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Re: Microsoft deleted the public support forums for SwiftKey

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Post by gloryjulio »

carlosjobim wrote: post #197
somethingreen wrote: post #159

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It is not a jump. When it comes to genocide, you are either for it or against. There is no center, no above, no neutral. The only other option is being unaware. What is being done in the west is people continuously being made aware and forced to make a choice. It's not a pleasant choice to make either way, so it's understandable that people are not happy to have to make it. But trying to carve out a neutral position…

> is not going to work. What are you going to do about it, tiger? You can't force anybody to think the way you want them to think. You are only going to frustrate yourself with your power trip fantasy.

Just let Putin genocide supporters to admit that they support Putin's genocide instead of supporting Ukraine's right to defense is good enough ;)

Re: Microsoft deleted the public support forums for SwiftKey

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Post by toyg »

sd9 wrote: post #241
toyg wrote: post #236

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> I believe it's important to respect their perspective instead of insisting on a particular label. Absolutely, but it would be nice if people expressed their wishes in logical terms. "I prefer to describe that dog as a terrier" is logically sound, "that is a terrier, not a dog" is not. The latter tries to arbitrarily redefine what a dog is.

"I am not British, I'm Scottish." is just shorthand for that. It's a bit like "Charlie's not a dog, he's my best friend"

Charlie's not just a dog, but he's indeed a dog.

Shorthands are fine, but this is not it. This is some weird agenda to deny the logical truth.

Re: Microsoft deleted the public support forums for SwiftKey

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Post by _dain_ »

Gordonjcp wrote: post #83
yarg wrote: post #35

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The same shit happens when driving. Our internal understanding of our own bodies seems to adapt to take the tools we're using into account. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_schema https://scholar.google.co.nz/scholar?q=related:5uSissKo6EgJ:...

> The same shit happens when driving. In a broader sense, it never fails to amaze me that a kilo and a half of goopy cells that evolved to work out where the plants that won't kill you and where to trap rabbits in the next valley are - things that are, generally speaking, not much further than you can see - can visualise every step and turn of a journey of hundreds of miles, while being shoved through space at roughl…

On the other hand, kids that are driven to school have a much worse mental model of their surrounding neighbourhood than kids who walk or bike. The agency and feedback matters.

Re: Microsoft deleted the public support forums for SwiftKey

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Post by zeraphy »

unpopularopp wrote: post #10

> This one hurts, it really hurts. I think this hurts worse than Musk buying/poisoning/killing Twitter. I've mentioned this before but a keyboard feels like an extension of your body People need to take a break. Being terminally online and complaining about everything is not a healthy way of life.

Average Mastodon user.

Re: Microsoft deleted the public support forums for SwiftKey

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Post by lamontcg »

doubled112 wrote: post #200
kergonath wrote: post #138

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A lot of France and Belgium is about one 4 hour drive away from England ;)

Threads like this always make me realize that Canada's sprawl is real. 4 hour drive and you're about half way to your parent's place, and they're in the same province.

100 miles is a long way in Europe, 100 years is a long time in America.

Re: Microsoft deleted the public support forums for SwiftKey

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Post by lamontcg »

sd9 wrote: post #241
toyg wrote: post #236

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> I believe it's important to respect their perspective instead of insisting on a particular label. Absolutely, but it would be nice if people expressed their wishes in logical terms. "I prefer to describe that dog as a terrier" is logically sound, "that is a terrier, not a dog" is not. The latter tries to arbitrarily redefine what a dog is.

"I am not British, I'm Scottish." is just shorthand for that. It's a bit like "Charlie's not a dog, he's my best friend"

> "Charlie's not a dog, he's my best friend"

I'd argue that one can be damaging and we should call people out on it.

Dogs are dogs and they need to be treated like dogs. The infantilization of dogs is how you get unleashed dogs getting into dog fights when it turns out that Charlie really just is another dog and should have been leashed.

Re: Microsoft deleted the public support forums for SwiftKey

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Post by KingMob »

zaroth wrote: post #147
KingMob wrote: post #125

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Pretty sure Musk doing right-wing grifter Andy Ngo's bidding and kicking off Ngo's targets counts as "suppressing balanced debate", only it's happening for real: https://theintercept.com/2022/11/29/elon-musk-twitter-andy-n...

One of the best decisions he made. Antifa accounts calling for violence and terrorism should never have been tolerated on Twitter.

Andy Ngo is a neo-nazi-friendly liar that claims everyone who criticizes him is antifa, and selectively edits his videos to distort the truth.

Twitter threads of Ngo using selective video editing to make it seems like up is down: https://twitter.com/RespectableLaw/status/116496174509978828...

General summary: https://www.salon.com/2019/08/28/right-wing-journalist-andy-...

Ngo lying about leftist critics being violent, and Musk taking him at his word and banning them: https://theintercept.com/2022/11/29/elon-musk-twitter-andy-n...

Re: Microsoft deleted the public support forums for SwiftKey

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Post by bakugo »

unpopularopp wrote: post #10

> This one hurts, it really hurts. I think this hurts worse than Musk buying/poisoning/killing Twitter. I've mentioned this before but a keyboard feels like an extension of your body People need to take a break. Being terminally online and complaining about everything is not a healthy way of life.

Being terminally online and complaining about other people complaining is an even less healthy way of life, yet I keep seeing more and more of it as time goes by.

Re: Microsoft deleted the public support forums for SwiftKey

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Post by Andrex »

Gordonjcp wrote: post #83
yarg wrote: post #35

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The same shit happens when driving. Our internal understanding of our own bodies seems to adapt to take the tools we're using into account. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_schema https://scholar.google.co.nz/scholar?q=related:5uSissKo6EgJ:...

> The same shit happens when driving. In a broader sense, it never fails to amaze me that a kilo and a half of goopy cells that evolved to work out where the plants that won't kill you and where to trap rabbits in the next valley are - things that are, generally speaking, not much further than you can see - can visualise every step and turn of a journey of hundreds of miles, while being shoved through space at roughl…

This thought occurs to me constantly. And I apply it to the other drivers too, it's pretty crazy how we got traffic and automobiles working without crashing into each other. The brain is an amazing organ.

It's also pretty amazing on a social level too. With a few obvious exceptions (certain signage, driving on the left or right side, etc.) the whole system was standardized for every adult in the entire world in something like 50 years. Everyone wanting to "get into" driving has to play by some basic rules. (And not following them is far more likely to be a mistake than intentional, at scale.)

Then I look at bees and I realize we're really not that special.

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/honeybee-mental-number-l... https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/03/230307144358.h... https://today.ucsd.edu/story/complex-learned-social-behavior...

Re: Microsoft deleted the public support forums for SwiftKey

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Post by Gordonjcp »

mst wrote: post #256
Gordonjcp wrote: post #83

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> The same shit happens when driving. In a broader sense, it never fails to amaze me that a kilo and a half of goopy cells that evolved to work out where the plants that won't kill you and where to trap rabbits in the next valley are - things that are, generally speaking, not much further than you can see - can visualise every step and turn of a journey of hundreds of miles, while being shoved through space at roughl…

> I can clearly visualise where I'd go if I was driving around Bradford Straight on at full speed and hope you manage to dodge the local nutters driving like maniacs en route. (I did actually like Bradford in a bunch of ways but the drivers were still impressively aggressive, to the point where being a pedestrian in Italy was honestly quite a comfortable experience)

I mostly only went down there for Infest once a year, and the city centre isn't as terrifying as some of the suburbs which actually do like they were just LIDAR-scanned for some of the Fallout scenery.

Fucking *Wakefield*, though.

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