Gud forby. Bokstavelig talt.

I’m not an insider, so I don’t know anything that hasn’t been posted.
But I’m invested in the movement; I’ve been protesting at 50501 events since the first one on 2/5.

It seems the one thing everyone agrees on is that the movement is people like yourself — thinking in terms of insiders is risky and should be avoided. Nobody is a bigger part of this than you are. You’re simply not a Reddit mod, and that might be a good thing.

Moving on:

1. Does it really? I guess some funding is needed for some infrastructure, but I would think funding should be decentralized just like the movement. I don’t think it’s in the interest of the movement that large sums of money are handled centrally. If server costs for sites like https://fiftyfifty.one/ or https://50501.chat/ needs to be covered the people behind them can fundraise directly for that purpose. Beyond that it’s a protest movement, not a political campaign, and money always makes things more complicated. I could be wrong here, but I (of course) think I’m right.
2. If the user’s story holds up I think most people would experience a mental health episode going through it, so I wouldn’t necessarily hold that against them. The lack of transparency along the way is understandable in a way, but much more problematic in my opinion.
3. It’s certainly not a great situation. I love the potential of 50501 paired with the Fediverse, and how the movement can be decentralized in a techincal sense throughout several platforms without hindering communication.

Keep up the good fight! :)

Seems like a pretty messy situation, whatever is going on.

Underscores the need for the movement to remain decentralized, if anything. If this is about centralizing power in centralized media it’s a bit worrying.

“This penguin” would be Major General Sir Nils Olav III, Baron of the Bouvet Islands to you, thank you very much.

It’s on the elbow of the guy posing with a cigar and a handgun wearing sunglasses indoors in a pub, next to a bartender who is poking himself with a knife.

It’d be a decent parody of toxic masculinity if it wasn’t for the fact that this guy has, in fact, tattooed a confederate flag on his body. So I’m worried they might be serious, which makes me question a number of things.

(more on topic, I’d probably just get a pair of Fjällräven Keb Agile, but I know OP wants to explore other options)

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Lots of posing with machine guns and confederate flag tattoos going on there for a European company. I guess they know their audience, but gosh what a turn-off.

Great job! It’s really nicely made.

I like how it’s focused on more conservative folks, but it still seems a bit strange to me to ignore the stripping of due process for latino men, and stating that “Farmers, educators, veterans, and working families are being hit the hardest”. I think conservatives can be open for the fact that due process is important for everyone in a democracy, as if it’s not available to everyone it is by definition not there for anyone - as you cannot prove yourself outside of a group without due process.

Instead formulating in ways such as “Farmers, educators, veterans, and working families are being hit hard” would make the document more factually correct, and not remove from the message.

But it’s important to reach out to broad layers of the population, and I think this does a good job at that. So well done. :)

Welcome! Happy to have you here. :)

I’m curious - did you know about Lemmy before you got banned? How did you discover us?

Steal a little, and they put you in jail. Steal a lot, and they make you king.

My bet would be tax evasion and money laundering. ;)

It’s hard to wrap one’s head around just how freaking rich the mega wealthy are. The 1% is not even the enemy at this point, they are closer to most of us than they are to the billionaire class.

I think it must be seen not in light of the monetary blow, but in light of the fact that the EU is pushing hard for these actors to change directions and to end some of their abusive behaviour.

Traffic fines are made to bankrupt drivers or to finance the state, but to encourage people to drive safely.

Potentially, but it seems people on other social media will have a hard time leaving no matter how bad things get there. At least on Reddit it doesn’t seem like users are particularly aware of the fact that it’s a problem with their platform.

I think we should not depend on any moment, but rather contribute and gradually work towards this being the best place to be, and let change happen gradually.

Ps: For those nevertheless spreading the word, I think https://50501.chat/ and/or https://piefed.social/f/50501 are two particularly useful links. :)

Might be true on social media, but maybe it’s a blessing disguised as a curse. If people felt like posting on social media actually solved anything, that would be even worse.

The only thing social media is good for is getting people into the streets. That’s the only place a movement can actually make things happen.

Yup. The battle is in the street, and that’s the only place it could be.

Another question is where the discussion should be. Maybe there’s a lesson to be learned from Occupy Wall Street, taking the discussion in the streets as well.

However, there are things happening recently —including reports of doxxing, online harassment, and organizational issues — so I am putting the subreddit into a short maintenance mode as we all work through these things behind the scenes. We are not going anywhere! We are just taking a moment to tighten up security and make sure everyone in this movement feels safe, included, and empowered. 50501 is still here, and we will be back online soon

I guess they could not keep up with moderation, as there are plenty of bad actors seeking to derail the movement. I’m curious what their plans are to make the Reddit community viable.

How do you do, fellow humans 🤖🛹

I feel like it’s increasingly a test applicable to humans rather than to machines. Are you original enough that you couldn’t be replaced by a language model?

I’m not sure I like to think about it.

Come to think of it, being frequently wrong but nevertheless overly confident is key to passing the Turing test.

We have finally created machines that can replicate human stupidity.

Good cheddar is expensive. I suspect this graph is very generous in what it considers cheddar.

Globally, the style and quality of cheeses labelled as cheddar varies greatly, with some processed cheeses packaged as “cheddar”.¹

Processed cheese typically contains around 50–60% cheese and 40–50% other ingredients.²

It:'s also fundamentally a bit weird to compare the prices of these cheeses, as cheese prices tend to be extremely local in nature. What’s a fancy foreign cheese in one place is just traditional food in another. And of course, price and quality varies a lot within each cheese. A lot of what is sold as mozzarella is also not recognizable as such in my opinion.