TheSaneWriter @ TheSaneWriter @lemmy.thesanewriter.com

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It is absolutely an apt comparison. Genocide is a favored tool of fascists because it's an effective way of quickly wiping away dissident civilians and destroying the mythical enemy they have in their heads. The Nazis alive today would absolutely do the Holocaust again given the ability, and fascism is too popular in too many countries for ridicule alone to work.

You're correct, it's just a bit demotivating. There must be some way to reinvigorate the labor movement both in the United States and globally, but I'm not entirely sure how. I think the labor movement in the U.S. has recovered a bit from the massive damage that the Reagan administration caused it, but it's slow-moving.

You're always both. With Apple, it doesn't sell your data, but it does sell curated ad space where they use your data to power their tools. While this is less of an invasion of privacy than Google or the atrocity of Meta's privacy policy, it still exists on a spectrum of how much companies are willing to use your data for extra profit. I'm not saying to not use Apple, hell I'm currently using Microsoft Edge, but I think it's important to understand that literally every profit-driven company is subject to the same systemic flaws and none of them can be completely trusted.

I respect that. I'm not setting up a media server because I would expose myself to legal liability, but the people brave enough to actually distribute the content I'm consuming have my full respect.

Sorry Jack, but I'm an anarcho-Bidenist, and ultimately like our lord and savior Joe Biden said, we're in the beginning of a happy pride life. Walter White is gay, Jessie Pinkman is gay, and soon, you too will be gay.

Oh, they can, they will just force some other poor programmer to read your code and figure it out. A profoundly miserable process, but someone is willing to do it.

It's morally positive to pirate games that are no longer available for sale. Piracy is stealing, but in this case, you're stealing from the void so there's no harm done, and preserving the game is a morally good thing to do.

Yeah, I get that stuff like that sucks. Funnily enough, I think it's a little better on Linux because the EA games app is incapable of running on Linux so Proton boots it just long enough to get the game working, and then it fades back into the background. While Linux gaming is still not perfect, that kind of thing is one of the reasons I prefer it over gaming on Windows.

Damn, apparently all it takes to turn a show gay is to say the characters in the show are gay. I wonder which show we're going to make gay next.

You can fix it later, but that doesn't mean you're going to.

Isn't Safari made by Apple? It's not like Apple is some paragon of corporate virtue, why do you trust them?

Oh, no disagreements there. It was very shitty and greatly inconvenienced a great many people, pyarra could have at least posted a goodbye post and given us a warning before abandoning the instance.

That's true, but for me COVID manifested flu-like symptoms and I was still largely functional. A disease with flu-like symptoms that also breaks my bones is thus a downgrade.

You're correct, but the majority of normies don't care. A lot of people don't naturally feel a strong impulse towards privacy, so the fact that Google knows everything about them doesn't really bother them.

I'm personally a believer that it was because he didn't want to deal with the potential legal trouble from federated content, but it really is a mystery.

Generally it's agreed the best way to stop piracy is by offering a more convenient alternative. I generally for example don't pirate video games available on Steam. With streaming services being so disjoint and expensive now I've gone back to pirating, at least with cable you can bundle channels.

UX/UI design mainly. All social media follows a fairly similar pattern, post pictures/text and other people react to it. The difference comes from what the UI of different social media platforms emphasizes, Pixelfed emphasizes pictures, Mastadon emphasizes short-form text posts, Lemmy emphasizes variable posting types with extensive comment threads. Because each one emphasizes a slightly different medium, they can design their UI/UX to prioritize their whole schtick while making design decisions that may not be good for other mediums. Everybody has a different preference for the ways they like to consume content, so I understand that people prefer Mastadon/Pixelfed even though I personally prefer Lemmy.

It looks alright to me. For reference, my instance is lemmy.thesanewriter.com and my app is Thunder.

I don't think so.

There's some amount of nuance to both I think. For America, Trump actually had less popular support for both elections he ran in. For Biden v Trump, he not only lost the electoral college but also got something like 10 million fewer votes, which is a blowout result for an election in a 2-party nation. For Hillary v Trump, he lost by a few million but was more strategic with the states he appealed to, winning several Rust Belt states by fairly thin margins. For Russia, polling works a bit differently in a dictatorship vs. a democracy. In a democracy, even if everyone hates the current leader the idea that people can vote them out often brings contentment, so a democracy can chug along with low approval. In a dictatorship, the dictator can't be voted out and will often use fear to gain support, so they tend to poll highly because the people doing well love them and the people doing poorly are too afraid to say their feelings on the matter on government record. However, this means that if polling falls low that there are either fairly few people doing well or they no longer attribute their well-being to the state and that the people doing poorly are either bold or desperate enough to push through fear. This is extremely bad news for a dictator and may signal an impending change in leadership. With all that in mind, stable dictators like Kim Jun Un and President Xi Jinping poll very highly even during times of hardship, and Putin's poll numbers falling to levels that would seem fine in a democratic nation could be dire news for his state.