Years ago (early 2000s), Dilbert.com used to have a “Lazy Inventor” section of the website. “All Talk, No Funding.” This was fine for a while, then someone suggested “child free days [at restaurants and stores]”.
You would have thought he’d suggested clubbing baby seals. The shitstorm it generated was legendary. I’m pretty sure that was a direct contribution to them disabling that feature a few months later.
I found it in the Wayback machine! Unfortunately, it only grabbed the first few pages of comments, and the spice was only starting at that point.
i dont have the links, the forums might not even exist anymore, but i remember a lot of d&d alignment arguments from the 00s that went on for days and garnered thousands of comments. no one changed their opinions and the comments were essay length because you HAD to (you didnt actually have to) always quote the previous post too.
Way back in the days when kuro5hin was still a thing, folks created an endless reply chain with nothing more than, “You sad bastard!” And it went on for months until it fucked a table in their sql server and Rusty (admin) had to step in and fix it. Then stop it from continuing.
In fairness, propagandists write books about history too. It is entirely possible for a person that isn’t very curious to pick up “normie” pop history stuff and think they are learning.
that is true, but frankly i’m willing to put money down on most people who hold patently incorrect beliefs like “nato is a defensive organization” simply being deeply incurious people who have never investigated anything that’s not immediately relevant to their interests
I believe comments like this are the reason why people want to defederate hexbear.
Self-opinionated, aggressive and insulting, all in a few lines of comment. I can’t deny there’s an art in there, but not one that makes one like the artist.
i’m gonna go out on a limb here and assume you live in a house with no mirrors
i’m not sorry if my statements give offense when they’re based in reality. want to be treated better? we already have a special tool for that, it’s called “having correct opinions”
Look, I weakly challenged the original commenter on a basis which I actually observed in the real world.
Since then I only was challenged back in the forms of belittling and insults.
Not one word about why NATO would not be a defensive alliance. I left loooots of room for that in my initial response. But no, only insults, and now I am challenged because of the use of a nuanced english word that you people choose to not understand. This is ridiculous.
I was indifferent before, but after this experience I support defederating hexbear.
The last one I read about that told me indeed that NATO did the bombardment in Yugoslavia not for defense, but for a humanitarian clause that it also has in its preamble. I was surprised a bit that they have it in there, and how selective they choose to deploy that.
Nevertheless, in that situation there was foundation enough to understand the reasoning, and they did so only after the UN was not able to get together to effectively do something against concentration camps and genozidal tendencies by what was then Serbia.
Now the people who argue that NATO is an aggressive alliance have arguments like the Iraq war in their portfolio, which very clearly was not a nato operation.
Maybe kindly point me to a book that is worth reading, and I will put it on my list for consideration.
So when you have opinions and you express those opinions. Sounds like you’re pretty self-opinionated about certain topics because you’ve chosen to snarkily quote the dictionary.
There was some Wikipedia article that was subject to a really long and intense conflict over whether it should have an infobox. I don’t remember the details, though.
Most of the Wikipedia dramas are fantastic, pedantic and/or ideologically driven people fighting with other pedantic and/or ideologically driven people for pages after pages until some admin just unilaterally picks one side and locks the discussion
I seem to remember the “feces” Wikipedia article made it onto a list of dumbest Wikipedia controversies, because it has endless debate about the authenticity of the poop photo used and whether a different, more realistic poop should take it’s place.
Yeah, but I thought he was drawing a parallel between Wizard of Oz and something else, i.e. Elsa is the wicked witch of the East. If it’s older than Frozen, then it’s probably not that!
They were playing a game of Hedbanz / Headbands / Celebrity , and one of them had The Good Witch Glinda from Wizard of Oz as their character, and they are arguing about them not guessing it based on the clues.
A little context must go into this one. For three years now, Wix has owned DeviantArt, having acquired it from its original managers. Wix then redesigned DeviantArt to have a more modern functionality, referred to as DeviantArt Eclipse. A part of this functionality is that people on DeviantArt are (supposed to be) notified whenever someone posts a work similar to their own on any website across the internet, even on the dark web, as an originality-based precaution. As a side note, I wouldn’t say DeviantArt is doing the best it has ever done, but I wouldn’t call it bad, but “pessimist culture” would disagree, and there are those who say the feature I mention is irreputable.
One day, a certain someone signed up for Wix and started putting art on there instead of DeviantArt. It should be noted that you can be banned from DeviantArt but not Wix. It’s not usual, but I myself demonstrate this, probably because my “ban” was circumstantial and therefore intentionally made only partial (for this reason, look up my Lemmy username on DeviantArt, I’m not forgotten), but I’m only a second person here as far as Wix is concerned. Someone deep into this “pessimist culture” (I don’t know what else to call it) then noticed and made a complaint accusing me of bypassing DeviantArt’s detectors using their own parent website and nobody doing anything, even “with the premium service package”. I kind of laughed at this, it would be like saying you committed a bank robbery by asking to speak to the manager and then asking him nicely for all the money in the bank. You kind of have to question the ownership at that point. Needless to say the fishiest thing was the accusers.
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