Read mrmoneymustache.com.

I think we should take another look at Slashdot’s moderation and meta-moderation system:

• Users couldn’t just vote on everything; “modpoints” (upvotes/downvotes, but also with a reason attached) were a limited resource.
• Comments scores were bounded to [-1, 5] instead of being unbounded.
• Most importantly, what wasn’t limited was that users had the opportunity to “meta-moderate:” they would be shown a set of moderation actions and be asked to give a 👍 or 👎 based on whether they agreed with the modpoint usage or not.
• Users would be awarded modpoints based on their karma (how their own comments had been modded by others) and their judgement (whether people agreed or not with their modpoint usage).

Admittedly the exact formula Slashdot used for awarding modpoints was secret to prevent people from gaming it, which doesn’t exactly work for Lemmy, but the point is that I think the idea of using more than one kind of signal to determine reputation is a good one.

Think about it, you outlast planets and stars. When those go dark, but you don’t die…nothing to do but float in space.

LOL, that’s just the beginning – only on the order of 10¹² - 10¹⁴ years. After that, you’re going to be waiting around for proton decay (10³⁶ - 10⁴³ years), all the way up to 10^10^120 years* for the final heat death of the universe.

(* Anybody know how to get Lemmy markdown to do nested superscripts?)

going to HR over this seems ridiculous

It’s not.

More to the point, you should do so before he beats you to it, complaining that you’re not being a “team player” or something.

Or you could be trans, apparently (3^rd panel): https://reallifecomics.com/comic.php?comic=july-3-2020

You weren’t misgendering; you were meming. Modifying one part of “the man, the myth, the X” to adapt it to the situation is fine and good, but when you start swapping out too much of it (“the X, the myth, the Y” – or worse, “the X, the Y, the Z”) you lose the reference.

The new Lemmy !lemmaroo@lemmy.world

It’s crazy how literally every problem in the US is, at its root, a zoning problem.

The “intelligentsia” of the Republican Party are dyed-in-the-wool fascist complete monsters like Roger Stone and Steven Miller. They are cunning, dangerous and should not be underestimated.

The only reason they did as much damage as they did, was because actual law enforcement reinforcements were not called in on time.

Let’s be clear about this: law enforcement was minimal to begin with, and reinforcements were deliberately refused, because the people in charge of them were trying to help the coup succeed.

AFAIK when people talk about modern bikes being less maintainable, what they mean is that there’s been sort of a proliferation of more proprietary parts (especially headsets and bottom brackets) in the last decade or so, along with a Gillette-razor-style arms race of increasing numbers of rear sprockets (with correspondingly narrower/more delicate chains). Frankly, it’s probably not that big a deal: you just have to get the right kind of tools to deal with the kind of parts you have, and replacements might be a little more expensive than if they were more standardized.

However, if you really want maximum ease of maintenance – or especially if you’re going to be, say, doing bicycle touring in some developing country where it’s hard to get fancy parts – IMO you can’t go wrong with a plain old threaded square-taper bottom bracket (don’t go so old-school that you end up with ashtabula, though), cup-and-cone threaded headset, 26" wheels, and a rear freewheel or cassette* with 8 sprockets or fewer (so you can use “normal” chains). Basically, all the stuff you’d find on an old '90s mountain bike.

(* I should probably have an opinion about freewheels vs. cassettes to go along with the rest of the opinions, but I don’t know enough.)

Ironically, a Toyota. Specifically, my 1994 4Runner (that’s from back when they were still the same as the famous indestructible Hilux, BTW). I’ve owned it since just before the pandemic and still haven’t managed to get it to run right yet. It’s been parked for months because I can’t find any mechanic willing to touch it.

The lesson here is that when people say the 3VZE is the one bad engine Toyota made, believe them. The most common advice I’ve read for fixing it is “rip it out and swap in a 5VZE,” which I’m seriously considering.

I got a copy of Turbolinux 6 from a Hamfest and never managed to get it installed correctly. A few years later, I did succeed in running Debian and Gentoo in college.

We also don’t have control over automatic number plate recognition, surveillance cameras, etc.

I, for one, have consistently avoided publishing photos of myself on the Internet my entire life (and I’ve been online since the '90s, so I was really ahead of the curve on that), and even shy away from being in other people’s photos as much as possible (sometimes you can’t avoid it without consequences, such as if it’s a driver’s license photo, or imposed by your employer, or the news covering an event you’re participating in, or that sort of thing). Even then, I still have very little confidence that I’ve managed to stay out of these sorts of facial recognition databases.

The games I bought (not licensed) on Steam are also products (not services). Anybody who claims otherwise is either a self-serving liar or a fucking moron.

I can easily imagine it. I’ve still got boxes full of software on floppy disks and CD-ROMs that I “perpetually licensed” (a.k.a. bought), so don’t try to bullshit me that it isn’t possible!

“Perpetual licenses” are what used to be called “normal sales.” Every “licensing” scheme except perpetual ones are scams!

I imagine this is a fuckcars zone but it’s a hobby for people.

More than you know: even I use a bicycle as my daily-“driver,” LOL!

Of the six cars I have, only one isn’t an old, unreliable project car and/or two-seater. Even then, I only have that because my parents essentially forced it upon me. (They have some kind of silly hang-up about having a cargo bike be my sole means of transporting the kids, other than public transit.)

Perhaps ironically, good urbanism is what gives me the freedom to treat cars as a hobby instead of a necessity, and I firmly believe that’s the way it ought to be. It’s a lot like how people can be into horses while also still understanding that it’s a dumb idea to commute to work on horseback.

Presumably anything you’d agree to while buying from an independent dealer would be between you and the dealer, not you and the manufacturer, right? I don’t understand how the manufacturer would be a party to the transaction.

(It might be that I’m naive about how modern car sales work.)

Hence the “…with a problem” part.