but here in New York City, white boys run around making sure people pay $16 on their toll exits
driving to and from pullman, oncoming cars have a tendency to flash their lights at you to signal there's a cop lying in wait up ahead and that's just solidarity
« To avoid detection by speed and red-light cameras, as well as bridge and tunnel tolls that can reach $16 for a car, scofflaw drivers cover plates with camera-proof screens and sprays, as well as stickers, tape and other objects. They scrape off letters and use temporary paper tags and even retractor mechanisms.
But as this tampering has proliferated, a hardy band of vigilante inspectors like Mr. Kuntzman has sprung into action, hunting for defaced plates to un-deface and posting their exploits online to raise awareness and urge more enforcement. » imagine being this much of a cop
gen xers: there is a thin slice of a few years of millennials out there who heard you and one day will carry the torch
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@egnor yeah and i mean i don’t have a problem with checking in respectfully once or twice, especially for a recent issue, and it really depends on a lot factors regarding the specifics, but
this was inspired by a moderation note on one instance about some people on a different instance who were harmed by people on a THIRD instance and that rubbed me the wrong way; like, don’t outsource your moderation decisions to people who aren’t even on your instance. if you don’t think the people who caused the harm have done enough work to fix things, make that call, but don’t hide behind somebody else when doing it, you know?
in the case that the harmed people ARE people you are responsible for, i think that the focus should be on figuring out what they need, and making sure they have that. make sure they feel safe and in control. if that means kicking someone else out, then so be it, but that’s not where you start the question, imo.
@egnor Dumbing of Age (webcomic)
a CW of “Mets Game” is “unnecessary” but a hashtag of “#SoGladIGotToTheGameEarlyBecauseThisPlaceIsAMess” is “fine”
re: meta
@noracodes really it’s the assumption that people would only engage in a social behaviour because they were forced to which irks me
like i understand that CW can be a confusing term and that it may not line up with what people actually see it being used for, and i’m not going to fault anyone for that, but like… assuming that it was a behaviour forced by above instead of a natural emergent community practice… just demonstrates a lack of willingness to see mastodon users as a community instead of a collection of random individuals, or a lack of understanding about how online communities actually work (using things in ways Other Than Their Intended Purpose is like, a pretty common and established thing for online communities to do)
@coriander oh yeah like the absolute worst kind of programmer is the hobbiest programmer who only ever works on their own code because they have this whole rich inner life and world and methodology which nobody else fucking understands
i'm sure people Could Learn how to contribute to DF but i'm also sure it would be a huge lift equivalent to joining a new religion lol
@coriander basically the thing with computer people is that they map code into vibes and feelings because that's how the human memory system works, but there isn't actually any reasonable way to do that with code so everybody winds up doing it differently, and as a consequence they're all fucking weirdos who can't get along
@coriander bet it's like a really complicated guitar lick where you can just feel how it works in your gut but if anyone asks you to explain you're just like uhhh… notes
@coriander YA as a genre should have ended in 2015
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