Nice.

I love this one specifically because I have always wondered: Is the guy with the hook hand into amputee porn because he is an amputee, or is his interest in it independent of that?

I’m on an oldish (only a few years old) Thinkbook and same experience, it just works and was super easy to get going.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Do you actually miss being in online arguments all the time, Natalie? If so, I think the internet may have broken your brain a little. The fact that I hardly ever end up in actual arguments here on Lemmy is part of the appeal of the platform. Even when there are disagreements, both sides tend to just walk away instead of pummel each other into the ground. But I also tend to curate myself to only communities that are well moderated, so maybe I’m just not seeing the asshats.

They call me Doctor Worm
Good morning how are you I’m Doctor Worm

I’m not a real doctor but I am a real worm, an actual worm

Magic: The Radishing

mediaeval public shaming bloc…

The word you’re looking for is “pillory.”

I probably have been playing too much Kingdom Come: Deliverance II.

I mean I understand the desire to make this kind of connection because she is 30 years younger than him, but my goodness, that’s kind of ignoring her respectable career University of São Paulo. Let’s not minimize her accomplishments and education or reduce her to merely a call-girl procured by Epstein.

I know that people often find IPv6 confusing and that’s fine, but at the very least you need to explain that you’re specifically talking about IPv4 IP and Subnetting configuration and that is very much how things used to be done. IPv6 is finally gaining real adoption and can make a lot of things confusing.

For example, until I got a handle of IPv6, my Android phone never had proper ad-blocking from my Pi-Holes because Google would make Android auto-configure an IPv6 DNS address that would bypass my IPv4 DNS addresses. Even if I filled every IPv4 DNS slot, my phone would still automatically make a slot for the IPv6 DNS and fill it with a Google-chosen DNS. There were two ways to fix this, and I’ve done both: Set up IPv6 and fill that slot with my Pi-Hole IPv6 DNS address, and/or setting up a VPN that hands out the Pi-Holes as DNS and bypasses Google’s auto-configurations entirely. I ended up with both because I also use the VPN to keep ad-blocking functional on my phone while I’m away from home.

Especially in keeping with your “Zero trust” idea, you can’t have rogue IPv6 traffic all over your network unless you’ve managed to disable IPv6 on every network interface and the traffic is just being dumped since it’s disabled. (Also, personal opinion, subnetting on IPv6 is so much more elegant and straightforward than on IPv4)

Finally, you mention “bytes” (it’s actually bits) and CIDR notation, but that’s probably more confusing than illuminating if someone has no idea that an IPv4 address has four sets of octets (eight bits) for a 32-bit addressing scheme. You might consider expanding on how IPv4 addresses function to make that a little clearer.

I mean it’s a pretty bad look to go to bat for dudes who raped little girls and to call public outcry about it hysteria. Poe-tae-toe Poh-tah-toe.

It seems like a fair number of men hid their abusive tendencies behind a thin veneer of feminism. I’m looking at you, Joss Whedon and Neil Gaiman.

I dated a girl like that in college. She never went deep off the rails, but when I met her she was reckoning with the fact that she had basically been forced into the perfect pretty cheerleader life by her backwards Louisiana family, even having them go so far as to put her in a mental institution for a short time and hide it from everyone in their lives to keep being able to pretend she was “perfect.” It dragged on her mentally, and she years later would tell me the reason she disappeared and stopped talking to me after six months was I was the first man who had ever been interested in who she was and what her thoughts were and she literally didn’t know how to handle it. She tried to play the perfect pretty girl for a while longer, even marrying a guy who treated her the same way her dad did, as though she only existed to be a trophy wife, before getting divorced and starting to break free from those shackles.

Anyway, just saying, sometimes those super popular, happy seeming immaculate people have something sinister hiding under the surface: like a family forcing them to be that way.

Now do Butt-head.

Chomsky was born in 1928. This doesn’t justify him being a sexist piece of shit, but it certainly can explain him being a sexist piece of shit.

He was well into this forties when the Equal Credit Opportunity Act was made law which essentially stopped discrimination against women for getting checking accounts and lines of credit, which were hard to come by at many banks prior to that.

Until 1976, nearly every state had a “marital exemption” for rape, at this point Chomsky was pushing 50. It wasn’t until 1993 that marital rape was codified into federal law as being a crime nationwide, at this point Chomsky was in his sixties.

He was 17 when World War II ended in 1945.

Chomsky is a massive piece of shit for this, but I mean, are we really that shocked that a motherfucker from the beginning of the Silent Generation, literally on the edge of being from the Greatest Generation, is a sexist pig who thinks women are the devil? In two years he’ll be a 100 god damned years old.

Not excusable, but I mean, I’m just… not shocked, honestly.

Your honor this man is accused of selling the world in exchange for a pound of marijuana.

I don’t think that’s really the point that the person you’re responding to is making.

I was discussing this is another sub the other day: The real issue is the stagnation of worker pay and businesses turning to business-to-business sales since consumers no longer have money. Corporations have money, and they’re happy to sell products and services to each other, and make a lot more money doing it because they sell far more computing products (for example) at the Enterprise level than the consumer level already. Micron bowing out of the consumer market isn’t the first in a line of dominoes, it’s the last in a line that stretches back to the late 90s where business-to-business sales began to boom. The consumer market has been priced out in the West, and very arguably the vast majority of the Southern and Eastern hemispheres of the planet were always priced out of the consumer market either through trade embargoes or straight exploitation of labor. You really think the folks making Nike shoes for a few dollars a day in third world countries constitute a large portion of the consumer market? They don’t, and never were. Corporations were fine without those people being part of the consumer equation, and they’re aiming to be fine without us. As corporations keep more and more of the profits and less and less goes to consumers, they’re building an economy that effectively doesn’t need average consumers to continue to function. This is all honestly horrible, and I hate it, but the dark reality is that voting with your wallet does basically fuck-all because they already gave up on consumers a while ago. This is evidenced by stats like in the US the top 10% of earners accounting for 50% of all economic activity in the country, while the bottom 90% of earners, (the vast majority) make up the other 50% of economic activity.

Vote with your wallet all you want, but stop pretending it does more than you think it does. It doesn’t mean it does nothing, but it does a hell of a lot less than it would have fifty years ago. This is purposeful, the corporate class wants us to be priced out of being able to vote with our wallets. So don’t get it twisted, nobody is saying “throw money at corporations anyway” they’re saying “maybe don’t bank on voting with your wallet accomplishing much at all.”

If all you’re doing is voting with your wallet you’ve missed the bigger picture by a mile and just are barely making a real impact at all. In the USA, the bottom 90% is still over 300 million people, since USA is roughly 350 million people. Unless you get a massive, absolutely massive, amount of those 300 million all boycotting major corporations, you’re really accomplishing fuck-all.

But by all means admonish other people for trying to open your eyes to how far down this hill we already are.

EDIT: For some proof, here’s some numbers from Microsoft in 2025 -

• Devices: $17.31 B
• Dynamics Products And Cloud Services: $7.83 B
• Enterprise Services: $7.76 B
• Gaming: $23.46 B
• Linked In Corporation: $17.81 B
• Microsoft Three Six Five Commercial Products And Cloud Services: $87.77 B
• Microsoft Three Six Five Consumer Products and Cloud Services: $7.40 B
• Search And News Advertising: $13.88 B
• Server Products And Tools: $98.44 B

So for Devices, Gaming, LinkedIn, Office 365 for Consumers, Search and News all added together is $79.86 Billion, which is still less than just the Office 365 Commercial division alone. Also, LinkedIn and Search/News aren’t strictly consumer, either, but I bundled them in anyway to make the point here. The income businesses make by serving other businesses already fucking dwarfs the consume market, and has for a while now.

I scanned your post history and I didn’t see much that seemed connected to this post at all except that you don’t like what you’ve seen men post online. And that wasn’t explained in great detail either. I just am confused and curious I suppose, but if you don’t feel like saying, I don’t know what to tell you.