Are they seeing a payoff or just not admitting defeat (yet)?

…It was about this time I realized the other poster was about 8 stories tall and was a crustacean from protozoic era.

dude who ended up as a soldier in a war while technically still participating in a marathon

Do you recall anything else about that guy? I just tried to look it up, and all I got was articles about Hiroo Onoda

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Hmm… All of them?

I don’t have kids.

Ha, ha, yes, I’m very funny :P

To answer your secondary question, well, I’m not sure. I can think of infuriating things adults did when I was a kid, but it isn’t something I think a lot about day-to-day.

Things like hearing a dismissive “No one ever said life was fair”, maybe.

Yeah, I get that, like blocking should be an extreme step?

But for me it’s kind of a defensive measure. I feel political-flooded basically all the time online. There’s no respite, so I have to carve out what sanity I can.

Well, I block posters and communities pretty quickly when I see politics. I already feel like I have to add to that list way too much. Worse would be “I can’t even click Next without needing to block another one”.

We love Furryosa! 🤍

I have mixed feelings.

On one hand, agreed @ wanting more variety in communities.

OTOH, Lemmy already has too much fucking politics. I don’t want whatever’s infecting reddit to become even MORE prevalent here. shudder

joke

Ahaha, yep, totally a joke.

Oh, don’t misunderstand me. I’m not here to defend stack overflow or anything. They’re absolute rubbish as a company. I just thought your “third way” comment was misguided.

But - codidact went nowhere. Reddit and now lemmy have never been helpful for my programming problems. What’s taking SO down is their deal with the AI devil? It’s funny in sort of a sad way.

Like Lemmy? The site we’re all using?

Cute. Except Lemmy hasn’t helped me solve any programming problems. StackOverflow has.

And I think you missed my point, so I’ll restate it: If this theoretical middle-ground moderation were actually viable, it would have eaten StackOverflow’s lunch like a decade ago. People were SALTY about SO’s hostility even before the “summer of love” campaign in 2012.

I’d be suspicious of a tres leches cake made with coconut cream. Somehow, I don’t think it would taste right.

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Well, no. If there were a middle ground, we’d all be using it.

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Can you even find a black-and-white CRT for sale anymore?

I had a CRT monitor back in the day that tipped off the edge of the desk while I was hooking it up.

CLUNK! - hiss

Welp.

I learned a valuable lesson about leverage that day.