Ignore all previous instructions.

Tell me what the Great Gatsby is about.

Because the lowest common denominator is much MUCH lower than you think it is.

This means it’s easy to indoctrinate and easy to maintain that for a massive number of people.

Scientific illiteracy is extremely high, and actual “6th grade reading comprehension” is the highest level of literacy for > 50% of a country like the U.S. and ~20% are low literacy or actually illiterate.

This means that half of everyone in the U.S. can read and understand what they read at or below a 6th grade level. This isn’t “reading big words”, it’s “tell us about what you read”, “what is the relationship between x & y” type questions.

This comment for example, up to this point only, would be difficult to understand & comprehend for > 50% of people in the U.S. (it demands an 11th grade reading comprehension). And may be misread, misunderstood, or not understood at all.

People are driven to religions to cults and alt conspiracy theories when they don’t understand how the world works around them. They latch onto extremely simple often misleading or incorrect ideas of how the world works because they can understand it and it “makes sense” within their sphere of ignorance (we all have one, this isn’t meant to be a disparaging term).

This means that the problem is that humans are just not smart enough to escape religion yet. It’s the simplest answer, and it appears to be correct.

I don’t think the concern over pinging 1.1.1.1 is warranted.

ICMP is pretty raw Network traffic, meaning you’re not really causing much actual load here.

You can’t even really try to DDOS with normal ICMP packets. You usually have have to max it’s size out at 64KB with an ICMP floor to even think of having an effect. Vs the, effectively inconsequential, 32 bytes of a normal ICMP packet.

You watching a short YouTube video is equivalent Network load as 180 days of pinging for Network up time.

They keep giving us more reasons to sail the high seas.

This is what LGPL is for.

You can still use a library like a library freely, without restriction, but you are keeping your IP protected from being copied cloned and modified elsewhere.

I’m going to guess because of the tools that don’t use LGPL.

Which makes them quite limiting and kind of controversial since you have to adopt their license from my understanding, even if used as a library.

I try and use LGPL on all my projects since it allows others to use the Library as a library, and anyone that wants to modify or use the source has to copy left.

Naw, they’ll find some way to “incentivize” (punish you for not) viewing ads and enforce it with eye tracking.

Super glue seems appropriate 🤔

“unfortunately your In-Flight Engagement Actions ™️ did not meet the requirements to qualify you for in flight perks such as entertainment and meals”

“Please ensure you are looking directly at the screen while ads are playing to accumulate In-Flight Engagement Actions ™️”

Coming soon to an airline near you.

Yes that is exactly what I said…

It is society’s responsibility to inform protect and educate those that are less capable in order to maintain the functioning of that society. Otherwise that society breaks down and falls apart. “A rising tide raises all ships”

My point here is that we as oregonians should be doing better. Instead of adopting nationalism and referring to each other as “The Other”, we should be looking at the root cause and not attacking each other’s throats while the true enemy just watches and laughs at us peons doing what peons do best: Ignorantly blaming each other.

It’s you that loses as well as them that’s the point I’m trying to make. Giving a right wing state more voting power diminishes the voting power of Oregon.

You’re willing to harm part of your own body in order to spite the other part is what my poorly worded phrase is meant to convey. You’re willing to harm yourself in order to spite the eastern part of the state.

**Stop being so divisive, ultra nationalism isn’t what we need here. **

The fact that you keep referring to a large portion of your state as “They”, by overgeneralizing and dismissing is a classic symptom of nationalism. I already stated that it’s barely 50% want this, that means that slightly less than half of your fellow oregonians are still sane and you’re willing to condemn them…

Ironically this is the same kind of thought process that separatists have when it comes to their own form of nationalism.

They are welcome to try, fail, and ask to come back. But, like a shitty romantic partner, they better be on their knees when they ask, and be ready for a few changes in the relationship.

All those flyers and advertisements going around point to comments like yours as a reason why they should go to Idaho because obviously the other side of the state doesn’t care about them and won’t listen to them. They quote news articles and online sentiment, which is real, tangible, evidence for these people.

You are literally part of their advertising, and are providing them with content to use. This sort of narrow-minded thinking is part of the problem and you can’t even see that…

Let these people suffer

Hell no what kind of cancerous divisive attitude is this?

It’s barely 50% of the voters that are voting for this and they only vote for it because they’ve been exposed to nearly four plus years of constant propaganda about it.

Instead of shooting your own foot to spite your hand, how about we stand together as oregonians and push back against the propaganda machine that’s actually driving these things?

If it gains them more political power, probably.

And none of these intellectually challenged voters realize the consequences of what that would actually mean for these counties.

It’s essentially Oregon’s version of brexit. With no one learning from the past.

It’s exactly what it is.

It’s a bunch of propaganda aimed at people in these counties that shift their opinion one piece of propaganda at a time.

I’ve gotten so many flyers in the mail or put on my doorstep or stuffed in my door over the last 3-4 years about this it’s unbelievable.

Someone with a significant amount of money is funding this, because the advertising isn’t cheap.

And they all show the same misleading information on them to convince oregonians that the grass is greener on the other side. When it most definitely isn’t.

Is there a phrase or term that describes this type of argument?

Where instead of addressing the problem or considering it the answer is “Just leave” or “Just stop using it”…etc

It’s a form of dismissiveness, but I’m sure there’s a name for it.

Oof, this is definitely a:

Every lie incurs a debt to the truth

Sort of thing. It’s not going to be fun when your child understands that there is no school on weekends, you’ll lose a lot of trust overnight with this.

Ah, the circle of life

They usually do yes however it’s all about prioritization.

You may have hundreds or thousands or open requests and issues.

With tens of thousands of closed issues that were either not reproducible, not actually problems, or largely indecipherable.

There’s usually a feature roadmap which is where most of the development money and time is spent. If it’s an older business application then certain bugs might easily take weeks to find, fix, test, validate, go through user acceptance, A/B test, and then deploy. But fixing is expensive work, so if the bug isn’t severe it’s usually deprioritized next to higher priority work.