Fr*nch, if you don’t mind. There could be children reading this!

Hard to argue if the source is “there are sites”…

On the channels I frequent, activity seems stable, and I haven’t seen numbers saying otherwise. Active users =/= connections.

I agree about percentage, my argument was about abosulte number of active users.

You’d think…

They are similar.

I’d love to see the methodology for those estimates, because I see more every year, not less. IRC stays flat.

IRC is as active as it has always been. It was never a high throughput system, you can barely keep track of more than 5 people talking.

Forums are still kicking as well, you have car owner forums for basically any make and model, Hobby Forums, specialist Forums (house building kitchen or gardening just to name a few I consulted recently).

Yeah, they don’t have the scale of Facebook, they never had.

And lemmy, reddit, Mastodon and Co are very much social media. What are they if not?

The small communities are still there, you just don’t visit them because you are on social media (like lemmy). Forums are still there. IRC is still there. Hell, even BBS and Usenet is still there if you really want to go that way.

No, this will be less convenient and more expensive. Like the tesla tunnel thing in Vegas: subway, but much worse.

Nice try, Rob.

Maybe in the US bosch is considered premium, but in Germany is the standard (BSH group, including bosch, Siemens, neff, etc). Their dishwashers are fine, but hard to say if better than others. But their support is awesome, you still can get replacement parts 20 years down the line, and do the repair yourself because they provide decent manuals and there’s tons of YouTube videos.

I like the IoT features, they’re so silent that it’s nice to get a notification when they are done, or start them when solar/cheap power is available.

I’ve heard good things about Miele, but don’t have any experience first hand.

I have driven a lot of cars (mostly rentals) and BMWs are quite nice. And in Germany they are considered middle class cars.

It’s never the speeder at fault, it’s always those damn {politicians, cops, other drivers, cameras} who are wrong.

Yeah, in a world where we are short of drivers and they are hiring questionable people, they are looking for reasons to fire you.

Doubly funny if OP is American, where you simply don’t need reasons to fire people.

Then almost any blatant lie would be gaslighting, which I don’t think fits the meaning. My understanding is there are more necessary attributes for a situation to be “gaslighting”, mainly the manipulation and dependency.

If someone lies about what they said in writing (in the age of internet archive of all things) it’s just a plain lie, and a dumb one at that.

How is that not just lying?

Gaslighting (if my understanding is correct) is manipulating someone. Making someone question their own sanity, blaming them, isolating from other people and making them dependent on you.

Lying on the internet to win a stupid argument with a stranger hardly can even start to measure to that.

Tja

I have never seen an online discussion where gaslighting was used. People usually just learned the term and they think it’s a synonym for lying.

*Nuke a hurricane