Frankly, “doing the actual work” is much less important than you’d imagine. I have yet to hear someone start with “I’ve been doing this job for…” and not end with something stupid.

Plenty of tredies know a lot, and I’ve met a bunch of tradesmen who did try uni but quit. But also, plenty of them have a need to tear down engineers because they feel threatened, and plenty more think an engineer is an idiot because he wants things done differently than “the right way” which is, of course, “how I’ve always done it”.

“The Anschluss is just a distraction from the kristallnacht investigation!”

The colonies have always been governed by different laws than the metropole.

Which, hilariously, neatly matches the machine-learning approach of “just keep shovelling data, it’ll work eventually”.

“I’m not much of a contractor, but this backhoe is so user friendly!”

The volume dropped off, but also the tone changed. For the first year of the latest round of the murderfest, .world had a few very active posters that were rabidly pro-Democrat, and also rabidly pro-Israel. After the election, there was a brief period of “Trump is Palestine’s fault”, and then the tenor of the conversation turned generally anti-Israel, and those posters kinda vanished. The name that pops to mind is one “Rapidcreek”, and I notice the account stopped posting 11 months ago.

…I wonder if you’re not seeing non-reported news because lemmy dryed up, or is it just that now everyone else started reporting on Gaza, so the news is all known.

Bait used to be believable.

I wonder what happened to the rest of the accounts that were spamming pro-Israel articles and harassing “tankies”. They all seem to have disappeared right when the election was over…

Bob Altmeier makes the argument that it’s not that they can’t think, it’s that they were taught not to. It helps reduce conflict when the people above you get things wrong.

Yeah, this is the correct take, I feel.

…Now that’s an idea.

Tge thing with conservapedia is Poe’s law makes it impossible to moderate. A conservative (heh) estimate is that 70% of that site is trolling.

Sure, but that’s a problem for the next CEO.

Dead internet.

Frankly, me neither - you can take that narrative up with thread OP that brought it up. I’m just making fun of a scratched liberal.

…The stance being satirizedin the above comment is “American voters brought Trump on themselves by caring about Palestine”. How does Trump’s Gaza anything, in your mind, affect this?

You’re right. This is rightful comeuppance for not supporting Israel enough. That’s surely the correct take here.

They are more convinced. “When prophecy fails” was first published in 1956, it’s well documented.

App about ratting on people rats on people. Again.

Love it when tensions escalate on their own, between two nations who are both equally involved.