I just want to say the only reason I didn't donate sooner were:

1. I needed a friendly reminder (the lemmy post was that reminder for me) because life got busy
2. I didn't know that Lemmy didn't already generate enough to cover the costs of two developers

I couldn't be happier to donate! The work you're doing is amazing! It's helped me kick my 15 year long reddit addiction & reminded me of the original promise of the Internet

As a trans person please stop. You're not helping & are being underhandedly misogynistic.

Unfortunately that international pressure appears to be disintegrating before our eyes...

There is no fucking way I'm keeping a bedside table like that. Specifically a bedside table.

How the hell am I gonna show people my room politely with vibrators, lube, condoms, rope, spanking paddles, rope & a hitachi wand hanging out fuck all that lol

I used to think so too, but last night I found this super cute and informative blog about recovering our free will online and now I'm super hyped about NNCP and mesh networks!! 🥹

I've been using LibreWolf for weeks and it hasn't broken a single thing yet... not sure what you're on about

I've yet to find anything that it broke after weeks of use... and anyway it takes two seconds to disable that for a few mins in the rare event it's necessary.

Overall an unambiguously better internet experience on LibreWolf coming from years of FireFox for me.

Cell towers can use the SIM card to track your IMEI number which is specific to your device and may link to your identity depending on how you purchased it and your carrier.

Generally there's no perfect solution to this short of not using a phone. But as a compromise some people opt to never add a SIM card and instead keep their device WiFi-only while always using a VPN, MAC randomization on in settings, and airplane mode.

Some apps such as simplex allow you to sign up without a phone number for your texting & calling needs. Of course it's not perfect and I assume almost anybody would want a real number somewhere (perhaps on a different device or landline).

For me it's reasonable to not have cell service on this phone because it's only one of several phones I own.

Conversations like this is why Lemmy feels so much more refreshing than Reddit, so thank you for that... I hadn't realized how desperately I've missed the old internet

Sure I can agree with that.

However, I think that is sort of a special case that's easy to resolve. It only comes up when they are already in the business of learning logical proofs & will likely be looking to learn from someone or a textbook who will most likely clear that up for them...

Chances are that person already has a baseline level of competency in logical thinking, or, if they don't, they soon will learn and are open to it. They've at least additionally already mastered the colloquial meaning of the phrase and are simply a bit overzealous with it's use (which should be reigned in as you aptly point out).

On the other hand, when people don't understand "you can't prove a negative" in social situations unrelated to formal logic, it's generally observed they are up to their eyeballs in conspiracy thinking and are so lost in magical thinking that they've abandoned even informal rule of thumb levels of logic.

Those are truly sad situations with deep (inter)personal, social, and political consequences, especially if they go on to harm others based on their misunderstandings.

Ironically it seems we both have less faith in the competence of others, albeit in different ways lol

I was making a joke but it maybe didn't land right oops

Gay men are disproportionately the victims of this fashion disaster, not the perpetrators stop the stigma