You can approach it by asking what the best star trek was. He watched enough to allow the Borg to influence his political ideas.

(He will probably say TNG.)

Mermaid? https://mermaid.js.org/

Once i found a website that used data published by a municipality to show graphs of what firefighters were doing.

Mostly it was responding to non-fire related calls. In some places if you dial any emergency services they all show up.

Of the fire calls, most were false alarms.

I watched a long video from that guy once. He is a racist sexist crybaby who doesn’t know how to think or research.

You dont provide enough info.

The Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goy has sections on the term got as a pejorative or anti Semitic dog whistle. So you can see other associated signals.

Most truely anti semetic people are right wing so mentioning multiple times association with left wing as tho that incriminates him is incorrect.

Do a websearch for the creator name but you need to be extremely careful with what you believe because basically every public figure who is anti Zionist is smeared with anti semitism. So whoever says he is, you need to look at who else they are claiming it about and see if you agree or they are just misusing the term to slander the plurality of people who are pro Palestine.

Absolutely no reputable source ever lists being pro Palestine as an indicator of anti semitism. (Even if they are saying it about someone else.) So of you see that, you can disregard everything else that source says.

OK well then I should divulge to you full disclosure that I think you, like OP, are also probably not a hostile actor who is commenting to fuck with me specifically or ?lemmy users? in general. More likely someone who’s got a bit spun up their head. But I can’t say for sure…

As it happens, last time I was looking at different VPN vendors I had to spend a ton of time basically creating an abbreviated version of this chart that had the items most salient to my use case. To sift through the websites, forums, support sections etc, because the information isn’t clearly presented was annoying. They are all trying to emphasize their strengths to make a sale based on their marketing strategy.

I can say that this chart, exactly as it is, would have saved me significant time had it been available. I found similar but they were old. And I looked at it to see if the conclusion I came to is still the right one for me— it is. I can clearly see the required information.

Last time I said it was hard to figure out if this was some kind of malice or just someone without much experience/knowledge.

Totally disagree with the first few paragraphs. Someone makes a post you feel has inadequate depth and you think they’re the goddamned CIA? I don’t see any basis for the hostile tone.

If you need port forwarding for torrents, soulseek and usenet all at once then the tool is air.

But like it’s nice to be able to have a reference to quickly exclude certain options without having to wade through all their various websites. If you already know that you need port forwarding, then a chart like this will help you exclude several mainstream options. If there is some other criteria you already know about it could save you a lot of time.

A better start for this kind of post would be “here are some reasons to use a vpn service” or “here are some actual important differences between different vpn services apps”

Those do exist elsewhere and I don’t think there is much wrong with summarizing the current state of things for an informed audience. We are on lemmy here! I wouldn’t mail this chart out to the whole neighbourhood or anything, it’s probably not a good very first intro for most people. Although even for a person just getting started, having the column of criteria on the left could be useful to point out “what are the things to consider”. Like maybe you wouldn’t even guess that the number of devices would be limited.

Long narrative comparisons can be hard to follow. They are good for understanding the differences but then once you are having an understanding how do you pick? It’s very convenient if someone else goes to the trouble to sift through the information. On wikipedia there are some subjects that have tables comparing things and I find them very helpful. Otherwise I’d just have to spend hours making my own tables.

BTW wikipedia has a table comparing different kinds of wrenches so obviously someone thought it would be useful!!

The main issue is that the information could become out of date or erroneous in the first place so you need to verify for yourself whatever is key to your decisions. That’s just the nature of third party info.

I wasn’t directly involved in these situations but I have heard 2 different close secondhand stories where non English was banned. because to the ears of English - speaking people it sounded like the non English were using slurs or talking about certain English speakers in a way that would be considered inappropriate.

In both cases the complaints were made by black people. I think there can be complexity here

• in a lot of languages the normal word for black sounds like the n-word in English. It really sticks out even if some is saying “can you pass me the black marker” or other innocent and non hostile comment
• in a lot of languages there are using words that do in fact have racist overtones in that language. But the specific speakers in question may not care, may be racist, or may have insufficiently interrogated their use.
• Or frankly the sense that racialized people were being talked about covertly could have been correct.
• When it’s people just complaining that they can’t what conversations are happening around them (that they are not involved in) or white people feeling that they are being persecuted I have very little sympathy.

Even in a complex situation the banning of languages is unlikely the correct choice. Ideally workers could have a conversation to decide on etiquette.

Yeah I mean it was completely overrun by spam bots. But I guess McDonalds and Nike were never the beneficiaries of those. So in that way they were corpo-unfriendly. More of a small business libertarian vibe for sure. Boner pills etc.

But you do know that even at its peak usenet was controlled by a small, obscured clique of admins right? It was basically an old boys’ club. The whole nerd concept of “benign dictator”. Well it was a benign oligarchy.

At least on lemmy you know who the admins and mods are.

what’s the spirit of usenet?

we are on something like usenet right now

Ask the electronic frontier foundation

Fuck man I saw a post in the past week that it was 5%. At this rate we’ll be leaving M$ in the du$t.

thought they were going to throw pam bomdi under to bus

A doctor told me that if you aren’t asleep after 20 mins, you should get out of bed and do something quiet til you are tired. So you learn to associate being in bed with sleep.

Or as someone else told me: beds are for sleeping, sex and dying.