You guys are still using Google?

It has helped to improve on those issues though.

You know how easy it was when we were children? Just talk to someone and ask them whether they’ll want to be your friend.

Even though as adults we have added multiple layers of awkwardness and social nuances on top, I suppose that in its core it is still as simple as that. Just politely talk to someone and see what happens.

I always wanted to try that. Glad to see how it worked for you.

That’s rather optimistic, that she assumes there will still be elections in the near future.

This is almost every horror movie or series.

And now bring artificial neural networks, i.e., AI, into the picture to make it even more spicy.

It was certainly the last one that I voluntarily used.

Does this dog buff stack? If I get 5 dogs, wil? I have a ~100 % immunity for the next ten years? Is there a cooldown? /j

If you git gud, a lot of people will find you cunning to let you lingus.

Git is a software versioning system, originally created by Linus Torvalds, the inventor of Linux. If you ‘git gud’, you have mastered git. If you did not master it and your software stack became a mess as a consequence, you better ‘git out’.

Not using colors in scientific writing is discarding a valuable information channel and therefore inefficient. When you are already limited in the allowed word count, this can speed up conveying information and reduce cognitive strain on readers (and possibly yourself). So it’s a win-win.

This should not end in chaos though, where colours are more confusing than helpful.

The times when we had to print out each and every single page on a crappy black/white office printer are luckily becoming more and more a thing of the past. So even this is no longer a good reason to not use colours.

It’s nice how AI datacenters step by step swallow virtually all available hardware resources to provide digital services to users who won’t be able to use those services due to the lack of available hardware.

if anything the defamation was coming from emopunker, declaring people upvoting the thread […] as ‘the same person’

Fair point.

I am on the fence about the ‘snark comm’ ordeal. I think such communities are – to some degree – meaningful for a critical discourse. Imo, one should be allowed to point out and criticise users, communities, whole instances.

Then again, this should not make someone a target for harassment.

From my pov, it’s a question of balancing interests here: civilised criticism is important and should be allowed. Especially in such public spaces. Denying this due to a hazard of making them a target for people who see this as a ‘call to action’ would suffocate such discussions completely. So I’d address the harassers and sanction them, instead of people who merely point things out they find suspicious, as in this case.

So unless Emopunker directly incited the harassment or did it themselves, I’d lean towards: “yeah, somewhat uncool to throw such accusations in the room without further proof, but that doesn’t make them the culprit”.

Basing this on a temporal chain of events alone is weak. I’ll give you, that there might be a connection: names listed -> harassment started.

That does not mean that Emopunker is responsible though. Could have been another user. Could have been you for all I know. Could also have happened for other reasons. And, there is still the possibility that it might have no connection to this at all.

You’ll need to provide some stronger evidence, otherwise I’ll take this as baseless accusations and, possibly, a defamation attempt.

Feel free to deliver, especially since you seem to be observing this. I’d like to know whether an admin on the instance I am using is harassing people.

I followed your link. It shows a comment you made, yet with another link to a comment by Emopunker@feddit.org. And you claim that they harass people. The comment by Emopunker shows a screenshot where three usernames are listed that share similarities. Emopunker says that they have the suspicion that the shown users are the same person with alt accounts.

In conclusion: I wonder whether you forgot to attach some context, because based on this alone I don’t see anything that support your claims.

Naive question from a european: Aren’t there companies on the market who can offer a cheaper price and therefore beat greedy competitors?