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Comment Re: in soviet russia we fail you! (Score 0) 76

you're funny, USA has federal police keeping populace in line, acting against dissenters and tossing out unwanted racial groups. Invades, makes acts of war and occupies those that didn't attack it for power and profit. Keeps alternate parties off ballots. Covers for criminal operations that politicians are involved in, weaponizes government agencies against political opponents and both parties are guilty.

Comment Re: YAAF (Score 1) 195

The font is a deliberate decision whether it's a bot or not, on which I have no firm opinion. A variety of accounts (how many different people are involved is anyone's guess) have chosen to set their output in monospace over the years here. I think of them like hipsters. Monospace is inferior for the majority of tasks (except arguably for programming, and for a few data processing tasks where the data is naturally columnar when represented with fixed character width) so they're making a decision to make you read their thoughts in an inferior fashion. You could of course override fixed width text but my recollection is that Slashdot uses the classic HTML for this purpose and not something you could conveniently override without affecting other text that you might not want to make monospace. However, I haven't looked at the CSS recently so you might have options there.

I handle it by simply not reading anything they write. As a speed reader I unfortunately sometimes read parts of their comments by accident, but otherwise I choose not to consume any of it. They want to make it harder to read? Fine, in that case I'll pass.

Comment Re: Exported deflation (Score 1) 195

they could easily retool to deliver for another market while selling the existing inventory slowly to domestic buyers.

Domestic buyers have to have money, so they have to have jobs, etc etc. They have official unemployment over 5% and among employable youth it's over 13%. Cars which sit degrade. This is more true for ICEVs but it's still true for EVs. And actually it's more true for EVs if they aren't kept charged, but I was assuming basic maintenance (washes, waxes, fluid changes, battery charging) being done in both cases to be generous.

Comment Re:ACs are shit (Score 1) 111

I think the better request would be to turn back on the ability to register an account first and foremost, then maybe the ability to post anonymously.

I agree that those two things should happen at the same time. But I stand by the vast majority of AC comments being trolling or worse (e.g. uncreative trolling) and the "feature" being a huge detriment to the quality of Slashdot.

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