The whole point of fediblock is censorship by mob. Someone affixes a scarlet letter on an instance and everyone nods and goes "oh yah they're bad someone somewhere said so" and blocks them.
The threads thing tbh is the same mentality. A mob swirling about in a tempest in a teacup because meta's failed Twitter clone will join a fediverse that summarily either ignores them or spams them with stuff corpos definitely won't like. I see post after post after post, "defederate defederate defederate" often from people who have only been on the fediverse a month or two, they're just doing what's hip. People on sites like lemmy that'll probably not even properly federate are chanting like it's the most meaningful decision of their lives.
At the end of the day it's individual users decision who to block personally and individual admins decision who to block, and the great part of decentralization is that they can make that decision. But if you're just doing what someone else tells you to do you might as well be back on big tech. Think for yourself, make your own decisions, and at least you can stand by those decisions as manifestations of your own will instead of acting like a tool for someone else.
The threads thing tbh is the same mentality. A mob swirling about in a tempest in a teacup because meta's failed Twitter clone will join a fediverse that summarily either ignores them or spams them with stuff corpos definitely won't like. I see post after post after post, "defederate defederate defederate" often from people who have only been on the fediverse a month or two, they're just doing what's hip. People on sites like lemmy that'll probably not even properly federate are chanting like it's the most meaningful decision of their lives.
At the end of the day it's individual users decision who to block personally and individual admins decision who to block, and the great part of decentralization is that they can make that decision. But if you're just doing what someone else tells you to do you might as well be back on big tech. Think for yourself, make your own decisions, and at least you can stand by those decisions as manifestations of your own will instead of acting like a tool for someone else.
I always laugh at people who mindlessly follow orders and they don't even know whose orders they're following or why.
I'm on the fediblock list. So if someone blocks me because I'm on that list, who ratted me out? Whose orders are the fediblock troupe following, and what do those orders say?
Why, that would be me. I tagged the person maintaining the fediblock list a bunch of times telling them they're Nazi gestapo and they should add me to their censorship list lest they be called double plus ungood by me.
So essentially anyone who blocks my instance solely because I'm on that list is saying "oh, good catch! I AM a Nazi Gestapo and I'd hate to be called doubleplus ungood!"
I'm on the fediblock list. So if someone blocks me because I'm on that list, who ratted me out? Whose orders are the fediblock troupe following, and what do those orders say?
Why, that would be me. I tagged the person maintaining the fediblock list a bunch of times telling them they're Nazi gestapo and they should add me to their censorship list lest they be called double plus ungood by me.
So essentially anyone who blocks my instance solely because I'm on that list is saying "oh, good catch! I AM a Nazi Gestapo and I'd hate to be called doubleplus ungood!"
A lot of Americans seem to be under the impression that nobody else on earth has to pay for anything -- that every country other than the United States has omnipresent governments that pay for everything ever and whenever someone has to pay a big expense it's only because they're stuck in America.
That's definitely not true. It might actually surprise some US citizens who have never lived anywhere else, but even in some places you might not expect you have to pay for things just like in the US.
In many countries around the world, there is no universal healthcare or it acts differently than something like the Canadian or UK system. A Chinese friend of mine told me many stories of people who had to make tough choices between paying hospital bills for a loved one or buying food. Many countries with "better healthcare than the US" still have health insurance you have to pay into to get service.
In many countries around the world, there are still homeless people and the destitute. Homelessness is at record levels in the US, but tent cities are popping up in my home country of soviet canuckistan. In 2022, 21.6% of the EU population, or some 95.3 million people, were at risk of poverty or social exclusion (according to EU stats). There is also homelessness across the EU to the tune of a million people per night, with numbers being particularly high in France, Germany, and Ireland.
In most countries, homeowners are still on the hook for large expenses. If your water line or sewer line breaks and it's on your property, you're going to have to pay for that in many countries around the world, on every continent.
So while there are definitely things that are better in other countries, don't assume the grass is always 100% greener on the other side of the fence. Life doesn't hit easy mode just because you land in some special country elsewhere.
That's definitely not true. It might actually surprise some US citizens who have never lived anywhere else, but even in some places you might not expect you have to pay for things just like in the US.
In many countries around the world, there is no universal healthcare or it acts differently than something like the Canadian or UK system. A Chinese friend of mine told me many stories of people who had to make tough choices between paying hospital bills for a loved one or buying food. Many countries with "better healthcare than the US" still have health insurance you have to pay into to get service.
In many countries around the world, there are still homeless people and the destitute. Homelessness is at record levels in the US, but tent cities are popping up in my home country of soviet canuckistan. In 2022, 21.6% of the EU population, or some 95.3 million people, were at risk of poverty or social exclusion (according to EU stats). There is also homelessness across the EU to the tune of a million people per night, with numbers being particularly high in France, Germany, and Ireland.
In most countries, homeowners are still on the hook for large expenses. If your water line or sewer line breaks and it's on your property, you're going to have to pay for that in many countries around the world, on every continent.
So while there are definitely things that are better in other countries, don't assume the grass is always 100% greener on the other side of the fence. Life doesn't hit easy mode just because you land in some special country elsewhere.
Well, the new thing seems to be doing pretty well. I can't imagine The Escapist is in very good shape without anyone working for them...
I was just thinking about it as I saw his latest video on my feed.
I was just thinking about it as I saw his latest video on my feed.
"It's 40 below out, wear a jacket!"
Puts on this jacket
What's the problem? It's a jacket. Quit hassling me you hypocrite!
Puts on this jacket
What's the problem? It's a jacket. Quit hassling me you hypocrite!
I used to skip breakfast regularly. In fact, I'd skip every meal but dinner just to try to keep things in balance. It did help me stay skinnier, but I sort of felt like shit otherwise. Really hard to focus throughout the day. These days I have 3 squares, but if I were to someday skip meals again, I think it'd have to be lunch and supper rather than breakfast.
Is it Matrix that's bad, or synapse that's bad?
I'm curious because I don't have to deal with much since my server only has one user who's idle most of the time.
I'm curious because I don't have to deal with much since my server only has one user who's idle most of the time.
I would expect that it is distinctly not, since the point of the album cover isn't titillation (as far as I know, we know how hollywood people are these days...) but to express a message about the sort of tone the album has.
NEVER skipped breakfast. Not even once.
You know, that could be either a really good life or a really bad one depending on how it goes...
You know, that could be either a really good life or a really bad one depending on how it goes...
This is Ramblin' Rudy. He's a hobo who lives in a culvert down by the railroad tracks.
He loves the name because he thinks it's because he's lived his life ramblin' from town to town, but in reality it's because if you give him the slightest excuse, he'll start rambling about politics for hours on end.
The thing is, Ramblin' Rudy hasn't seen a newspaper or listened to the radio in 30 years, so all the people he's rambling about are either retired or long dead.
It's ok, he's harmless enough.
He gets pretty passionate about the collapse of the Soviet Union, he's sure they've got a long future ahead of them of freedom and liberty and prosperity now that the government that was keeping them down has fallen!
He loves the name because he thinks it's because he's lived his life ramblin' from town to town, but in reality it's because if you give him the slightest excuse, he'll start rambling about politics for hours on end.
The thing is, Ramblin' Rudy hasn't seen a newspaper or listened to the radio in 30 years, so all the people he's rambling about are either retired or long dead.
It's ok, he's harmless enough.
He gets pretty passionate about the collapse of the Soviet Union, he's sure they've got a long future ahead of them of freedom and liberty and prosperity now that the government that was keeping them down has fallen!
tbf, I think new regulations took effect in the 2000s that banned the most extreme breeding practices
For real.
"How to be Bill Gates. Chapter 1: Have rich and influential parents."
God damnit how am I supposed to do that?
"How to be Bill Gates. Chapter 1: Have rich and influential parents."
God damnit how am I supposed to do that?
"It was a gambit for them – They didn’t have a new BASIC for the Altair, they were just gauging interest. This would be the one and only dodgy thing Bill Gates would ever do."
Doing some research for a joke, I looked up "famous people who died in 1996". After realizing I didn't know who anyone on the list was, I added "famous AMERICAN people who died in 1996"
And you know what? I knew who like half the list was. I don't know what that says about me....
And you know what? I knew who like half the list was. I don't know what that says about me....
Biden's got some really reliable voters. Rapper Tupac Shakur came out to vote for him, as well as Comedian George Burns, Singer Ella Fitzgerald, even [redacted] JanBenet Ramsey came out to vote for him! In a show of bipartisan support, both Justice Ginsberg and Justice Scalia came out to vote for Biden! That's some serious reliability! I need people that reliable in my life.