All the stuff we've been using to keep it going for the past 20 years is drugs. Monetary cocaine keeping everyone up for days on end.
Problem is we know cocaine is bad for us, but addicts never want to give it up because they're addicts.
Problem is we know cocaine is bad for us, but addicts never want to give it up because they're addicts.
Aw shit, maybe. I mean, you're from LA too and your mountain bunker wasn't burned to the ground yet...
This is all an act! You've been Vag Studentson this whole time! It's a mask!
This is all an act! You've been Vag Studentson this whole time! It's a mask!
That's the whole premise of the show, right? He's the gay LA hyperprogressive and you're dick masterson?
Vito got banned?
Isn't he one of the degenerates they're supposed to pretend to like?
Isn't he one of the degenerates they're supposed to pretend to like?
The power of liberty is something that's really hard to wrap one's head around, especially during the current authoritarian moment.
The idea that you don't need to ask permission is huge. Worst case scenario you just create your own thing and connect to the rest of the world on your own. Individual instances can defederate with you, individual users can block you, but nobody can ban you. Meanwhile, you can block individual users or defederate with other instances, and you have that choice on your own as to what to do.
Without the overarching mega-authority you can appeal to in order to crush your enemies.... you have to tolerate their existence and just disagree with them.
The idea that you don't need to ask permission is huge. Worst case scenario you just create your own thing and connect to the rest of the world on your own. Individual instances can defederate with you, individual users can block you, but nobody can ban you. Meanwhile, you can block individual users or defederate with other instances, and you have that choice on your own as to what to do.
Without the overarching mega-authority you can appeal to in order to crush your enemies.... you have to tolerate their existence and just disagree with them.
Because of course the country where you better be using carbon or you'll literally die every single year would be the first one to start doing that.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwezZrLe32E
Youtube would like to remind you that Renew-U is totally safe and has no side effects and any talk otherwise is a right-wing conspiracy theory and will be banned as transphobic hate speech.
Youtube would like to remind you that Renew-U is totally safe and has no side effects and any talk otherwise is a right-wing conspiracy theory and will be banned as transphobic hate speech.
It's interesting that the libre internet boomed for decades before the authoritarian experiment started.
The authoritarian experiment is the one we're in, and it has failed completely (which is why millions of people are rejoining the internet libre)
The authoritarian experiment is the one we're in, and it has failed completely (which is why millions of people are rejoining the internet libre)
Our current government only really cares about southern California and getting butt pats from LA, so no.
https://www.teslarati.com/twitter-taking-child-exploitation-seriously/
Bluechecks: "daddy Elon nooooooooooo"
Bluechecks: "daddy Elon nooooooooooo"
Are you sure you like all diversity? Usually "diversity" is actually a code for a very specific subset of diversity, and to understand that is to begin to understand why others may be against diversity.
Many people who would like to see people of all sorts of skin color and sexuality and gender expression walking down the street would be pretty upset seeing a maga hat, or a nazi flag, or a confederate flag, or a straight pride parade, or a white pride parade. To varying degrees, these things might be seen as morally reprehensible and that tolerating them is a moral failing.
There are plenty of forms of diversity that most people who advocate for diversity would like to go away. The diversity of viewpoints on diversity is the most obvious. Then there's a diversity of cultures regarding women being objects, a diversity of cultures regarding female genital mutilation, a diversity of cultures regarding honor killing, a diversity of cultures regarding religious zealotry, a diversity of cultures regarding bigotry. People who advocate for diversity would likely like all these specific forms of diversity to go away and instead a more unified world around common values in these regards would be a moral good.
Most calls for diversity don't include incels in that call. Most calls for diversity don't include diversity with respect to human sacrifices, or diversity with respect to slavery, or diversity with respect to caste systems. A world that has common values in these regards is considered a more just world.
For some people, it's just easy to put everyone with certain characteristics into a certain group using mental heuristics. Skin color, or religion, or accent, or sexual orientation, or gender identity. But that's not the only heuristic people use. Up above I put "maga hat" next to "nazi flag", and for a lot of people that's totally acceptable, despite the fact that the former might just want factory jobs to return to the US so they can have work, and the latter might want racial purity and genocide. (but maybe not! Who really knows what symbols mean to people. Meaning from symbols is something that's diverse as well!)
Once you understand that, you may not agree with other people who don't believe the same as you, but it becomes easier to understand them at least.
Many people who would like to see people of all sorts of skin color and sexuality and gender expression walking down the street would be pretty upset seeing a maga hat, or a nazi flag, or a confederate flag, or a straight pride parade, or a white pride parade. To varying degrees, these things might be seen as morally reprehensible and that tolerating them is a moral failing.
There are plenty of forms of diversity that most people who advocate for diversity would like to go away. The diversity of viewpoints on diversity is the most obvious. Then there's a diversity of cultures regarding women being objects, a diversity of cultures regarding female genital mutilation, a diversity of cultures regarding honor killing, a diversity of cultures regarding religious zealotry, a diversity of cultures regarding bigotry. People who advocate for diversity would likely like all these specific forms of diversity to go away and instead a more unified world around common values in these regards would be a moral good.
Most calls for diversity don't include incels in that call. Most calls for diversity don't include diversity with respect to human sacrifices, or diversity with respect to slavery, or diversity with respect to caste systems. A world that has common values in these regards is considered a more just world.
For some people, it's just easy to put everyone with certain characteristics into a certain group using mental heuristics. Skin color, or religion, or accent, or sexual orientation, or gender identity. But that's not the only heuristic people use. Up above I put "maga hat" next to "nazi flag", and for a lot of people that's totally acceptable, despite the fact that the former might just want factory jobs to return to the US so they can have work, and the latter might want racial purity and genocide. (but maybe not! Who really knows what symbols mean to people. Meaning from symbols is something that's diverse as well!)
Once you understand that, you may not agree with other people who don't believe the same as you, but it becomes easier to understand them at least.
Every time I've tried to be cold towards a cat, they take that as a challenge to win my love.
I'm not being a tsundere here cat, I'm allergic to you!
I'm not being a tsundere here cat, I'm allergic to you!
I'm concerned for the lgbt folks who actually did just want to live their lives who are going to get screwed over by the idiot militants who are destroying 50 years of goodwill taking stupid hissy fits.
Nothing you said really opposes my viewpoint.
You can be very emotional despite having a strong logical brain in my model, in fact the point is that most people are. The thing is that your logical side is stuck looking through the apartment door to figure out what the hell emotional brain is doing in there, but both of you ultimately control things. That's why logical people can be emotional and sometimes even irrational, and why often logical arguments aren't the convincing ones even if they're 100% rock solid.
You can be very emotional despite having a strong logical brain in my model, in fact the point is that most people are. The thing is that your logical side is stuck looking through the apartment door to figure out what the hell emotional brain is doing in there, but both of you ultimately control things. That's why logical people can be emotional and sometimes even irrational, and why often logical arguments aren't the convincing ones even if they're 100% rock solid.
We're learning now just how broadly manipulated twitter is. It was manipulated internally as we found when the Twitter Japan staff was fired and their site fundamentally changed, and also externally because there's an algorithm and money to be made manipulating that algorithm.
It's a fundamentally different thing over here. There is no algorithm, everything is organic, and so arguably there isn't even a benefit to having one message with lots of engagement unless you actually want to engage. Actress who played breakout character on popular TV show has the same play as the guy who posts racist ducks (except people really like the racist ducks, they're hilarious...)
But more importantly, dear God don't think that you're fleeing a "free speech twitter" that's scary and evil because people can say anything Elon lets them to and coming to somewhere that's more locked down and more likely to be free of stuff you don't like!
According to The-Federation.info, the fediverse roughly contains 13,815 individual servers running the better part of 100 different software packages (not all software packages support the ActivityPub protocol but are listed on the site because they support some other form of federation). New servers are created and old servers are shut down every single day. Server admins choose the TOS, they choose the rules, they choose how to enforce those rules, and there's literally every sort of person. Some servers are hosted on the most powerful computers known to man, others are hosted on parts scavenged from roadside signs, and everything in between. There's countless takes posted every second that would immediately get you banned from facebook, twitter, youtube, myspace, tiktok, instagram, or any other commercially owned service. The libre and distributed nature of the platform means that those takes aren't going anywhere, the closest you can get is hiding messages or accounts or servers as you see them.
It's a fundamentally different thing over here. There is no algorithm, everything is organic, and so arguably there isn't even a benefit to having one message with lots of engagement unless you actually want to engage. Actress who played breakout character on popular TV show has the same play as the guy who posts racist ducks (except people really like the racist ducks, they're hilarious...)
But more importantly, dear God don't think that you're fleeing a "free speech twitter" that's scary and evil because people can say anything Elon lets them to and coming to somewhere that's more locked down and more likely to be free of stuff you don't like!
According to The-Federation.info, the fediverse roughly contains 13,815 individual servers running the better part of 100 different software packages (not all software packages support the ActivityPub protocol but are listed on the site because they support some other form of federation). New servers are created and old servers are shut down every single day. Server admins choose the TOS, they choose the rules, they choose how to enforce those rules, and there's literally every sort of person. Some servers are hosted on the most powerful computers known to man, others are hosted on parts scavenged from roadside signs, and everything in between. There's countless takes posted every second that would immediately get you banned from facebook, twitter, youtube, myspace, tiktok, instagram, or any other commercially owned service. The libre and distributed nature of the platform means that those takes aren't going anywhere, the closest you can get is hiding messages or accounts or servers as you see them.
If aggressively lying was enough to ban a politician from twitter, there would be no politicians on twitter.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnAX3-A_uN0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ru-HW5bFCo
This guy is screaming in my ear when I scroll past this...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ru-HW5bFCo
This guy is screaming in my ear when I scroll past this...