Maybe this is libbed up, but someone here probably knows a national guard volunteer, at least some of whom probably don't want to go out and fight their fellow community members for ICE.
Right wingers are never ever correct. Even in the rare cases where an individual right winger says a correct thing, it inevitably is justified with ass-backwards right wing logic.
As I have said before: the general public needs to adopt a policy of zero capitulation to reactionary frameworks.
Unironically the only thing I could ever recommend any American do out of high school anymore is find your comrades and fight the fucking empire in the streets. Work doesn't pay, school doesn't lead to work that pays, trades destroy your body. At least if you find comrades to do stuff with, you can support each other and take advantage of numbers.
Anything else at this point requires you to agree to get fractally scammed, fucked over, used, and abused by capitalists at every part of the transaction.
Unironically I would be literally thrilled to contribute to this brain drain. I'd drop everything and get on a plane right this very second for a chance to do a PhD in literally any other country.
If anyone is looking to fill a electrical engineering PhD position literally anywhere but America then I'm ya boy.
But are we though? Because based on my research, it's a lot harder to get into the EU than it used to be like 10 years ago. It's not as if anti-immigration sentiment isn't picking up there either.
I don’t really know why anybody would want to come here anymore for university
I mean if my advisor can secure the funding, the two reasons I plan on doing my PhD in America are (1) I like my advisor and (2) I went to school here and I don't like my chances of being accepted somewhere else. Like I would rather do a PhD in literally any other country.
Fuck the zioNazis and fuck the spineless cowards that run feddit.com. Death to capitalism, death to America, death to Israel, free Palestine, and ALL power to ALL the people.
And frankly, I don't think feddit.org deserve to be a part of the SDF community, or polite society in general. ZioNazis are exactly that, Nazis with a different coat of paint, and should be treated as such.
BUT I still disagree with SDF specifically defederating instance-wide from Feddit or literally any instance. IMO the only reason I would support SDF defederating an instance is if simply federating with the instance is technically dangerous for out instance.
Because we don't deserve to be punished for feddit.org's crimes by throwing away our ability to communicate with, agitate, or monitor Feddit's users and mod team. I totally sympathize with other instances that specifically and openly curate what their users can and can't see nuking their federation if that is what their users want. Totally reasonable. But I suspect that a lot of us are here precisely because we don't defederate from anyone, even if they suck or deserve worse. A lot of us are on this instance deliberately because we want to curate our own feeds.
And personally, I reject the premise that communicating with a person means that I respect or endorse them in any capacity. For example, I've replied to various neoliberals all over the Fediverse because they said something horrible or uninformed that needs to be addressed, at least for the sake of everyone else watching. I don't endorse or respect the neoliberal worldview, but unfortunately in the US and a lot of places we've ruined, neoliberalism is the "default" ideology, so that's where discussions from any other position have to start from: rejecting neoliberalism and disproving its lies.
And as alluded to above, this is my position about neo-nazis, PDF files, cops, and ${insert any morally reprehensible group here} with respect to this instance as well.
So no, I don't support us site-wide defederating from Feddit, just as I wouldn't support site-wide defederating any instance unless federation somehow posed a technical existential threat to this instance. Not that they haven't earned it, because they've earned way the fuck worse, but we don't deserve to lose our ability to speak to them or monitor their monsters.
You only get NaN for division by zero if you divide 0 by 0 in IEEE floating point. For X/0 with X ≠ 0, you get sign(X)•Inf.
And for real numbers, X/0 has to be left undefined (for all real X) or else the remaining field axioms would allow you to derive yourself into contradictions. (And this extends to complex numbers too.)
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