TheTechnician27

No problem at all! As with any Wikipedia page, you’re welcome to contribute if you know any good ones that aren’t on there yet.

I had missed this piece of internet history.

You might catch a few more here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Unusual_articles#Computing

Does ChatGPT apparently need to be brought up in literally every conversation about schizophrenic people now regardless of direct relevance?

Anyway, if you’re interested diving deeper, Fredrik Knudsen (Down the Rabbit Hole) made a great video on Davis and TempleOS back in 2018.

A… Sal-ad?

Is this the state of the press now?

No? What gave you that impression? The only semi-serious press I see about this is from the sports column of USA Today. Everything else – what little there is – is tabloid trash like The Daily Beast or the Daily Mail (don’t construe this as me putting those on the same level; a tide pool and an abyssal trench are both in the ocean).

Just because something on Twitter says “BREAKING” doesn’t mean it’s receiving actual coverage. “The press” isn’t a monolith.

Lemmy users in crisis

And the ones that aren’t are usually called “off-label”. ;)

Your comments don’t seem to address any of this. Why is that?

Because that’s not at all what the original comment was about. Why am I expected to offer up a treatise on the consequences of apples on the American frontier in order to debunk someone purporting – unsubstantiated and evidently with no regard for the truth – that Appleseed was running “a land grab scam based on the laws of the time”?

Edit: I guess since the original comment mentioned it, I could mention the obvious that, no shit, this was stolen land just like effectively every parcel of US land. But what good does this do our discussion of Appleseed’s character as an alleged scam artist? It’s generally understood that Appleseed had a very good relationship with the Native Americans he encountered, and yes, sometimes you can be an overall well-meaning person while advancing a deeply unethical system.

Yeah, Appleseed would generally move ahead of pioneers and start nurseries on land he thought would be settled. It wasn’t some land shakedown scam like the original comment is implying; it was a very useful service that Appleseed would even forego payment for to those who couldn’t afford it. Apples were a dietary staple on the frontier, often used for bartering, and sometimes, as you said, you even legally needed an orchard.

I’d go even further and say that this is more generic than capitalism/anticapitalism wish fulfillment. It’s a desire to speak truth to power but without any of the effort or sincere curiosity to learn what that truth is. To have that truth condensed onto a smaller and smaller spoon until you don’t even realize you’re being spoonfed at all is the ideal.

IIRC

You don’t recall correctly, and I have no idea where you got that information. Appleseed actually was a successful businessman who bought some land, owning about 1200 acres (~5 km²), but by all accounts he was a genuinely good person, and I’ve never heard what you’re saying (and not substantiating) that he did.

“What is this, some kind of fight club?”

Not only that, but this city street allegedly in Minneapolis or Portland is 100% empty except for some random protester, a single ICE agent in full military gear, and some rando half a kilometer away.

The man holding the blower is not only nonchalant as fuck, but his facial expression looks confused like it’s his first time using one.

Either:

• Some of the pepper spray would’ve hit the protester before he turned on the blower (or even while it was running), in which case his nonchalant demeanor is even more absurd.
• The agent saw a man pointing a leafblower at him or even saw it running and thought: “Yeah, this is a great time and position to deploy pepper spray.”
• The protester is using reflex mode from The Phantom Pain and turned the blower on at the exact moment the agent started spraying.

The ICE agent is using an ungodly amount of pepper spray and is continuing to spray despite knowing he’s involved in some Wile E. Coyote shit right now.

Perfect angle of the action and flawless timing while holding the camera completely steady. They’re literally positioned like actors in a stage play.

I’m sorry: I can’t imagine who looked at this for more than half a second and thought: “Yeah, that checks out.” There’s no “probably” about this without some deeply entrenched wishful thinking.

Oh, and the doorway of that red brick building on the left is casually just like four meters tall.

Technically the numerical code still gives you a precise search key to find other people discussing the same issue.

… You know, as would be useful for a serious operating system where online support doesn’t mean trawling the bowels of Reddit praying somebody’s had the same issue and found a reproducible solution.