You’re bringing a lot of personal momentum to your responses obviously. My point was clear, state specific issues to allow the potential for specific answers. If you’re moving in good faith, that’s the approach.

The perspective here is one of someone resistant to change, blaming FOSS as an easier scapegoat. Always simplest to blame the tool over the operator… And often, that “dumbshit, broken printer that won’t print!!!” Just wasnt plugged in.

Your rebuttal is borked.

I appreciate you attempting expansion, I will say it is still difficult when you’re asked for specific detail and your response consistently States generalities like:

“lack of support” - meaning what, feature isn’t there at all? Doesn’t display existing tables from uploaded excel docs?

“has serious issues” - meaning… what are they?

“results in issues” - …

“…is borked” - c’mon

and "incredibly slow " - relative to what? Double time of expected from excel? Triple? Extra two seconds per attempt?

You’re using subjective terms that mean people can’t A) determine if you’re problem will impact them as well and B) you’re not describing your perceived issues well enough to allow experts reading along here, now or in the future, to offer you actual solutions or alternatives.

That considered, it makes you come off as a person who doesn’t want their perceived problem solved.

Probably more credibility if you actually give real, specific examples of what you cannot do on Libre Calc that you require?

Again, if you have this energy, direct it at solving the problems you perceive or directly supporting the people who are capable of solving those problems.

Bots are a universal problem, theocratical solutions abound from every different angle, it’s a choice by those in charge of the other places to not implement those solutions. So either lead the movement to keep Lemmy different OR find the person(s) leading and support them with encouragement, funds and/or volunteer your time to make theory work less.

If you truly have energy for this, focus it on growing the platform overall. That naturally adds more and more diversity of opinion. I don’t think the problem you mention is real, I think it’s more a commentary on how you process what you see generally.

Well said. No shortage of forced panic, sacrificial boogeymen to fixate on for the worst among us

Oh damn, harsh bud… Did Covid radicalize you?

Covid didn’t “radicalize” anyone? It was just an opportunity for bad people, with more typically controlled PR images to that point, to show the world exactly who they had always been.

All these goons also have multiple performative “arguments” over the years to muddy the conversation about how evil they actually are. Vance called trump America’s Hitler, elon basically called trump a pedophile publicly post-doge and at the end of the day, they are all still hanging out ruining the world. None of it was sincere.

Would advise you to stop eating that little trail of curated breadcrumbs they leave for you, it’s a cynical game and they think you’re stupid enough to buy it.

That goon has his DNA all over bluesky, and he has a long history with elon. Cling to semantics if you need to, but the spirit of what I said was true. If they could get away with the optics of dorsey heading bluesky in that “exodus” moment, they would have. But all knew that would leave a bad taste in the public’s mouth and slow/stall adoption, so they had the charade they presented.

Blue sky was started by elon’s good buddy. It was always going to go full shit.

A school full of little girls was just exploded. They are dead. Capitalism persists.

The way you play your music makes me feel good inside!

Oh hey, don’t worry, there aren’t jobs to get anymore. Solved problem!

The Weeks or Against Me!

I was in charge of the cheese section at a major gourmet grocery store that you know the name of. When I say in charge, it was more the product curation, ordering and in-store “marketing” than the scheduling, conflict management and the more tedious stuff. But I’d do things like set the demo program throughout the store, “design” the cheese case and be the person that was called over as the “expert” when folks with too much money and too little knowledge wanted to feel like they knew what they were talking about.

There was a pleasant, young woman who was a regular customer, none of the negatives of above, but definitely seemed to have enough money to buy anything and everything I’d recommend without even a feigned concern or a cursory glance at the prices. I didn’t know it myself, but I was eventually told by others that woman was Mandy Moore (a very well known pop star and actress, but in maybe a slower point in her career).

I guess one day, my day off, someone noticed her waiting in the section, offered to help her and she politely refused and stayed where she was. They’d send other employees after a bit and she’d again politely decline help, but just stayed in the section “like she was waiting for something” and just line of half-browsing for a noticeably longer time. Eventually she went back up to the original person that tried to help her and asked if a specific employee was available to help her (with her giving a more generous description of me, as I’m told). She was told I wasn’t working that day and I guess she left without buying anything from the section.

So maybe that was a day that could have lead to a much different life had I been working? I resigned from the store pretty soon after as it was actually my 2nd job and I couldn’t sustain the hours of both anymore. But the funniest part is that other employee that Ms. Moore was asking about me would eventually become my wife years later :)

Not sure what “broscience” you’re referencing, but there structure of the show was very transparent -Drew was an actual doctor, board certified addiction treatment specialist and got his start volunteering in hospitals during the aids crisis. That’s when he was told about loveline and he wanted the opotunity to spread awareness.

Adam was unapologetically an unqualified comic relief. But of course, his role was to represent the unqualified “everyman” with Drew there to moderate and correct back to empirical fact and best practice. But he also listened and learned over the years. With time he did better saying the actual right thing a lot of the time through shear repetition. But that was part of the problem.

Eventually, like the problem with smartphones in general, he started to think that simply because he HAD certain knowledge, that he had actually EARNED it. He got more popular than Drew, I think that ultimately crushed Drew’s spirit because, along with a lot of good, he was a BIG narcissist. Realized he couldn’t get the respect or pay that Adam did after 20 years of schooling, sacrifice and he just checked out and became a turbo grifter.

Adam gradually removed anyone from his life that would criticize or remind him that he wasn’t an expert (literally documented day by day in his radio show and podcasts) and he finally became a monster on an entirely different level. Genuinely think with him the change was so abrupt because of CTE. He played a lot of football in the valley in the 70s/80s where nobody carted about safety, and then he boxed in the same era. He just must have had so many head injuries. I hope they study his broken brain when he dies so there can be a little relief in framing his 180.

Adam Carolla and Dr. Drew on Loveline.

HOLY SHIT… Did those two unimaginably broken people take, at first different, but eventually converging, paths to the deepest part of hell.

Both irredeemable pieces of garbage.

This guy knows the SHIT out of statistics!

What did injecting estrogen do and do you no longer do it? Why if so?

Hard to say, but we needed to leave a minimum level of a learning curve to using any computer, not a PHD required, but enough to bore the red hats. As soon as Apple’s toddlerfication of smashing BIG, bright, colorful, soft shapes made it so everyone in the world could gold the history of humanity’s knowledge in their pocket… They started confusing their pocket with their brains. Holding knowledge doesn’t mean HAVING knowledge.

The instant and infinite false confidence that magic slab gives hateful idiots was our downfall as a species.