Read more product reviews from more varied publications. You will see that there is a range of accountability in the sourcing of the product. Not all of it is direct marketing.

However, you can expect all of it to be ideologically consumerist.

That definitely happens some of the time, in some places. Journalism still exists, however.

Product reviews require more than a ‘test drive’.

Nike’s new IrisNet profit-sharing plan nicely puts a stylish glow on my shoe logos when the fashionably discreet LaceCam notices the right eyes noticing my shoes, and at this rate I will pay the shoes off in 54 months!

ElementX does. But it’s glitchy. It won’t work for this purpose anyway.

What you need is a streaming platform for the video presentation, supported by a separate interactivity, similar to discord chat or something. Have the presenter supported by someone monitoring the feedback.

You do not need a group video call because there is no possible way to accommodate 3000 speakers. If they are just viewers, then streaming is appropriate. Interactivity can be accomplished through text and document uploads.

There are a huge number of options, depending on what kind of an institution you represent and what kind of commitment and membership students have. I have made bespoke set ups for something like this, and it really does depend on the variables.

For a while, it was believed to interfere with LLM scrapers and poison the training. I don’t see it much lately. Seems like it would be trivial to parse and convert.

Toxic and potentially risky ownership.

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Not really, seems like a pretty typical to industrialize manufacturing process, and it sounds like it’s pretty forgiving in the range of plastics recycled as well, reducing sorting.

I expect if they produce these in inexpensive, medium sizes, that a notable percentage of remote communities would get together and run this sort of thing locally.

This is the way of non-maritime empires since the beginning of time. Push at your borders until you meet resistance, endlessly.

cf. The Machine Stops by E.M. Forster, 1909.

The arctic does not free Russia from being a continental, rather than maritime, power. Their geopolitics and imperial identity is dominated by mountain and river and plains borders, and destabilizing or annexing the powers at their borders. The arctic is inaccessible except for some baltic access dominated by maritime nations.

Ah, you are right, cranky is inaccurate. Corrected.

I upvote many of your comments, but you are in fact often cranky touchy with people on here. This here is kind of a thin skinned comment you are making. No one has their fingers up your butt.

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One thing I kind of hate is the abuse of the voting system, I kind of miss slashdot for its enforcement of a justified moderation for voting on a comment.

So it’s annoying, but sometimes I just go around counteracting user-targeted revenge downvotes, even if I don’t totally agree with the comment. It feels like being the janitor.

It’s kind of obvious that you are being vote brigaded, some deeply immature emotional framework is stalking you.

This is what tagging is for! There’s hope for some people even if they make dumbfuck comments and think votes are popularity affirmation.

Dude was being a toddler in an adult discussion and got called out for it because it’s just as annoying as it would be in meatspace… some people have trouble understanding basics like that so we try to help.

I really don’t think that that is representative of a standard Lemmy user, they’re just loudest.

Well, you are getting downvoted and it’s probably because “liberal” or centrist viewpoints are seen a bit like skeet shooting for some of the hard left on here. They seek ideological purity and are looking for a safe space.

But you know life is full of dogmatists eh. Some of them need blocking, and some of them need mocking. And some you can actually have a discussion with.

I use the Voyager app and it allows me to tag user names so that I can avoid blocking the borderline cases. I don’t mind people who are having a bad day or are just cranky, or maybe have attitudes I find annoying but not fully disturbing. I will of course block extremist authoritarians and such.

Since it’s a smallish social media community, I don’t really want to block all the discomfort away.

If I know what to expect from someone’s posts, it’s more entertaining than jarring when someone is being abrasive, and it helps me interject if things get out of hand.

I like that Lemmy/piefed is topic oriented, and not nearly as emotional as a microblogging space like mastodon, which is full of personal branding and ego and frequent annoyance at discussion when all someone wanted to do was make a posturing statement without friction or the jostle of other egos.