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Cake day: July 9th, 2023

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  • To my mind, Ban has always meant permanent.

    Then explain perma-ban

    Joke aside though - ban is a toggle. You can toggle something on or off, but it usually implies something temporary. You can then manually unban someone at a later date, or have the unban be automated in some cases.

    “I turned the lights on” - there is no expectation that you never turn them off again

    “It is snowing outside” - at some point it will stop snowing

    “I’m banned from my local book club for repeatedly asking if they made a movie for that one” - this too shall pass. Maybe in 4 years when I go back they’ll forgive me and let me back in, and by that time I’ll have watched Moby Dick - manual toggle of the ban back to ‘off’ is expected here.

    “I was banned from Day9’s stream for backseating” - here the ban would have an automatic limit, maybe something like a million seconds.




  • Not sure. I can’t remember right now why I blocked dbzer0 completely, but my filters are blocking this instance. Which I guess is another side of the same coin: defederation (and allowing entire instances to be blocked) also contributes to fragmentation of communities. I had no idea the largest piracy community is on dbzer0, so I would subscribe to another piracy community on another instance, and thus split the memberships even more.



  • Effective? No. Considering the purpose of all internet communities is to grow and have diversity, it’s not effective. Aside from the currently low number of users, the fact that you can have the same community in different instances means a community will never grow large enough. Add to that the “you’re literally killing children if you’re a centrist” people and all the tankies, and what you have here is a leftist circlejerk that will remain small and irelevant enough to suit its need to be an echo chamber without any actual diversity. So maybe it’s effective from that point of view? Idk.





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    3 months ago

    That gold is about to be worth only the effort to pick it up and take it back home if you’re any sort of militarily-inclined nation.

    Russia is hanging by a thread. Once the chaos starts and once the shitstain has its access to a nuclear button revoked on account of bullet through cranium, anyone with a big enough dick can waltz into Russia and “secure” the gold reserves for future investment, protecting it from the country’s impending civil war.

    At least I hope. Fuckers stole my country’s gold reserves, I can only revel in the idea that they’d face the same.








  • I recently had a game I was waiting for released on steam and epic. The steam version (with some supporter pack stuff, because I like the dev) was $100, while the epic version was less than $50(with the same extras). I considered for a moment buying it on epic, but then I thought - “fuck, it’s epic games” and bought it on steam instead. I just couldn’t handle the thought of epic fucking games being in charge of my ability to play the game. I don’t trust them. Not even if all their shit is 50% off.

    Idk much about business, but if you can’t be trusted to be reliable even when you’re offering massive discounts, maybe you don’t have a lasting business on your hands.



  • Skates@feddit.nltoWork Reform@lemmy.worldOne Mississippi
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    1 year ago

    People don’t have a strong intuitive sense of how much bigger one thousand is than one.

    One second is one second.

    One thousand seconds is like 15 minutes idk it’s not very intuitive.

    Anyway, it’s about a thousand times bigger.

    Hope this helps.

    I should find some better hobbies.