@HiroProtagonist @th1rd Not just any bug -- Eat the bug off the ground! That's what these people actually believe!
@djsumdog @matrix @nekojanai Personally, after applying custom CSS I'm really happy with lotide. my instance is at https://lotide.fbxl.net/
Nothing super fancy, but it does the business and it's federated, and with the install guide I put together it's straightforward to install, which is a problem I've had with a number of other projects. https://lotide.fbxl.net/posts/3
The thing I'm starting to realize about the fediverse is how incredibly versatile it is. Yes you can cross post between servers and subscribe to other people's servers using lotide, but you can also subscribe to a community using pleroma. Same with peertube channels. In a sense, you get a true distributed web where everything connects to everything else.
Nothing super fancy, but it does the business and it's federated, and with the install guide I put together it's straightforward to install, which is a problem I've had with a number of other projects. https://lotide.fbxl.net/posts/3
The thing I'm starting to realize about the fediverse is how incredibly versatile it is. Yes you can cross post between servers and subscribe to other people's servers using lotide, but you can also subscribe to a community using pleroma. Same with peertube channels. In a sense, you get a true distributed web where everything connects to everything else.
@alex I think if we dig deep enough we'd find that many of society's attitudes towards certain specific things is due to massive lobbying by the most powerful people on earth.
Ultra-powerful people want everyone to treat corporations like God, so small businesses that can't act like God are shunned even when they do good work.
Ultra-powerful people want everyone to treat corporations like God, so small businesses that can't act like God are shunned even when they do good work.
@djsumdog @matrix You know, if instead of bitching that reddit is so evil, just a few of these folks moved to alternatives, then it wouldn't matter how evil reddit is.
There's like 9 lotide instances out there, and among all of them there's like 5 active users, despite it being a decentralized reddit alternative that as far as I can tell isn't run by censorship loving commies.
But even among the censorship loving commies there's only like a dozen instances of the other decentralized reddit alternative!
There's like 9 lotide instances out there, and among all of them there's like 5 active users, despite it being a decentralized reddit alternative that as far as I can tell isn't run by censorship loving commies.
But even among the censorship loving commies there's only like a dozen instances of the other decentralized reddit alternative!
@liber I've been building a library of higher thought for my kids, and I got two books: Sowell and Schiff.
I think the next decade shall prove to the masses why these guys are right.
I think the next decade shall prove to the masses why these guys are right.
Hearing about these woke army ads, I have this idea for a video that would be funny, the woke soldiers.
The islamic terrorists would be like "DEATH TO AMERICA!" and the soy soldier would be like "YEAH! I HATE THAT SHIT!"
The Chinese would be like "The Communist Party will rule everything!" and the soy soldir would be like "Yeah! I want that too!"
Actual Nazis would be like "Death to Jews! Death to Israel!" and the soy soldier would be like "Yeah! Let's get those guys!"
The islamic terrorists would be like "DEATH TO AMERICA!" and the soy soldier would be like "YEAH! I HATE THAT SHIT!"
The Chinese would be like "The Communist Party will rule everything!" and the soy soldir would be like "Yeah! I want that too!"
Actual Nazis would be like "Death to Jews! Death to Israel!" and the soy soldier would be like "Yeah! Let's get those guys!"
My entire life I've loved comedy. The past few years most comedians have died in my eyes. They kowtow to the establishment, and they're unwilling to speak truth.
There is no comedy without truth. Even comedy based on a lie requires the comedian and the audience to both recognize that it is a lie and have a mutual understanding of the truth. Often it is the incongruity between what is said and what is real that makes the joke funny.
To premise a joke on a lie, with the understanding that both the comedian and the audience must fundamentally pretend that what is being said is not a lie isn't comedy, it's propaganda. That is the reason why the powerful have attacked comedy so completely for so long. They can't sell their lies if people are trying to see the truth.
There is no comedy without truth. Even comedy based on a lie requires the comedian and the audience to both recognize that it is a lie and have a mutual understanding of the truth. Often it is the incongruity between what is said and what is real that makes the joke funny.
To premise a joke on a lie, with the understanding that both the comedian and the audience must fundamentally pretend that what is being said is not a lie isn't comedy, it's propaganda. That is the reason why the powerful have attacked comedy so completely for so long. They can't sell their lies if people are trying to see the truth.
Shower thought: I wasn't homophobic or transphobic until I saw a bunch of them trying to get the government to use guns and jail to tell us what to say.
@DK_Dharmaraj @doktorzhivago I think a lot of people are getting really sick of being nakedly lied to.
@doktorzhivago I have to disagree just a little.
I can see how you could make the decision to take a vaccine that isn't necessarily 100% safe. There's a lot of variables involved and an individual can decide that those risks outweigh or don't outweigh the risks of the virus.
What I can't see is turning around and making absurd and clearly false claims that the vaccine is 100% safe because of course it isn't, that it's the safest ever because of course it isn't, all these other obvious fictions, because it was a bunch of rushed vaccines produced faster than any other vaccines in history with dramatically reduced regulatory oversight and a blanket liability waiver.
You need blanket liability waivers for things that are perfectly safe, right?
I can see how you could make the decision to take a vaccine that isn't necessarily 100% safe. There's a lot of variables involved and an individual can decide that those risks outweigh or don't outweigh the risks of the virus.
What I can't see is turning around and making absurd and clearly false claims that the vaccine is 100% safe because of course it isn't, that it's the safest ever because of course it isn't, all these other obvious fictions, because it was a bunch of rushed vaccines produced faster than any other vaccines in history with dramatically reduced regulatory oversight and a blanket liability waiver.
You need blanket liability waivers for things that are perfectly safe, right?
@DK_Dharmaraj @Selimseesyou @becassine Why not? They hate asians and consider them white with one side of their mouths and #stopasianhate with the other, I think they're pretty much immune to cognitive dissonance at this point.
@BigDuck Get a blue yeti cup so you can keep your drinks cold or hot while streaming.