I nearly left lemmy because of Hexbear. Learning they could be blocked salvaged the platform for me. It’s not just you - they are pretty widely reviled.

Look at them trying to convince us there’s rule of law. Don’t worry guys, the system that isn’t completely corrupt to its core WOULD have worked. Source: Trust me bro.

You wouldn’t really want being a felon to prevent someone from running for president, because if they couldn’t there’d be a significant incentive to weaponize the DOJ against political rivals.

What a terrible day to be literate.

Just strawdoggin’ it.

The unintended consequence would not shielding the police from accountability as much as they intended to.

For… Karl?

Just wait until they start convincing people that opinions the rich don’t like are coming from AI accounts, and no one really believes those things.

It’s not about driving engagement. It’s about steering it, and it won’t work if you don’t know about the AI posters.

PSU - Purr Supply Unit.

I do not have this drawer.

I have two of this drawer.

Out of This World! No wonder the name looked weird to me. I had to look it up because it’s been so long I forgot the name!

I don’t know about favorite, but a game I remember playing ball in the Nintendo, super Nintendo days was a game called Another World. Never met another person who has played it except one of it irl friends. Wikipedia claims it’s one of the best video games ever made, oddly.

Kind of a platformer, kind of a puzzler, very surreal.

That game is the shit. It’s even easy to play on Windows now, which was very much not the case back in the day.

The problem with riling up crazy people is they are crazy, and as a result somewhat unpredictable.

Is .ee one of the ones with bad rep? I picked it randomly.

Is this whole instance like this? Like, is this another hexbear?

So are you just one guy with a lot of time and accounts to use, or is this like, a group of people working to make these low effort bait posts? I realize that might come across as dismissive, but I’m genuinely interested. Let’s chat!

It’s like you’re not even trying.

Nah, it wasn’t very clear in retrospect. That kind of snide comment doesn’t really translate to text very well. My bad!

Well, gaslighting would be trying to get you to question reality in some way. I don’t think that fits here. I was more implying he was being a dickhead. Because he was.