Dirt_Possum [she/her, undecided]

As other comments have stated, there are good, beneficial reasons to having solar panels in fields, at least in some number of circumstances. And the car park solar panels fortunately are happening more often. Several of the hospitals and their outlying healthcare offices in my area have done this over their parking lots, and so has the community college. In the latter case it was more of a cynical ploy to get more local libs to vote yes on a measure to give more money for construction on the school even though most of it went straight to raises for the administration, all while they laid off adjunct faculty and cut community programs like the theater arts program and planetarium and tore down the dorms that had been giving students a cheap place to live just to increase the parking spaces - but hey they put solar panels over those parking spaces so stop complaining! There may have been similar shitty motives for the hospitals too that I just don’t know about. But yes, more solar panels over concrete especially when providing a secondary benefit for people (sadly even when it is car-brain adjacent) is good and should be done more.

“I’m not owned! In fact I’m laughing! I already knew how people would call out my hypocrisy but I posted cringe anyway. All you did was prove me right because I foretold it to myself.”

Also notice that they’re saying we’re the ones doing “reflexive allies and enemies framing.” Meanwhile the person this user is sticking up for literally maintains a list of people he considers enemies because they’ve been critical of the things he is publicly doing that harms the fediverse. This user doesn’t see that as “allies and enemies framing” though. Zero self awareness while coming here and concern trolling by saying people here aren’t being self-aware.

To an outsider’s perspective you read like someone with an agenda trying to muddy the waters. No one who has even the most passing understanding of what a harassment campaign is or looks like would see this thread and think that’s what’s going on here. People justifiably laughing at some bozo who put them on an undesirables list because they said things he didn’t like is not harassment. Wherever you’re “sitting,” it is definitely not from some neutral third party position like you’re implying, so stop making a fool out of yourself by pretending it’s the dozens of the rest of the commenters here who are saying things they’d look back on with regret and self-cringe, instead train that “outsider’s perspective” into a mirror.

Can you specifically go to “user reviews” using the website without getting a login wall?

I’m not sure why other commenters are able to do this without an account, but I also was surprised just now to click on user reviews to see:

Sign in to access user reviews - See opinions from other fans, or write your own review.

It’s getting worse and worse with this shit all over the internet. They have fairly successfully already enclosed most of the commons, now they’re building up the walls higher and higher. It’s all about control and of course tracking. I used to use a frontend libremdb.iket.me to access IMDB, similar to nitter/xcancel to read twitter or invidious to watch youtube. But it looks like IMDB made sure that is completely broken now.

Edit: It’s also a way to make people use the app instead of the website. This too is happening all over, reddit is well known for doing everything it can to force people onto the app, and their specific proprietary app. And it’s for the same reasons I mentioned above. It’s a lot harder to block ads from the app, but viewing the website with uBlock Origin on (and I refuse to browse any of the web without it, personally) you don’t have to view a single ad. And again, control. You have a lot more choice and options using a web browser, not to mention somewhat obscure your identity, even though that’s also becoming more impossible with browser fingerprinting. But using an app let’s them curate exactly what they want you to see, including ads, and also gives them your exact unique identity. I don’t know, I won’t use the app, but I’m assuming you have to have an account to use the app, so of course people on the app aren’t going to get a login wall because they’re already logged in.

Fuck corporate enshittification. Fuck IMDB. Fuck Amazon.

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The site could also be set to display whatever font it wants but also set to list standard fonts that also work which the browser can then choose from on the user’s end if the user doesn’t have the first choice font. That way you the user don’t have to worry about it and there is no way to fingerprint by the browser just handing out an entire list of fonts installed on the user’s system. There are plenty of ways to make things like this work, but the incentive is to keep them as they are or to increase uniqueness so people can be more easily fingerprinted.

Yeah I guess it was human expression that confidently insisted superglue was a safe ingredient to put on my pizza to hold the cheese on it. I don’t even give much of a shit about LLM slop on the occasions it’s accurate, it was your bad faith and absurd response to the other commenter that I was calling out which you ignored in order to shift the discussion to philosophical arguments about AI that make you sound like the entrepreneur genius Sam Altman or the other tech bro capitalists trying to keep that bubble from popping.

I was taking the statement about what you found “fascinating” in isolation because it was phrased as such. You were surprised that the other commenter could find enjoyment in “something” not knowing how it was produced then feel less enjoyment after learning more. That is a silly thing to be “fascinated” by because it is something that the vast majority of us are keenly familiar with. But because that commenter has qualms about AI which you don’t, you suddenly can’t understand how later information about something can alter one’s enjoyment of it? It’s an absurd thing to say. As is your sunset question. I don’t get upset looking at most AI slop either, but I absolutely do place it in a different category than either a natural phenomenon or something I know was made by human expression and if you can’t understand or recognize that difference, I don’t know that anything I could say could help you with that.

That’s a tankie. nutbutter is asking what a tankLe is. I think it’s safe to assume they’re just playing around because the title font (at least as seen from Hexbear) makes the letter ambiguous.

I also see that while you answered the perceived question correctly and succinctly as always, CobraCommander didn’t catch the joke either but went on to parrot fascist propaganda instead.

it’s also fascinating how you could enjoy something if you didn’t know how it was produced, and then the act of knowing would remove the enjoyment you were deriving from it.

Would you feel differently about, say a book you read and somewhat enjoyed if you later learned it was written by a fascist? It sure would make a difference to me. Have you never consumed any sort of media that you later felt was tainted by who created it, or used a product that you later decided not to use again after learning how it was produced? There’s even a colloquialism referring to this very thing, about “knowing how the sausage is made.”

It should be, yes. But browsers like Chrome are literally made by the company that stands to profit from fingerprinting you, so they’re always going to be made to make it easy to do just that. Firefox at least has “resist fingerprinting” option which apparently can limit font visibility to only base system fonts rather than fonts you installed and language-pack fonts. LibreWolf has this on out of the box.

Actually, the anime The Promised Neverland does it, too.

In the A Song of Ice and Fire books, followed by the unfortunate show made from them, Tyrion Lannister also does this with Little Finger, Varys, and Maester Pycelle. I’m pretty sure it’s also used in the Deniro/Pacino movie The Heat. I don’t think this exact story device really has a set name per se, but similar things have been called canary traps, so maybe that’s part of why you were reminded of it in relation to warrant canaries. Broadly speaking, it’s a mole hunt. A very similar concept but not exactly the same would be a steganographic leak test which is what @[email protected] commented about.

Just like the Iranian diaspora chuds who were cheering the mass murder of children in their “homeland” are also wholly unbiased, totally and completely free of any distortion, leaning, or parti pri, right?

No, the people who bailed from their country are going to be the most biased. Not to mention there is an entire industry built around paying defectors to say bad things about the DPRK and that they even try to out-do one another on how extreme their stories are. See Yeonmi Park While you’re at it, see: What’s the Deal with Defectors? or Loyal Citizens of Pyongyang in Seoul

edit: Some more from a Dessalines comment:

• Is north korea a totalitarian dictatorship? Are they all really required to get the same haircut? A short documentary.
• South Korea boosts reward for defectors to $860k USD.
• Are north korean defectors really paid to lie by the south? A short documentary.
• What is everyday life like? A conversation with a North Korean Citizen.

Nah. All those henchmen who “fought to the death” are almost never even given a chance to surrender. The excuse is closer to “it was in the heat of battle” but the only reason that excuse doesn’t fly for the villain is plot armor. How many of these movies even have the protag doing stealth kills of guards, coming up behind some poor underling on watch duty and doing the magic neck-snap move or a knife to the throat or a quick pewt-pewt from a “silenced” gun before the guard even knows what hit them. Those guys were probably the most likely to lay down their weapon and say “yeah, go ahead, I’m not paid nearly enough for this shit,” but they don’t matter because they’re underling fodder. We’re never introduced to them as having any motivations or personalities, so they’re just there to provide some action. They are not to be given moral consideration, only the villain is shown with agency, so the audience is only supposed to care about what the “hero” does with the villain. It’s laziness that is widely accepted and goes mostly unquestioned because of what Collatz_problem said, it’s class morality and we’re all used to that because that shit is ingrained.

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This is like something one of us hexbears would put in c/badposting as a mockery of liberals and how baseless and vapid their grievances are with us because they can’t even formulate any coherent arguments. But it’s so cringe and so on the nose that it would have to go in badposting rather than one of our quality shitposting comms. But here you are, actually posting it in .ml’s meme comm.

Seriously, without having checked their post history, just going by this post alone, I’m not convinced that u/Dragon here isn’t actually an ML doing a bit to make fun of the dingbats who use “tankie” as an unironic insult.