Sam is still around though, I saw a video he put out a couple of weeks ago about presidential pets.

That’s incredibly aggravating. I won’t ask you to dox them but you should absolutely call them out on their bullshit with this information.

People being given false information like that from trusted sources is how we end up in situations where a significant portion of the population believes that an election was stolen even though all evidence is to the contrary.

No you didn’t.

Adderall is a mixture of levo and dextroamphetamine. It’s not until the methyl group is added that amphetamine becomes the highly addictive life destroying meth.

Please learn to research this before sharing more of this misinformation.

Wiki pages: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amphetamine https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methamphetamine

Chemical formulas: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/Amfetamin.svg/1024px-Amfetamin.svg.png

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4d/Racemic_methamphetamine.svg/440px-Racemic_methamphetamine.svg.png

Health article discussing meth and it’s chemical similarity to Adderall: https://www.healthline.com/health/adhd/how-do-adderall-and-meth-methamphetamine-differ

Perspective is always biased. Telling people you work for the company helps explain why the person is posting so much from that single source and helps readers be informed regarding potential bias (intentional or unintentional).

This can help to combat misinformation and foster better conversations knowing that the poster will discuss things from a company positive point of view that not every would share.

I’ll just put this fire with the rest of the fire

I get the temptation to feel that way, but this development should be seen as a really good thing.

1st we have started to electrify everything which is fantastic but it’s a Pandora’s box, no one can just put that technology back in the box and we’ll see continued development and improvement which reduces CO2 output.

2nd we needed a way to remove the extra CO2 from the atmosphere without overtaxing the environment, this should help us do that and get the planet back to a healthier position.

Depends on the person in question. Some don’t as you’ve said some do.

Source: I’m engaged to a Taiwanese person with family back in Taiwan. Her parents would hate it, her siblings laugh.

Thank you! I wish you the same

I’m not attempting to excuse the behavior by any means (no matter how much it sounds otherwise).

Just explaining that this is behavior we can and should expect from an authoritarian state with no regard for human rights. Hopefully that clarifies things a little bit.

Glory to Taiwan and their West Taiwan acquisition project!

Read the article, it’s no exploit, it’s China.

Mooches?

I’m not familiar with the word in that context.

Honest question, how would they be able to do damage via the federation protocol?

My understanding was that it sends data regarding posts comments and actions to all servers.

The closest I thought I had was some kind of instance ban but while that gets federated, it doesn’t result in a ban elsewhere

Instance a bans user foobar Instance b sees this information but foobar is not banned by instance b.

We saw some of that with the hexbear drama a couple of months back

Honestly, with the user level blocking feature in personally against instance level blocking as well.

1. I strong believe in user choice. It’s clear from this thread that there isn’t an overwhelming majority in favor of instance blocking threads. There does not appear to be one that’s not in favor.

1a) if the instance held a vote on the matter id naturally accept the majority choice.

2. if privacy is a concern (which it should be because Facebook), we’re already screwed. Fediverse interactions (comments posts votes) are a matter of public record. So even if we block threads at the instance level, they can still zuck up our data so we’re not really gaining anything there.

Edit: if you’re going to down ote, be better than reddit and expand your thoughts. We’re here to discuss, not act like children redditors

You’re a wonderful person

Therein lies the second problem.

Do I express sympathy for the guy touching MTG?

Or do I point out he’s a Republican so fuck em?

I’m a bit lost on protocol here.

Do I express sympathy?

Or do I just point out that’s probably the closest any guy would ever want to get to touching MTG?

You know that’s fair and I appreciate your follow up. I personally need to do some research on Rossman so for that thank you

I wouldn’t say it’s dishonest. I should say it’s discussion with the evidence that lead op to their point.

Using their data and our data leads us to an agreeable middle ground.