stardust @ stardust @lemmy.ca

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Diseases say fuck your borders.

Need empress to get on this.

Fuck DRM

I wonder if someone breaking it and collecting insurance money from it would end up being the preferred option over selling it.

Sounds like attitude of wage slaves that have been brainwashed into doing everything for the corpos and being fine with getting scrap. They live to work as opposed to work to live.

Can't change the slave mentality of some people. They were just born to be one.

I just want dumb appliances that stay dumb and don't need no ai or app shit.

And I want OS that just launch and download programs I click without account login requirements and ai shit trying to be my dumb shit buddy.

I use the old.reddit.com/r/subreddit+subreddit1 bookmark approach to get a reddit feed without relying on reddit account for a subscription on desktop browser.

And on Android I use Stealth from F-Droid which is an app that lets you subscribe locally, save locally, and lets you have different profiles with different subscriptions. And it is account free with no way to log in.

Moving to primarily lurking is the route I've taken.

We are exposed to the same material as the people who choose to believe them. We aren't anymore special or smart than anyone else when it comes to material we have available or see when people smarter than us like doctors can choose to believe it.

You say take money out of politics and I agree, but money is currently in politics and these type of talks of education while true are not effective enough in a system that has money in politics. And social media is currently run by oligarchs. These type of changes will take decades to undo. Education alone is not enough to combat the problem right now.

And as you said dumb people were dumb before, but what has drastically changed is what dumb people in masses choose to believe leading to an increase uptick in harm to society. First it was flat earth people laughed about. Then antivax and now support of dictators.

People keep underestimating the power of disinformation and how quickly it takes root, but how even harder it is to deprogram.

You'd fit right in working for Facebook.

Yeah like imagine if Twitter had been banned in the US and how their election might have turned out. Things might have turned out worse like getting a dictator who is wanting to reignite land grabs of neighboring countries.

Not banning Twitter and attempts to educate from the liberals really worked out.

Education hasn't worked seeing how fascism has successfully taken hold through american social media, and no transparency over algorithms. And the people in charge pushing for fascism owning the sites and tuning the algorithm to their liking to promote and suppress information they want the masses to hook on to.

And it's not like only dumb uneducated people who have been lured into it. Those with educated backgrounds are just as easily influenced. That there are antivax nurses tells you everything there is to know about how effective education is.

Can you imagine people on /r/fednews, expressing what is going on if their true identities were known under the government that is in place right now? Trusted authorities can become the enemy in an instant as the US has shown to the world. All of a sudden what was considered safe expressions become thought crimes.

Hell imagine if that was how Twitter operated before the Musk purchase, and then all of a sudden him having access to that information as the trusted authority. Your concept of trusted authority relies on the trusted authority actually remaining something you believe can't be bought out or compromised.

Not to mention how often data breeches happen so trusted authority becomes everyone's information.

Is he another Russian asset getting ready to sell out his country?

I think point is to put on record for the history books who the turncoats are that supported this fascist takeover.

What...I thought we were team Hannibal.

We are reddit though just on a different site... lot of people mainly moved because of the api change.

Even someone believing they are "not like other redditors" is one of the most reddit stereotypes. Haha.

On the plus side civil unrest in the US requiring a stronger domestic military presence means the US may have less support to wage war on other countries. That's easier to do when the population is calmly falling in line.

Americans are capable of riots, but it seems to require so marination before some trigger event happens on their soil that causes emotions to suddenly spark.

Teslas for a long time though seemed more like a status symbol as opposed to the more affordable car it became recently, so hard to feel bad for them.

Those just come off as regular left to me.

When I think of radical left I think tanky types who are full on nationalists and pro authoritarian governments that suppress free think that they are indistinguishable from the far right other than just differences when it comes to stuff like government assisted programs.