Stop fucking sane washing him. “If they want to” is a dubious statement coming from anyone in this authoritarian administration.

The fact that he brings up “reparenting”, it seems fairly obvious that this is going to be done by authority of the state. He’s talking about taking people’s kids away from them if they medicate their children as recommended by their doctors.

I’m always skeptical of any Trump voter who is “pro-worker”. I assume they exclusively support workers who are straight, white, cisgender, and xtian…

I mean, the reason Musk is an issue is because Twitter is a privately owned, for-profit company. The issue is top-down leadership. Bluesky is absolutely doomed to the same fate.

Bluesky is a for-profit corporation backed by Venture Capital and run by Crypto assholes.

Jack Dorsey launched the initiative in 2019 as a proof-of-concept for a federated Twitter, which never happened. After dumping Twitter, he re-launched it as a standalone social media service and flagship ATProto instance, before jumping ship and letting it be run by committee. He now endorses Nostr, because BlueSky wasn’t friendly enough to Nazis.

The current BlueSky CEO, Lantian Graber, started her career running shitcoin/scamcoin exchange (SkuCoin), manufacturing ASIC mining rigs, and developing for Zcash. She masquerades as a progressive techie, even as all of her past experience leans Libertarian/Anarchocapitalist, and all of her other ventures’ websites are plastered with GenAI slop.

Bluesky is growing faster than ever expected, and with virtually zero real federation going on. It’s going to fail catastrophically when the new user base realizes they signed up for the same shit they were trying to get away from.

It isn’t that hard to realize that a FOSS product developed by a nonprofit (eg. Mastodon) is the correct answer, not more centralized, corporate, for-profit social media…

You’re always welcome to go back to Reddit if you don’t like it here.

“Would you like to see us leverage AI to help address societal issues such as racial justice, climate justice, gender justice, etc.?”

Absolutely fucking not.

The people who use the machine are undoubtedly the same people terrified of a national gun owner registry. A machine that scans your whole face from multiple angles every time you buy ammo…

“Hate speech” isn’t a criminal statute anywhere in America.

Post: 60+ upvotes

User feedback: “What the hell does this meme mean?”

Lemmy users are really weird with their upvotes…

Okay, then criticize him for that, not over some imaginary cancelable moment…

Good lord, just answer the question. Your meme doesn’t make sense.

Nah, fuck the streaming services. Get Dogma released as a 1080p Blu-ray. Or, if the film quality allows, a 2160p Blu-ray. None of this digital-first/digital-only BS.

Are these the same union leaders who backed Trump, because while they’re right about the need for reconstruction, I’d like to exclude any fascists from the effort.

Not really worried so much about how the dead people feel, and worried more about people being killed to begin with.

Not caring about the death toll is a dead giveaway that playing politics is more important to you than Palestinian lives.

This is funny to you?

balkanize

Just a reminder that the formation of the Balkan states lead to the Balkin war, that killed more than 2 million.

Churning. The art of spending money in a circle using accounts that offer rewards.

I knew a guy who had like 50 credit cards and 25 bank accounts. He could move money in circles all month, and get like $100k/year in cash back rewards on top of his $100k/year job. His credit report said he spent $8M a year on credit cards. His credit score was 845.

He also pretty much flew for free, and he flew all the time. There were a few mileage programs in his little scheme.

As far as I can tell, 100% legal. The banks just make frequent changes to their offerings to make it hard to do.

You seem awful celebratory.

Oh man, wait til you learn what “Federal” means.

So the argument is that it was unfair to sell Infowars to The Onion, because they weren’t the highest bidder - rather, the Sandy Hook parents approved of this bid, and not any others that were higher.

BUT… Those Sandy Hook parents also agreed to forfeit a portion of their settlement in exchange for favoritism towards the Onion, making that bid the one that would cover the largest number of settlement dollars, which is the primary goal of auctioning off his assets in the first place.

So good luck arguing against this sale. The Sandy Hook parents have $1.4B worth of settlement dues to work with, and they know that they aren’t going to see most of it repaid in their lifetimes. They can keep conditionally forfeiting money until you’d need to pay hundreds of millions to acquire Infowars. If Elon decided to do that anyway, the cash would go straight to the parents, and he’d be opening himself up to massive liabilities the moment Alex Jones inevitably opens his mouth about Sandy Hook conspiracy shit on X.