1. Neighbor + Yagi + xfinitywifi

Surely you know someone’s Xfinity password, or you can make a little grouping and split it

When did MigratingApe do any anti-AI trolling?

I have no idea, nor do I care to investigate how a mod handles things on a small community.

I feel like this isn’t the post / the community for you then. In my opinion it is relevant whether or not someone who’s being banned actually objectively did anything, and I feel like I’m not alone in that. But if you are convinced that it’s totally irrelevant (and at the same time that what some other people did is super relevant), then I feel like we can agree to disagree on it and conclude our conversation at this point.

comes across as dismissing the idea that they exist

If anyone is getting that impression, then hopefully me and others talking extensively about them and their real existence, in the post text and in the comments, will dissuade them from it.

The mod in question studiously avoided getting involved in the thread where people who hadn’t done anything were complaining about their bans, but then did decide to jump into one of the threads where one of the trolls who was giving cartoonishly horrible abuse to them was complaining about their ban.

If you do get a response from the mod, let me know, I’m definitely curious about what they have to say about.

Just saw your edit. When did MigratingApe do any anti-AI trolling? The whole point here is that random people are getting caught up in this who are objectively not doing anything remotely related to anti-AI trolling, hence the quotes.

A couple of people who were banned asked about that, and there wasn’t really an answer. IDK if this post is the right place for it, it sort of seems like it’s walking up to that line of breaking the community rules by being the drama instead of posting about the drama, but yes it seems like a reasonable question to ask to me.

Oh. IDK why I didn’t see that coming.

Anyway, the post before it was deleted was more or less a carbon copy of this post, except that it was made by one of the trolls, who actually do deserve to be banned. And so, all of lemmy.world took a look at that and said, “Yeah that’s messed up they shouldn’t ban you for no reason,” and all of dbzer0 took a look at that and said “But you’re clearly a twat so of course they banned you, YDI”. I don’t know if the two camps had a chance to have each notice the other and start fighting, but people are already talking in these comments about a reason to block all of dbzer0 as a result, which I think was exactly the kind of intended response for this to generate.

I just blocked their whole instance the other day.

Yeah, see, this is what I was talking about with this whole thing being to gin up pointless drama.

db0 is clearly fine. Being overtly “pro AI” makes them a little anomalous on Lemmy, but it’s whatever, they have sensible reasons for it and it is fine. This kind of slap fight developing can lead to this balkanization where now one person is the “enemy” but no actually it’s this other person that’s the “enemy” for some stupid kind of reason, and now no one is getting along because they’re all in little tribes that mutually hate one another.

Haha thank you. I like to hear myself talk so it works out.

Yeah. That’s one thing I really liked about the Slashdot voting explanations (and their whole system), it indoctrinated a sense of responsibility. There’s a whole separate issue where the “free account” model sort of creates a sense of entitlement where no one really has to take any good care of the space.

Also yeah, the whole issue of votes as dopamine-delivery systems, versus votes as ways to surface good content, as two very different things. I feel like they’re both good aspects to the system, but they are separate things that are a little bit tangled together right now.

Seriously.

I can hear directly from the horse’s mouth from someone who went through World War 2, fought in a trench and saw all the tanks, saw their friends die, had all these crazy experiences.

I watched Dunkirk and I didn’t like it because it was all a bunch of crap. Roald Dahl already told me how it was (not in France, in Greece, but sort of the same situation) and it just wasn’t like that. He watched German fighters buzzing around and picking off ships in the bay, from up on the hill, he went up in the air and flew around with bullets whizzing all around him, and then he showed them to me. Even if someone’s not an expert writer, if they were there, then they can tell you. Someone who just works in an office in Hollywood probably can’t tell you shit.

I can hear from someone who worked in a hospital ER, someone who survived a concentration camp, someone who lived in the boonies in Africa and got out and yelled at the giraffes and had scares with lions and poisonous snakes. Redmond O’Hanlon took me up the river in Borneo and we ate cooked worms together and the guides had a little celebration because they thought we’d never make it through the jungle because we’re old and fat and white. I saw Gene Kranz walk outside the building and cry, because in one of the simulations he fucked up and killed the whole crew, and he couldn’t handle thinking of it if it had been real. I was there the night that Elie Wiesel’s father died in the camps.

JRR Tolkien learned the secrets of life and death in the worst places in the world and he told them to me, the best he could put them together. Richard Adams too, and Harlan Ellison.

Is it the same as being there? Not even close. Is it better than just going to the store and talking with my coworkers? Fuck yeah it is.

Just in time 💔

Think of all the stuff they are breathing…

He’s not defending Trump. He’s just clarifying an important point of truth.

If you have the habit of wanting simplistic ways of looking, simply because in this case it’ll make your enemies look bad (even if they are, as in this case, very very bad people), you should break that habit. Sooner or later it will turn on you.

I have no idea why so many people are snatching onto this thing as a reason to say bad things about him. I sort of suspect it is because of addiction to “gotcha!” and being able to be superior to people. He made an important point unclearly, and than clarified. That’s okay. It’s Twitter. He’s way ahead of the curve even for a normal social network, and he’s been using his Twitter account to publicly shit on Trump for quite a long time. You should give him credit for also being committed to precise truth at a time when it’s not very popular at all.

Hope you enjoy! Yeah, for me it is the best. It’s pretty horror, as horror goes, just so you’re aware.

Yeah. “Nightmares and Dreamscapes” was out of the cocaine days and into the normal period, so I don’t have the same level of love for it as I do for the earlier stuff, but it still had some absolute gems. It was still in the golden age.

They also made a made-for-TV miniseries of “The Langoliers” which was far better and more accurate than it had any right to be. Whoever did the CGI for it clearly had basically nothing to work with and still did their best lol.

“The Last Rung on the Ladder,” “The Mangler,” “Gramma,” “The Raft,” “The Jaunt,” “Graveyard Shift”…

Patriots are defensive, for shooting down other missiles.

I actually think, weirdly enough, that Trump is telling the truth about wanting to arm Ukraine right now, but if the Patriots do get diverted they would get sent to Israel to be used in shooting down other people’s counterattacks.

He explained right after when people got salty about it:

Did Epstein traffic young girl? Yes, of course. Is there a client list? Doubtful. Conspiracy fodder.

I’ve actually been deliberately not using the phrasing “client list” for this exact reason. Trump admin people talked about a specific client list, of course, and there were surely multiple lists of people involved in Epstein’s files, but the idea that there is a single master list of “clients,” with people either on it and guilty, or not on it and innocent, is almost certainly false and probably a harmful oversimplification in both directions.

“Cannot confirm because Trump is talking out of his ass and it’s a coin flip whether there will even be any missiles but they’re definitely not on their way right now like he said they were, any more than Jeffrey Epstein was a fake story made up by the Bidens.”