Exactly, and Mastodon had been kinda gunning for Twitter for years before Elon went full Elon, so they were primed for the influx. Lemmy I think expected to have years to go before it's userbase would similarly skyrocket.
Literal "good ole boys club" ruling a 80% black rural town without any elections in living memory loses power through legal defaults, then decides "fuck it" and keeps ruling based on their personal and social influence.
Also, it's never ACTUALLY about parental rights and protecting children. Plenty of parents want their kids to grow up believing that there is nothing inherently sexual about a naked body, or about women, but their perspective and rights never seem to be considered.
Think about how the reactionaries in control of many US states banned Drag Queen story hours and the like from libraries and schools, saying that it should be up to parents if they want their kids to go to them, only to then classify all drag shows as obscene and restricted to 18+.
An internet devoid of unacceptable "deviations" from gender and sexuality too. Given the effort to erase trans and gay people from public spaces, this seems like a parallel effort to destroy their digital ones too.
Republican legislative leaders aren’t taking up significant any gun control changes, including the governor’s push to keep guns away from people judged to pose a threat to themselves or others.
They'll be damned if anyone is gonna call em out on their bullshit, especially a person of color.
Thing is, if this continues to be a problem and if the userbase/admins of instances are organised, we can shift those priorities. They may not have envisioned this being a problem with the work they decided to work on for the next several months. Truly, the solution is to get more developers involved so that more can happen at once.
This is historically ignorant. Before professional armies, mercenaries would literally have their camps set up in a country that hired them, only to turn and ransack a nearby town after an enemy spy came in and paid them more to do it. Western society literally invented professional armies because of mercenaries.
And of course, the materials that go into solar panels and other renewable tech (lithium ion batteries) also appear out of thin air and isn't extracted in environmentally degrading ways...
Well duh? Are they nationalizing all carbon emitting industries to begin a managed decline of the industry or are they hoping economic magic and wishful thinking will work?
He worked for the people who ran it. When people frame him as a human trafficker they're falsely creating this image of a man who kept people in cages and shipped them over international boundaries but if you read the court documents it was nothing like that.
Many of humanity's problems centered around limited resources would be alleviated by simply having fewer people.
They would also be alleviated through an economic system based on the equitable division of resources according to human need instead of the exploitation of them according to personal gain. Scarcity is enforced artificially.
We throw away 50 percent of edible food, so how is it that the problem is too many people?
We have more empty homes than homeless, so how is it that the problem is too many people?
Literally. Oh, it's too long to do it one by one? Maybe prioritize then? Confirm 2-3 of the biggest promotions in order to prevent the Senate from abdicating it's Constitutional responsibility and ceding control of the military entirely to the executive.
I really don't care about US military readiness but I do value checks and balances, and right now the Senate is refusing to serve as one.
Exactly, and Mastodon had been kinda gunning for Twitter for years before Elon went full Elon, so they were primed for the influx. Lemmy I think expected to have years to go before it's userbase would similarly skyrocket.