You’re probably right, but also, is it that big of a deal? I don’t buy just a screen protector, but the phone cases always come with one. I work construction, so I like to have a pretty durable phone case. I usually buy an Otterbox or similar. They always come with a screen protector, and I’ve never had a problem putting them on correctly.
I guess I just don’t see why NOT to use a screen protector if you already have one.
This exact thing has happened many many times in history. Not someone transported through time, but someone travelling to a place where nobody (or virtually nobody) speaks the same language, or even one related to yours.
I mean, for the extremely obvious examples, before the Columbian exchange, nobody in the Old World (Eurasia/Africa) had ever encountered any New World (Americas) language and vice versa. They managed to learn how to communicate within a fairly short time period.
But this was just the most obvious example. Until relatively recently (like past half millennia, or so), it was common enough.
You’d learn through immersion. You hear the language every day all day. You try to communicate by pointing and gesturing. Pretty soon you start picking up individual words (point at a piece of bread and say ‘bread’ over and over. Someone is going to respond with their word for bread. Do that a few times and you’ll learn the word for bread, etc, etc). That builds into common phrases. Before too long, you’re able to hold very rudimentary conversations, and it just builds from there.
There’s really nothing he can do about it at this point short of completely disappearing from the public eye. He’s so thoroughly fucked his reputation that anything associated with him is fucked by extension.
Even if he completely leaves any interaction with politics at all, he still has SpaceX, Twitter, and Tesla that will all maintain his status as a public figure. He’s not going to de-Nazify twitter. Telsas aren’t going to suddenly become good cars without a reputation of being swastikcars.
The only way he could stop being bullied by “the left” is if he sold off every company he owns and disappeared into obscurity. Even then, he’ll still get roasted online all the time. But if he avoids social media he could probably ignore it.
But that would all go directly against his nature. So there’s nothing he realistically would do that could get “the left” to stop being mean to him. It’s the rest of his miserable life.
Did you see him drop Ohio State’s trophy the other day?
Maybe he dropped the Pope?
Pat the bunny recently came out of retirement and released a new album called Friends in Real Life. It’s quite good, as is pretty much everything he’s ever done.
I haven’t noticed any moderation issues on lemmy.dbzer0.com
Mind if I ask what exactly you feel like is being censored?
I could go on a sub like NoStupidQuestions or AskElectricans, etc where someone would ask a question about some super obscure topic I happen to be knowledgeable on. I could write a long, in-depth response which would then get dozens of responses and further questions. I’d be engaged in the same conversation about this topic or that for days.
Here, it feels like 99% of conversations are about IT/programming, which is not my field, or about American politics.
If you wanna get into a really heady topic, see what happens when you put a piece of strut or gnd wire or another power wire in between parallel runs of power wire per phase on a three-phase AC system
I did a tenant fit-out in a new building where the base-building was still under construction by a different electrical contractor when we started our buildout. The building had a penthouse switchboard that was fed with 5 parallel sets. Except the other EC pulled it as 1 phase per conduit. So they had 1 conduit with 5x a-phase conductors. Another with 5x b-phase, etc. Even 1 conduit with just 5x EGCs.
I noticed it because we had to pull a new feed into their switchboard right before permanent power got turned on to the building. This was literally the day before the utility was supposed to turn on power, They were this close to turning on a 2000A feeder with a single phase per conduit. And it was all metal conduit. They’d have burned that whole damn building down.
I told them they did it wrong and were going to start a fire. They didn’t believe me at first, so I had to escalate it to my GC’s safety coordinator, who had to bring it to their safety coordinator. They refused to call the utility to cancel turning on permanent power, so my safety guy and I had to intercept the utility guys when they showed up on site to tell them not to turn on power. Man was that other EC’s foreman PISSED, but he eventually did have to pull it all out and repull it correctly.
this made me completely lose any sense of my place in reality
This is precisely why they used to (and still are sometimes, although not as often) be used for pilot and astronaut training. All the astronauts who went through the early Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo missions trained on one.
I went to Space Camp for a week when I was like 13. We all got to go in one for a bit. It makes you very dizzy.
Really just the quantity of people, especially on ask subs. Lemmy just feels incredibly empty. And the breadth of topics people discuss here is extremely small.
The censor specific words in comments rather than just deleting a whole comment? That’s some shit.
I was pretty active there, too! I had a long post about the differences between grounding and bonding that was stickied to the sidebar for a while. I think it’s still there…
Multiple accounts just gets exhausting
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Probably the Windows, then. Like I said above:
This new one uses Windows 11. I did log into Windows 11 with my Microsoft account. Maybe that’s how they tracked it? That seems far-fetched, but maybe?
No. Lemmy is the best I’ve found, but there aren’t nearly enough users to make it anywhere close to as useful as Reddit.
did you use the same websites on brave that you normally use?
No. I exclusively have used Brave just for Reddit specifically for this reason. I also used Edge, which came installed on the laptop. Maybe data from Edge is used in Brave or Reddit is somehow able to track that? I never went to Reddit in Edge, let alone logged in, but I did log into my Google account (which has never been linked to any Reddit account, but I’ve been logged into it on the same browser as my older Reddit account in the past).
did you use a different operating system?
I’ve used Reddit with my old account on Android phones and my old laptop, which ran Windows 10. This new one uses Windows 11. I did log into Windows 11 with my Microsoft account. Maybe that’s how they tracked it? That seems far-fetched, but maybe?
did you use a brave account on it?
No, and I only use Brave in incognito mode. I know that doesn’t prevent anyone else from tracking anything, but it’s supposed to not save local files after closing the browser.
did you verify that your vpn was using an exit point ip address that you’ve never used before every single time you accessed reddit?
I mean, I don’t track every IP address I’ve ever used. As far as I know it’s been a new IP address, but I really have no way of guaranteeing that. It seems incredibly unlikely I happened to stumble upon one I’ve used before, though.
most importantly: why bother using reddit?
Lemmy isn’t to the point where it can be a Reddit replacement. Sure, for some stuff it’s fine, but the user base is just too small. There are multiple subreddits for local communities around me that are very active which I like to check. There are communities for more niche hobbies, games, and books I like to follow. There’s just WAY more content on Reddit that you can’t get on Lemmy.
Nope. It was a temp email account from one of those temp email sites that deletes the email account once you close the browser. I have no idea how they were able to track me, but it’s kinda scary.
Could you imagine what language would look like 10-15 years from now if this actually took off.
Like, think of how ubiquitous stuff like ‘unalive’ or ‘seggs’ has become after just a few years trying to avoid algorithmic censors. Now imagine that for 5 years most people all over the internet were just inserting random phrases into their sentences. I have no idea where that would go, but it would make our colloquial language absolutely wild.