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Oh, absolutely you should. I'm just saying that the way that you do it matters.

If you just say "hey you hurt me, that's not fair, you shouldn't do that anymore" and leave it at that, then there's a certain type of person that will start to look down on you because of it. I don't agree with it either but it is sadly how quite a lot of people seem to operate.

It was a contest of bravery to eat a whole lot of random disgusting or unpleasant things, and a lot of people started but by the time it got down to the onion round it was only 3 people. Before that it had been pretty quick and lighthearted, but when it got to be onion time everything just ground to a halt. These three men were just on stage sitting in their chairs with their half eaten onions, tears streaming freely down their faces, making raw vocalizations of misery or cursing or laughing or just sitting unhappily. Every so often, one of them would take another bite, and start forcing themselves to chew.

About a third of the way through the onion, one man threw the rest of his forcefully into the trash and walked off stage, shaking his head, not saying a word. The other two powered through to the next round.

I was pretty drunk and it was, yes, quite a long time ago, probably before most of Lemmy was born. I don't remember much of the rest of it, but the marathon of agony that was the onion round was so unexpectedly vivid and serious that it seared itself into my memory.

That variety of "Christian" certainly exists in America but I don't think they are as powerful as they used to be and I don't think they are in charge of the State Department (I mean... not currently, at least.)

Apologize publicly?

Fuck that

He should get to pour any liquid he wants into any bag or possession of hers that he wants to, an equal number of times, and she can't say anything about it and it'll all be on video and go up on social media.

And if she doesn't want that, let her try to explain why not, and put that on social media. You could try to time it right, so that right as she's getting kind of emotional about how she's so sick of all this bitterness in politics and what happened to forgive and live and let live, is right when someone's sneaking up behind her and pouring a pint of lemonade into her purse or something.

Holy god

I once witnessed a competition which involved people trying to eat an onion raw, like an apple, and it was unreal the level of pain and unhappiness they were all clearly experiencing.

First rule of getting bullied is never get mad and explain why the bullies are wrong

Just spend a little bit to hire a private investigator to follow one selected member of the NRSC around and video them eating at fancy restaurants, telling racist jokes with lobbyists, buying hookers, IDK what the hell Republicans in Washington do but I'm absolutely sure that if you followed them around you'd find something. Total up what their dinner bills are for the month and illustrate the total. Ask them who that blonde woman is. You know, just kind of follow the data. Then put all of that into a campaign ad.

The final segment of the ad can be you, sitting up on top of some of your farm equipment, panning around and showing your farm, and saying "When I'm not in Washington, this is what I'm doing. In Washington I drive a car. You caught me. The big problem here is me and my bleeping Prius. Hey assbleep: Get back to work. Quit having fancy dinners."

Then at the end is you getting in the Prius and driving away, with a voiceover "My name's Jon Tester, and I approve this message."

You could rotate around among different members of the NRSC every month or two, if you wanted, and try to make a little viral sensation that would build your name recognition.

Meta has been testing the Threads API with a small number of developers: Grabyo, Hootsuite, Social News Desk, Sprinklr, Sprout Social, and Techmeme

I think we're gonna have to agree to disagree on what they're saying they want

Read the username again, it's much worse than that

Be that as it may, Britain in the 1970s and before actually had a really good answer to this: The government just buys enough property and rents it out to people at reasonable rates, to puncture the bubble and make it unprofitable to be a landlord in the first place as a "job." People have affordable places to live, we don't have to have a fight about declaring it "illegal" to own or rent out property, and people with spare cash are motivated to invest it in businesses instead of in properties. Literally everyone wins. Which of course, means America will see it as communism and fight to the death to stop it from happening.

Not saying you're wrong in your solution either, just saying one other way which has a proven track record.

I get that, but in what world do you release a feature incomplete beta for a messaging platform integration where the "reading other people's messages" part is one of the features you're waiting until later in the cycle to develop?

And I'm not saying API access killed Facebook, I'm saying bot-scheduled inorganic content coming in a flood into everyone's feed even though literally 0 people want it there is what killed Facebook. And that by specifically calling out that stuff as what they want to bring to Threads (above and ahead of reading the Mastodon people's messages), they're showing that their priorities are so toxic that no good can come of interacting with them. It's the types of posting they want to create that is the problem, not the API that let those postings come into existence.

1. Let the customer service representative turn the thing on or off depending on what they want
2. Don't try to modify the customer's speech in flight. Just recreate the speech entirely when it crosses a certain emotion threshold. "Now you better listen to me--" (Donald Duck voice kicks in). Guaranteed that dealing with angry customers would become a lot less unpleasant. You just gotta modulate, so that it's funny enough to preserve the call center person's mental health, but not so funny that they can't keep from laughing.

You are correct sir or ma'am

On the other hand, there is this:

Meta has been testing the Threads API with a small number of developers: Grabyo, Hootsuite, Social News Desk, Sprinklr, Sprout Social, and Techmeme. These test integrations have allowed sites like Techmeme to automate posting to Threads, or Sprout and Hootsuite customers to feed Threads posts into the social media management platform.

We’re now waiting to see if developers will be able to easily build a third-party Threads app with this new API that’s not connected to a social media management platform. The existing fediverse beta could help with that, allowing Threads users to access posts through Mastodon clients and share content to Mastodon servers. The current beta of the fediverse integration doesn’t let users view replies and follows from the fediverse though

Up until this exact story, I was of the opinion that "honestly what's the big deal, like what can they really do."

After reading that hooking Threads into the spam-engines that so thoroughly fucked up Facebook was a big priority, but letting Threads people read Fediverse replies is still on the we'll-get-to-it list, I am for the first time of the opinion "Oh. I see. You guys were right. Everyone needs to steer pretty clear of this."

You know those monster movies where two of the characters get in a heated argument, and in the background the horrifying creature they kind of knew about (that the stress of is part of what is leading to the argument), is coming into the frame, slowly and silently getting closer to them while they are distracted?

In this case it is labeled climate change