Even assuming they’re mostly spam, you still need to listen to them in order to sort out which messages are legitimate.
I understand being annoyed by the task, but this is a job that’s justifiable. It’s not some petty make work bullshit (unless these messages have been collecting for months, then they can probably be safely ignored). Either way, it doesn’t seem worthwhile to try and get all petty revenge about the situation.
I will not ask my fellow lemmy community members to blindly trust me on this.
This is the primary thing you are asking people to do. Literally everything else you said hinges on people blindly trusting you.
I understand wanting to protect your sources. But you’re taking it to the other extreme by providing literally nothing except unprovable claims. Give us something, anything, even an easily faked email or pm. Just anything that requires even the slightest bit of effort beyond just typing up straight lies.
But you did go on to compare this situation to the war on VCRs. Which I think is a poor comparison. You gave your opinion, so I gave mine. That’s kind of how this works here for everyone, not just for you.
Nobody here is trying to force you to stop using it though.
They explained why they don’t use sponsorblock, and why they believe you shouldn’t either. But the choice is still yours.
Theres is a wide gap between offering a perspective on why watching the sponsorships is worthwhile, and trying to legally force you.
Then you thought wrong. The vast majority of the time notarized signatures are unnecessary. Adding that as a base requirement of all legal contracts is a terrible idea. Did you get a notarized signature last time you bought or sold your car (either with a dealership or privately). Because if not then you already failed to meet that standard.
I agree that letting things get so casual as to start “signing” by text is a bad thing. Handshake agreements are things you do with your neighbors, not with large businesses. But requiring a notary for every contract is going too far in the other direction.
The problem is that he had set the precedent. If you have the clear precedent that the text is only acknowledging that the contract is ready for you to look over then the judge would’ve likely ruled the other way.
If you’re diligent that you always properly actually sign the contracts, that you’re never giving final confirmation by way of a one word text. Then it’s unlikely you’d get legally binding in this situation.
Besides, in this case the farmer was definitely in the wrong. He was trying to pull a sneaky because the cash price was over double the contract price at time of delivery. It wouldn’t be any different if he had properly signed the contract except that he couldn’t try the “but I never actually signed it” excuse.
He should’ve just ate the contract cancelation fee if he wanted to ride the crazy price. Plenty of other people did just that and there was minimal legal shenanigans involved.
Embrace, they join the fediverse seemingly in good faith. Bringing their larger userbase to massively increase the size of the fediverse.
Extend, they add some features that are convenient when interacting with their base across the fediverse. But these conveniences require proprietary software integration.
Extinguish, once enough users and platforms are tied into the conveniences of extend, they use that to force compliance. Stricter and stricter rules on their proprietary software. Comply or die.
The fediverse won’t be gone afterwards, but if it EEE works then we will end up very stifled.
It’s worse because a large portion of people here are the people who don’t use Facebook/instagram/tiktok. So while this isn’t a new extreme in terms of privacy breaches, it is a new level in terms of what’s potentially affecting us directly.
It only helps regular people as long as nothing breaks.
You’re still beholden to the huge company that’s making the panels, or the company that’s installing and maintaining them. On property panels are only as decentralized as your personal ability to install maintain and repair them. Off property panels are only as decentralized as the conglomerations that own every solar farm and wind farm.
You aren’t “getting away from huge companies.” You’re just increasing the minimum footprint and ecological disruption needed to generate the power needed for modern life. Let alone the amount of increase needed if EVs are ever going to have a chance at challenging ICE for majority market share.
Which, the “nuclear is evil and any power that isn’t solar, wind, or hydro deserves literal death” circlejerk?
We must learn from their mistakes. Get your jynnan tonnyx and start sanitizing your own phone.
It doesn’t matter what you can do with it. You couldn’t really do anything with karma either.
To be fair, Ford builds them as work trucks. Like you said, the biggest thing you can buy without needing an upgraded license.
The triple cab, pickup style box, and lift kit are all aftermarket. Straight from Ford it’s at most a king cab with a frame rail back. Then you’re supposed to put on some kind of working back (toolbox, dump truck, lift arm). That’s the kind of thing you see in official marketing images.
I used to work for a company that built garbage compactor units and put them on the back of trucks like these. The main selling point was that you only need a regular license and you can fit into narrower spaces than a full size garbage truck.