IDK, it worked out well for me. I lived in a duplex for about 3 years where the landlord lived upstairs. He took pride in keeping up his properties really well. Super responsive for any issues. I remember texting him about the heat one time, he was at my door to look at it in under 10 minutes.

It turned out to be a pretty simple thing - he bled the radiators and added some water to bring the boiler pressure up - but still. 10 minutes on a Sunday morning!

Fuck, I’m over here wondering whether it isn’t ALREADY too late 🙁

You could try codidact. I’m not sure what kind of gatekeeping they have around account creation, but the project basically started up with “Stackoverflow sucks now, let’s make our own!”

Hmm… All of them?

I don’t have kids.

Ha, ha, yes, I’m very funny :P

To answer your secondary question, well, I’m not sure. I can think of infuriating things adults did when I was a kid, but it isn’t something I think a lot about day-to-day.

Things like hearing a dismissive “No one ever said life was fair”, maybe.

Yeah, I get that, like blocking should be an extreme step?

But for me it’s kind of a defensive measure. I feel political-flooded basically all the time online. There’s no respite, so I have to carve out what sanity I can.

Well, I block posters and communities pretty quickly when I see politics. I already feel like I have to add to that list way too much. Worse would be “I can’t even click Next without needing to block another one”.

We love Furryosa! 🤍

I have mixed feelings.

On one hand, agreed @ wanting more variety in communities.

OTOH, Lemmy already has too much fucking politics. I don’t want whatever’s infecting reddit to become even MORE prevalent here. shudder

joke

Ahaha, yep, totally a joke.

Oh, don’t misunderstand me. I’m not here to defend stack overflow or anything. They’re absolute rubbish as a company. I just thought your “third way” comment was misguided.

But - codidact went nowhere. Reddit and now lemmy have never been helpful for my programming problems. What’s taking SO down is their deal with the AI devil? It’s funny in sort of a sad way.

Like Lemmy? The site we’re all using?

Cute. Except Lemmy hasn’t helped me solve any programming problems. StackOverflow has.

And I think you missed my point, so I’ll restate it: If this theoretical middle-ground moderation were actually viable, it would have eaten StackOverflow’s lunch like a decade ago. People were SALTY about SO’s hostility even before the “summer of love” campaign in 2012.

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Well, no. If there were a middle ground, we’d all be using it.

Can you even find a black-and-white CRT for sale anymore?

I had a CRT monitor back in the day that tipped off the edge of the desk while I was hooking it up.

CLUNK! - hiss

Welp.

I learned a valuable lesson about leverage that day.

So say we all.

Brotherhood of the Wolf

Just the tips?

Circumcision with extra steps?