I’m the Tesseract UI dev, and I just released version 4.1 today: https://dubvee.org/post/3069664

Just a regular statue, but it’s on a hinged platform so it can be a tourist attraction where you can line up to tear it down (and it resets for the next person).

It’s a free attraction, but there is a donation box with the proceeds going to help those whose lives were upended or destroyed by his regime.

But comparing CONTINUED or active support of tesla, to ford or german car companies, is wrong.

I’m doing no such thing.

That pos ford has been dead awhile, and the company has been no more awful than any other car company since then.

The point was that in 2017 when I bought this car (which is an analogy for a Tesla), Musk was just another eccentric shithead not unlike most other CEOs. “Henry Ford Jr” is a placeholder for whoever the fuck is in charge of Ford these days, not the literal man himself.

So if Henry Ford Jr (remember: he’s a stand in for the current CEO) went full mask off, the argument from the mob is that I should have had a crystal ball to foresee that all the way back in 2017 AND that I should always have enough money to throw out and replace a MAJOR INVESTMENT, on a whim, just in case the CEO of the company that made it starts doing Nazi things at some undetermined time in the future. And if I can’t afford to do that, then the mob calls me a Nazi sympathizer, bootlicker, and deems me a valid target for vandalism.

Can you see how goddamned illogical and insane that is?

I’m done.

My car’s paid off. So, put your money where your mouth is and write me a check and cover the new car payments or STFU with your illogical purity tests. And the same goes to the rest of you.

Thank you!

Just because someone owns a Tesla doesn’t mean they’re bootlicking or some kind of Nazi sympathizer. And I’m sick and tired of social media frothing at the mouth for any excuse for violence.

Jesus. It’s a car! Cars are major investments. I don’t own a Tesla, but if it was Henry Ford Jr. doing this instead of Musk, you can bet your ass I wouldn’t be bending to the whims of the bloodthirsty mob to sell the car I’ve had for close to a decade because they demand it as a purity test or else I’m a target for vandalism.

FUCK THAT, AND FUCK THEM!

I can’t afford a new car right now. I don’t want a new car right now; I like the one I have. My ownership of this car is in no way an endorsement of the Ford Motor Company, Henry Ford Jr, or any of their board members nor their actions, personal behavior, etc. It’s just a car, I like it, it’s paid for, it gets good mileage, and isn’t a smartphone on wheels.

Replace “Ford Motor Company” with “Tesla” and it’s the same thing.

If you step back and think about it, so much of human society revolves around people wearing the right costume for the occasion.

Sometimes it makes sense (protective gear, etc) other times it just seems like “that’s what we’ve always worn for X [occasion | profession | etc].”

How does removing your hat imply respect? What is the purpose for standing up when the judge enters the courtroom? Just a bunch of stupid rituals that may have made sense at one time that we keep doing for…reasons.

Nope. Just ZZ Top and “sharp” being easily replaced with “shark”.

We’re not a general purpose instance, we have a defined mission statement, and the site info clearly states the rules apply to local and federated accounts. 🤷‍♂️ And the ban syncs are no longer needed as later versions of Lemmy server do the same thing automatically (our automod just implemented something almost identical prior to Lemmy adding that natively).

If you are hosting a Lemmy instance, I suggest requiring new accounts to provide an email address and pass a captcha

Those are easy to bypass (or a human can spin up a bunch with throwaway emails and plug them into bots). I recommend enabling registration applications. While not foolproof, it gives the admins eyes on every new account. Also, consider denying any application that uses a throwaway email service.

All while the environment and electrical grid weeps.

I refuse to reward the “Create problem, sell solution” business model these tech companies are employing lol.

My instance has “Rule 3: No AI Slop. This is a platform for humans to interact” and it’s enforced pretty vigorously.

As far as “how”:

1. Sometimes it’s obvious. In those cases, the posts are removed and the account behind it investigated. If the account has a pattern of it, they get a one way ticket to Ban City

2. Sometimes they’re not obvious, but the account owner will slip up and admit to it in another post. Found a handful that way, and you guessed it, straight to Ban City.

3. Sometimes t’s difficult on an individual post level unless there are telltale signs. Typically have to look for patterns in different posts by the same account and account for writing styles. This is more difficult / time consuming, but I’ve caught a few this way (and let some slide that were likely AI generated but not close enough to the threshold to ban).

4. I hate the consumer AI crap (it has its place, but in every consumer product is not one of them), but sometimes if I’m desperate, I’ll try to get one of them to generate a similar post as one I’m evaluating. If it comes back very close, I’ll assume the post I’m evaluating was AI-generated and remove it while looking at other content by that user, changing their account status to Nina Ban Horn if appropriate.

5. If an account has a high frequency of posts that seems unorganic, the Eye of Sauron will be upon them.

6. User reports are extremely helpful as well

7. I’ve even banned accounts that post legit news articles but use AI to summarize the article in the post body; that violates rule 3 (no AI slop) and Rule 6 (misinformation) since AI has no place near the news.

If you haven’t noticed, this process is quite tedious and absolutely cannot scale under a small team. My suggestion: if something seems AI generated, do the legwork yourself (as described above) and report them; be as descriptive in the report as possible to save the mod/admin quite a bit of work.

So true. Lemmy is very much not immune to this. Also, thank you for giving me hope.

It is! He played “Simon Leeds” in the last season of Just Shoot Me! and was Nina’s love interest / husband.

You probably dipped your score a bit since any “hard” credit checks will ding your score, especially a lot in a short period of time.

Can’t watch at the moment, but I’ll upvote anything with Dara O’Briain.

I sure hope Derek wears a cape.

Perhaps it’s confirmation bias, but I usually don’t see people using grabbers to reach the top shelf liquor. Was funny to me because 1) It’s out of the ordinary and 2) Could totally see myself in it.

It’s one new PC, Michael. How much could it cost? $10?

Probably better to just keep it. Probably.

Interest rates haven’t changed much since 2021 (they may even be higher?). Unless your credit score has massively improved to potentially secure a lower rate on a new finance, it’s probably not going to be any better than the 7.59 you have now.

Do you think you could sell your HRV for $16,000 in a private sale? Even at that, you’d be breaking even with the payoff, and the replacement would be 100% out of pocket (or a new finance at whatever current rates are).

Do you have your eye on something already as a replacement? If so, how much would it cost? Do you think you could tack that amount (or part of it) on to the $16K sale price of your HRV to help pay for it?

Ultimately, those are only things you can answer. I’m more of a play it safe /devil you know person, so I would probably just stick with it but pay extra on principal to help pay it down quicker and reduce interest on the loan.