JonEFive @ JonEFive @midwest.social

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It's a brain malfunction where cognitive dissonance apparently feels good.

This is a reference that I'm afraid not enough people understand.

As long as they're peaceful, then pretty much, yes. A state university where the land is publicly owned (government "owned" property), it sounds like they were exercising their rights to assemble, speak, and petition the government...

Hey now, this court case is about the presidential ability to assassinate rivals, not the presidential ability to use the armed forces against American citizens on American soil. We would need the national guard for that.

I'm still convinced that he's actively and intentionally trying to destroy Twitter.

Well, let's talk about when Twitter was founded...

He's one of those CEOs that teams have two meetings for: one where the CEO joins and they only say things the CEO wants to hear, and a second to actually discuss the relevant issues.

I mean... It's Las Vegas. You don't go to Vegas expecting a vacation experience free from the perverse corruption of money.

The only difference is who pays you to do it 😁

Elected politician behaving like an out of control teenager is not relevant. Got it.

Person making poor life decisions is entrusted to make potentially life altering decisions on behalf of thousands of other people. And that's not relevant?

What makes you think her constituents won't just eat this shit up? They already voted for her once, her skills, knowledge, education and qualifications were never the qualities that got her elected in the first place. She's one of those "she says what I'm thinking!" representatives

Ehhh... They might be okay to live in, but they are rarely a good financial decision overall unless you happen to own the land they're constructed on.

Try finding a dumb tv for sale of relevant size and quality. I know you don't have to connect it to wifi... Usually. But I just want a TV that doesn't have all this shit in it to begin with.

They have become the evil they were once apart from.

In a streaming landscape dominated by ad companies like Google and Amazon, Roku was once the viable alternative. Unfortunately, in the 21st century, enshitification comes for us all eventually.

Give me freedom from advertising or give me death.

It's not as easy as moderating individual posts. Remember, Lemmy is decentralized. If you start your own Lemmy server and I federated with it, I'll get all the stuff you post on my instance too (intentionally oversimplified).

Its up to you to moderate communities on your instance the way you see fit, and up to me to moderate mine. Even though our instances are federated, I can't moderate on your behalf. It just isn't feasible both in terms of the technology and in terms of the sheer volume of content you would have to try to moderate.

If you have a community that posts a mix of things I agree with and things I don't, I really only have a couple options on my end. Basically I can block that community on my instance or block your instance altogether.

The reason why someone might block a community may be more about the legal risk than any moral justification. Depending on where you are, it might be illegal to even host that information. And since Lemmy instances cache posts from other instances, it could be argued that because that community is federated with your instance, you're responsible for the content posted there.

Just as venture capitalism demands.

In terms of a bill making it through congress, Biden has zero say in the matter until it reaches his desk.

I love how the conversation is always "ban tiktok" and not "ban the specific practices that make TikTok problematic".

Don't want to upset the massive corporate overlords that run the US social media companies doing the exact same things.

If you watched the Matrix, you'd know the answer to that. The machines won a nearly infinite number of times.