I let them know, they just took care of it 👍
I really wish I could just drop reddit, it's a truly awful place that consistently makes me miserable
But there's so many topics and communities I just have no way of keeping informed about without it
Basically, for those of you here who ride a bicycle, what do you have in the way of bike infrastructure, and how pleasant/painful is it to cycle where you live? In my area, there's a small handful of mixed-use sidewalks (basically they made the sidewalk a bit wider, made it asphalt, and painted a yellow line down the middle) which are certainly better than nothing (especially better than painted bike gutters) but not really a connected bike network, it pains me to see how much could be done but isn't, it's not like there isn't the space or anything either
There's one of those paths nearby that's very useful to me for getting to a few shops, and getting there doesn't require cycling in the road very much, but going any farther requires me to cycle in traffic which sucks, thankfully the main street I'd be going down is still pretty residential so it's not too busy and isn't too fast (the sign's 50km/h, though tbf people do always go at least a bit over the limit), still feels dangerous though to have to rely on cars safely passing, especially when Canada absolutely has loads of large pickups and SUVs just like the US
The amount of hills in my area is also pretty troublesome, I had to get an e-bike just to be able to handle them at all, it's the only reason I'm even able to venture outside the neighborhood on this thing
I think I'm finally doing this "touching grass" thing people talk about, I just got an e-bike a few days ago so I'm finally able to get out of the house in a meaningful capacity since I can't drive and I'm horribly out of shape, this lets me get around to places I need to go somewhat comfortably on my own while still letting me get a decent amount of physical activity (certainly far more than the near-zero I got before)
I've done a few trips just for fun and it's nuts just how much more you pay attention to and enjoy the environment compared to in a car, but today I did a grocery run and it was also very practical, I got a decent pannier bag I can clip to the bike that can be used as a shoulder bag or backpack and it holds a pretty decent amount
For what it's worth, the harassment campaign was in full swing waaaay before CWC came out as trans, that was just extra fuel for the fire when it was starting to die down
If it isn't the biggest harassment campaign on the internet, then it's at least one of them
My thought about the person herself is that while she's a pretty garbage person, it's very clearly a result of the world around her treating her like shit on every level for basically her entire life, she grew up in a horrifically abusive right-wing household just to end up in constant attack by the worst people the internet's had to offer, with those people shaping every aspect of her "growth" from that point forward, to the point of the 4chan harassers even going so far as to give her multiple fake friends and people trying to "help" her just to end up being part of the harassment campaign so that she can't even know who she can trust even among people she knows IRL
Just a shitshow on every level and it's undeniable that she's a massive victim here even if she hasn't exactly been a good person herself (but again, that's largely because of how she's been a victim the whole time)
(I think CWC still uses she/her? Someone correct me if I'm wrong, it's been absolutely ages since I last checked for obvious reasons, I don't like looking into this stuff lol)
A few years ago, the bus service in my town made massive cuts to routes and frequency, making the buses pretty much completely useless to me, I really miss taking the bus places
But you know what I'm actually finding I miss the most about it? Having an excuse to actually get some reading done, I have an e-reader and being on the bus was the perfect time for me to use it, these days I rarely touch it because I have trouble focusing on that at home for various reasons, the bus trips were just long enough I could get some decent reading done and the small size and weight of my e-reader made it very convenient to do so, while using other devices was often inconvenient
I almost never read through books, and that bothers me, especially since it means I'm really limiting myself in my understanding of theory, I basically had to fight myself to even get through a good chunk of State and Revolution, I don't think I ever actually finished reading it
users are harassing a trans person in the freedesktop organization for banning a well known bad actor from contributing, the guy who made hyprland, who encourages and participates in queerphobic harassment, especially against trans people
It's especially infuriating because previously people had reasonable discussions on /r/linux about how ridiculously shitty this guy is, but now pretend as if the accusations are completely unfounded, or pretend it doesn't matter (the usual defense is "it's his personal Discord, how can you ban him for stuff he does there??"), along with the usual complaints about "ideology infiltrating Linux" (this is especially hilarious seeing how many of these people also worship Richard Stallman), as well as the typical redditor idea that rules lawyering is perfectly valid because "debate" and any use of common sense moderation is "power tripping"
But all he has to do is say "Red Hat Bad!!" (this isn't even a Red Hat thing really) and write a few one-sided blog posts directly naming and shaming and everyone goes nuts
Words can't describe how upset I am at this situation, people like this are the absolute lowest scum of the Linux and free software community
Do you think they even realize how many of the people who write the software they rely on are queer 🤔
Edit: Feel a little more hopeful finding out that another thread was posted where people are far more reasonable, making it pretty clear that the thread I'm talking about isn't really the usual community response and is actually just brigading by the asshole's groupies
Oh hey, I got my first "Reddit Cares" report on reddit! I haven't posted anything politics related on there in a long time, so I think it was over a comment about e-bike safety which is just makes it so much funnier 🤣
I love how they have to have an entire paragraph at the bottom telling you what to do if someone's using the feature to bully or harass you, they clearly know that this is literally all the feature is used for yet they do nothing about it lmao
Edit: My comment was literally just like "it's not safe for pedestrians if you go bombing down the mixed use pathway at 70 km/h on an electric motorcycle" lmao
They probably think "the SEE SEE PEE will hack your phone and steal all your data the moment you step in the country!!" lmao
Edit: I was right lmao
Which is what makes the most sense too, hydrogen fuel cells generally don't make much sense for personal vehicles
Nice, I got one not too long ago to use with my legs because everything else plain works like crap for those, it works very well but I haven't been keeping on top of it at all since it's still winter and I'm basically always wearing pants anyway 😅
This is pretty disastrous, the things Nintendo is suing over are things that apply to pretty much all emulators, it would be a very dangerous precedent to set if Nintendo were to win this one
And even if they don't win, it's still very shit that they're even able to use lawsuits as a scare tactic, that they can ruin people's lives even without needing to win
Also, daily reminder that "piracy equals lost sales" is nothing but corporate propaganda, often it's the opposite actually:
https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/pirates-more-likely-to-pay-for-legal-content-choice-survey/
https://www.vice.com/en/article/evkmz7/study-again-shows-pirates-tend-to-be-the-biggest-buyers-of-legal-content
Agree, I mostly use it for Linux stuff at this point, the Linux subs on reddit are somehow significantly better than the ones on Lemmy lol (helps that it has actual developers and people who know what they're talking about)
Don't know why everyone's so quick to flock to Twitter 2
Exactly, people still have this cartoonish idea of what a Trump presidency would be like as if we didn't have 4 years of seeing exactly what it would be like
People are like "but maybe he'll be worse this time!", and like that could be true, but that's an entirely different thing than making very specific assumptions about specific actions he's supposedly going to take based on no actual evidence, it's just fearmongering to try to coerce people into reelecting a president who has already been actively materially worse (it's as if everyone's forgotten how much trans rights in the US have already been backsliding under Biden's watch)
Someone I follow(ed) on Mastodon was just trying to shame people who don't vote, because of the idea that "Trump is going to immediately round up all us trans people and throw us in camps if you don't vote Biden!!"
As far as I can tell, the claim seems entirely made up, and it feels almost malicious to be basing that entire decision around the idea that "Trump MIGHT come after ME hypothetically!!" rather than all of the people Biden has already thrown in camps and all of the people in Gaza that Biden has given his unconditional support to genociding
It feels downright selfish to still be pushing that "vote blue no matter who" bullshit for that reason, and they clearly haven't learned shit from 2016 and 2020
They're also still under the impression that people choose not to vote just so that they can "push the Democrats more progressive", when it's basically the opposite, people realize they can't push the Democrats left so they're choosing not to participate in the sham they call a "democracy", but I guess this is one of those people who can only see politics within the confines of the US electoral system
Edit: Not to mention all the other shit people have mentioned as having been actively worse under Biden, it makes it feels especially garbage and selfish that one is still pushing the idea of Biden being a human rights savior
(who btw farms montages in low rated btb games)
Typical, so many of the people who complain about the existence of SBMM in games are people who want to be able to constantly stomp players who are worse than them (when people complain about "not wanting to sweat all the time", this is pretty much guaranteed to be the actual reason)
While I don't doubt that Halo and CoD have flawed matchmaking, people usually use those to say that SBMM as a whole is a bad thing, or even that it's "ruining gaming", when it exists for good reasons and benefits a lot of games
You rarely see people complain about it in fighting games for example, usually when people do it's because the developers of a given game have designed an original system that does a bad job at actually matching skill, when a typical Elo-style system would've worked far better
