Nice for you, bad for the mods. Only way to do that without outsourcing mental strain to other people is to self host
At least 2. One to report and one to fix
Reading JL's comments in this thread reminds me of this excellent quote
"A liberal is someone who opposes every war except the current war and supports all civil rights movements except the one that’s going on right now."
Author admits they don't ask for donations and then use the lack of donation as evidence for their arguments. Amazing logic there.
Also whatever the fuck this is
By the way, next time you see a request for donations at any project, think about the reasoning in the head of the product owner.
Some of us ask for donations because we know people don't actually think about it. Fuck you for implying we're closer to being sellouts than you are.
This blog gives me right-libertarian vibes with its promotion of "open - core" shite and how focused it is on money.
No I meant the literal cia-backed coup
I'm just waiting for all those gnashing their teeth at this to turn around and tell me "vote blue no matter who" in a couple of years/months.
Oh yeah cause it went so well for Chile.
Coups can be resisted.
There's people (like me) who are just wired like night owls. I can sleep during the day no problem. It's just sad that the society expects most people to be "morning people" and just randomly expects some to be able to handle the night shifts, instead of helping people self-select.
Boot up my 486, call over my friends and play MK1
Alternatively make some new M:TG decks using my new Ice Age booster packs and head to the FLGS
Ye, it's a bit annoying how often ST uses time travel nonsense.
Cross-posted from "Horrific" by @[email protected] in [email protected]
That’s where this guy came from :(
https://www.kcra.com/article/butte-county-school-shooting-gunman/63109931
I'm part of the problem I know...
Cross-posted from "The taxman always gets their due" by @[email protected] in [email protected]
Author's Note: Initially I was planning to just post it here, but then I though, "hey I have an actual blog for this reason". So anyway, I'm just crossposting here anyway :)
Someone made the comment about the assassination of the United Healthcare CEO and mentioned that the clients to private security forces are going to skyrocket. This is true.
It made me think of how much companies like these have profited from lobbying the government to remove their social contributions (i.e. taxes) while also being directly responsible for destroying those social safeties themselves.
The companies constantly lobby the government to reduce or remove their tax burden while retaining their state protections. But they don’t recognize that the more their actions erode the life of the working class, the more the social contract people accept to not take matters into their own hands is discarded.
As such, you start seeing things like assassinations and kidnappings, which in turn force the rich to use the money they saved by not paying taxes, to pay for private security instead.
This naturally leads to a more and more polarized society where the rich live in increasingly isolated and defended enclaves, while the proles live outside in slums and favelas. Sometimes directly next to each other, as this iconic photos from Sao Paolo exemplifies.
Of course, eventually, the dissolution of the social contract is going to make even this insufficient. More and more wealth will need to be used merely to protect their life and property, once the state has been sufficiently defunded, until at some point, you own private security will be either so powerful as to become a de-facto state, or they will turn themselves against the rich and claim their wealth for themselves.
Under capitalism, the taxman always gets their due.
Also remember, things are newsworthy because they're novel. US sees like 2 gun deaths per day and thousands due to insurance company malpractice, but this one death dominates newscycles.
Alo you 'orrible lot, another year is almost at end end. Can you believe we launched this ship one and a half year ago? And we're still going strong! Our instance keeps growing even with the "stringent" application instructions we have, with a good mix of pirates, anarchists and other weirdos joining. All according to plan!
Last year the waters have been fairly calm, with our three top communities continuing to get more traffic
At the same time, our new communities seem to be finding ample traction
Do mention your favourite new comms in the comments
Generally y'all seem to be playing nice enough. We haven't had to issue that many bans instance-wide except for some dedicated trolls. The application instructions seem to be working quite well at stopping automated spammers and stupid bigots from getting in, in the first place.
Likewise there's been very few, if any appeals in our matrix channels and 0 [email protected] callouts.
Moderation load is manageable but do let us know if you think there's areas of improvement.
As always, our instance is completely donation based. We don't want to sell anything or advertise anyone. The plan is to avoid giving any incentives to enshittify this instance, or otherwise to give any ammo for anyone to claim trying to spread disinfo. The goal is to provide a truly communal space for people to express themselves (mostly how much they hate copyrights and capitalism 😅).
Our ko-fi page has managed to almost completely cover the server costs until the end of the year and anything extra will go as buffer for the next year. I'm also working on creating something official to enhance this whole process and hopefully I will announce it soon.
Given our costs and our monthly active users, each euro being donated, is currently supporting ~10 other active users in this instance, so do consider everything you donate as mutual aid to those needing a digital home!
(If you have any ideas on how I can reward sponsors to this instance, do let us know. I already offered custom emojis, but people don't seem to be interested)
Just for fun, I decided to see what kind of answers people have given for our application. The tool to compile this took me way longer than I would have liked and I still have around 1500 answers that need improved parsing, but I'm out of time so here's what people answered for their favourite character
Historical Pirate: 447 (9.5%)
Digital Pirate: 1021 (21.7%)
Fictional Character: 479 (10.2%)
FOSS advocate: 1338 (28.4%)
Free Software: 400 (8.5%)
Anarchist: 480 (10.2%)
Other: 46 (1.0%)
Total Answers Analyzed: 4712
Answers matching multiple categories: 632
Top Mentions per Category:
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Historical Pirate: Blackbeard (248), Anne Bonny (40), Zheng Yi Sao (25)
Digital Pirate: Fitgirl (183), Aaron Swartz (173), Empress (96)
Fictional Character: Captain Jack Sparrow (215), Luffy (73), Dread Pirate Roberts (43)
FOSS advocate: Linus Torvalds (888), Richard Stallman (332), Luis Rossman (97)
Free Software: Lemmy (304), Gnu (30), Github (23)
Anarchist: Kropotkin (86), Emma Goldman (78), Chomsky (53)
Other: John Oliver (15), Tim O'Reilly (15), Bernie Sanders (6)
I'm very proud of how well this instance, and the threadiverse in general (lemmy + mbin + piefed) is going. This feels like a fairly active forum from the good ole days, which cannot easily be taken away from us by shitty admins and corpos. Here's to one more year!
Unfortunately we only have your word to go for it. All content has been wiped by the admin of their instance.