The irony here is that saying “Black Lives Matter” roots out who secretly hate about 20 percent of the population. They hear it and they just can’t keep their mouths shut, right?

I’M the one in your analogy saying Black Lives Matter. I’M the one saying that there is a minority group worthy of consideration. Everyone tripping over themselves to explain to me why rural people amount to, and I quote “a rounding error” are the people who are behaving like bigots.

Read the comment chain again? After buddy’s initial response I just plainly outlined my position. I wasn’t like “you idiot, how could you possibly misunstand my one-word comment” because that would be insane and unfair.

After my explanation, he completely ignored literally everything I had said and at that point it became obvious they were arguing with a strawman.

Unless you can help me connect the dots between “I support public transit, I want north america to have what Europe has” and their bizarre assertion that somehow I’m arguing against it, then I don’t know how anyone could say that their response was even the slightest bit related to what I’d written.

I mean, my input was that I think it’s shitty to suggest that things are complete solutions to any societal issue when it requires ignoring massive swathes of the total population.

I think it’s shitty when it comes up to double down and say those people don’t matter.

I think it’s shitty to say “well they chose that so fuck em”

Like, can you imagine saying “fuck people in Flint MI, they want safe drinking water they shouldn’t live in Flint, they chose this.”

So, I mean, that’s my point.

I could and did forgive the original response for exactly the reason you said.

But in my follow up, I clarified my position and point, and that being ignored is why I’m stating it as being a strawman. I explicitly said I support public transportation.

Let me say it again: I explicitly said I support public transportation.

Let me say it a FIFTH TIME NOW: I SUPPORT PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION.

How many times need it be said before buddy stops characterizing my position as being against public transportation?

Sincerely, how many times?

It’s unrelated because you’ve constructed a strawman who doesn’t want expansion of public transit who you’re thrashing when literally nobody has said that and literally everyone here has explicitly said they want expansion of public transit.

I take public transit EVERY DAY. I loved my time city hopping in Europe. I want that SO badly for north america. I’m a very vocal proponent.

I’m not disputing the benefits of public transit.

I take public transit EVERY DAY. I loved my time city hopping in Europe. I want that SO badly for north america. I’m a very vocal proponent.

I grew up in a rural area. Our small area tried earnestly several times to get a bus route going. First with old school buses and then with some old city buses. They just couldn’t make it work. The population density just couldn’t support it.

My issue, as someone with their feet in two canoes, as they say, is with the mentality that rural populations are rounding areas unworthy of discussion or consideration. Broad statements that erase rural existence is alienating to these admittedly small percentages, but is alienating nonetheless

Rural

I’m still missing something here. For it to be useful, I’d imagine that it would need to inform decisions, and do so where existing senses would fail.

At least in my environment, if I can smell rain, I could also just as easily use my eyes to see the cumulonimbus clouds and say “rain, due east”.

In the savanna are there scenarios where the only awareness of rain would be smelling it? Can you derive directionality at 5 parts per trillion? Does it matter?

I can easily imagine someone saying this unironicaly

That’s an interesting description of lemmy.ml

I’ll just say that hiding not only the instance, but also any comments from any user registered with that instance has made my Lemmy experience about 1000 times better.

Edit: oh shit I’m thinking lemmyGRAD.ml lol

Oof owch owie

It was a fucking ballsy move to advertise their Xmas NFL livestreaming during that trainwreck

Power costs is a poor tax in the same way skipping the dentist and getting a root canal later is.

Also in the process of power efficiency-izing my lab. It just wasn’t a feasible option before, I didn’t have the means. I just paid interest via electricity.

Modus Tollens

Whisper is fantastic and has different sized models so you can zero in to what gives you the best mix of speed/accuracy for whatever hardware you’ll be running it on

Lol oh shoot, I’m terrible at this app

100 million people even getting involved twice every four years (once for the primaries and once for the election) they could literally put anyone they wanted with any policy into the white house.

Pretending voting fixes issues? My brother in Christ you guys couldn’t be bothered to vote! Trump lost ground in terms of absolute number of votes. Fewer people voted for him in 2024 than did in 2020.

Like jfc imagine saying voting doesn’t fix things 2 days after an election where you forgot to vote.

They are saying:“The idea that the Harris campaign didn’t pledge enough support to Israel as a justification for her loss is equally as insane as a typical qanon conspiracy theory”