The css on there respects your browsers light/dark mode settings (which it can inherit from the os)
It's an impressive thing that the web has a feature like that, imo.
It's an impressive thing that the web has a feature like that, imo.
I've got a solution on my instance: I only discuss moderation decisions with the voices in my head that tell me to burn things!
"Should I delete this post and ban the poster?" "But it burn it all burnitall" "thanks for your input!"
"Should I delete this post and ban the poster?" "But it burn it all burnitall" "thanks for your input!"
There are lots of broken things in Canada, but I'm not aware of this specific broken thing.
10 more pages and I'll be done reading Beowulf.
From now on I check to make sure the books I read are in english. That was a slog.
From now on I check to make sure the books I read are in english. That was a slog.
The sad thing is that 2023 Lisa would say this and completely ignore how it applies to "her side"
Rip the Simpsons
Rip the Simpsons
They can stay in the pigsty they've built since they can't keep their grubby fingers to themselves.
Maybe if some of these governments want to start obeying the law we can talk.
Maybe if some of these governments want to start obeying the law we can talk.
They have a few choices. Twitter is still one, and Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, TikTok...
Sadly, the Internet of my youth is likely coming to an end. Politicians around the world refuse to allow people to have discussions they can't stick their fingers into.
There's a famous story of the Roman politician Cicero. He was named after his uncle who had a cleft in his nose that looked like a chickpea, so Cicero was based on the roman name for chickpeas. When he entered politics, he was told he should change his name, but he essentially said that he'd make the name Cicero well known (and he did)
I'm proud to announce my new "social network", safestspace.
You can only see posts made by your own IP address, and if one of the posts offends you, you can immediately report it and it will be automatically removed!
https://fbxl.net/safestspace/
This is the cutting edge in defederation technology!
You can only see posts made by your own IP address, and if one of the posts offends you, you can immediately report it and it will be automatically removed!
https://fbxl.net/safestspace/
This is the cutting edge in defederation technology!
lol imagine having 106 pages of servers that you're so terrified of you need to block every single user on it?
Why even have a social network at that point? You can just have a webpage you post to yourself, and then you can report your own posts if you have a thought that's too transgressive.
Why even have a social network at that point? You can just have a webpage you post to yourself, and then you can report your own posts if you have a thought that's too transgressive.
A lot of people seem to want Fisher Price baby's first internet, and if they want that then they should probably stay on big Tech, where they can be coddled to their hearts content.
I'm not saying that the fediverse needs to be hacking around in telnet terminals or anything, but if I'm being totally honest the software for the fediverse is shockingly good, and a lot of people have gone out and built the exact communities that they want -- for some people that means open communities where you can say stuff that's really offensive, for other people that means very close communities where you are safe from ever seeing an opinion you disagree with.
Of course anything can be better, but I have personally found the fediverse good enough that it has become my primary method of social media. And that's only possible because a lot of people who put in a lot of work on the ground floor.
I'm not saying that the fediverse needs to be hacking around in telnet terminals or anything, but if I'm being totally honest the software for the fediverse is shockingly good, and a lot of people have gone out and built the exact communities that they want -- for some people that means open communities where you can say stuff that's really offensive, for other people that means very close communities where you are safe from ever seeing an opinion you disagree with.
Of course anything can be better, but I have personally found the fediverse good enough that it has become my primary method of social media. And that's only possible because a lot of people who put in a lot of work on the ground floor.
Too many people focus on the effect instead of the cause.
If the state gives you a billion dollars and then takes back 900 million, guess what? You've still got 100 million dollars of either tax money or more likely Government debt. You and virtually everyone you know could stop working for the rest of your life.
Meanwhile, the poor chumps who work for their middle class wage are giving half their paycheck to the same government who dutifully hand it to the still mega-rich.
The big problem is a corrupt global state taking everyone's money and handing it to its cronies. By the time the money is in their hands, it's already too late. Part of the problem is that they employ rooms full of people who find ways to talk about giving them all your money to the super-rich that you'll agree to.
If the state gives you a billion dollars and then takes back 900 million, guess what? You've still got 100 million dollars of either tax money or more likely Government debt. You and virtually everyone you know could stop working for the rest of your life.
Meanwhile, the poor chumps who work for their middle class wage are giving half their paycheck to the same government who dutifully hand it to the still mega-rich.
The big problem is a corrupt global state taking everyone's money and handing it to its cronies. By the time the money is in their hands, it's already too late. Part of the problem is that they employ rooms full of people who find ways to talk about giving them all your money to the super-rich that you'll agree to.
The impossibility of redemption is the Hallmark of the enemies of western civilization, and for a reason.
In sun tzus the art of war, it warns that you should always leave a path for escape so the enemy army can rout. If you don't, then they'll fight to the last man. This can be taken advantage of by an enemy army ideologically by making them think they have no escape but death or victory: tell your soldiers if you surrender they'll kill you and if you flee you'll kill them yourself. Put in such a corner, they'll fight suicidally.
So make it clear that there is a path to surrender and redemption, and suddenly you've taken an important tool away.
Contrast with the story of one of the most legalistic Chinese dynasties. It was said that the dynasty used the punishment of death for everything, so one day some soldiers were late for a meeting and facing death and decided to overthrow the government since they didn't have anything to lose anyway.
In sun tzus the art of war, it warns that you should always leave a path for escape so the enemy army can rout. If you don't, then they'll fight to the last man. This can be taken advantage of by an enemy army ideologically by making them think they have no escape but death or victory: tell your soldiers if you surrender they'll kill you and if you flee you'll kill them yourself. Put in such a corner, they'll fight suicidally.
So make it clear that there is a path to surrender and redemption, and suddenly you've taken an important tool away.
Contrast with the story of one of the most legalistic Chinese dynasties. It was said that the dynasty used the punishment of death for everything, so one day some soldiers were late for a meeting and facing death and decided to overthrow the government since they didn't have anything to lose anyway.
The word "demeritocracy" is one I came up with a few months back, and this seems like proof that America is turning into one.
Pay your bills, pay more on your mortgage. What an embarrassment.
Pay your bills, pay more on your mortgage. What an embarrassment.
In most cases, excessive time pre-trial could be deemed a constitutional violation. Either the courts have screwed up in many ways so this dude will be a millionaire soon on a 1983 claim, or there's a lot to this story we aren't hearing...
I've got a hypothesis about that. I think that the birth rate going down and causing a shrinking population is going to cause an increase in the value of an individual as has happened many times throughout history. When that happens, individual wages will go up like they did during those times, and people will want to go out and have kids.
Ironically, if these guys really wanted us to be living in the pod and eating the boogs, the best way to do that would be to let people continue to breed. Masses of nameless faceless starving people are unlikely to be able to actually do anything.
Ironically, if these guys really wanted us to be living in the pod and eating the boogs, the best way to do that would be to let people continue to breed. Masses of nameless faceless starving people are unlikely to be able to actually do anything.