@benlockwood Hold on a sec there Ben, lets be balanced and hear the liar's side now.

@rtn https://quickref.me/python

@artologica Little dude looks like he's about to devour a huge slab of grilled steak.

@MarkHoltom Broadcast it.

@gabrielesvelto Even describing their errors as hallucinations is the same attempt to humanize it.

@rufustheduck I'm really surprised by that. I ask this because my cat has some tooth decay, and the vet warned me she might eventually need to remove some teeth. I thought I'd need to change her diet significantly, but this puts me a little more at ease. First sign of pain, I'm asking the vet to remove the teeth then.

@rufustheduck How does your cat handle that dry cat food? Does she still manage to eat it dry? Or do you instead opt to buy her wet food?

@freedomofpress

Meanwhile...

New office locations: Right next to polling stations.

@schrotthaufen It's always profit. In this case a soon to be announced IPO, so they need to squeeze as much value out of their platform now, so the poor stockholders fatten themselves later.

https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/07/discords-ipo-could-happen-in-march/

@mloxton @kimlockhartga

Look, we're merely discussing this on moral grounds at this point. Technically there is nothing to argue about, I expect we both know how mastodon works.

You want to see more moral weight on some perceived right a poster gets to, "for whatever reason", remove someone from a discussion, over respecting everyone else in that discussion, then there is no way we are going to agree.

This is the core, it's not going to change, we can just conclude this little chat.

@mloxton @kimlockhartga

The topic author gets to decide what is a valid reason to them(the author) not others. It's a lack of respect for everyone else's viewpoints and agency to try and impose it.

Should a majority of support develop, which determining, both online and IRL, comes with its own challenges sure but, then I could see enough ethical weight to justify it. Not before.

@mloxton @kimlockhartga

The first sentence back there doesn't capture what I meant to say. It's very broad, when I meant to be specific.

So first to correct what I said. There are indeed, online and IRL, some privileges the respected topic starter should enjoy.

However, removing someone from a discussion with no valid reason, isn't one of them.

@mloxton @kimlockhartga

Even socially speaking, in a group, person A starts a topic, they don't get any special privilege for it. If person A then asks person B to stop talking part in the discussion for no valid reason, person A is the one being rude. I, and everyone else in the group, have the right to decide if we want to listen to person B.

This is what users here sign up for, knowingly or otherwise, open discussion with, hopefully, neutral moderation from the server staff, not posters.

@mina @sundogplanets

I read an article about this, and there was a discussion section, and someone there was making this very argument that space is cold so cooling won't be required, which I thought at the time made total sense. But then someone else brought up the fact the ISS actually has trouble cooling itself, because while yes space is cold, there is so little matter around, it remains very difficult to dissipate heat. So now I'm not so sure.

@sundogplanets

Why would they even want AI datacenters in space? We haven't solved how to cool them without massive amounts of water down here on earth, how are they going to cool them up there? Some months back I read of someone else wanting to create the same datacenters in international waters. Is this just a new way for them to try to avoid legal liability? If that's the case, I wonder what kind of content they will generate up there.

@mloxton @kimlockhartga

That is not the argument being made in the OP.

The argument being made is, that if the poster asks you to stop talking in the discussion section of a thread, you should do it. The poster makes that decision for everyone in the discussion section. I don't think that's reasonable.

You can even set aside server rules, and just consider respectful discourse. I don't think that is respectful discourse, feels oppressive to me.

@kimlockhartga Honestly, no.

People should respect the server rules, and the everyone in general, but this isn't your home. You put out a post in public, you get a discussion with the public. You can personally choose to mute or block someone, but you don't get to make that choice for everyone else. That would just end up creating a comfortable little echo chamber of fake consensus.

You like these rules you are making up in this post? Fine, make your own server, that can be your home.

@ColinWoodArt Looks great.

@ColinWoodArt What are the eyes made out of?

@catsalad @thordis @IanAMartin

Yes, we are all X-Men, or maybe X-People if you prefer. With our super power we can't actually turn invisible, but people around us still don't notice us.