I expect any experiment with federating from big tech to end once they meet dark fedi.
Over on Lemmy which has exploded with new users from reddit, top posts in the past 6 and 12 hours include...
Conversations about defederating from corpos, conversations about defederating from political opponents...
You can take the redditor out of reddit, but you can't take the reddit out of the redditor.
Conversations about defederating from corpos, conversations about defederating from political opponents...
You can take the redditor out of reddit, but you can't take the reddit out of the redditor.
Problem is that high house prices makes line go up so politicians do whatever they can to keep it going despite it being bad for everyone but homeowners (and it's even kinda crappy for them)
There are fixed rate mortgages, but many people went with variable rate and 90% of fixed rate mortgages are 5 years or less. After 5 years the rate starts to rise quickly because after 5 years "fixed" means fixed open so you can refinance with only 3 months interest as a penalty.
I refinanced at a good rate for 10 years and I'm feeling like those economics lessons are really paying off right about now.
I refinanced at a good rate for 10 years and I'm feeling like those economics lessons are really paying off right about now.
https://www.thestar.com/business/2023/06/27/rising-mortgage-rates-fixed-payment-woes-some-homeowners-seeing-amortization-periods-skyrocketing.htm
Cue the clip of smug Trudeau saying "interest rates are at all time lows" a couple years ago
Cue the clip of smug Trudeau saying "interest rates are at all time lows" a couple years ago
Literally happened to me this week.
Wtf strawberry and raspberry bushes? Why u doin this to me?
Wtf strawberry and raspberry bushes? Why u doin this to me?
"Ah, the power of psychological manipulation!"
This is and amusing and dystopian way to start a message.
This is and amusing and dystopian way to start a message.
Tbf most of the wealth is fake and frothy bubble.
"I have all this stock in a barely profitable car company that's more valuable than the rest of the auto industry combined"
"I have all this stock in a barely profitable car company that's more valuable than the rest of the auto industry combined"
Holding parents accountable when their kids go off on murderous rampages seems like a good idea, tbh. Within reason, of course. But after 5 nights of murderous rampaging, I'm thinking the parents might want to step in and be like "hey champ, you're staying home tonight!"
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2023/07/02/france-deploys-45000-police-on-fifth-night-of-nationwide-riots/
I think these guys really need to learn from the Americans how to respond to violent riots.
Watch and learn, you cheese eating surrender monkeys:
“Everything is fine. They’re doing such a good thing. Where’s all so glad they’re doing it. Thank you, heroes.”
I think these guys really need to learn from the Americans how to respond to violent riots.
Watch and learn, you cheese eating surrender monkeys:
“Everything is fine. They’re doing such a good thing. Where’s all so glad they’re doing it. Thank you, heroes.”
They were deeply upset he didn't turn out to be a fascist. He was supposed to sieze power and use violence against his political enemies.
"You have to give up your tanks and trucks right now and replace them with Tesla cyber trucks!!!"
It still is tough to wrap my head around the idea that someone finds the fediverse hard to use. Like -- not running your own instance, but actually just creating an account.