I heard that Lemmy developers have extremist political views, isn’t that a risk?

Lemmy is open source and open licensed (should check). If the original developers do anything crazy, anyone can “fork” the project, effectively making their own version without the crazy changes.

Or something like that.

Really anything you post publicly is going to be public.

They probably don’t even know how to do the tariff hokey pokey.

This is just one guy saying this. There’s no judge or government ordering a recall.

It’s clickbait.

“Give me some good warning message css” was a pretty nice use case. It’s a nice tool that’s near the importance of Google search.

But you have to know when its answers are good and when they’re useless or harmful. That requires a developer.

I use it as soon as it’s clear what it means. If there are multiple turns, that might be four seconds so that they don’t expect me to turn early. I’ll typically hit it in the middle of the intersection of the first turn.

If there’s no earlier option to turn, I’ll absolutely leave it on for 10-15 seconds.

I expect much bigger influxes. From at least a few dozen people with hundreds of accounts. Probably around the time of an election.

In many cases on social media the “majority” opinion is crafted by external entities.

Except for Luigi. They couldn’t control that one.

I wonder what percentage of your comments are about pushing people off of LW.

LW mods generally don’t have more than one major community. It’s not a rule, but we have made a bit of an effort to avoid reddit-style supermods.

Vance could be relatively good. Signs point to no, but those signs are weak. The only thing I truly know about him is that he’ll lie for power. What he does once he gets that power is anyone’s guess.

He’s close to Peter Thiel. His book is really fucking condescending towards the rural poor. (Why don’t they just get out like he did?) He’s young enough to go for a second term if he gets half a first term. And he hates Trump except when he needs to use him to gain power.

That’s the complete record of what we know about Vance. Maybe his book was bullshit that he knew would play well with rich conservatives. Maybe he was using Peter Thiel. Maybe there’s a human in there we’ve never seen. Or maybe not.

They certainly accomplish nothing

Desperate. Every one of your comments is defeatist and counterproductive.

pillaged when a Democrat

You think at this point you’d know what that actually looks like. There’s a difference between “overly respected the Constitution and separation of powers instead of just recess appointing a Supreme Court justice” and putting tariffs on all of our allies and serving Russia.

Do you want to contribute to solutions, or are you just here to cry and whine?

neither of these two parties is appealing

Lazy, damaging, useless shit.

Well maybe if people don’t vote (or vote third party, same thing), that’ll help. Or at least that’s what you’re strongly implying.

Yeah, we’re all angry. But when two parties control 98% of the government, you have to be a little more discerning than “they’re all bad”. Particularly so when one side is fucking Nazis and the other side ranges from Bernie to Pelosi. And I don’t give a shit how much you hate Pelosi, she’s not a fucking Nazi. Even Pelosi is still better than the best federally elected Republican who has retained their office. When things are so clear between the parties, it’s a moral crime to be so lazy as to say they’re both the same. They’re not.

You don’t have to get on board with every Democrat. But if you’re not on board with Bernie and AOC, I don’t know what the fuck you expect to get done. And Bernie and AOC are largely supportive of the Democratic party. When they’re not, they’re very precise and directed about it. They never imply “they’re all the same”, and we shouldn’t be that lazy either.

Mostly your comment.

Wow, pretty desperate.

I know it’s supposed to be a joke. Doesn’t seem worth it.

Imagine that I googled for you and linked:

Articles about nationwide protests over the last few weeks

Articles about Teslas burning at dealerships

An article about a GOP headquarters building burning with ICE = KKK written.

Where have you been?

How is he not fired? Incompetence and ignorance is one thing, but when you combine it with effectively insubordination… well, you better be right. And he is not.

Yes. It didn’t help that we spent 50 years saying not to discuss politics or religion.

But the current situation was largely a coordinated propaganda effort, likely combined with blackmail on politicians. Possibly caused by the hacked emails. Both the DNC and RNC were hacked. Only the DNC side was released.