Ooh, so Iran is also involved in this one.

It’s great but that fan is an overkill. 😂

Wait, aren’t the arrest quotas higher than 1000 per day? This concentration camp can hold 3 days worth of abductees.

According to my observations, the Fediverse grows whenever people look for alternative. People do that whenever their comfort is disturbed by material changes. E.g. Reddit gated app APIs, people’s apps started shutting down, protest ensued, it failed, people looked for an alternative, many joined Lemmy as the obvious one. That created one of the largest spikes in active usage. There were others following that. There are network effects keeping people where they are unless there’s a significant force pushing them to overcome that. And so I think the Fediverse would grow the same way it’s grown so far. By being here for people whenever they can’t say or read something the way they were previously able to, as corporations enshittify to profit maximize. You even see them doing that themselves, with Bluesky for example, where they built an alternative that pretends to be federated in order to capture refugees. But Bluesky is inevitably going to get fucked too and since it’s federated in pretense only, there isn’t another instance to take over. I think the process is similar to Linux adoption. It was always there, chugging along for people looking for alternatives. It hasn’t stopped growing. It hasn’t exploded but we’re not complaining about where we are, are we.

On miticide resistance from 2001. Looking at what’s required to keep resistance down… can’t see how that could have been achieved without heavy regulation, and the US is all outta regulation.

100%. And I think such a status quo would be much more easy to organize voters against. Picture AOC talking to a crowd and saying how the oligarchs have 2/3 of politicians in the form of those two parties and we need to close the gap by electing more of ours - 15-20 more. Now it’s like - the oligarchs are buying politicians. OK, which ones? OK, what do we do, run independents or primary them within the Democratic party? What other shit can the party pull to fuck us over? Could be totally wrong, I’m just thinking here.

o asked not to be named. “We do not recognize ourselves anymore in Trump’s administration. There is a strong movement out there in the party to reclaim the values we were raised on and reclaim the middle ground.”

Translation: “Omg can you believe this leopard is eating my face? Now that I’m perso

But getting fucked by 51-49 votes is I think much more difficult to solve than getting fucked by 65-35 votes. When there’s 1-2 votes diff, people don’t know why they’re fucked and what needs to be done to stop it. When it’s 65-35, it’s much more obvious what is to be done and what campaigns have to do to organize voters.

Would’ve considered changing doctors if he didn’t. 😂

No it doesn’t. It only does if those are the majority of the Democratic party. And they’re not. I don’t think many are finding this meme to mean there aren’t Democrats that toil against the majority of the party. I find the constant purity testing of memes and critique of the Democratic party serves much more to shield the part that shouldn’t be shielded from critique. Oh no, this critique isn’t 99% accurate! Yes. It’s 80% accurate.

Just read the section on his mayorship of Braddock. This bud has been problematic for a long time. I don’t think he’s gone crazy lately, instead people got sold a counterfeit product during his federal election that they didn’t look much into.

Did he laugh?

At this point all the arguments about what nefarious could they possibly do with the data are busted. They answer is - our imagination and access to information is not rich enough to figure out today and it’s probably worse than what we can think of.

Faraday cage or bust.

Oh compared to other fast food joints for sure.

No idea, but if their competition is Starbucks, Starbucks isn’t competing on coffee quality. 😂

Would they pay better than Starbucks? How hostile would they be to unions?

Of course not but it’s important context for people who don’t know why a good chunk of Cuban Americans vote Republican.

Issuing recalls - a sign of how big Anker has gotten.

A tragic story that should be added to piles of child tragedy in Palestine as well as the other affected countries from these conflicts. Speaking of Palestine, I can’t see it mentioned at all on the front page of rferl.org.

His mind was not changed.