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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_A._Smith

In 2025, Smith signed a new contract with ESPN worth over $100 million over five years.

All the people you mentioned are bourgeois, and unless one of them is a proven class traitor[^1], they would all serve bourgeois class interests, not proletarian ones. ACAB: All Capitalists Are Bastards.

[^1]: Very rarely it does happen, take for instance Engels, Kropotkin, and Mao.

FWIW, it’s fairly rare for a deletion to not propagate. And I’ve yet to come across a rogue instance intentionally refusing to honor deletions. If we did, our instance would defederate from it.

I think it’s safe to say that this is an unappealing issue for most potential users.

I don’t actually think it’s safe to say that. I suspect that most people wouldn’t be very concerned about ActivityPub’s “best effort” federated deletion. But without actually polling people, I don’t think that either of these theories holds enough water to call “safe to say.”

This “fatal” flaw is hardly unique to ActivityPub. You fundamentally cannot control anything you publish on the internet. You can’t stop people from saving copies or taking screenshots, you can’t stop archive bots or LLM web scrapers, and you can’t force Lemmy instances to honor deletion requests.

Do you like Huey Lewis & The News? Their early work was a little too 'new-wave' for my taste, but when 'Sports' came out in '83, I think they really came into their own – both commercially and artistically. The whole album has a clear, crisp sound, and a new sheen of consummate professionalism that really gives the songs a big boost. He's been compared to Elvis Costello, but I think Huey has a far more bitter, cynical sense of humor. In '87, Huey released this, 'Fore', their most accomplished album. I think their undisputed masterpiece is 'Hip to Be Square', a song so catchy most people probably don't listen to the lyrics – but they should! Because it's not just about the pleasures of conformity, and the importance of trends, it's also a personal statement about the band itself!

I never met a bot I didn’t block. Maybe one day I’ll find one to be useful.

Wow, the pro-US imperialism Council on Foreign Relations and its war hawk magazine (which used to publish^1 the grand chess master himself) have succumbed to Russian propaganda. The bots & trolls have won. /s

But they told us that we were the ones living in a bubble 🤔

Yes, though Rome didn’t collapse in a day. This has been developing for decades.

“How did you go bankrupt?” Bill asked.

“Two ways,” Mike said. “Gradually and then suddenly.”

— Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises

These days it’s a dumb online-only meme for anyone to the left of Bernie Sanders. It’s todays “commie.” It’s a thought-terminating chiché for the purposes of shutting out those to one’s left.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tankie#Modern_Internet_uses but actually https://www.joewrote.com/p/jfk-files-reveal-the-cia-role-in

The Hungarian Freedom Fighters were [Central Intelligence] Agency sponsored.

why are all these tankies coming out of the woodwork all of a sudden 😉

first of all it’s the central bank that controls money supply, which is independent from the government.

Michael Hudson on the Federal Reserve System

Congress constitutionally has the power of the purse, and the it’s the US Treasury that creates money[^1]. When Congress created JP Morgan’s Federal Reserve, it partially cede its monetary sovereignty to the cartel of private US banks, and it can destroy the Federal Reserve in the same way that it created it, with the stroke of the pen.

even if the government could magically create all the money it needs to pay its debt, without borrowing more, it would completely devalue the dollar.

I see that you didn’t engage with the materials that I provided. Someone always says this, which is why I provided information on precisely this in my link about hyperinflation.

[^1]: There’s a second way that money is created: Congress deputized the private banks to create money out of thin air in the form of debt, meaning loans & mortgages. Each of those dollars is destroyed when the debtor pays down the principal.

I got rid of my federal government bonds a few weeks ago because I didn’t want to be lending money to Trump and his cronies.

That’s not how any of this works. The purpose of US Treasury securities is to give the wealthy a safe & profitable place to park their capital, outside of the real economy. The government doesn’t need to borrow your dollars when it has an infinite supply of them.

• The United States can always pay any debt it has because we can always print money to do that.
  — Former Fed. Res. Chair Alan Greenspan
• Why The Government Has Infinite Money
• Your Taxes Pay for Nothing
• What Caused Hyperinflation In Weimar, Zimbabwe And Venezuela?

As if English language LLMs were truth machines and not Five Eyes garbage in, garbage out machines.

Most believe whatever Five Eyes NGO & corporate media and what Wikipedia[^1] tell them. I try to lead them toward developing real media literacy, but they seldom drink.

[^1]: Meet Wikipedia’s Ayn Rand-loving founder and Wikimedia Foundation’s regime-change operative CEO

Thanks! Kangaroo court.

That’s interesting. Link(s)?

I’ve had it with fuckin’ vagueposts. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motte-and-bailey_fallacy

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and to remove all doubt.