The funny thing is, the bigger these threads get over on Hexbear federated instances, the more users from instances like .ca, .ee, or .ml show up complaining about the Hexbears. That stays small in proportion to the actual discussion in the thread, but eventually becomes large in proportion to the stunted version of the thread that .world sees. So despite being defederated with us, .world threads slowly fill up with spam from users complaining about "Hexbear brigaders" as it leaks in and piles up from discussions and dunkings outside of their federation network.
cosecantphi
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Lemmy.world seems to be the only instance that would have been big enough to downvote us down the thread as viewed from other instances, but they defederated so we can't see them and they can't see us at all.
The rest that are federated don't have the numbers to do this, especially when you consider a large chunk of them are lemmygrad users who are posting side by side with us. So overall our higher posting activity (that is partially a result of the lack of downvotes changing how we interact) results in Hexbear user heavy discussions rising to the top of threads even as viewed from other instances.
To see the whole structure, go over to lemmy.ml or lemmygrad, find this thread there, then scroll. Toward the bottom you'll find a sort of underworld in this thread of lemmy.world users downvoting lemmygrad users into oblivion.
394 from the perspective of Hexbear. The pre-emptive lemmy.world defederation with Hexbear effectively splits big threads like this into two sections. At the top is the much higher activity Hexbear posting, and at the bottom is the lower activity lemmy.world posting where instead of substantive discussion, people who are in support of China just get downvoted to oblivion.
Ironically, Hexbear's total removal of downvotes on their end confers an advantage here. Discussions and dunkings involving a lot of Hexbear users tend to rise to the top of threads sorted by hot because the lack of downvotes promotes actual discussion upon disagreement. This results in higher activity levels than those produced by the passive downvoting behavior typical of more reddit-like instances.
Trust us bro, the hexbears are totally gonna brigade us bro, they're talking about doing posting warfare, they're digging the posting trenches, we gotta do a preemptive strike bro, they've crossed the posting rubicon, this is our last resort bro
This all reminds me of how r/chapotraphouse was constantly accused of brigading by other subreddits for the serious internet crime of, uh, having users that also post in other subreddits?
It was so funny how you could be arguing with a lib on r/politics or some shit when suddenly the lib brings up that you've previously posted in r/chapotraphouse and starts screaming to the mods about how you are, as just one guy having an argument, part of some kind of organized brigade
The hardest part to wrap your head around is the fact that the interior quite literally does not exist from your perspective, nor will it ever. From our perspective outside of a black hole, everything that has ever fallen into a black hole is not actually inside it yet, it is actually squashed up against the surface impossibly thin, asymptotically approaching the radius we observe as the event horizon. Due to time dilation, there is in fact no black hole yet; just a collapsing star paused in time approaching infinitely close to the moment where its mass is contained within its Schwarzschild radius. We can't observe these objects squished up against that boundary because the light they emit gets red shifted into infinity, but that's where they are and will remain forever.
But from the perspective of an object falling in, nothing special happens at the event horizon. It observes the flow of time to be as normal, and it simply becomes causally disconnected from the entire rest of the universe as it enters a space that does not exist for us.
I'm not exactly sure how black hole evaporation works into this, though. Just when you think you got something about physics understood, you realize you actually don't.
I don't get how cloud computing can really beat having your own powerful PC. No matter how powerful the server your connecting to is, won't the limitations imposed by distance and the speed of light always make it preferable for the computation to be done within a chip a few cm across rather than a server hundreds of miles away?
Especially when you’re watching a movie with your family or whatever.
When I was 15, I went to see The Wolf of Wall Street with my mom thinking it was going to be some sort of serious docudrama about shady stock brokers. Worst theater experience of my life.
People don't talk about this point often, but 2020 was the first year ever where the Iowa caucus vote counts were public and it became apparent to everyone within minutes after the polls closed what a rigged shit show it was. It probably killed the Iowa caucus forever.
Anyone who doesn't believe it was always like this is a fool. Remember how Bernie lost finishing within a fraction of a percent of Hillary Clinton's SDE count in the 2016 Iowa caucus? I'll bet anything he actually had more votes than her and it was the same type of shit as his "loss" to mayo pete.
Bernie had a ton more momentum in 2016 and it was just him and Hillary. Had he won Iowa, he would have won the primary as he caught them off guard with the unexpected popularity of his campaign. They had no tricks to pull after Iowa. That makes me think they must've rapidly pulled out all the stops to end his campaign right then and there. But thanks to the obfuscated vote counts, we will never know for sure.
Suzaku's thing throughout most of the show is his idea that it's not worth building a better world if you need to use violence and coercion to do it. And if he were just a regular guy with no stakes in any of this, that would be kind of an understandable take for him to have.
But the hilarious part is that he is continuously lecturing on about that as he fights as an elite soldier for the side also using violence and coercion, but with the actively stated goal of colonization and oppression of the numbered zones.
The only way to interpret this is to realize he's one of those types who seem to think it's not violence when the law says its legal and when the military does it. And in that sense he's a pretty realistically written liberal
Yeah it's definitely not an objectively good show, but something about it makes it easy for me to turn my brain off and enjoy it for what it is at face value. It's probably the fact that you don't often see media justifying violent resistance against a country that's somewhat of a stand in for both the United States and the British Empire. At the very least it has an anti imperialist slant
Dear Shitbird's boss,
Fuck you. If you continue to pay Shitbird their full wage to stay at home making Shrek memes, then I promise on behalf of Hexagonal Bear Network to commute your sentence when you are one day charged and found guilty of crimes against the revolution. Instead of being executed by guillotine in front of an audience at central park in Minecraft, you may instead be privately executed via firing squad in Minecraft. You have one day to decide.
Ever grateful, u/cosecantphi
Another type of liberal