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They are just making a point. No such thing, just pointing out that criminal courts don't prove innocence.

No, ex as in former sexual partners, because you aren't doing them any more.

fair point

I don't want to defend spez, buuuuut, it was /r/the_donald, and it was kinda funny. It was not like a covert operation to change the dialog, it was obvious what happened when it happened, it was a troll move. Still inappropriate no doubt, but like, not the same as a disinformation campaign.

I agree (for the most part). I still don't see a lot of them around on either side. But you might be right in that I was expecting more right wing libertarians as well.

I consider myself left libertarian btw.

Yeah it is exactly what people engaging in fraud rely on. The more money that is on the line, the less likely the heuristic works. Reddit had an obsession with popular heuristics. The whole point of one is to quickly make an assessment when you don't have either the time or resources. It is not a proof, never has been. The other one people always bring up is Occam's razor. All razors are heuristics, heuristics are never proof.

Although in this case the claim is that Elon is intentionally tanking twitter, which is also a ridiculous claim.

I was expecting more libertarians.

It was someone suffering from a mental illness or personality disorder. They went out of their way to be stuck at the airport. Refused help from family, refused help from a reporter who actually went through the trouble of proving his citizenship. He wanted to be at that airport and live that life.

Lol great analogy

Just a friendly reminder: The Stanford Prison Experiment was not an experiment. There was no control group, there wasn't even proper procedures set up. It was just some professor off his rocker that had a dumb idea, made shit up as he went along, forced the outcome, then publicized the results. People always compare it to Milgram. This idiot can't hold a candle to Milgram.

It's poor branding, at least if someone knows Lemmy and they see a Lemmy link, they will go to it. Lemm.ee doesn't intuitively look like a Lemmy instance to an outsider.

When the vegetable meat costs more than the animal meat, I can feel the "I'm being ripped off". Make fake meat cheaper than real meat and I'll eat it all day long.

*deleted by creator * - I was responding to a different thread but had this window open and replied here by mistake. That's interesting though, thanks for following up.

Voting blocks are very successful at getting what they want, but they can only do that if their threat to not vote for the party in question is taken seriously. The NRA doesn't get what it wants because it commits to always vote Republican no matter what.

I get your point of view, and my argument is overly idealized and difficult to implement, but I genuinely don't see it working without the ability to use your vote to negotiate. Besides money, it is the only thing they care about. I'm not American, but from Canada, and I can tell you from an outsider's perspective your two-party system looks completely dysfunctional. We basically have a three/four-party system for our federal gov and I'd take that any day over a two-party system. Granted America controls the reserve currency and the world army, so it was bound to consume itself at some point, maybe it doesn't matter how it is set up.

I actually just made the experience worse and worse without adjusting the nicotine. Switched to unflavored, then switched to freebase, then my vape broke and I started using my shitty old vape. It became a chore to smoke so it was easy to stop.

Although, I've usually been pretty good at controlling my nicotine when needed, so I would not describe myself as some highly addicted even when I was vaping a lot.

Unionization is pitifully low in the US. To suggest they are booming is like someone saying they got a massive raise this year because their boss almost matched it to inflation.

If voting was done once and never again, you would be correct. However, there is voting every two years, if people voted in a blocked and the Dems lost, they would be forced to change their policy to attract back lost voters. They have no incentive to change if you openly admit you will always vote blue.

Of course, this also requires that the messaging is clear, last time the Dems lost they blamed it on Russians and deplorables rather than the fact that they have totally sold out the working class.

It's difficult to pull off no doubt, but it would actually work at reforming the system.

But the powers provided by federation specifically disempower monopoly control. Interoperability is the gold standard of breaking up the tech monopoly network effects. If Facebook is simply trying to capitalize as a "first mover/early mover" and is willing to set flames to the old system of control in order to get ahead, let them. Zuck gets to stay relevant for another 10 years, and he sows the seeds of distruction for the rest of them.

Yes there is risk, but it can be easily mitigated by simply keeping an eye on it and using defederating as leverage in that relationship. Worst comes to worst, just defederate anyways.

I think that an open systems that are universal and interoperable are inherently superior to any walled garden. If people think that the fediverse can't handle or incorporate large corporate interests then this is a failed experiment and they should just shut it down now. Superior open systems should be able to dominate a free market environments, and people either don't believe this to be the case, or the fediverse is inferior and will never beat the centralized competitors.

I also hate Facebook but for those reasons I think that Facebook joining the fediverse would actually improve Facebook, not worsen the fediverse.

Am I the only person that washes hands before putting the belt back on?