https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sealioning

Sealioning (also sea-lioning and sea lioning) is a type of trolling or harassment that consists of pursuing people with relentless requests for evidence, often tangential or previously addressed, while maintaining a pretense of civility and sincerity (“I’m just trying to have a debate”), and feigning ignorance of the subject matter.[5][6][7][8] It may take the form of “incessant, bad-faith invitations to engage in debate”,[9]

The sealioner feigns ignorance and politeness while making relentless demands for answers and evidence (while often ignoring or sidestepping any evidence the target has already presented), under the guise of “just trying to have a debate”,[5][6][8][11] so that when the target is eventually provoked into an angry response, the sealioner can act as the aggrieved party, and the target presented as closed-minded and unreasonable.[7][12][13] Another maneuver of sealioning is the “Just Asking Questions” tactic, which frames false or misleading statements in the form of questions.[14][15] Sealioning has been described as “incessant, bad-faith invitations to engage in debate”.[9] Sealioning can be performed by an individual or by a group acting in concert.[16]

Oh geez dude, so sorry my trans friends didn’t get killed to justify your rant.

60% of americans own stocks. It affects far more than “the rich”

Even if you don’t own stocks, your paycheck is now worth 15-30% less due to tariffs.

None of my trans friends have been lost.

the number is how much cash you could get in your hand right now if you wanted to and it is absolutely more than just a suggestion; it’s real buyers buying right now at that price.

Edit: not to mention, the remaining value is now worth 30% less due to instant tariff inflation on the price of goods

About a year’s salary.

no reproduction would be held by a museum, and museums would hold even “low” quality artifacts that represented a significant aspect of creativity or innovation, so that’s weird wording.

But, it’s going to be oil paint on a canvas instead of a digital print. The work being reproduced is probably not covered by copyright.

sure you can do that but how will you shelter and feed yourself?

There is plenty of coordinated inauthentic behavior here. You’ll notice it when the first few comments of every post somewhere like /c/politics consistently reinforce the “talking point of the month” to sow division among groups not aligned with Russian success.

XMPP or IRC?

Everyone “knows” its a scam; furthering the delusion is the way to work the scam.

Zigbee or Zwave temperature/humidity sensors are common. Add a 3-circuit relay box and you can simulate the behavior of pretty much any thermostat with a few rules.

HA or any other system that can toggle outputs based on sensor thresholds would work just fine.

there are some subtleties with real HVAC thermostats, like running your AC compressor at least five minutes and ensuring that it stays off for at least 5 minutes when it’s turned off.

Right, both sides are the same! Best to just give up!

AWS S3, Glacier Instant Retrieval storage class. $0.004/GB/month + read traffic costs.

Find out which family/friends are buying a car and get them to sell you their old one. No markups from middlemen!

Spam was a challenge for self-organized networks almost as soon as they left the university labs, 40 years ago

UHF is strictly line of sight, and finicky HF (which bounces off the ionosphere) might have a total global bandwidth of 15mbit/s during a good hour of a good day. For everyone. If you use the entire possible spectrum.

you don’t need custom anything, you just need to set it up. You can put access points on your roof and on your neighbors’ roofs and on the roofs of buildings on a distant hill, plug them into routers, configure an addressing scheme and routing rules and you’re set.

anybody with a connection to any of those nodes can set up a server and offer content.

2009? There is a joke about pretentious mac users in the movie “Best In Show” (great movie BTW) in 2000, and by that time it was widespread enough to be a funny side gag in a comedy about dog owners.

Never good to intentionally pollute.