They must, by definition. So yes. But for the sake of illustration, let’s assume someone who acts like a sea lion isn’t arguing in bad faith, but they aren’t arguing in good faith either. Whether they and unintentionally annoying, or not, ultimately makes no difference to the people around them.

Let’s say a specific oblivious person is combative and persistent. They are not truly trying to understand something, they just want to be right. You try to explain why their responses could be considered rude and prompt self reflection.

A) Will they evaluate themselves and realize what they are doing? B) Will they argue because they insist on being right?

The former is a rude person, but they are someone trying to figure out the world. Whether you engage with them or not, eventually they will realize their actions are causing disengagement. We’re all trying to learn and become better versions of ourselves. This person made some mistakes, realizes it, then changes.

There is no point in engaging the latter. Their lack of self awareness is irrelevant to the outcome and your mental state. Leave them alone, and don’t respond. If you do respond, and they realize they are wrong, but continue: they become a sea-lion if the fake politeness, and troll if they become inflammatory.

Don’t feed the trolls. If they want to, “be right,” they can be alone in thinking they’re right, and you can get back to learning and bettering yourself.

None of this is in the comic.

No satirical comic literally explains the intent of the comic; intent must be inferred based on the events it depicts. Or you can search the internet, Know Your Meme attempts to track culture and context. Yay for them.

because they don’t let people talk shit about them

The manner in which you engage in dialogue is important.

Pretending to not understand another person’s viewpoint, and annoying them into compliance, is arguing in bad faith. Arguments in bad faith are malicious deception.

Nobody wants to speak with sea lions because even if you explain in good faith, it won’t amount to anything except your own frustration. A summary of the heart of the sea lion: Arguing with me is pointless. “And now that you’re mad, you’ll know better than to talk shit about sea lions.”

Don’t be a sea lion. You can protest opinions without being manipulative or rude about it.

The point of the sea lion is persistent argument in bad faith.

The difference between, “prove your opinion,” can be subtle in its difference from, “why do you think that?”

Insinuating someone is badgering and being maliciously dishonest, because they asked for context, is poor etiquette.

You’re using it well. Nothing wrong at all.

Butterface excels at keeping data safe-ish or at least lets you know when to throw in the towel, and which bits you’ve lost. It’s also write intensive if you open a file with write permissions, which is harder on your drives.

Btrfs is great for the data you want to keep long term.

Also UEFI has some nice advantages if your computer isn’t a dino that can’t handle it.

Do what works for you, and keep on keeping on.

Washington Privacy Act (WPA).

Plaintiffs’ operative complaint alleged that their vehicles’ infotainment systems download and permanently store all text messages and call logs from Plaintiffs’ cellphones without their consent.

[…]

The district court properly dismissed Plaintiffs’ claim for failure to satisfy the WPA’s statutory injury requirement. See WASH. REV. CODE § 9.73.060. To succeed at the pleading stage of a WPA claim, a plaintiff must allege an injury to “his or her business, his or her person, or his or her reputation.” Id. Contrary to Plaintiffs’ argument, a bare violation of the WPA is insufficient to satisfy the statutory injury requirement.

My blind guess is they are doing split testing with various ad-blocking measures.

Whenever someone interacts with the message, they know the popup worked. Best reaction is currently to use uBlock Origin’s element picker or zapper to hide the popup.

The company is likely gathering data in various blocking methods to see which is the most foolproof.

I mean, you could find out… unless you’d rather rely on internetizens to tell you the truth.

There are plenty of free online image protractors available. You could even print out a paper protractor and hold it up to your screen.

Being willing to try to answer your own questions, and then succeeding is one of the most rewarding feelings. Take a walk on the wild side, and give in to your curiosity.

Some people may think you are joking.

For those who do: I assure you, the arc in the picture is less than 88°.

Assumptions:

• The bottom right corner of the angle is the origin, putting the majority of the arc in quadrant II.
• 0 degrees starts on the positive x-axis to right.
• Counterclockwise is a positive angle.
• All degrees are relative to the edges of the picture.

The side nearest to the positive y-axis is at ~92.38°

The side nearest to the negative x-axis is at ~180.32°

The angle or the arc is ~87.94°

An actual 89° arc, I do appreciate. An 88° arc labelled as an 89°, I do not. I ardently hope you gain more skill in measuring angles, and have less malice that causes you to wish your misery on others.

As someone in the mid-west: Lawns are nice to keep out insects and weeds. Clover is also nice.

Mowing a lawn clears out flies like you would not believe.

My dirt has not been visible for almost 9 months. Milk thistle and rag weed are my bane. I don’t dare step into my front yard without overalls, gloves, and a face shield.

On the other hand, I appreciate how my 7 foot weeds provide a shade barrier to keep dirt moister and cooler, for the water table.

For text editing, I love Gnu Emacs. Cannot quite explain how much time I save by not having to reach for a mouse. Emacs pinky sucks though, slightly better with Ctrl and Caps swapped.

If anyone likes Vim, try Doom Emacs.

I offer two points for consideration:

1. Bees help plants maintain genetic diversity among certain plants that other pollinators may not target. Genetic diversity helps maintain a thriving variety of plant, tolerant to different environments. Especially important is our environments are changing.

2. Animals that are bred until they cannot survive outside of certain environments, (co-dependence) are destined to become extinct in the absence of said environment. (In case there’s any confusion, insects fall under the umbrella of “animals” taxonomically. Also, in this sentence, the codependent animals may be humans.)

Diverse populations of bees provide benefits and necessities outside of commercial purposes, and are going the way of the American Bison. (Please note the differences from the way of the dinosaur.)

Godbolt. Thank whatever cosmic great fortune sent goldbolt.

Nice! What security are you interested in?

Excellent. More of this sentiment please.

Also, it’s important for everyone to feel comfortable expressing their dislike for things, so long as jumping on hateful-bandwagons isn’t a source of social credit.