Branding is still a major issue even within subsidiaries, but you’re right, they’re in a much better situation than if it were owned by coke
Naked. They couldn’t use the brand name without running into trouble with naked, which is owned by either Pepsi or coke.
Brief anecdote. In school, we used to draw swastikas on everything in order to get others in trouble or to make ourselves seem like assholes. At no point did we consider what we were doing ok, it was just kids riding the edge of something they couldn’t understand for the sake of ignominy. Even we, as ignorant as we were, recognized that the swastika was a hate symbol and thoroughly unacceptable, we were, again, just assholes.
I’ve been saying this quite a lot but this culture war bodes poorly.
I guess lemmy still has a ways to go, as well. I’m sorry you went through that, and I hope it’ll be the last
Yeah, at some point the well was poisoned. Reddit’s systems aren't sophisticated enough to do something particularly complicated.
Something as simple as an IP that they bounced to being banned, because disposable IPs are one of the major uses of user-based vpns, is more likely.
It’s been ages since I’ve used a Reddit account. I wonder if account creation involves subreddit suggestions and OP fell into the exact same ones every single time. Like finding the Buddha, but instead of samsaric destiny, you’re banned
Recognized as [teen]
That sucks. I imagine they were banned pretty expediently, though. Was that the case?
No, I was entirely sincere. Not that it would matter, as people would likely take me at face value
I certainly don’t blame anyone. Fervent protection of disadvantaged groups is fine by me, even from people looking to do the same. Lol
It’d be nice to have a remindmebot. Anyway, this is her voting record. I won’t say that this is my conclusion, but it’s possible that she’s just scared of being assassinated after Kirk. We’ll see whether she’ll manage to actually do something positive within a few months.
I’d come to enjoy several creators who simply could not tolerate the negative attention of bigots. People’s desire to compel conformity, against the very nature of their subjects, creates a society that is not only deleterious to them and their subject, but mentally taxing to the rest of us. Literally not a single soul directly involved in this comes out ahead. It’s just a game designed to promote infighting and tertiary power grabs.
And that’s why I love lemmy. The general absence of []-phobes is fantastic. It’s the only reason I can tolerate the general inability to read sarcasm here.
Got a used business laptop and found a recessed dongle in it. The original owner says they have no clue, that it’s been in there since they got it. There’s no way a dongle is keeping this thing running, is there? I’ve already swapped the OS, if that matters at all
Update: yubikey! Thank you all for the information, I’m definitely still learning
Panel 1: Prince Charming in all his regalia pursues Cinderella as she crests the stairs and rounds a corner. “Don’t go” he yells after her.
Panel 2: He stops at the bottom of the staircase and mumbles to himself in defeat. “No…”
Panel 3. Prince Charming, doused in sweat, peers toward the steps and notices a single glass slipper set on its side. “Hmm” he says to himself, “this is…” he trails off.
Panel 4: the background disappears and we focus entirely upon his face. His expression exudes focus.
Panel 5: The young royal stands at attention, facing away from the steps. Upon his right foot, the glass slipper now sits. “Perfect” he finishes.
I saw a skit recently. A guy sets up a video AI woman on his tv and nasally rebuffs every advance she makes on him. After the woman accepts that he’s uninterested, he deletes the conversation, significantly ups the AI’s desperation level, and even more incredulously rebuffs the AI’s renewed pleading for a date.
Musk feels like that, but overwhelmingly more self conscious about creating a virtual racist dog to lunge at people.