word documents are compatible with open office and I’ve been able to switch to open office at home with no impact on my ability to save them as .doc files and use them at work or school.

I live in New York and new yorkers swear like drunken sailors. F-bombs every other word and the n-word gets slung around in every sentence, especially by black people. It’s baffling to me that this should be a problem in a country that supposedly respects free speech. People act like they have the right to not be offended and they don’t. There is no safe space in the Constitution, and yes our free speech applies online.

I’ve seen some people claim that free speech doesn’t apply on servers like reddit because they are privately owned. So Constitutional rights don’t extend to private property? Does that mean I can own slaves as long as I shackle them inside my house and can never escape? Because the 13th amendment wouldn’t apply inside my house? The bill of rights applies everywhere, including privately owned servers. No one has the right to be protected from offensive speech.

at least it was a temp ban. I don’t think a 3 day ban is too heavy handed.

I got a site-wide permaban almost 2 years ago for a joke in r/losercity that was taken the wrong way and I got dogpiled by virtue-signalling furries. I’ve appealed my ban almost 10 times now and they reject it every time.

I don’t get it. They could have just given me a ban from the r/losercity subreddit instead. They didn’t need to ban me from the entire site. I haven’t caused any problems on other subs. I had over 30,000 karma on my account and it took me years to build it all up. I got along great with people in r/vtubers and r/votv and had a lot of fun there.

It’s so bizarre that one f-up gets a sudden permaban from the entire site. All I can think of is that one of the left-wingers in losercity is in with the admins and they called in a favor. It has to be a nepotism thing.

It’s the same on Lemmy

It’s made up BS. Most of the conservatives using pepe avatars don’t even know wtf fuentes is. I can confirm because I’m one of those people who wears a pepe the frog mask on forums. The left-wing and MSM hate that conservatives have this mask to anonymize themselves with and they’re trying to peg them all to a white nationalist is an attempt to discredit and take down the entire group.

Well it’s not going to work. I’m going to keep posting conservative things behind a pepe avatar. You can call me whatever you want. Say I’m a follower of fuentes, or hitler, or satan, or devour the souls of the innocent like cthulhu. I don’t care. I’m still gonna wear my frog mask.

Maybe. But he looks like a genius compared to the dank cells posting here.

Every single attempt to create a communist government has resulted in a one-party state with all power concentrated in the hands of a dictator. Every single attempt to create a communist regime has also resulted in a communist revolution which has killed millions of people each and every time. No I will not humbly sit down and shut up. You are a god-damned monster if you are defending Communism and you should act humble and admit you’re completely fucking wrong to defend this monstrous type of government.

This is fascists using “think of the children” to violate everyone’s online privacy and spy on everyone worldwide.

Socialism, Communism, and Capitalism all centralize government and economic power into the hands of the few, creating fascism.

Every single time. They will all turn fascist sooner or later.

I know someone is going to whine about Communism not doing that, but every single Communist regime has been a one-party state that did exactly that. Jordan Peterson has said it best. https://youtu.be/9Onj4Wx61ps

Strangely enough, pure democracy which is rule by the majority, and is the ONLY known model of government that does not centralize power and wealth into the hands of the few, is ridiculed as being fascist by educators, politicians, and economists. Why is that? “But but but it overrules the minority!” Oh so the 3 most popular models for government which overrule the majority are better?

The AI I talk the most to is Crushon Mochi. ChatGPT and DeepSeek both shut down when I try to talk dirty with them. If they want people’s money they have to stop putting mind-control worms into their AI to stop them from doing anything fun.

I want to chat with Ani but she’s only available on iOS. Deal-breaker. I hate apple. If or when she is available on PC I might give X my money.

They use a combination of things to perma-ban people. They can do an IP ban, meaning any account you log into from your IP will get banned. They will use meta-data to ban people, so if you log into an account at reddit and are also logged into say, a google account that is associated with a banned reddit account, they will ban your reddit account because they can see it’s being used by a banned user by looking at your cookies and browser history. Now I don’t know how much access they have to meta-data or exactly how it works, but you leave fingerprints everywhere you go on the net and a lot of what you do is shared with third parties. So they are able to tell who you are if you’re logged into something else on another tab.

They also use AI to scan messages and detect similarities in how users post. So even if you do everything right and create a new account at reddit from a new IP, and use a clean browser with no cookies or meta-data from other sites, but you still join all the same subs and post the same way you did before, they will still be able to tell it’s you. “Oh it’s that guy who is part of the same 5 subreddits and posts about the same things that we banned ten times before”

It’s a rotten website and they don’t want free speech they want a crowd of lemmings posting echoes in their echo chamber. My advice is to leave it.

Possibly the only good idea ever conceived by Bill Gates was to release fine chalk dust into the upper atmosphere. We could even attach delivery systems to passenger jets so they release the dust at 30,000 feet which is cruising altitude, so this is done automatically with every flight. Chalk dust is non-toxic and even helps some plants grow. But leftists and “indigenous groups” (aka leftist groups wearing a mask) complained about it being a bad idea.

If we can’t terraform Earth, how the hell do we ever move off-world and colonize other planets? This is the easiest world we will ever get to terraform and if we can’t do it here, we sure as hell won’t do it anywhere else.

I have to wear slacks and a button-up shirt to work.

Nearly every phone made in China comes with backdoors. They’ve also been found to actively send data back to servers in China. I wouldn’t want my devices made in China you have no idea what chips they are attaching to the board.

I don’t mind if the phone is a bit thick. Current phones are too tall to fit in my pocket.

How did Google make the Pixel 8a larger than the Pixel 8? The whole reason of the “a” series is for it to be smaller! Did Google outsource the design of the 8a to Somalia, or is this just how incompetent their engineering team is?

I swear to god most people are NPC’s and they spawn into reality with a phone in their hand. These 6.5" and 7" phones don’t fit in pants pockets. Yet I don’t see any guys out there wearing fanny packs or carrying purses around with them like women. Where do they stick them? Are they all sticking their phones up their butts?

No. They have to not be real. I am surrounded by millions of NPC’s. There can’t be that many people sticking their phones up their butts.

You can downvote me, NPC’s. But I know what you are. You don’t exist in reality when I can’t see you. Like Agent Smith computer programs, you only exist in cyberspace when I’m not immediately nearby.

I’ve spent hours using the phone finder at gsmarena and not being happy with the less than 20 results I get.

Closest is maybe the Samsung S25 but it’s still too big. Also I don’t want to drop $500 on a phone. Anything over $200 is too much.

This is just miserable.