This is the first time a politician is honest about something.

But it’s for the absolutely wrong reasons.

This is just blatantly saying “HEY! I’M GOING TO BE ABSOLUTE SHIT TO YOU ALL! AND IT’S GOING TO BE ROUGH! AND IT’S GOING TO BE NASTY! BLOODY!”

Like okay okay, we have had months leading up to this to know. We don’t need you to remind us yet again about how you’ll do things.

Truthfully, no.

If the API fiasco hasn’t really deterred enough Reddit users to convert, then almost nothing will. Except maybe when Spez gets around to monetizing NSFW subreddits and subreddits in general that are very large. But even then, I still say it won’t be a giant deal. They’ll come here but they’ll want the Fediverse to strongly appeal to NSFW content and really the Fediverse is fine without it poisoning itself with that filth.

• Consumer Rights
• Worker’s Rights
• Universal Healthcare
• Copyright/Intellectual Property Issues
• Make the Internet a Utility
• Give the FTC some teeth i.e more authority so that they can have better chances to stop big acquisitions and monopolies from happening

No, because that’s how anyone treats autism anymore. It’s reality. But keep denying it…

…Does anyone even know what the hell Autism even is anymore? Two decades later, seems like it’s not. It’s just the ‘everything we deem not normal, someone is on the spectrum’ diagnosis.

A therapist, I kid you not, thought that because I had a conscience in my mind (an inner voice) felt I was on the spectrum. That’s how much bullshit this Autism thing has gotten. A totally normal thing that I was told, convinced a therapist that I’m on the spectrum. Just anything can be fucking autistic apparently.

Okay, then you be the sole worker then if you want this ‘responsibility’. See how far you get.

It’s impossible today because there’s billions of people that most likely will ignore you.

In a simpler world with less than 4 million, there was a chance.

Out of the three, I don’t want my high school experience to have had no people. The other two, yeah I’m good with having no people.

I believe that some technological ideas can work. The problem is that ideas that are under people like Musk, are doomed to always fail and will be seen as negative.

Elon Musk sucks.

I’ve moderated subreddits, I’ve moderated chat rooms and have had managerial experiences in other things over the years online.

People hated me moderating because I ‘took out the trash’ that people, including other moderators, considered the life of a community. People being meme shitlords, people trolling, people gaslighting, people instigating matters .etc

And they all got by because of friendly nepotism and shitty comradery among shitty people who love other shitty people.

I’m not the kind of moderator that I see in most moderators now, who have a brain aneurysm over some expressions and thoughts that they see others express that they deliberately misinterpret. All so that they can construct their self-justifying reasons to ban over.

And that is power-tripping, to me.

I think we need to take our fear away from Terminator and apply it moreso to something like HAL. HAL is more realistic now than a cybernetic Terminator is.

Invest in electric heaters.

If you already had a place picked that’s in the north, make sure you settle in as early as a month or two before it’s winter season starts.

Do not ever neglect snow tires. If you’re tight on money, getting even 2 sets of tires for wintry conditions is better than none. But 4 is still recommended and no, All-Seasons are terrible for winters regardless of brand. They just aren’t designed for winter conditions, they’re designed mostly for Spring/Summer/Fall.

Buy winter emergency sets for your vehicle. Buy one for the glove compartment, the ones where they actually have emergency power banks in them. Buy another for general use, especially ones equipped with a piece together shovel.

Use HEET only in 30 below temperatures.

But did anyone ever say that you HAD to subscribe to everything? No.

I must be one of the few people in a group who have a better control in what they feel they can subscribe to.

Adobe expects me to pay monthly for Photoshop? No, fuck you, I’ve got GIMP and a number of other paint and photo manipulation programs.

Microsoft expects me to pay for Office 365? No, fuck you, I’ve got LibreOffice and your older Office software still works as good. Your word processing program, Word, hasn’t really changed that much since 2007 or even 2003. Hell, maybe not since 1997!

I understand this video highlights some of the more draconian practices of subscription services and they deserve to be. But also, people really really need to learn about alternatives instead of feeling like they’ve got to subscribe to something that they never had to in the first place.

Also, no, you do not need smart-everything. Leave all of the smart-appliance shit for the richies who happily throw money down on that and let them waste their time and money on the susbcriptions involving them. You don’t need them, have some self-respect and know that the dumb versions of those smart things still are just as good and effective.

The mods on lemmy are just as sensitive as the ones on reddit and they lean on excessive bans.

Man, moderators suck because they’re all closeted losers.

Removed by mod

And be theatric. High five the cashier, over-compliment them, get a bunch of friends to dance with them. Then by the end, be happy they offered you a discount.

If they vote Trump, then I’ll be secretly clamoring for them to be deported out of America.

You’re almost asking to be in an environment where you’re surrounded by 386 computers, PDAs, CRTs and beepers.

We’re sadly stuck with the way capitalism has enshittified technology to where it is almost unavoidable and the only options we’re down to is how much of ourselves we limit the access to that stuff. We’re also stuck with just going second-hand shopping because almost no company wants to go back to the way things were unless they want to market ViNtAgE or ReTrO throwbacks which even they sometimes shit all over those models.

For once, I am not seeing comments where it’s just an endless chain mixed with the responses of some dude’s alt and people who run a joke right off the treads. I’m seeing just responses. Actual thoughts. Even if the thoughts are shitty i.e argumentative and illogical trolls who bait, they’re still somewhat thoughts.

I don’t see a lot of “DATS WHAT SHE SAID!” followed by “AND HE SAID” followed by “AND THE CAT SAID” on and on. That’s the kind of trash you’d find on Reddit, even on subreddits where the news is reported.

Moderators that actually moderate. Now there’s still a disagreement with how things are moderated and that’s case by case. It’s not strictly a Reddit or Lemmy thing. It’s an internet thing. But, moderators on the Fediverse in general, seem to be more responsive and a little more logical than any Reddit one ever. Reddit mods, go on power-hungry blazetrails where they just ban and ban based on THEIR interpretations of the rules and not the general rules already set in the community they mod in.