Well, I won’t lie. It’s difficult.

Ideally you’d know this person and interact with them somewhat regularly. If it’s online or this person believes they can ignore you without consequence then it won’t matter how you address them beyond that initial interaction.

Don’t use that as an excuse to feed into their believes though. There’s a chance someone they know is already trying to coax them back to reality. If anything in that interaction makes them feel justified, it’ll take 20x the effort to undo the mental hoops they’ll jump through to rationalize the rest of their feelings.

It sucks. It’s not fair to those impacted, but this is the only way to stop this radicalization and hardheadedness that plagues people nowadays.

Dude, that doesn’t help either

I have to do it all the time. I was born and raised in the south by (relatively) liberal parents. I recognize that some of my neighbors my not be up to the standards of the rest of the country, but (I can’t believe I have to say this out loud) we shouldn’t ostracize a geographic region of people because of social issues.

Social reform isn’t achieved by running up to someone and saying “You’re an uninformed idiot from a flyover state and what you believe is incorrect.” It’s achieved by saying, “I know you don’t really mean that” when someone says some weird shit and calling them out in a more neutral environment. Unfortunately you have to convince people to be better. It’s too easy to just close yourself off and decline into your own beliefs.

Man, saying things like this just further the divide without providing meaningful contributions to any of the current conversations.

People out here complaining about Gentoo. My brother in Christ, you built the operating system.

All these years and people still haven’t gotten the message:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSWj5_-F9Q4

You just reminded me of the Critic again damn it. https://piped.video/watch?v=6i7ycxiog40

“You’re not just wrong, you’re so far off I could make this the pivotal piece of a case study in misinterpreting humor”

God damn.

Link to the article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_sector_in_Turkey#History

I’m sure Ubi would still let you purchase it through the online store regardless

The above leans heavily on the idea that the political spectrum is a loop and swaying to either side too heavily incurs bias that eventually warps the initial intention

Because things weren’t already confusing enough

It’s the Thing, loosely disguised as one of the main characters from the previous movie but the plot works like groundhog day. Every misstep it makes ends in it dying to a flamethrower as it’s forced to comply with Hallmarks demands.

You know what, if it keeps me from getting weird phone calls from my gramps once a month it’s good enough.

If a hallucinating AI with marginal direction enslaves us all, we deserved it.

I’m not betting on the 51%, but it’s still on the table. I’m more convinced they’ll start throwing garbage over the protocol and uninformed users will migrate to instances that support that garbage because of peer pressure, features, or just wanting to get rid of the encoded messages. It’ll turn into the green chat bubble argument with some people feeling their instance is superior in the way it deals with it.

Eh, they could still do the scummy shit Apple and Google were doing to each other with SMS. Start encoding “extra features” in the standard messages and pushing that garbage out to the rest of the network. Or hit it with a 51% attack and scramble everything that can’t defederate fast enough. Still problematic.