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Good. Making the rounds with the more free-wheeling discussion groups is an excellent idea. She really should be blitzing out all the big infuencers/podcasts/etc in this final stretch.

She should hit up Brian Tyler Cohen again too. She shouldn't shy away from the more adversarial ones, either, she should include at least a few from the pro-Palestinian community and maybe even like Joe Rogan too.

I can see instance shopping to find the perfect one, a week is about how long it takes to get a good sense of the local community. Too bad about the lost content though.

I've always felt similarly. It's a hustle most of the time, just pumping out content that'll get a reliable number of views from a dedicated audience.

The web serial Worm by Wildbow, written like 10-15 years ago maybe, is also a pretty good superhero deconstruction.

You don't think any of them were in tech, health care, engineering gigs, etc? Personally I rather doubt they're all teaching positions or something.

Not necessarily. Prudent to start with an offer higher than your actual goal so you have room to bargain downward.

Yikes ... That scruffy, unkempt look does not age well, does it?

Yeah I've been growing a little frustrated as well, as my tone in that earlier comment probably indicated. But a troll isn't the only stubborn person around here, and I actually care about this community and the broader Fediverse project.

I agree, they don't seem particularly concerned, which is why I've steadily pivoted more towards general conversations on what trolling actually is, what the classic trollface.jpg really represents, and methods by which it seeks to accomplish its goals. If this or any other community I'm active in is going to allow these behaviors, it won't be able to claim ignorance of how it all works.

It's admittedly a big topic though.

Personally I am very willing to pay full price and even occasionally buy pointless extras I don't care about if it helps reward their passion for a project I see as a valuable contribution. I'll even pre-order or provide them some free advertising in some cases. Especially if its the sort of dev where it seems like their long-term survival might be in question.

I feel like you can usually tell when the dev needs money or doesn't.

That's part of the problem too. They don't understand what a dedicated troll's real long-term goals are. Good on them for never having been one, but I'd rather have a rare example of a healthy large internet community than a trolly one.

The Constitution is a very short document, you can read the whole thing in about 10 minutes or so. It does not include very much in the way of details, generally speaking.

Reading it when you're young is one thing, you don't really understand how systems come together anyway at that age. Rereading it as an adult is a bit of an eye-opener though, as it's easy to see just how little it really establishes, and what sorts of directions abuses could potentially come from.

https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/constitution-transcript

I think they're just erring on the side of free speech in general. They've always been fairly lenient with comment behavior that isn't extremely blatant. Since they don't seem to understand the nature of these things, we sort of have a responsibility to educate about it.