eltimablo

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I'm only still here because account deletion is broken on KBin.

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eltimablo,

It's really not. People like Varaniute will find something wrong with even the most glimmering of complements. My recommendation is to block and move on.

eltimablo,

This comment reads like someone smugly shitting their pants because someone they don't like said they'd win the next time they gambled on a fart.

eltimablo,

Clearing the snow doesn't fix the ice that snowplows leave behind and gravel/sand is a straight placebo. That's why the roads get salted/brined.

eltimablo,

Shhhh, thinking about things past the barest surface level scares the tankies.

eltimablo,

For real, the people on this site deserve the hell they create for each other. If Kbin had a functioning account delete button, I'd have been gone months ago.

eltimablo,

Apple might as well be a fashion company at this point.

eltimablo,

Nothing says "well-moderated community" quite like vague, easy-to-bend rules!

eltimablo,

This is the exact kind of aggression people were saying was unwelcome.

eltimablo,

Define "bootlicking" please.

eltimablo,

Being concise didn’t help. Being verbose didn’t help. Being conversational didn’t help. Being literal didn’t help. I tried everything and all of it is still being misinterpreted as the polar fucking opposite of what I actually fucking wrote.

Same here, so I'll try it your way:

You're acting like a hyperaggressive, condescending dickhead in every single one of those comments, and though I personally agree with you, I still want to slap your teeth straight because you're being an utter prick about it.

Just because you agree with someone doesn't mean you're not doing so in a hugely offputting manner.

eltimablo,

That should be in the rules instead of "bootlicking," then. Well-defined rules make it harder to enforce them unfairly. The fewer questions the community has to ask about guidelines, the easier it is to follow them.

Thank you for answering in good faith, by the way.

eltimablo,

It's because the most insufferable people from reddit all came over to Lemmy/kbin when they got banned for being exceptionally insufferable.

eltimablo,

The way you write heavily implies that you're only out to prove you're better than anyone else without even the faintest chance of you actually being better than anyone at anything. You sound smug, arrogant, ignorant, and generally offputting. If you can't understand that people don't like that, then I suggest you learn to enjoy being alone for the rest of your life.

Also, where did I say shit about you condemning the other person? Putting words in people's mouths is a great way to piss them off even more than you do just by opening your mouth in the first place.

eltimablo,

I'll take the hit just to watch you roll around in your own verbal diarrhea

My favorite part of this haranguing is how y’all don’t hesitate to declare I’m subhuman

Please point out the exact sentence, or set of sentences, where I said that.

This is the rudest thing you could think to say to someone, and it’s over nothing.

Good, perhaps you might start to understand now that you've been on the receiving end of your own behavior.

You've also not addressed anyone who's mentioned your incredibly condescending, snide tone. Literally nobody. Not even to be dismissive about it. You can ignore your problem all you want, but the fact is that the way you talk means you could be reading me a document saying that I've just been given $10 billion and I'd still fucking hate you. You asked why you were treated poorly, people answered unanimously, and you don't even have the wherewithal to consider the point that everyone is trying to pound through your brow ridge.

You're the problem. Your behavior is the problem. The way you talk is, you fuckin guessed it, absolutely the problem.

You got your answer. Accept it or don't, just do it somewhere else because nobody fucking likes you.

eltimablo,

It may be easier to type and say (as are most words in comparison), but "antidisestablishmentarianism" has a well-defined meaning that would make for a less-vague rule. "Bootlicking" means a lot of different things to a lot of people, and not all of those people have common sense, to put it nicely. I've been called a bootlicker for saying I don't want to tear down the entirety of every government everywhere, ever, for instance, which I imagine isn't what that rule is trying to convey.

There's a reason "legalese" is the language laws are written in. It's very specific, with any potentially ambiguous words given clear definitions before any of the rest of the law is presented (at least that's the intent in the US, anyway). If you were to, say, define "bootlicker" in the beginning of the rules to mean "excessive praise for police violence," then I'd say it's quite safe to use elsewhere in said document. Leaving such a vague word undefined in what amounts to a paralegal document opens up avenues for abusive interpretation, both from moderators and community members.

TL;DR: Clear definitions of what your rules mean leads to a healthier, easier to moderate community overall.

eltimablo,

‘What should I say instead?’

Nothing. Leave that part out. I don't think it's the entire site that has trouble with reading comprehension, just you.

eltimablo,

You didn't ask that question. I answered the one you did. Congrats on the novel combination of moving the goalposts and putting words in people's mouths, I guess? Seriously, do you not read your own words?

People keep telling you which parts of that conversation would have been better left out if you wanted to sound sincere, but all you do is further attempt to weaponize your feigned ignorance.

You know damn well that you're acting like a condescending prick. Enough people have pointed out the things you could have changed in that exchange so that you didn't sound like a condescending prick. And now, here you are, acting like a condescending prick to anyone who dares to answer the question you asked on a public forum.

eltimablo,

When someone tells you "this thing you said was unnecessary and you would have avoided the conflict if you'd left it out" a dozen times and you continue to demand answers like nobody's even responded, it becomes difficult not to treat you the way you treat others. In every one of those interactions in the thread you linked, you added something to your otherwise inocuous post that was entirely unnecessary and extremely inflammatory. These things have been pointed out to you repeatedly. Had you not said them, you would have had no problems. Why the fuck is this so hard to understand?

Also, I'm not saying you're not worthy of human interaction, I'm just saying that nobody's going to tolerate your bullshit and you'll end up pushing all your friends and family away one by one if any of them have even the faintest semblance of a spine.

eltimablo,

A miserable pile of secrets.

Wait, fuck, wrong meme.

eltimablo,

Peering agreements are in no way free no matter what company you work for, what the hell are you on about?

eltimablo,

In what way do you consider it easier to read raw HTML than it is to read properly-formatted text? This text displays all of its tags on kbin and it's a nightmare to read.

eltimablo,

Oh look, another anti-car meme from someone who clearly doesn't understand cars. Keep it up, Lemmy. One day your relentless negativity will achieve something, and I'll laugh all the way to my grave because it'll be the exact opposite of what y'all wanted.

eltimablo,

Whatever it is, being smug, sour, and ignorant about it is going to get people to oppose you on principle alone.

eltimablo, (edited )

I'm referring to the meme you posted, but ok. My statement also applies regardless of topic, so I don't know what to tell you.

eltimablo,

That would require OP being capable of nuance.

eltimablo,

Bikes count as private transport. You wanna take those away too?

eltimablo,

If I took the cartoon at face value, I might think it makes no difference from a climate chang perspective whether I choose petrol or electric - and this is clearly wrong.

That's ok, OP will just block you for making a valid point that doesn't align with whatever is written on the inside of his colon.

eltimablo,

Bike 45 miles each way to work and tell me it's still a viable solution for everyone, everywhere.

Try to build a rail network that adequately covers 3.8 million square miles without driving your country into blinding debt.

Tell me that I need to haul a cello that I value more than my own life in the rain.

Squeeze enough groceries for a family of four to eat for a week into bicycle saddlebags.

But as I mentioned elsewhere, the more smug and sour you act, the more the average person is going to oppose you simply because you're an absolutely insufferable asshole. Then again, if you had social skills, you probably wouldn't be here in the first place because you'd have friends (and maybe a fucking clue).

Go eat uranium, you smug piece of shit.

eltimablo,

Turns out, two things can be problems at the same time. What a world!

eltimablo,

Do you want to work in a windowless office for 9-10 hours a day, 5 days a week? I'm not saying we can't shrink the windows down, but having worked in a building with very few windows for way too long, it begins to feel like a jail cell extremely quickly.

eltimablo,

I'd argue it was appropriately harsh. God am I tired of seeing "but muh GNU" every time someone calls Linux "Linux."

eltimablo,

Phone screens aren't 16:9 anymore though, so they'd probably end up having to cut down a really big phone screen (like 9" or so) or just make it custom.

eltimablo,

God, what I wouldn't give for a standalone VR headset with the Steam Deck's internals...mostly because I just want them to shove a whole bunch of support behind getting VR to work right on Linux.

eltimablo,

Spoken like someone who clearly hasn't been practicing. Get gud.

eltimablo,

Hey, that's not fair. What if there's a boom in companies that need to know if it's a hot dog or not in the next 10 years?

eltimablo,

Shame living in a city absolutely sucks.

eltimablo,

Or to anyone who can't focus when there's a shitload of background noise, or anyone who doesn't want to have to share a one-bedroom apartment with 3 other people just to be able to afford rent, or anyone who has difficulty in large crowds...

I've lived in a city before and I fucking hated it.

‘Call of Duty’ Doesn’t Just Depict Bad History—It’s Pro-War Propaganda (progressive.org)

I just started playing COD Black Ops Cold War because I got it through my PlayStation Plus subscription and wanted to try it out. I’ve previously played some others like Modern Warfare (1 and 2) and WWII. While it always felt a bit over the top and propaganda-ish, I really liked it for the blockbuster feeling and just turning...

eltimablo,

Can you imagine anyone saying "it's a book" to try to say that they don't matter?

Atheists do it all the time when talking about the Bible

eltimablo,

In my time, I've encountered edge sharp enough to cut the very universe itself.

eltimablo,

It changes the question from "why not use duck" to "what does duck really add to bing"

eltimablo,

Isn't that alias already present on Fedora by default?

eltimablo,

If God wanted paper to be shaped like an antelope, he would have made antelopes shaped like flat squares.

eltimablo,

I was particularly blessed when I first started, because my first origami book was from the 1950s and had each of the models in it glued to the first page of the instructions. 4-year-old me never would have figured out the bird base if it weren't for that book.

Another country has called Xi a 'dictator' and China is not happy with that description (edition.cnn.com)

China has lashed out at Germany after its foreign minister called Xi Jinping a “dictator” and summoned Berlin’s ambassador for a dressing down, in the latest flaring of tensions with a western democratic power over how the Chinese leader is described overseas.

eltimablo,

Just because the Winnie the Pooh meme isn't actually racist doesn't mean I'm not going to call it racist in a pathetic attempt to establish a fake moral high ground over people who have arguments I can't counter

There, I fixed it for you.

eltimablo,

I'm allowed to criticize my government without being hauled off to fucking jail, how's that for freedom?

eltimablo,

Insulting someone doesn't make it racist just because the other person is a different race from you.

Also, the meme was started by Chinese people.

eltimablo,

The most recent case you can find is from 2006? Jesus, dude. Please, I beg of you, get outside and interact with a person face to face. It has to have been years for you at this point.

eltimablo, (edited )

Seriously. I'm suspicious and tired of people who can find a way to complain about Trump and Republicans or Biden and alleged Socialism in literally every single topic, no matter how unrelated it may be. I just want to laugh every once in a while.

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