If there’s one issue, ever, that you should be at least a little “both sides” on, it’s this one.

There’s no way you can honestly argue only one side of this.

And they think everyone just ate the WMDs in Iraq thing. No, I was there at the protests. Many of us knew it was a bullshit excuse.

The only thing Iraq and Al Qaeda had in common was the Q. We knew that then.

They were gonna raise the rent anyway.

That’s what bitlocker is supposed to do. It’s kind of the whole point of bitlocker.

One of my last comments on Reddit was about this.

The biggest difference I’ve noticed is that people have stopped reading sentences. They’ll read all the words and then upvote based on the feeling those individual words give them. They won’t consider the meaning of all those words put together.

And yeah, “upvote does not mean agree” is something Reddit has always struggled with, but it has definitely had exponential growth lately.

It has made me start writing more clearly. There are comments I’ve written that have been wildly misinterpreted from my actual meaning. Part of that is that I tend towards sarcasm, and it doesn’t translate well over the internet no matter how absurd I get with it. But I’ve also started aiming to use more simple sentence structure.

Keep in mind that in these situations it’s not always their fault. Sometimes two other people have pulled in straight and they’re the third. Then the other two leave, and they just look like an ass.

Or maybe they’re just an ass. Can really go either way.

Web Dev can be a focus, but you’re still just looking at development in general.

Any time in the past 40 years I would have told you absolutely. How things are going to turn out in the next couple years I couldn’t tell you for sure.

About half a million tech workers have been laid off in the US over the past year. I expect salaries to come down, and work/life balance to take a hit. How much of one is still in the air.

In six months it’ll probably be a lot easier to answer this question.

Wow. I’d be self hosting mumble for that. Or using Teams.

It’s great for real time discussion. It’s terrible for anything else.

It’s IRC, not a forum.

I do all, show nsfw on a Lemmy.world account and get zero porn.

I generally do top 12 hours or I get days old stuff. That could be it? Or maybe he’s just scrolling a lot farther than I am.

It felt more like he was trying to exploit the concept for attention and popularity in the most tone-deaf, transparent way possible.

I still think it was more of a business decision than anything else.

What you’re missing is that you’ll drive up the price. You’d be validating everything Spez did by turning it into a reason people want to buy Reddit.