The worst of mankind are our "everything is fine" alarm. If you can't hear them anymore, that's when you need to get scared because we're next.
Hooking up a Nintendo Wii to the internet is like walking around a shopping mall that's about to be shut down. Just a bunch of storefronts that are locked up. 😢
If you look at the history of Rome, we're at a time in history that looks dangerously like the end of the Roman republic and the beginning of the Roman Empire.
Biden won't be the one to pull it off, but with a popular enough president it could happen in a heartbeat and only the historians would notice the change.
Biden won't be the one to pull it off, but with a popular enough president it could happen in a heartbeat and only the historians would notice the change.
I just read something clever, the 7 signs of cognitive dissonance:
1. change to the topic
2. ad hominem
3. mind reading
4. word salad
5. analogy instead of reason
6. it’s too complicated to explain
7. 'so you’re saying’ straw man
1. change to the topic
2. ad hominem
3. mind reading
4. word salad
5. analogy instead of reason
6. it’s too complicated to explain
7. 'so you’re saying’ straw man
Reading about the new riots in NYC.
I don't really understand what the riots are about. They didn't want the police around, the police weren't around. What's the problem?
I don't really understand what the riots are about. They didn't want the police around, the police weren't around. What's the problem?
* also you muse have exactly every one of the admin's personally held opinions or b&
Fr tho, the internet as a libre place is being destroyed and lots of these fools don't even see it unless it's muh boobies affected.
Jesus Christ these people are racist.
If they ever got hate speech legislation passed like they want they'd be the first ones charged under it.
If they ever got hate speech legislation passed like they want they'd be the first ones charged under it.
The defender of the concept of faith. Put your faith in him and he'll fight to ensure you continue to recognise that the concept exists metaphysically.
I'm surprised you guys have so much lip for a guy who is clearly holding a holy hand grenade and can take you out at any time!
I learned today that #lotide can apparently follow friendica groups thanks to this post. Interoperability ftw
The fediverse is a concept more like the original internet -- a bunch of little pieces that connect together independently without some broader authority exercising power over it.
Short-sighted people would prefer there be an overarching authority because they imagine that they themselves would be in charge of that overarching authority. Whatever you think of Elon Musk, his takeover of Twitter is a perfect example of the fact that power changes hands, and some people will like the new powers, and other people won't, but it doesn't matter whether you like them or not they will be the ones with their boot on your neck.
By contrast, a distributed system like the fediverse lacks and overarching power to implement policies that you would like, but also lacks and overarching power to implement policies that you don't like. Instead, individual operators get to choose how they want to run things in their little domain.
Short-sighted people would prefer there be an overarching authority because they imagine that they themselves would be in charge of that overarching authority. Whatever you think of Elon Musk, his takeover of Twitter is a perfect example of the fact that power changes hands, and some people will like the new powers, and other people won't, but it doesn't matter whether you like them or not they will be the ones with their boot on your neck.
By contrast, a distributed system like the fediverse lacks and overarching power to implement policies that you would like, but also lacks and overarching power to implement policies that you don't like. Instead, individual operators get to choose how they want to run things in their little domain.