I have my doubts about that. Most of the mass posters are too “conservative” and lean extremely hard into stereotypes. They take racism and bigotry just a bit too far in many cases and it doesn’t quite align with actual conservative bigots and racists that I know.

It wouldn’t be surprising if most of the “conservative” communities are part of the same troll farm that lives primarily on other instances.

This is all speculation, of course. But, organized campaigns to spread discourse on social media are real and some of these trolls are really good at what they do.

I was referencing another thread in this post, so it’s not you. Sorry to give the wrong impression.

And that’s OK! Some people just need to blame everyone else for everything that is fucked up in their own lives. I don’t support that, but it is what it is.

Both conditions apply, was the intent. Teeth from slaves that were also purchased. My wording was unclear, sorry.

It was so unclear, it seems that I am white washing racist now.

Lulz, good points. I should clarify that internet pictures with “facts” are fucking dumb. While that wording has gaps as well, maybe we can hone in on some specificity.

Lulz, wut? I called your discussion style childish and you literally just did the same thing again.

I could make all kinds of assumptions about your intents, and none of them good. But I don’t.

I don’t give a fuck about his character.

You are making assumptions about my intent or what I believe, which is a childish argument tactic.

Again, internet pictures with words are fucking dumb. You might get a ton of likes on Facebook with that shit though.

I didn’t suggest anything about his character, and we could probably have an entirely separate discussion about imperialism.

What is important is how you source information when it comes to dental prosthetics.

The history of Washingtons teeth is uncertain. The evidence that those were slave teeth seems to show that the teeth were purchased.

Internet pictures with words are fucking dumb.

Excuse my ignorance of Mastodon then as I have only really used it a few times.

If you follow an account, do you have the option to disable notifications from that account?

Short form social media is basically a free-for-all. Hell, it functions more as a notification service than something like Lemmy.

Give my point of view expressed, a notification from anything is fine, bot or not. As long as the notifications are reasonable and easy for other users to block, sure. Knock yourself out. Have your bot notify us for whatever you want, with the understanding that I could just turn it off at anytime.

To add on, it supports up to 20.1.10 and that is where the protocol may shine. However, full spacial sound is not new, and Atmos is just Sony’s proprietary version.

I stole the “sound stick” bit from Benn Jordans blunt overview on atmos: https://youtu.be/5Dw3aKbw5Wo

(Atmos is all caps as well? Meh, whatever.)

I wonder what their answer is going to be for Dolby Atmos? I am sure they could think of a another protocol that is just as pointless for your standard TV sound sticks.

He does go a little over the top sometimes so his videos could be considered to be a bit overdramatic with a little sprinkle of rage bait.

However, I have rarely have disagreed with his views on consumer protection. Actually… I have never disagreed with his views on consumer protection.

Him getting viewers pissed off is not what I would consider healthy, but the rage might get some people to stop showing their bellies to large companies. Regardless, his videos do walk a fine line for me personally. He should be getting income from his videos, which is fine. If he ever cracks and starts getting people pissed off expressly for the purpose of income, I’ll drop his videos really quick.

I am an American, use Android and even wore a mask. Most of all, I would have no problems punching a Nazi.

Meh, freedom is just a buzzword that was brainwashed into us at a young age in school and stuff but hardly anyone actually knows what their rights actually are.

As far as phones are concerned, people use them because they look like they are built for children and they are supposedly easier to use. Even though I hate Apple, I can say that they did a decent job on their UI. It’s a local brand as well. The times I was in Germany, Mercedes and BMW were super common, from what I saw. (Why do all Germans drive those expensive things??? /s)

Also, please remember we have a ton of sub-cultutes, sub-sub-cultures, many dialects of American English and importantly, a massive amount of land. (Land is important, because more separation breeds major cultural differences.)

There are some places in this country where even I feel like an alien, and I am just an average white dude and I have lived in North Carolina, California, Florida and now Colorado. All of those states are vastly different, culturally.

Most of all, just because I am American, doesn’t make me like anyone else here, contrary to what .ml memes say. I am not my government, I dont eat McDonald’s 10x a day and I am not a fascist. (I do own a reasonable sized truck though. My wife does a ton of gardening work, so it’s logical.)

Don’t generalize people by their phones.

Building doomsday devices.

Oh, that was one of the prominent conservative posters and whatever it was, it was absolutely bigoted as fuck. If it wasn’t, it absolutely was something stupid.

Conservative politicians always need someone or something different to blame for made up reasons. While the right has historically berated LGBT, they will bring one specific issue or group into focus as another “issue” becomes boring.

They identify something as problem, tell people that the root of all of their problems is that something. If I blame my issues on something else and then tell people I am their savior and the only person that can fix that problem, I could end up looking like a hero when I do absolutely nothing about it.

Also, stupid people in large groups are easy to manipulate. If one or two people start getting mad about something, the whole group will latch on to that emotion. A couple of key words or chants are of use too! If you have ever seen a trump rally, he just says a few key words to piss people off (Mexicans, immigrants, tans, libruls, etc…) and whatever else he says after that is irrelevant.

Most importantly, the targets of hate need to be vulnerable but portrayed as extremely evil.

If you browse through conservative media, notice they rarely reference anything about policy or improving the lives of people. If they do, it’s directly tied to blaming others for a problem. (Left media can be just as bad, but are nowhere near the machine of bigotry that right media is.)

I could go on for a while, but you should get the idea.

Edit: Oh, if you dehumanize and generalize a group (‘the jews’, ‘the gays’, 'the whatever’s), anything you say or do is not perceived internally as racism or bigotry: It’s ‘acting in the best interests of your country’.

While I have blocked all the conservative communities here, just read through their posts one or twice. Almost all of their articles are hate politics. Honestly, I have blocked almost all political news on Lemmy since most of it is just re-hashed emotional trigger subjects.

Who the hell writes if 'null'? If it’s a thing, what language would interpret a string like that?

Yeah, I can understand how some people just wouldn’t like Skrillex. Chaos is kinda the point and groove is probably not on the list of description words I would use for it. Alas, it’s actually not my thing either. On occasion it is, but not always.

FM stuff is weird at first. Depending on your tool, just start with small changes as you build up a waveform, dust off your knowledge of harmonics theory and dig in. It took a day for me to make some noise that didn’t sound like a knife scraping over a sheet of metal, and two more days of tinkering to make something cool. It’ll probably take another month before I can design something more complex, like a cymbal. It’s technically additive synthesis, but it’s not actually? I dunno.