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Yeah, every touristy place hates tourists. Who wouldn't? They're noisy, they crowd the beaches and sights and restaurants. Everybody hates tourists...until they stop showing up. It turns out that tourist dollars are pretty intimately connected with tourists.

I hope you're right. More than that, I hope this literally fractures the Republican party. The US needs more political parties.

I think there's a strong argument for traveling there to spend tourist dollars and help them recover economically.

But like...not when the fires are still raging out of control, maybe? You'll just be in the way.

I mean, people can already use VPNs or whatever to circumvent protocol-level blocks. You prevent that with usernames or email verification or some equivalent, and there's no reason you wouldn't just keep doing that in these new apps.

That would require that users have access to other users' traffic, compromising security. After all, there's no reason the government or corporations couldn't operate many 'users'.

Leaving it ambiguous activated the reader's imagination and elevated a TIL into a shitpost.

Mastodon & Lemmy are both social networks. They're just not centrally owned & operated.

Yeah, let it grow organically. Like other open-source projects, it's unlikely to shrink, and it'll gain profile and draw users from Reddit etc over time--faster when Reddit drops the ball, which it'll do more often as it scrambles to extract more profit from a shrinking user base.

There's no reason to rush it. That'll just cause growing pains and give Lemmy a bad reputation.

Ahh, it's no big deal. I know it sounds magical, but there's probably some humdrum explanation...you're probably just popping in and out of different universe in the multiverse whenever you observe a particle, or something mundane like that.

No, they shouldn't be profiting from rent on IP any more than anybody else does. The government should make some major changes to intellectual property law to stop that.

Anyway...do sales & marketing people get paid an unreasonable amount? Are they rolling in cash while writers suffer? Seems to me that most the marketing people I've met in my life were just getting along like everybody else. They don't seem like the right people to be angry at.

If all us engineers got paid every time our code was used, the Internet as it exists would be absurdly expensive. Really, it couldn't exist. Thank god engineers don't have the same "I need to be paid every time something I created is used by anybody" mentality. You're building on the work of millions of people before you, you owe it to others to contribute (and make a living in the process).

Of course, the industries are different in important ways. But you should be able to explain the differences, not just wave them away with "ur just jelly lol"

IMHO, copyright and IP law is ridiculously protective. People should get a few years to benefit from their creations, then they should be public domain. This lifetime-plus-70-years bullshit is stupid. Companies are exploiting those stupid laws to milk us on every platform for decades with each media artifact, and artists and writers just want to get a cut of the action. IMHO, it's the wrong fight, and I can't really support them in it: "give writers a share of the rent you milk from us" is not a cause I wanna get behind.

Trans is something we made up.

Gender non-conformity is a real thing and happens across all cultures. Our approach to understanding it is culturally specific, and kinda fucked up.

I love Linux Mint: it's perfect for my parents' computer.

Lol, I gotta start checking the instance before responding. I didn't realize I was off in dreamland.

First ID-YIL single: "The wind tells me I'm a ghost"

The two largest economics in the world. One starts a trade war, the other enthusiastically joins in. One economy booms, regardless...the other starts to implode. Doesn't that suggest that maybe the latter had some deeper issues?

I think the trade war was stupid. But it was just the straw that broke the camel's back. China's issues are much more fundamental and systemic than just a decrease in trade with America.

"Okay, step one: establish trust with users, developers, sellers and other tech companies.

"Shit."

And we know that Jesus hasn't returned yet, but that doesn't rule out the possibility he's not gonna get back this weekend.

If you're committing yourself faith in an extremely unlikely utopian visions, why not just stick with the classic?

Not only that, it also puts control of the state media (or anyway, strong influence) in the hands of fuckwits like Trump.

Seems like a bad take. This is from the equivalent of some random YouTube video, unrelated to the original university & scientists.

You think it'd be possible to find a YouTube video with some bad science nonsense in it? Would that warrant a "fraud in the US, huh" comment?

Separately, science in China does have a fraud problem. But this video wasn't an example of that.