uralsolo [he/him] @ uralsolo @hexbear.net

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I tend to agree, but more because I think that Linux needs a killer feature to convince people to switch and privacy aint it for most people.

Just the other day I was posting complaining about a thing I was trying to do that should have been simple but Linux made really hard for some reason. Still prefer it to Windows tbh.

I mean, what's Xi Jinping gonna do with your data? If you're not a higher up in the defense industry then you really have nothing to lose from a hypothetical Chinese government backdoor into your phone (an American government backdoor, on the other hand, is extremely threatening to you as the USG has shown time and again that if you become a "person of interest" for any reason they can and will build a spurious case against you).

I quoted you incredulously asking why someone would post and comment about this and then made a comical version of you incredulously asking why someone would post and comment about this. That's not a straw man, unless you're trying to tell me that you're a scarecrow (because you certainly need a brain).

“nuh-uh” isn’t a convincing argument.

lmao. Let's review what you said that I responded to.

lmao, so? we get it. you hate the US. what’s your point? just to come here and whine about it?

🤡 "Why would you post world news in a world news community? Who cares?"

That's not the creation of a straw man, that is an accusation I'm making of you, specifically, based on the fact that your comment in no way addressed the idea. If you read my comment you'll see that I also address your "argument" directly.

Every Olympics (and world cup) presages the mass brutalization of vulnerable people, and I gotta wonder: do people really care that much about shotput?

I don't think so. That whole website is premised on an elementary logical fallacy. Just because a news source is left- or right-leaning doesn't make it inherently less trustworthy than a "centrist" one, in fact all you've done is introduce your own untrustworthy ideological bias into the judgement criteria by proactively dismissing anyone who doesn't align with your definition of centrism.

This flew over your head but it is heavily implied that the US' "war on opium" was in fact a deliberate effort to subsidize opium production and transport, a policy that we have pursued for the benefit of our own state-backed terror organizations in many other countries. Regardless of all other opinions on the US and the Taliban, this is an issue that the Taliban is objectively better than us on, and saying "lol who cares" is not an argument against talking about it since obviously the people in this thread care because they're in here talking about it.

I think with the principles Lemmy was made under the fracturing of the community into blocs is basically inevitable. You'll have the original/developer/"tankie" bloc at lemmy.ml, the more mainstream/liberal bloc at lemmy.world, and all the smaller instances orbiting around and between them some connected to both and some connected to neither.

To do something like you suggest would require a single, centralized instance that lists all the others and tags them to allow users to pick which ones to subscribe to - and if the Lemmy devs did that then we'd be right back to the problems inherent to

My parents got a brand new 2023 Sienna and the check engine light is already on - because the windshield wiper fluid is empty.

Any citizen with at least two endorsements from other citizens.

Authentic hole ridden roads not included

yet

I thought of this too, and then I realized that wheelchair users are completely fucked by this decision.

The difference is that everyone in China can vote.

The way they tell it, you'd think everything from DW, to Fox, to Propublica, to straight up AP News articles, are all written by the same people.

It's funny you mention this, since 90% of major American news articles are just slightly edited versions of AP articles.

the instance is less than a month old, yet somehow they already have one of the largest, most active userbases

we've been around, but not federated, for a couple years now.

As far as fictional societies to live in goes it's hard to beat an optimistic sci fi setting lmao.

Although I might choose the Ascian civilization from FF14, as long as it's before the Final Days. Eternal life and post scarcity powered by magic, and the way most people self actualize is by literally creating life like gods. If it's early enough I would travel to other planets myself and possibly avert the apocalypse altogether.

720 comments and counting lmao

we should just rename this as a megathread