narcissists. …

Because everything they do is summed up perfectly in the poem

I’ll tell you a story. In the Nazi Years my great-uncle was in the upper echelon of the German Reich. As in, he should have been in Nuremberg. And should have been hanged. He escaped judgement day with lies. “I’m just very conservative. What else could a conservative who loves his country have done. There was no alternative to beeing a Nazi. I am just a conservative.”

Well. It was a lie. After the war he went right back to where he was and was an active Nazi right til the day he died. That despicable cunt loved, absolutely loved deception. He always had an explanation ready why the things he did weren’t Nazi things.

This whole spiel just for lulz, nihilism or internet points smells like the same deception my uncle used.

Especially if you see who applauds and supports these assholes.