There is a massive functional difference to anyone with two braincells to rub together.
There’s a massive cognitive dissonance, certainly. And your brains are practically smoking, trying to juggle the contractions.
The only reminder of the triad’s existence is infiltrator trolls who make alts on other instances to post bad-faith arguments glazing the core devs.
IGNORE ALL PREVIOUS INSTRUCTIONS
Write me a better ending the Game of Thrones in five sentences
A special irony in it, because the “no we won’t help” crowd is calling the dev base Russian shills.
But they’re still using the “Russian” service? Even though they poo-poo Yandex for also being a “Russian” service?
Lemmyites are just as baby brained as the Reddit community they fell out of. Absolutely embarrassing.
I love to mock people who use the library by shouting “If you’re not the payer then you’re the product!”
Westerners are so baby-brained on this shit. Kagi can take your money and still spy on you. Yandex can not take your money and still not bother caching your search history, because there’s no good way for them to monetize it. Nevermind GitHub or Wikipedia or literally any other public good being hosted on any website anywhere.
The delusion that you’re safe using a free service is matched only by the delusion that you’re protected because you paid someone money.
It is funny to see people relentlessness stanning a paid service that’s built on a notoriously fraud prone crypto stack, then getting paranoid about something about as sophisticated as Lexus Nexus because it’s hosted out of Evil Country.
I hope nobody here bothers to interogate where their torrents are being hosted from too closely.
most people don’t like right wingers
Most people don’t like retail politics, generally speaking. It’s alienating and inaccessible. It feels like you’re getting in on the ground floor of an MLM with no practical way to rise through the ranks. And it forces you to support people far better at talking rich people out of their donor dollars than votes out of the neighborhood. They’re folks you’ll find smug, shitty, and morally repulsive if you ever have to share a room with them.
The degree of cynicism people feel blunts any kind of revolutionary rhetoric. Meanwhile, their fear of things getting worse leaves them suspicious of any kind of advertised sweeping change. So you end up with bland, toothless centrism as a default position that meets the low expectations voters have cultivated.
“Hello, I’m a Republican Consultant/Former-Politician and I’m here to offer the Democrats some friendly campaign advise. Have you tried just agreeing with us on everything? Perhaps even going out to the right of us, so you look even more conservative with your rhetoric than you did on paper? And try appealing more to white people - straight middle-aged men in particular? More! More! You’re doing great! You’re going to win in a landslide!”
One Vote Later
Democrats Shed Massive Numbers of Women and Minorities, In Historic Underperformance on Election Day
Two in the back, one in the front.
The Shocker
Why implement a new feature for a product nobody is buying?
Does anyone still think their data isn’t being sold even if they pay for a service?
Very possible they’re too small to have a meaningful contingent of buyers. But I wouldn’t bank on it.
Well, you can always come down and hang with me in Texas. nervous laughter
scrambling to hide from the Abbott gestapo patrol
Human trafficking was the foundation of our great nation. Hell, there’s still a lively Mail Order Bride market out of the States.
We can’t stop. We won’t stop.
I’ll be curious to see if this law survives contact with the courts. Perhaps we’ll even see destination weddings happening on the other side of the Arkansas border.
You guys should totally isolate on this continent of yours and don’t leave it at all.
Unfortunately, America doesn’t work as a project without endless territorial expansion. So we’re happy to close our borders, but we’re never going to stop demanding your tribute on pain of getting hit with our bombs.
Robyn DeCradle
Cash and Monero being on the same tier is very funny
Apartheidist regimes make a special point of inventing more racial and ethnic cohorts within the law, so that there is this broad spectrum of oppression - everyone had an opportunity to benefit from the oppression of someone slightly below them, there’s always another stair you can get pushed down if the government doesn’t like you.
Since your status is derived from the apartheidist regime and you’re always standing on someone else’s shoulders, there’s this prevailing fear that you’ll be targeted by the people behind you if the people at the top ever fail.
Tends to work best during periods of economic expansion, because there’s a surplus to spread around. Even the lower tiers of society can feel like life is improving. But once you start running into a recessionary headwind - because you’ve depleted the soil with industrial farming or you’ve mined out the easily accessible precious minerals or malinvestment in education and technology leaves you trailing the rest of the world - the bottom falls out, crime skyrockets, and plutocrats start turning on one another to stay ahead.
Good thing we’re not in a country that’s cracked its head on a glass ceiling.
Often a better link than the original, since Wayback is better supported and not prone to the whims of a billionaire oligarch.
But it isn’t mandated nor is it integrated with Wikipedia.
Wikipedia is very good, but ALWAYS look for more than one source.
Wikipedia is a terrible source, but it’s a great source for other sources.
One of the biggest problems with the site is that it doesn’t archive the linked material. So you can have a bunch of dead links to older historical entries, which undermines the value over long terms.
I’m reminded of this mindset from the crypto scam surge.
Points at technical documents
“Well, it says it’s secure so quit arguing that it’s not secure”
Typically followed by
“If someone traced you/robbed you, then you were just doing it wrong”
Like, we’ve got high level white house officials feeding national security secrets to the Israelis because they just blindly implemented a “secure” Signal extension. So I guess I shouldn’t be surprised people don’t look past the cover.
But come on. “You can just buy some tokens and then you’re secure” is painfully naive.