Translation: Creating a recurring meeting to look into changing to the our processes to have better PR while not costing any money.

Roughly translated from management speak: We’ll need to come back to this specific aspect of the discussion on its pwn later, so we can more directly focus on this one part.

Could be blowing smoke to get someone stuck on something to let go so the meeting can move on, or a legitimate “this part deserves its own dedicated discussion”.

There’s a decent bit of good “steering” of groups and discussions that comes out of management speak, but the word choice and phrasing makes it needlessly opaque, and very “fellow kids”.

Sometimes the opaqueness can be intentional too, to avoid making someone feel like their idea has been dismissed, or to slow down somebody while they parse what was just said so they can’t keep rapid fire talking and dominating the conversation.

If you’re into emulation, it’s a legitimately good sidescrolling shmup, and if I remember right, the music was great as well.

It’s just that absymal translation that launched it into meme status.

I swear, every time I start to think that I go overboard with this sort of shit in my scripts for work, I either find another ridiculous edge case or a story like this comes out.

Excuse me what the fuck? I didn’t do any of that you absolute psycho. Go take your meds.

I’d been content to let you stew in your suckiness. This is beyond the pale now. I’m reporting you.

Edit: I had a full response typed up and hit cancel instead of preview. Fucking hell. It was beautiful. So here’s the cliff notes. Please pardon the shortness.

TL;DR- You’re full of shit. You saw an opportunity to try and use my admission of using 4chan as a stain against me, hoping it would make people just believe at face value that I would doxx you for some reason.

I think this is one of the first times I’ve even interacted with your dumb ass. There’s no reason for me to even imagine doxxing you.

You didn’t post any receipts (of the modlogs, I’m not telling you to post the supposed doxx before you start accusing me of more insanity), so I scoured things myself. Timelines don’t add up.

Most of all, his reply to another comment in the thread here:

Beyond all that, I’m beyond fucking done with this. I’ll leave it up to the admins. As I said, I already reported this. If I still feel strongly about it after Thanksgiving I might make this into its own post, but I doubt it. I’ll just be happy to see this shit gone.

Oh no, in literally quoting the name of an ancient 4chan meme I used a no-no word! This is some of the most pathetic crybullying I’ve seen in ages.

What was that you were saying in comments on this very post about the worst thing about fedi was how everyone is expected to be nice to each other? The claims that I had my feelings hurt? All the shitslinging you’ve been doing up and down the comments of this post?

And now you cry ableism about the literal name of a meme? This is absurd, and as I already said, I prefer my clown shows to be funny.

Whatever issues you have in that head of yours, it’s past the point where responding to you helps make things clear for anyone else, and I’m no longer having any fun with it. I just feel bad for you. I was serious in my earlier comment about hoping that you get through whatever has you so damn aggro in these comments, and I still hope that.

I’ll miss the rare post from tankiejerk, and I definitely will miss lotrmemes, but I won’t miss these poor excuses for comments, and I’m not sticking around to see if you manage to get your shit together. Blocking you and any comms you moderate. Guess you won pigeon chess.

Edit: bored while taking a shit, needed a break from PowerShell scripting and Youtube. was curious about a comment this far into a subthread on a day old post getting downvotes from more than the shmuck I pissed off

Using both your accounts to downvote my comment? Naughty naughty. And a good reminder to make sure I’ve got both of them blocked.

Double edit: Yeah, they did that for all my comments in this thread. I don’t care about the imaginary internet points, it’s a matter of basic ettiquette on sites with voting. Any and all sympathy I had for this shitstain is gone.

Far from it. I spent more time on 4chan and its even less known spinoffs than I suspect you’ve spent on your critical thinking skills or education. Fuck nice.

All I’m looking for is a little intelligence and basic reading comprehension instead of whatever embarassment of a clown show you’re throwing.

Once again you’ve failed to get a cheap shot in about something I’ve neither said nor implied.

If this is intentional trolling, then I guess well done? I’ve never been a fan of the “i was only pretending to be r[EDIT]ed” technique myself, but a reply is a reply I guess.

This post is more reciepts on the shit state of that sub for anyone who might want to ask lemmy.world admins for mod rights of it, or who might want to make an alternative. I have no interest in herding the troglodytic cats that make up people online. I’d have to deal with people like you more regularly.

Edit: Removed the slur.

I absolutely deserved it.

But you’re leaving out some context and pretending that somehow is irony or lack of self awareness? I know what I did/am doing.

I don’t feel it’s respectful and rule 1 of that comm is “Be Respectful”. This post isn’t respectful and neither was mine that got removed.

I’d also argue that pointing to someone specific and saying “their actions give me a anuerysm” isn’t “calling out their bullshit” so much as a drive-by mini-rant.

There’s plenty of comments “calling out the bullshit” fairly well under that post about the thorn user: Depending on the time period of English, using thorn for “th” isn’t even accurate. It absolutely doesn’t achieve the intended effect of tripping up AI scrapers or poisoning their dataset. It’s a hindrance to smooth reading by other humans, and could cause issues with people relying on assistive technology. Those are all the ones I saw before I blocked the comm.

Beyond that, my own critique: It causes massive derailments of the conversation when people inevitably start commenting about the quirk instead of staying on topic.

Those are all “calling out someone’s bullshit” without inherently attacking the person. If the post had omitted the username I would have blocked the poster and moved on with my life. If it had also been more like the things I just listed, I would have just downvoted and hidden the post.

Simply putting a crosshair over the guy and going “this gives me an aneurysm” doesn’t actually do anything except say “this individual pisses me the hell off”, which is at the very least both not respectful and more extreme than “mildly infuriating”.

I absolutely believe that it’s targeting as well, but that’s a personal belief that isn’t anywhere as relevant to the coversation due to it not being as important to that comm’s rules. The argument stands without it.

You’ve been incredibly aggro up and down the comments here. I’m sorry for whatever’s got you pissy.

Anyway… Where in my post did I ask for any sympathy?

As stated in the prefix, I’m not upset that my post was removed. That’s well deserved.

I’m frustrated that whole community has gone to shit, I’m not the only one feeling that way, and the issue largely seems to be due to a lack of active moderation team as evidenced by two of three having no activity for a year plus.

Did I not lay that out clearly, or are we going the bad faith route where you propose to know more about my own motivations than myself?

There’s multiple projects out there for it. Windows 10 Ameliorated is/was an open source project of PowerShell scripts you run against the installation media (and I think afer install, it’s been a while) to get LTSC Windows 10 stripped down as much as possible.

It’s what I run in a VM for my work’s VPN connection software (and then for the RDP session too). Keeps an extra level of separation from my personal stuff.

I could probably get things working in a Linux VM, but it’s not worth the trouble for me.

As if recall wasn’t bad enough.

I mean, joke’s on them, Lemmy doesn’t have accrual of karma so there’s nothing to really “farm” using an LLM.

The last president to talk about that got a magic bullet for his troubles.

I might also look into Social Fixer, if that addon is still around. Used to be the best one for customizing Facebook’s bullshit away.

So, reading the short article, only one infected monkey escaped, per the sheriff’s office. Then the University they are from clarified that their infected monkeys are not contagious, and there were no infected monkeys on that truck.

The monkeys are for primate virology research.

Nice reminder of just how hard spun headlines are.

Welcome to the new global military industrial complex, where Palantir masturbates using international militaries pitched against each other.

I used to play runescape with a neighbor from elementary school up through middle school. We even gifted each other membership a few times for birthdays.

Lost touch with him in high school, except for one time he showed off that he was up pretty high on the leaderboards and doing competitive shit.

Ran into him this weekend, it’s been like 20 years. Both had our kids out at a park. Caught up.on a bunch of stuff, but my dumb ass forgot to ask him if he still played, and what he though of the upcoming sailing skill release in Old School Runescape.

Republicans are traditionally, and on paper, the party of “small government”. “Fuck off feds, it’s none of your business” type shit. Some just wanted a small central government that let states and local government make their own choices, some wanted as small a government as possible at all levels.

Which is also why you see a minority of old school republican voters refusing to call Trump’s clown show republican. And why I personally got so upset watching all the republican pearl clutching about homosexuality. How in the fuck is that anyone’s business?

That capitalization style is meant to be mocking, because the current dipshits in power clearly don’t have any intentions of “small government”.

Edit: You didn’t answer my question. You brought up what’s already been established.

Skull tattoo. I’m sorry, most Americans are not so familiar with Nazi symbols to identify that specific skull design as Nazi. Swastika, SS, Iron Cross, sure. A skull and crossbones? Wouldn’t clock it. I thought it was a generic “bad guy” symbol in the comedy sketch you have a screenshot from. And he’s had it covered up.

If he knew, why would he allow someone to take a picture of it?

So… your second point is just that you don’t agree with America’s involvement with those wars at all. Which is less to do with this guy than with America’s choices of war. Valid, I agree, but not a signpost that he’s a Nazi. Unless all Americans involved in those were secretly Nazis.

Look. I don’t think anyone’s calling him trustworthy or a good person, but this insistence that he must be a Nazi due to a tattoo that he’s gotten covered up, when he’s been so open about all of it is silly.

He didn’t try to get the photo taken down. He didn’t deny it. He didn’t get belligerant and say he wasn’t going to cover it up just to keep people mad. He’s not pretending he didn’t have it.

I’m keeping him on my radar, but when US politics is filled with so damn many overt and explicit racists and Nazis that are so damn comfortable being mask off, I’m not ready to stomp down on this guy yet.

A soldier, trained for warfare, and enjoying it is quite disturbing for people who never encounter it. I’m disturbed by it. That said, I’m not seeing anything about enjoying bloodshed there. He says he likes small wars because he feels there’s less inhumane brutality.

Is your problem that a soldier enjoys what they do? That makes them a Nazi?

I feel like your comment about killing civilians in the global south is making a big assumption that isn’t even really hinted at. In fact the opposite, as he talks about working with the local community.