ogmios

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[–] ogmios 2 points 20 hours ago

It's more about Internet speeds I think. When I download I can almost always get whatever near instantly from hundreds of active seeders. There's simply not enough demand to tax the networks to the point they need to connect to small timers like me, I imagine.

[–] ogmios 3 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

I rarely even get anyone requesting a single byte, regardless of how long I leave torrents open.

[–] ogmios 15 points 1 day ago (5 children)

It's pretty hard these days to even get some seeding done on most things I look at.

[–] ogmios 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Trying to push the entire world's population into the same spaces. Sometimes, it actually does make sense to have spaces specifically for those with common experiences, like men's and women's spaces, or nationally segregated political spaces.

Social media NEEDING new content by the minute simply in order to survive.

Heavy reliance on volunteer moderation.

[–] ogmios 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)
[–] ogmios 7 points 2 weeks ago

Bingo.

The only people you actually end up reaching are people with good intentions who don't need to hear it in the first place. "Stop taking advantage of people" is a message which can usually be dispensed only by force. The moral panic over "toxic masculinity" did very little to affect those who actually caused problems, but a great deal to disenfranchise those who would actually make bad actors stop taking advantage of others.

[–] ogmios 10 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

They destroyed far more than just America, everyone's just too myopically focused on America's problems to notice what they've done to themselves by attempting to copy the digitization of society.

[–] ogmios 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

That's exactly my point. If you come into a conversation and start declaring the definitions have to be different from how the speaker uses their own words, because people they've never even met said so, that's not a good faith effort.

[–] ogmios -2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

The point is that you have to make a good faith effort for communication to be possible, which you are not doing here. Language evolves organically, not by the dictate of a legally mandated authority.

[–] ogmios -2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (6 children)

Well if you actually want to communicate with others outside of academia, you're going to have to get used to attempting to understand people rather than constantly trying to "fix" them.

[–] ogmios 31 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

Whoops. Accidentally suppressed discussions regarding the accidental suppression of discussions. Those darned silly technical glitches are just so unpredictable.

[–] ogmios 5 points 3 weeks ago

Reformatting.

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