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Unfortunately the US is just… very right wing. Even the democrats are right of center on most things. This is just a conservative country. The democrats are about as left as you get in this country with any mainstream support, no matter how much we wish it weren’t so.

And I know man, I hate it, and I’m not going to lecture anyone that votes their conscious. If you don’t want to vote for democrats, and Biden specifically, I can’t blame you. It bewilders me that the most we can get from him over a goddamn genocide is “that’s a little much, Jack.” If you can’t vote for that I get it.

Just don’t fall into the trap of thinking that the US is more left leaning than it is. We might win on issue-to-issue polls, but when it comes down to it we’re a selfish nation that has bought into the temporarily embarrassed millionaire meme. And I don’t think that’s just the pessimism talking. We have generations worth of work ahead of us.

And hundreds of thousands of years of evolution pre-training the base model that their experience was layered on top of.

If they could force you to pay a royalty every time you so much as thought of a book you once read, they’d do it in a heartbeat.

@flatearth

lol no

You mean Chromium Brave Edition?

It’s always a matter of degrees. The bigger the injustice, the more violence is justified to rectify it. It is in the disproportionality, in my view, where the problem arises.

Never forget that humans are just barely evolved apes. Sometimes a swift knock to the head is required to activate those neural pathways to discourage anti-social behavior. Not always, but also not never. Claiming otherwise is just self-aggrandizing moralization that people use to make themselves sound and feel superior.

This has amused me. Thank you for the amusement.

lighten up man

and if the content is not interesting, it falls by the wayside with no votes. the creme rises, the cruft falls. with more volume, your will get more cruft, but also more creme.

reddit gets tons of spam and absolute garbage posts, but the volume and user voting brings good stuff out.

there will be some shitty blogs, but i think that’s an ok price to pay for more content being posted.

It’s time to start posting links to our own blogs, again. Reddit brainwashed us into thinking that “self advertisement” was a bad thing. What they actually wanted you to do was instead turn your content into text posts on reddit itself so that we’d get locked into the platform.

Self advertise. Write interesting things on your blog and then share your posts here.

From all the war stories you see online, they don’t have that much to lose.

They’re certainly shitty instances. They’re free to block them if they want, since you can always just fork the source and remove that bit.

But I don’t think that the project is associated with any particular instance that it allows you to log in to. They’re taking a definite negative stance. They’re associating themselves, just as anti rather than pro.

Personally, I think it’s a little silly. Despite the term being overused (and not even being a bad thing usually), its a classic example of the annoying kind of virtue signaling. Doing a silly little thing that makes no difference at all while trying to make yourself look good to peers. It’s like they want credit for taking on the “extremist” instances, by doing a bunch of nothing other than some mild finger waggling.

Husky is a good alternative.

They have hard-coded list of domains to disallow logging in. Logging in will redirect them to a rickroll video instead of the instance’s login interface.

Doesn’t seem like he was implying anything. Just stating the fact that part of the burden of citizenship is sometimes having to interact with law enforcement, maybe even go to trial, even if you’ve done nothing wrong.

I’m no closer to understanding how the original meme is so out of date.

1. Happy to help. Not sure what the year has to do with the meme, tho.

and a regular fediverse instance

what exactly is this other service you’re running?

Gotta get yourself weened from those engagement algorithms. The early internet was a wild west of links and word-of-mouth and reputation. That’s what we’re going back to. The withdrawals will be worth it in the end.

The nature of venture capitalism and the demand for infinite growth is going to grind the humanity out of any corporate project over a long enough time span. We’re gonna have to learn the old ways of what the Internet is supposed to be.

All those reasons boil down to “I don’t feel like learning anything new at this point in my life. If it isn’t easy enough for a toddler I don’t want it.”

The Macintosh uses an experimental pointing device called a ‘mouse’. There is no evidence that people want to use these things. I don’t want one of these new fangled devices.