I assumed you used regular to mean any drive, but the slot loaders weren't exactly common until Apple and Sony started using them. So not exactly regular.

iDoser is coming back in a big way.

Damn...I haven't been this conflicted about a community since Freeze Peach Patriots. Good job(?), watching with interest.

outside Hughes County.

So it was in another county. (I am unaware of any land within the USA that is not part of a country, or a county with another name.)

I guess I wasn't counting a slot-loading drive as a regular drive.

They don't work in most slot loading drives, only the tray loading, or spindle type.

Fair enough.

I will only support those ordinances and enforcements which are conducent to completely removing grass lawns, and replacing them with landscaping choices which are sustainable to maintain without excess water use, and support native pollinators and wildlife in the world we have Terraformed into this, our urban hellscape. As such, I will say this: I support subsidising Ms. Hennings, and any others who wish to follow suit, in her efforts to make a more sustainable lawn which would not require mowing, and which contains only native plants, such as clover and other flowering groundplants.

Absolutely. My only concern has been how many people have been eating your particular onion, in a time when our society really needs to be focused on the very real things being satirised, and not believing things that are literally branded as false. As such, anything I can do to make it clear that these are onions, I will do. I just think you could do more to make it clear that they're fake.

I love it. And other than the dog leashing bit, I stand by it.

My name is Robert Wolfram, and I approve this message.

Though I would point out that my position on leashing was taken out-of-context: I posit that the problem is that we have created a system by which animals have to be leashed in order to not be a danger to others. We should not be supporting systems which commodify living things, especially entities which are dangerous and intelligent enough to warrant the necessity of physical restraint to control them.

Ah, I think I figured it out. No, it's not about propaganda in politics. Actually, the thing which is most annoying is that im pretty sure that you and I agree that these corporations are awful. But what you see as satirising the corporations, I see differently, because to me, corporations are the only political players that matter. They have all the money, and all the power, and I think that crying wolf about tiny things that the megacorps never really did actually does desensitise people to the tiny (and great) indignities to which these corporations actually subject the world. So, in another comment you asked me with which stories I take issue, and my answer is this: any which paints a corporation, capitalist, or despotic regime as doing something it has not actually done, as these false stories read like real ones, and cheapen the very cause with which I believe you and I both agree.

I'm sorry, I think your autocorrect got the better of you in there, as it so often does to me. I didn't actually understand the meat of this comment. However, I think my response of a minute ago in the plant capacitor post sums up my personal stakes in the matter.

Allow me to level with you:

I am as close as I believe is possible to being a priest of knowledge. I genuinely believe that communication in bad faith is a detriment to the world. I came to this platform to avoid the propaganda and censorship of knowledge on Reddit. And I have found this community on Lemmy (which you so disparage as to call it nonexistent) where, for the most part (aside from the tankies), people interact honestly, if melodramatically. The thing with which I take issue here is, ultimately, that these posts — this community — contribute to a dissolution of trust in what is true, wearing the trappings of journalism, but without anything real. That the person posting these lies appears so flippant toward the concerns and criticism of others makes me more concerned. I do not take lightly a troll in my midst.

But, ultimately, my problem with your posts can be reduced to this:

I'm sorry, I must not have been clear with my strawman accusation:

When someone in the comments challenges you, you post that picture saying how sorry you are that you're hurting some megacorp's brand image, or otherwise. You paint the person criticising you as if they are trying to defend Walmart, Amazon, or the US Government. THAT is a strawman, and is a lazy deflection tactic away from their valid criticisms.

You're moving the goalposts. My claim has been, and continues to be, that it is your framing of these stories, their near-plausibility, and your clearly disingenuous trolling and strawmanning when challenged, that have made me take this seriously. If there were ANY indication that these were satire to a user coming from a feed, who cannot see your sidebar, then I would take no issue. If you weren't so glib when called out, I would reserve judgement. But here we are.

Re: your edit: I've stopped blocking people and communities, because I would prefer to be able to challenge those with whom I disagree. In fact, it was someone with whom I vehemently disagreed who convinced me that the only person who benefits from their dissenters blocking them is the person being blocked.

And I agree with you on the "ate the onion" part, but even the onion and mcsweeneys have come to accept that, in our current world, satire has to be approached differently.

As for the disingenuous and patronizing walmart shit, see my "strawman" comment on your other post. I'm not going to keep wasting my time repeating myself to you about why your strawman accusation of supporting corporations is so shitty.