Dаn̈ıel Раršlow 🥧 @pieist@qoto.org

There's a common behavior on the intarwebs that we need a word for.

When you ask for advice on how to do or avoid doing a thing, there's a category of person who will invariably respond by questioning your desire to do or not do that thing. Often aggressively/defensively, as they themselves are invested in doing the opposite of what you're asking about.

Examples from my own experience:

"Now that ebay will no longer simply credit a card, is there a way I can sell on ebay without giving them my bank account info?"

Response: replies from people who insist there's something wrong with you for not wanting to give ebay your bank account info. Nothing actually useful.

"Does anyone know of a decent webmail server that's not written in PHP?"

Response: Whole lot of deeply butthurt "what's wrong with PHP????!!?!?!" replies. (Answer: far too much to go into.) Not one useful answer.

What people like that need to do is not reply. Y'know, because that's what you do when you don't have an answer. But instead they go for the hard derail.

Sealioning is a great word for a certain kind of reply-guy behavior, that of badgering you to engage them on something you've said or which they've chosen to infer from what you've said. This isn't quite that. It is however bloody irritating.

@bruces It sounds well and good but sooner or later you have to set the pot down

@somafm *Sigh* Not sure the people asking for a discount quite follow the concept of a "donation". What do they suppose the discount comes out of? It won't be manufacturing costs, or shipping...

@w7voa This from a man who's spent the last 8 years hallucinating out loud at podiums

@bruces Pretty sure that maps 1:1 onto Philip Jose Farmer's "World Of Tiers"

@fulelo And yet they'll still claim there's a Democratic "Deep State".

And yet they'll still claim there's a Democratic "Deep State".

@davidbrin Well this is precisely the kind of thing one expects from a member of patronless wolfling race.

@albertcardona @HelenBranswell Isn't RFK Jr. a raw milk fan? And hasn't he just been appointed to the FDA?

@5c2b475c4e4a5d2fcc9e59b8756d2b0de779cb503ef2235c41e97cfb0925c668 @Em0nM4stodon

Honestly, it sounds like you've got a head full of noise and can't quite make out what's said outside of it.

@bruces What's funny about the Frank Lloyd Wright designed chairs at Taliesin West is that when you go there you sit in them while reading or having conversations, and every now and then a museum says "oh can we borrow a chair?" So they loan a chair to the museum and it sits on a raised platform behind a velvet rope for a while and is eventually returned and everybody gets to sit in it again.

@helenczerski Still think regional electricity rates should be linked to NIMBYism about windmills.

@bruces
Note the comparatively low uptake in the Legal field. Almost as if it has a particular appreciation for the liabilities of something at first undetected being subtly, horribly wrong.

@zrb @cwebber

This has been my experience; I'll have an straightforward and obvious function that will nevertheless take me 20 minutes to write, so I'll think "well, let's see if ChatGPT can just knock it out for me". I then spend the next hour pointing out to the stupid thing the edge cases it doesn't handle and various other failure modes that a real programmer would never miss.; it replies "you're right" followed by a decently accurate restatement of the defect, then turns around and produces a new version that doesn't fix it, and/or introduces a new one. In the end i give up and write it myself.

@EugeneMcParland At least search them to see if they're carrying wire cutters. They seem to have it in for European data cables.

@justafarmer @w7voa Not as heavy as "constitutional interests". There is no constitutional protection against prosecuting someone who won an election, not even in the vaguest principle. Rather the contrary: equal application of the law is the fundamental basis of the Constitution.

@HeatherDLeonard I know this isn't a helpful response, but I'm surprised that a University could accept you into a Doctoral program and have no contacts for housing assistance. Of all organizations, UHI should be more aware than anyone of this long-standing and ever-worsening problem than anyone.