In 5 hours when the Mexicans start banging next door.
In all honestly, just try to talk to people. It does not always work. Some fuckwits are mods for the narcissistic idiocy. Be the change you want to see, and then push your way into the cultural discussion.
Like 90% of the time, sending a PM is more than adequate to curb behavior. Every mod action is harmful without exception, as proven by the prisoner's dilemma in game theory. Negative feedback is incapable of producing positive outcomes. Adding as little negative feedback as possible creates the best environment for everyone.
If you want to be a mod, that means sorting out flags by reading into the situation from both sides. I will not tolerate bigotry or personal attacks of any kind. However, every individual has a right to all information, a right to skepticism, a right to error, and a right to protest in nonviolent forms aka the right to offend others. No one has a right to infringe on these same rights of others.
My personal feelings are irrelevant as a mod. I will not take actions against someone if I am participating in the conversation. I will flag the issue and PM another mod. I try to remember to sign my mod log messages because I have nothing to hide and despise any coward that lacks full transparency from a position of authority. I am the janitor. I clean up the messes. I read into the details of every flag. I am just as likely to take actions against the person that flagged the issue. I usually contact both parties in a PM too.
I have experienced many bad mods, but that is my catalyst. Everyone is valid, even if unpopular. Everyone has a right to error because that is a primary way that we learn. The only scope that I will bias heavily is any issue with diversity and especially any transgender negativity because the Fediverse is a safe heaven in that regard.
Dichotomous logic is a sign of stupidity and something to avoid with self awareness. If you are unwilling to reach out and take as little action as required, you a doing it for the wrong reasons and ultimately harmful. Immediate emotional reactions are harmful. Think stuff through from all perspectives and give every benefit of the doubt as possible. Everyone has a right to have a bad day too. Don't let some halfwit reaction make their bad day worse even if you disagree strongly as a person. A good judge always separates their emotions from cognitive logic. Being a mod is not hard at all. One just has to care. The community is self regulating with flags that indicate when action is needed. Micromanagement is a mental disorder. The best communities are often those with inactive mods.
My favorite surprise language is very very Asian looking with a hillbilly southern accent and slang. Really any distinctly atypical phenotype mixed with redneck is fascinating. I can easily opt out of my southern accent. It is not my default. I find it funny how some people cannot switch it off.
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It is a digital slavery system. If a different business model prevailed, the stalkerware junk could be removed. That realigns news with meritocracy. The right to own a part of people to manipulate and exploit really is the fork in the road where everything went wrong for civil rights.
Inherited wealth is the other major issue. Large scale inherited wealth is civilization scale terminal cancer. Business acumen and intelligence are not hereditary in humans. Meritocracy rules all things. Without meritocracy the system always fails. War is usually the only way to fix the lack of meritocratic hierarchy. Japan is one of the only countries that has solved the issue civilly by preventing most of the wealth transfer. Those that cannot lead turn to exploitation as their only form of business that is reliable for returns. You cannot get more exploitive than "You will own nothing..." You have no autonomy or self determination as a citizen when you own nothing. The reason you own nothing is the chain of legislative tyranny that is rooted in digital slavery and stalkerware of the "free„ internet.
Not what I was saying. My intention is that a better informed world existed when a newspaper was minor pocket change. Minor pocket change is the golden standard; not subscriptions; not user accounts; not some minimum transaction for middlepersons nonsense. I should be able to easily create five bucks online with little effort and setup a thing where every time I visit PieFed or Lemmy, or use FreeCAD, or KiCAD, or update my distro, or use Graphene, a proportional fraction of a cent is allocated. These projects then have the opportunity to report their overhead for hosting and expenses in terms of the actual end user's "cost". Keep it all optional. The key is to make it as frivolous, noncommittal, and private as the spare change in one's pocket used to buy a newspaper from a machine or street vendor, but brought into the modern age where every writer and section of the paper needs to be paid directly.
Some people want the paper delivered and on their driveway every day. That type of system is fine and a primary form of support. For the average person, every such commitment is a stress in the uncertainty of scrounging by most of the time. There should be a way of contributing that is not predicated on rock solid financial stability.
Like with my auto body paint businesses, I had massive overhead to float for supplies. I actually make a small fraction of that money. If I land a large account for a used car lot. I may need to go a month or two before my purchase orders get paid and I may work on 20-30 cars in that timespan. That is $20k-$40k in billable work and I'm footing the supply bill until that clears. I cannot tell you how many times I've been begging jobbers for credit, getting super creative about how to mix paints when I'm missing some tones, and eating whatever the dollar store has on sale. It is boom or bust when dealing with used car lots. I had the same working union jobs. That type of person is likely to want to contribute when times are good, but never wants to commit beyond the here and now. The lack of privacy, and minimum arbitrary standards to support specific projects that disproportionately contribute in ways that do not reflect their use for the user, are reasons for most people to avoid contributing anything all together. The initial hill to climb is too much for most people to overcome. All I am saying is that the hill should be much lower, and the stalkerware snipers and toll bridge troll at the top should be dispatched. The system should be a true nonprofit and target a model with nano transactions like AdSense, and the culture of EFF and FSF.
Sales bs has been totally disconnected from actual specs for a long time. Like shopping for hardware a few years ago, I could not rely on any sales garbage for info. I only looked for verifiable model numbers and then looked them up on linux-hardware.org because those scans list everything the Linux kernel discovered.
That is where you are projecting nonsense into my words. I only speak for me and my experience. I never presume to speak for anyone else. I know what I do not know. I never claimed something was universal. I claimed that your universal is offensive and prejudiced me while trying not to be confrontational about that. If you wish to experience the misery I went through that is entirely up to you. Such is not universal. An intelligent person learns from their mistakes. A wise person learns from the mistakes of others. If they choose to listen or ask questions, sharing my experience gives others the chance at wisdom from what I have learned the hard way. I believe toxic and harmful relationships are universally bad. You are welcome to dispute that if you would like. If you are advocating for harming others, such spurious sadism is rather malevolent and disgusting from a sadistic type of person that lacks many levels of self awareness. That is most unlikely. Much more likely is the possibility you are projecting your own misery onto others, and if that is the case, I am sorry for your misfortune. I do not wish to state what is or is not. I am aware I do not know you and I certainly do not wish to steal your narrative voice.
For someone in a position like myself, I am not conventionally disabled. I am fully mobile, but unable to sit up or stand for more than a few minutes. Both are the same to me. I must stay laying down most of the time. I cannot even get dressed and travel someplace and retain any meaningful part of myself. I am in constant pain that never fades, and I will die young and in terrible misery. I love some stranger I have never met enough to avoid them. I do not wish to be their burden, to watch me falling apart and die young. There is no foolish fate in the world. No one is at a loss if I abstain. That is a special circumstance. Still for others, before I was like this, I would have been much better off if I had simply explored my curiosity and interests. The people I met along that path were many orders of magnitude better for me than those I found while looking.
You don't understand what I have said. The idea that people must partner is nonsense. I am not required to be a beggar. Implying that everyone must pair is nonsense. I do not care where people meet. Being happy with yourself if far more critical when it comes to building a good relationship. I have been in many long term relationships. When I was young, I made the mistake of thinking I had to "find someone" and compromise. That was one of my dumbest moves in life. The idea that this is normal is idiotic and a main reason people get in terrible situations in life. Work on you first, then you will find someone that intersects your life in naturally compatible ways. If not, that is fine too. Going looking only results in finding people that like to go looking. That results in misery unless you want to spend your life looking.
You are also inferring that my preferred sexual orientation as asexual is invalid. That prejudice is offensive to me in its primitive lack of self awareness and depth.
I never said that. You are crazy. You have no grounded scope of the subject as a whole. I'm talking about far more than you realize, but have no way to fix your ignorance because you have multiple errors stacking and have not given me enough information to diagnose those issues. I do not mean any of that as an insult or to be mean. I was young and ignorant too. You have made assumptions that are incorrect, and I would like to help but cannot.
Y'all are stupid halfwits. I'm in social isolation from physical disability.
Anyone can detect any transmitted radio signals. The ARRL books explain how. I'm too lazy to go look at my copy to photograph the section of the physical book in my room. The frequency licensing is totally irrelevant here. That will just be changed and noise will get broadcast over the band. If you keep trying to transmit, someone will find you. You are literally creating a beacon in all directions that points at you. Everyone will be listening, but one by one there will be no one to listen to. This is standard stuff. Every military unit has radio counter measures. You are very limited in real output power already. The big boys will blow you away because they have no such restrictions. It is one of the reasons why there are power limits. Now if you can hide something useful and encrypted near the noise floor, that is one real possibility, but in this age of software defined radio, you are still going to get caught.
Some of us do not have a choice at all.
Why does anyone need to have such a desperate mentality? Being alone is far better than being with a terrible person.
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Are y'all coin flip relationships quality? I want enough time I do not think about that person in any type of addictive or reminiscent context. I want my relationships to be clean slate with a clear head. I do not care if that takes months or years.
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