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  • How prey tell do you expect us to not "keep Trump" if Biden loses?

    He was impeached twice. We couldn't get rid of him. He tried to overthrow an election in a bid to stay in power. He actively encouraged an attempted insurrection in clear violation of the constitution and any number of other laws. But the Supreme Court says he can run again. Because he put his choices in the Supreme Court. We can't get rid of him.

    When you put him in power, he uses that power to stay there at all costs. He uses that power to make sure that he experiences no consequences for the illegal and immoral shit he does. And every time Trump avoids punishment for his behavior, he is only emboldened to behave even worse.

    I think you're too worried about sending a message to Biden, and not accurately reflecting on what that message might cost.

  • Gorilla. No doubt in my mind. It's a hell of a lot easier to keep track of where one gorilla is compared to 5 black snakes.

    One gorilla will probably ignore me as long as I keep my distance. Keeping distance and even putting a wall or 3 between you and the gorilla is trivial in a place as large as a mall.

    On the other hand, snakes might mostly ignore me, but since I don't know where the fuckers are, it's a lot easier to accidentally startle or threaten one.

    My new best friend friend Coco isn't coming through pipes, air ducts, holes in walls, etc. Big strong boi isn't hiding in the corner of a closet waiting to bite me as I reach in to grab a snack.

    I'd go to the food court, put out a cornucopia of food, make sure the gorilla sees me leave it there for them, bow respectfully and slink away, then spend the rest of the 24 hours clear on the opposite side of the mall.

    This all assumes that the gorilla isn't enraged for any particular reason or starving. But even if so, I think gorilla is the safer answer, just the evasion technique changes.

  • That said, if I wanted to spam the Fediverse, I'd just spin up my own instance of Lemmy or Mastodon.

    Its actually smarter for spammers to infiltrate populated servers. Admins aren't going to have a problem defederating from a pure spam instance. They'll think twice about defederating from an instance with lots of legit users.

  • I saw a little of it. Then I saw the offending instances quickly banned. Then I saw a comment from the admin that they didn't like having to implement bans of entire instances, but it became a necessity until admin of those offending instances took action.

    I dunno, seems like it is working exactly as intended to me.

    And it's far better than a monolithic tech giant. Pointing at Mastodon and calling out spam is utterly silly when compared to the amount of spam on large services. This article reads like a hit piece sponsored by Xitter.

  • They could also be limited to serving for say 10 years without the possibility of a second term. Effectively very similar to a lifetime appointment. There's no re-election so they don't have to rule on cases in a political manner. This doesn't solve the problem of approval rating being completely meaningless, but at least there's some limit on insanity.

  • If you know anything about sneaker-heads, you know they don't often wear their very expensive sneakers.

    Which makes these things even more stupid. But you and I aren't the target demographic for throwing $400 in a trash can.

  • It's naive to think that if the businesses are allowed to continue, and they continue to bear his name, that he won't maintain some form of control. The man may be stupid in a lot of ways, but he and his allies are perfectly capable of getting the right people into the right positions to do his bidding - and that presumes that those people aren't already in place.