Something someone else wrote.

You were using an analogy where a bully threatens to beat you up and take your money.

No, I wasn’t.

That’s nothing like the current situation. The current situation is a nuclear armed nation is willing to wage an endless war and we’re throwing money and bombs and tanks at the problem trying to make it go away.

No, it’s not.

You’re comparing small scale things to nuclear scale things and it’s really just absurd.

No, I’m not.

Here’s what I’m getting from their comments:

“US bad, Russia good. I love Putin and anything that I can pretend is a communist nation, despite not even being slightly close”

Bullies also don’t have nuclear weapons.

Uh, yes. Yes they do.

It certainly can be.

Yes, there is. You have 705 post score and 565 comment score.

Some have sure, most I doubt. The largest instance certainly hasn’t.

Intent is irrelevant. Humans don’t work that way and will continue to downvote what they don’t like/agree with and upvote what they do like/agree with. Creating a system that ignores how people work and asking them to please use it how you want will never work.

Everyone should just embrace how it’s actually used and move on.

yet they’re not open to being alerted to problem posts (implied by the “checkmate” sass)

This is not the case, not they say “report and move on”. Reporting is literally alerting them to the problem post.

They are legally obligated for some US citizens. California (~40 million people) has a law similar to GDPR.

They also don’t have a way to check where you live so you can do the request and select either option (GDPR or CCPA) and they will fulfill the request.

In case you didn’t know and for everyone else that prefers the old UI there is a clone for lemmy.

https://github.com/rystaf/mlmym

lemmy.world has it installed at https://old.lemmy.world. The creator has it running at https://mlmym.org/ for other instances that don’t have it installed.

I don’t mind them existing either. My issue is with how they show up in the subscription feed now. I’d prefer separate feeds for shorts.

Broadcast not cable, and owned by Disney.

For this specific case, yes to the first question, no to the second question.

Admin refusing to do anything about a kid with a gun after being told a kid has a gun isn’t a funding problem.

They did the opposite and shoved a pointless shorts section in the middle of your subscription page so you can’t see what you actually want to look at.

I do and it’s already available at https://old.lemmy.world for anyone who prefers it.

Someone else mentioned old.lemmy.world if you like the old reddit UI. That one is closer to what I want personally.

But yeah, options is great. Just need a way to save a preference now so it will use my preferred UI when logged in. Either that or throw together a redirect plugin.

Unfortunately this is even worse than the default lemmy UI with even more wasted space on desktop. But hey, more options for people is always nice and hopefully some will like this.

I read the article, it’s also shit and fails to properly talk about the issue instead of ranting about data loss.

Did you read the article? Because as far as I can see it fails to actually say shit about the problem. From just this article I can see why people are blaming the author for not having redundancy.

The Arstechnica articles however do actually say what’s going on, so yeah this appears to be a real issue with these drives disconnecting.