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MentalEdge

@ MentalEdge @sopuli.xyz

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Eskating cyclist, gamer and enjoyer of anime. Probably an artist. Also I code sometimes, pretty much just to mod titanfall 2 tho.

Introverted, yet I enjoy discussion to a fault.

  • What is your preferred form of proportional representation, and why?

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  • The voting for small parties problem could also be address with multiple ranked choice voting.

    That way, candidates who don't win, can have their voters submit second and third choices, that are count when or if their primary choices don't win.

    That way, people can vote for their actual favorite, while without taking their vote away from a second favorite with better chances at winning a seat.

    This is especially important for positions like president, where only one candidate CAN win (some countries achieve the same with multiple rounds of voting, but you can theoretically achieve the same representation in one round).

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  • I expect you to stop attributing malice where none existed. To take back the words that expressed that idea the way I have.

    An maybe admit that "not how that works" isn't the tactful way to point out a problem.

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  • How are you reading my mind, and still so wrong about what I "deliberately" meant to say?

    I started off agreeing with you, and I still do. Rudely, but still.

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  • I mentioned ace because there is experiential overlap. But obviously OP isn't ace. They're into women FFS.

    You can assume whatever you like. I've clarified my meaning.

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  • I tend to do that when someone goes for the worst possible interpretation so they can assume ignorance.

    Frankly you walked in sounding like the kind of people who were mean to OP on discord.

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  • Duh

    Edit: I know I'm not being nice here, but "that's not how thing works" is how you correct someone when the main goal is feel superior.

    Even then I agree that the adverse interpretation was there, so I improved my wording.

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  • I wouldn't say it's wrong... But it might be inaccurate to call yourself lesbian. In that you don't fit what people expect that word to mean.

    I can tell where the disconnect comes from: most non-bi people find the idea of sex with their non-preferred gender repulsive.

    In that way your lived experience differs from that of most people. You have a clear preference, but it doesn't come with the sexual aversion for the other sex that most people experience.

    Your experience with men sounds closer to how some asexual people describe sex, than what bi people describe. So neither "bi" nor "lesbian" correctly describe you. If someone was rude in how they said that to you, that was uncool of them.

    I wouldn't worry too much. The important thing is that you understand yourself, which you seem to be well on your way on. If and when you need others to understand, you can add on some explanations.

  • How many Lemmy users post regularly (let's say daily)?

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  • I think if we include niches with users that post daily, but not necessarily to communities big enough to be seen by most, we can up that to 6.

    Maybe even 7.

  • Sony Shuts Down Nearly Its Entire Memory Card Business Due to SSD Shortage

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  • See, I don't see a difference between what you are describing and most corporate leaders.

  • Sony Shuts Down Nearly Its Entire Memory Card Business Due to SSD Shortage

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  • I didn't say a good job.

  • Sony Shuts Down Nearly Its Entire Memory Card Business Due to SSD Shortage

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  • Nah. It happens when you let an idiot run things.

    Mobsters are still organized businessmen. Just criminal ones. They'd do a much better job.

  • WHERE THE FUCK IS THE CURSOR?

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  • KDE: just wiggle it

  • I'm in.

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  • I'm in.

  • Micron says driverless cars and robots will need 300GB of RAM

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  • "You know that thing we sell? Buy a shitload of it."

  • Could online age verification be done in a way that protects privacy and autonomy?

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  • No. I'm asking how you'd make the child mode a truly one-way thing.

    And you've essentially just admitted that you aren't actually suggesting that at all.

    Physically blowing a fuse in a CPU to achieve an equivalent result to a text file containing a date, is a little silly.

    If you're gonna fall back on legal assurances anyway, simply make it a software thing. Not being able to just unlock your devices when you're old enough is a recipe for e-waste, anyway.

    In this system, no adults would have to age verify. No adult identity would be sent anywhere. All devices are "adult" by default.

    That makes no sense. A single bit isn't significant unless read and enforced by software. And if you're suggesting "burning" or "purging" some kind of token that is to be authenticated to show a device is in one mode or the other... Then you've just added a new kind of hardware id.

    And are you saying adults escape any kind of tracking.... But kids don't?

  • Could online age verification be done in a way that protects privacy and autonomy?

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  • Ok. So your variable is set in hardware.

    How are you going to prevent the OS or a program from ignoring it?

    How are you going to prevent ROM flashing or storage replacement to modify the OS or other software?

    I'd be surprised if debian.org or Microsoft.com would be considered child-unfriendly.

    The websites?

    The problem here is that the OS and all applications on them would need to change their behaviour based on the mode.

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  • I'm sorry. I hope you're ok.

    But don't go telling people their pain isn't valid. You literally can't know.

    And it's not your fucking place to ask. What you tried to do to me by doing so, I would never do to anyone. And I'm pretty sure you understand why.

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  • Alcohol is also harmful to adults.

    So is the internet.

    To engage with either without risk, mental fortitute and maturity is required.

    You should inform the underpaid workers going insane moderating facebook that the pictures can't harm them. I'm sure their need for therapy will instantly vanish.

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  • Sure.

    Reply to this.

    Not the comment where I actually make my case.