Friendly reminder that the goal behind posting memes like this is to instill a sense of cynicism and discourage political participation from people who hold progressive values. A key indicator here is the use of the nefarious-but-nebulous “they” which is commonly used in antisemitic-coded “globalist” or “cabal” conspiracy theories.

Democracy in America is unequal and unfair but the “deep state” the way conspiracy theorist portray it is simply not real.

I gotta admit that I enjoy seeing America crumbling down like this.

The fuck is the matter with you? The CIA overthrew some governments in the 70s and now you “enjoy” seeing the crumbling of what little right trans people had? You enjoy seeing the crumbling of habeus corpus where students are being kidnapped off the street by plainclothes officers? Do you enjoy seeing the crumbling of due process and the people deported to El Salvadorian prions for autism awareness tattoos?

You don’t have to be a tankie to admit the U.S. has been a shitty ally and overall a toxic country.

Even if your assessment were accurate, and it’s just patently, obviously not, enjoying sitting back and watching a government openly bully trans teenagers because the US helped Isreal or didn’t provide the aid to Ukraine you would have preferred (or whatever!), is just a horrible, horrible, ignorant and harmful perspective. If you truly cared about “progressive and peaceful values” values, you would be advocating for the US to change, not cheering it’s “crumbling”.

This thread is an amazing honeypot for any instance admins looking for a well organized list of accounts to ban.

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Americans (especially non white Americans) tend to speak very frankly about race in a way that can make Europeans uncomfortable. In this context “white” is simply meant to conjure an image of someone with disposable income.

(See “black twitter”)

We agree that spending one’s time typing internet comments is less effective than voting.

What people want will have little to do with it, unfortunately. The “hope” is that contraception bans combined with misleading/nonexistent sex ed will maintain a population.

Reddit Lemmy users love their internet slacktivism. These mfers will type out a 10,000 word comment on a five year old post before they will vote.

Any discussion/advice community that allows low-effort meme slop will inevitably become choked out by it. I understand I am in the minority and the mods like having the memes, but eventually we’ll need /c/piracydiscussion if content of this formatting is permitted.

Obviously 99% of people here would agree that Aaron Swarts’ story is a tragedy. But simple low-hanging fruit content is not what I want this place to have. And like it or not this community is likely to become the single biggest place to discuss piracy as Reddit inevitably cracks down on it.

I would transfer the playlist to Tidal (there are services out there that will import everything for a few dollars), then use Tidal-dl. The quality is much higher.

“Money as a vestigial cultural relic” is a great concept. You’re right, Latinum doesn’t provide the Ferengi with anything but status.

I think about this exact topic a lot and I think you are mostly right, but I also think that open source replicators would be an agent of change, especially if one could be used to manufacture parts to make another. Of course, without land to make things on conflicts will arise. But once the need for money is removed some people will choose to “opt out” of society and start building a parallel one similar to how the open source community exists alongside closed source software.

Nerds like to argue but this the easiest set-it-and-forget it way is to get a raspi or old PC and put some home server OS on it like CasaOS, Umbrel, or TrueNAS. Then get the following apps:

• Torrent app like Deluge or qBittorrent
• Prowlarr - Searches torrent sites
• Radar - Manages movies
• Sonarr - Manages television shows
• Plex - organizes downloaded media and streams to your devices
• Overserr (optional) a friendly GUI for requesting media.

Trash guides are useful for getting it all set up. There is a learning curve but once it’s up and running you don’t need to think about it.

Oster Fast Feed is not a “budget” pick, but then again, few BIFL options are.

Edit: 76023-510 is the corded model.

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I fully agree. What worries me is if bad actors create bots that are able to overwhelm the human moderators.

Yes, strong moderation by members of the community is sufficient to recognize and remove bad (human) actors. The question is one of volume and overwhelming those human mods. GPT can create hundreds of bad-faith accounts.

It’s theirs. They can do whatever they want. Any limits their power within the instance/community is purely voluntary on the part of the owner.

Mods and admins on the Fediverse are not democratically elected, they have complete control. Accusing one of “power tripping”, in their own community, on the instance they presumably pay for, is not a rational accusation, since they definitionally cannot exist in a state of less power. What that community is trying to do is use the threat of public shaming to influence behavior. It’s how you get weak moderation and generic communities where bad actors can thrive. A community dedicated to “Stopping bad mods” sounds good on the surface, but it’s an argument made in bad faith.

Why are you putting up with a “shitty” mod? Are you trying to force your speech in a community who has asked you not to?