spectre [he/him]

Valid criticisms tbh (I even could say the same as a day 0 account lol)

Moderation isn’t going to “improve” because they generally are fine with everyone being goofballs, so I wouldn’t expect that.

Some people have the cascade of shitposting and useless emojis coming with their crappy views, but I don’t think our instance is great at propaganda or ROE, which is unfortunate. Would love to see what we could do with a little discipline.

Also the emojis on every other instance and all mobile apps look more obnoxious because they don’t downscale to their intended resolution.

My opinion has always been that NSFW instances should be quarantined entirely to their own “porniverse” or whatever.

And yeah this type of content (underage or pseudo-underage) should be banned entirely in all cases imo.

No, also which instance is that hosted on? .ml?

It’s possible for them to tell the computer to shutdown when the battery is getting low

Me too

you can’t try before you buy.

Most mail order mattresses come with a generous trial period. Not ideal though

One guy was so paranoid that he had a camera in his yard (out in a well-off suburban neighborhood) pointing at a public path that strobed and vocally warned you that you were being recorded. Totally unhinged

Stop by the news megathread sometime and see/ask for yourself. You probably won’t agree with a lot of stuff (and even that’s partly cause there’s layers of irony caked onto the walls), but it’s not quite as bad as you think.

I’m more annoyed with the people who reply to this low-effort garbage

I think they said that they specifically don’t want to tank the local economy, just the tourism sector.

A large tourism sector can be a detriment to a smaller city or town if the local people don’t have enough control or investment in the sector themselves.

It’s definitely good to organize, but if they are in the US, building publicly housing (an obvious solution) is illegal, so things aren’t straightforward even if you obtain some power.

We are talking local level. It’s actually possible to get things done, especially if you lay the groundwork and get some help. It doesn’t need to be OP getting in the door, just start small and eventually their org can get someone to step up and take a position of power.

It’s only smuglord-worthy if we are at the federal level imo

It’s just a messenger app. Whatsapp is probably used by more criminals on the whole, but there’s no reason for that to make the news

lemmy.ml is nominally leftist, so an anticapitalist text dump is in-bounds, I believe

It’s a coincidence

I think the model that you’re referring to is generally more applicable to hardware, but since you can make free copies of an app, Uber for instance can keep things low cost till they eat the competition

I mean it was nonsense to think it would solve your costs, but streaming is superior to cable TV from a tech standpoint for sure.

People should expect that yeah, new software is cheap when it’s rolled out, but it’s gonna get more expensive as time goes on, but I can understand why that wasn’t quite as apparent to people 10 years ago as it will be 10 years from now

It’s overly amplified by liberal propagandists, but there’s at least enough of a connection to make a note of

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-35962326

By that measure, Xi is also implicated

I see your point, but that’s a topic that should be up for discussion among your hypothetical Party/legislature. I don’t think it has a clear answer.

You don’t see his pandering to the EU as stumbling backwards into this whole situation in the first place?

I understand that it comes across as provocative, but from what I understand about his (attempted) maneuvering over the past couple years, he’s kind of a spineless and weak leader who trusted the wrong side and got his country embroiled in a massive conflict.

NATO and the US are not trustworthy allies, and they let him talk up "Ukraine joining NATO ", a very dangerous thing to do, but I don’t believe they had any intention of letting them in at any point. Zelensky should have understood this.