wizardbeard

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[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 3 months ago (10 children)

Meh. I'd rather they have their meeting places out in the light like this than hidden away in the dark web or something.

Just block, defed, move on. No need to feed their narrative of being the last bulwark against the bad guys by dogpiling them. People are allowed to be wrong and you won't change their minds by storming in all righteous at them anyway. That will just entrench them more.

If you truly want to turn them, there's plenty of studies and research done on how to actually influence people and change minds. Some of it is even in leaked classified intelligence agency field guides, which is a fun way to end up on a list!

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 3 months ago

Here, I made it a meme! I think you accidentally posted a reading assignment for a history course.

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 50 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Pretty sure there's an old 4chan greentext about "Grug the angry carpenter" who succeeded a stealth check by using intimidation. "No one see Grug, and who do, know better to."

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 3 months ago

This is about all app makers, not just ones in the Google Play Store. This also applies to third party app devs and hobbiests making open source apps to put up on alternative app stores like the all open source F-Droid.

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

At least a little bit of it is because moving around with large breasts and no bra can be painful if they swing or flop the wrong way. I almost never see this brought up whenever this tired question gets brought up online.

Also would you rather try to lead a one (or few) woman crusade against hundreds of years of social conditioning about what'a sexual or not, while dealing with even more guys being creeps, or would you rather wear a shirt (and a bra) and a skirt and get on with your damn life? You can walk around however you want in your own place.

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 3 months ago (5 children)

I love Sheperd Book. I don't think we ever got an explanation for why he had an effectively "no questions asked" pull with the Alliance, and I kind of like that.

I would absolutely have loved more of the show and the world, but some aspects I think are better with no big resolution or explanation. Keeps the series and setting alive in my imagination.

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 3 months ago

It should also work with lemmy.dbzer0.com and the associated piefed instance. We're explicitly pro piracy, and I'm pretty sure the founding admin has checked and confirmed that we work through VPNs and TOR.

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 months ago

Gonna bury it so deep in you it'll need a tombstone baby 😏

Ouch.

"So how exactly did you break your pelvis ma'am?"

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 3 months ago

I've been coming for a whole mile and I think I need a doctor. And a lot more water.

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 3 months ago

It's absolutely intentional that tech bros stopped openly using the "move fast and break things" phrase. Sounds more violent and generally objectionable than "disrupt".

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 3 months ago

Yep. Pump the numbers and try to retroactively justify the absurd spending on it all. Everyone who accidentally opens it is another tick up for the user numbers.

I'm sure they also have some stats based on installs that this will spruce up too.

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 months ago

That could make for a fun little side plot setup. Whole town is convinced it's haunted, but it's just some guy who doesn't have a good grasp on common stuck in a cursed ring of invisibility.

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