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What would also greatly help too, is for moderators and admins to have some balls and neutralize said trolls instead of sometimes letting situations play itself out.

Furthermore, I believe that if moderation is as skeletal as some communities tend to be, it is time to put the power back into the user. I have seen wonderful features and mechanics in place, the problem is, is that those features are spread about in various platforms/sites. Like Gaia Online, old as fuck avatar site, allows you to lock your own threads. Imagine how useful that would be and yes it can be exploited but then that's when a mod/admin can come in and decide to deal with a user who'll make shitty posts only to lock them.

The Fediverse's weakness is that when you block someone, you can still see that they can reply to you, even if you don't see them. The notification can still register them as anyone else who responds.

I just think with more tools available for users to fend for themselves that aren't having to always go to the mods/admin or having to mass-report in the off-chance a troll deletes their account to come back and do it all again. With more tools, it would try to help make communities more positive than seeing how long they can endure.

They had it right for a while when you could install Linux on them, but Google decided we couldn't have nice things and ruined that.

Eh he's 93, he'll rest in piss anytime now.

After seeing how Chromebooks were, which were treated as just Android-like OSes in laptop shelling. Absolutely not.

Dude, I've found car drivers far more aggravating than bicyclists. The most a bicyclist has ever annoyed me is when they don't make their presence known enough. I just happen to sometimes, find them near seconds of almost hitting them and I hate that. When I rode bikes, I tried having devices or things that make my bike have features a car would, even turn signaling.

But drivers? The level of entitlement and selfishness of a driver is off the charts.

I end up sometimes giving up on having the thing. Because sometimes it's an effect of just feeling personal greed.

But I will almost never give in and pay for the thing. Some things out there, aren't worth the price and even if the price was right, it's not worth the support.

Like Microsoft, I've not paid for a single Windows OS in my entire life. I've always gotten Windows second hand or buying machines off from people who happen to have the latest Windows on it.

Adobe, haven't paid a single penny for their Photoshop program, kept pirating.

Part of pirating is just wheeling and patience. You will eventually, one day, get what you seek.

I see it as 25/75.

25% you can say that the reason capitalism is getting away with more than it should, is because consumers are buying at the ridiculous prices.

75% though, is capitalism deceiving and scheming the ways possible to get people to bite.

Yes, a mess indeed, Amy. What the fuck is this stupid good at that doesn't constitute a mess? He's a legal nightmare, I'm having a hard time figuring out a single thing him and his administration has done that didn't immediately or later, break some kind of law.

Part of the problem that we have in this country, is that this idea of "Separation of Church and State" (which I quote because it's a joke now), is dead. I don't care if you're a running pastor who aligns themselves with Democrat. Democrat or Republican or Independent, your religious beliefs have NO place in governing everyone else's lives. Especially lives of those that do not believe what you believe.

We've suffered enough of that shit and we're suffering it now.

History is an orchestra of this. Constantly showcasing events that pre-dated them happening to the aftermath of them happening.

Science Fiction authors from the 40s, 50s and 60s toyed with many scenarios and theories about where technology would wind up. Half of them were right, half of them were wrong. I think it'd be a dumb thing to say what you quoted.

Root causes, huh, like instilling a president that has had a history of actively rooting for his voterbase to "fight like hell, you're not going to have a country anymore". Among other violent rallying cries.