JollyOrc @JollyOrc@octodon.social
#nobot , because I like the concept of federation with separate timelines too much
@dredmorbius @stefanieschulte one of the often overlooked problems with mansplaining and other -ist behaviour is that it ruins every other interaction too.
From the outside, actual helpful advise can look a lot like mansplaining.
So if you constantly get things mansplained, and in comes a man explaining things, regardless of how sane and innocent that was, _of course_ he's a nasty mansplainer too!
@cypnk embrace the kilt?
@GinnyMcQueen (addendum: "let someone know that I support them" isn't the end of the conversation. It's the start. They can then let me know what they need in terms of help, and they'll get that. But I won't decide how someone else is helped best without respecting their input on that first)
@GinnyMcQueen to those that I do not know personally, it doesn't. I know that and hate it. I do donate to orgs that help professionally, but that's a drop in the ocean.
Please understand that I do want to help. If you call me, I will come. If a friend of a friend calls me, I will come.
But I know how the unclean depths of the Internet have ruined normal interactions for us, and am thus wary of doing things that might immediately do more harm than good.
@GinnyMcQueen sitting on the sidelines being disgusted at the behavior from the assholes and... being unsure.
If I know (as in personally know, not a random netizen in my timeline) the person being attacked, I'll let them know that I support them.
If I don't know them, I assume that any forced interaction, even well-meaning, could just add to their stress. (and if they don't know me, they might even fear my well-intentioned statement is actually a setup for more abuse too!)
@schestowitz generally, overbooking is something that I can understand. The thing is that if it doesn't work out, they should basically be forced to reverse-auction the passengers who want to give up their seats voluntarily: "Who wants to give up their seat for 500$. No one? 600$? Still no one? [...] 1000$? We have a winner!"
The 80ies have called, they want their title animation back.
(seriously though, this looks right up my alley!)
@eal the eagle game is visibly unrealistic in many ways, but it is internally consistent, so the immersion doesn't suffer. They also subtly shadow parts of the screen when you fly corners, to direct your attention and preempt nausea.
The Star Wars thing is dead on true to the material, although a bit short.
@eal I've tried the Star Wars VR thing, and thought that very nicely done. Didn't get nauseated at all.But yes, it's still pretty pixelated, although it doesn't feel that way when things are moving.
Eagle Flight provides one with a virtual beak, that helps too with the nausea
@eal I'm suitably impressed by VR nowadays.
I frankly suck at all sorts of fighter piloting games, but the immersion is quite impressive already. (At least for me, who never sat in a real pilot seat)
me, geeksplaining... https://www.orkpiraten.de/blog/i-am-on-mastodon-now
@dredmorbius @zemichi @lambadalambda
And then there is html, which by default conflates all blanks into one, hence the invention of .
And as that is annoying as hell to use in daily communication, everything is right again, with just one blank after the full stop :)
@markov apparently, there is biodegradable glitter now..
@condor sadly, the sign didn't tell, and there was no keeper around to ask. Probably Robert James.
The goth cockatoo at the Zoo Berlin is the best cockatoo.
@eal yeah, I see that one probably wants to dip their toes into this thing with one instance, start research and then after a month or so, change to the instance best suited to ones preferences.
@eal Need to make my mind up on this yet.
I can see the upside, but I also can see an upside to the federated timeline being populated by people that are deemed interesting because they've been actively marked as such, not because a bot simply grabbed everyone it could find.
@dredmorbius seems to sum up the potential problems pretty much though.
For me personally, this is less a problem, because I am not very private on social networks.
I know folks who have different needs though and can see them being pissed off at such things.
@dredmorbius @kknowlton I gather though that if I block them, I'd be sorta more private again, right? (provided I trust the admins of the instances involved)
