they’ll block all servers that host Mastodon

This will be a never-ending game of whack-a-mole.

Like how China tries to block VPNs that get around their firewall. There’s always another VPN that China hasn’t blocked yet, and there’ll always be another fediverse server that any other authoritarian regime hasn’t blocked yet.

Even a minimally featured bidet will at least soften things up and make wiping more effective.

I used a tushy bidet to start, which is pretty cheap and easy to get going and get comfortable with it. I would recommend the warm water options, but you need to have a sink nearby to steal the warm water from. Fancier warm water bidets have an instant water heater, so you don’t need a hot water tap, just power.

I have since upgraded to one with all the features, and here’s how my process typically goes:

1. Sit down on heated seat
2. Push out what I can
3. Using the remote, turn on low pressure heated water with pulsating mode. I can also move the spray back/forth with the remote to get everything.
4. Switch to high pressure for a moment. That has enough pressure to get up in there a bit, which seems to lubricate/soften any parts that didn’t come out through sheer effort earlier.
5. Pause, push out one more time
6. Go back to low pressure to tidy up
7. Turn on blow dryer for a bit, or dry off with TP if I’m in a hurry.

Why do you capitalize seemingly random words? Is this a translation artifact or something?

A bidet gets its water straight from the tap, not from the toilet bowl. His is the same water that you wash your hands in.

Someone mentioned the last mile problem, and someone else responded as if it doesn’t exist based purely on their own situation (right now). I’m pointing out that it does exist with my situation as an example (right now).

That’s all. Should we pretend like there’s no last mile problem?

Maybe in some ideal world, the last mile problem could be solved purely with public transit. We don’t live in that world. Investing as of we live in an ideal world is foolish.

If one approach is effective for more people, that’s great, but shouldn’t we also invest in solutions that fill the gap?

Here’s a summary of this thread:

Guy 1 - why is anyone doing waymo when there’s public transit

Guy 2 - last mile problem

Guy 3 - it works great for me in the city surrounded by bus stops, no last mile problem

Me - it doesn’t work great for me barely outside the city. (My point being that it’ll take a lot to get public transit to within 1 mile of where I am, let alone to someone even further from the city)

You - that’s your own fault so stop complaining

Me - so fuck me and everyone farther out than me apparently.

That’s how we got here. I simply stated my situation as it relates to public transit, and you tell me it’s just my own fault and I should shut up.

We have a long way to go to get ubiquitous public transit in America. I doubt we will ever get there. It makes sense to consider other options as well.

I’m saying we should go to the moon AND develop nuclear fusion.

You want to know what’s harmful to discussion? Pricks like you telling people that their opinion is irrelevant.

So fuck everyone who can’t afford to, or doesn’t want to, live in the city?

I can, do, and will vote for officials that want to expand public transit. I also appreciate other efforts being taken, because I don’t let perfect be the enemy of the good, and I recognize that no one solution works for everyone.

I live on a 40mph road with no sidewalk or shoulder. That is connected to a 45mph road with no sidewalk or shoulder. My nearest bus stop is 3.2 miles away.

I’m not even that far out, I can drive to a major city downtown in 30 minutes.

That’s great that you have all this infrastructure around you, but not everyone does. Like you said, a lack of perspective is not an excuse.

The person you are replying to is talking about pink sky being built on bluesky, and you equate that to Lemmy being based on Reddit. One is a hard technical dependency, and the other is a conceptual inspiration.

You are engaging in an equivocation fallacy, and I think you know that. You even try to sneak it in by switching to a different but similar word (built->based) with a different meaning, then you switched back again to “built” while using the term in the same way you used “based”, then you start using other phrasing to obscure it even more. You are gaslighting with word games to try and get people to not notice your fallacy. It’s super dishonest.

Seems like you read the first two sentences of my post and stopped there, so you completely missed the point.

It’s not JS that is the problem. It’s an issue of client resource use. That would be true no matter what language is being used.

That’s not necessarily special to JS. It’s special to client-side code. A mobile app writing in swift could do this. A cli tool written in any language could do this.

This isn’t an argument against JS, it’s an argument against misuse of client resources.

Except that all of those produce HTML. They are all HTML websites.

PHP stands for “PHP Hypertext Preprocessor” because it is a Preprocessor of HTML (HyperText Markup Language).

If we are talking about browser performance, none of those technologies that you mentioned execute on the browser at all and are therefore irrelevant to Firefox’s performance compared to another browser.

From a browser’s perspective, every website is HTML, CSS and JavaScript.

Can you give an example?