How great or united is a country that can’t even protect babies?

I actually think it’s a societal issue rather than an intelligence issue. As a society we boost celebrities and put them on a pedestal almost deifying them. While at the same time we create a poisonous world and also ignore mental health. So of course people will follow celebrities like a religion hoping to bask in their glory at worst and change their life at best.

With Caitlyn, she should’ve faded to obscurity years ago and a better society would’ve ensured she needed for nothing. She should at least feel a sense of responsibility but again, capitalism is all about trampling on the weak and getting ahead.

Until we eradicate monetary wealth and support mental health as a matter of course at all levels, things like this will happen and people like this will thrive. We have to end capitalism for a better tomorrow.

It’s never okay to dead name. Even people you find despicable. Dead naming isn’t about them, it’s about you… like being polite to wait staff.

Mate, it’s America, humanitarian rights issues is what the nation excels at.

America uses slave labour too. At every opportunity they’ve paid minimum wage and when workers started unionising, they started outsourcing to places they could get away with employing people for less than minimum wage. This is all well documented, just for some reason it’s fine when America does it.

Despite what the world thinks, it’s just a case of the world moving forwards. I see people always mentioning Chinese government subsidies like the American government hasn’t been subsidising the American Auto industry for years. The difference is that the Chinese government is demanding a return on investment whereas the American investment is just funnelled into executive pockets. Maybe in a few years the same will be the case in china,but for now, they’re making the same giant strides that Tesla made which enabled them to become a household name.

As they should. I hope they burn all data and figure out a way to function going forwards without storing any data

That would require it to do more than bridge circuits when pressure is applied to certain points. I’m interested to see what their next iterations will be, if they’ll have any robotics or artificial intelligence.

Already done

They don’t federate with my instance. I think the last time I ran into some of them was in a UK politics thread.

I honestly don’t believe they actually lied. I think they were being earnest and only claimed they were being manipulative when caught by hexbears to save face.

Having read everything that’s been linked here, I’m inclined to believe this.

I don’t know enough about Hexbear, my interactions with them in the communities I go to have been overwhelmingly positive. But I recognise the toxicity elsewhere. That said, the moderators and admins here were clearly on the right side and tried to make positive changes. It’s a shame there’s opposition to that.

I’m an idiot. I thought you were a moderator there already. I just added you. Anyone else you think should be a moderator?

As long as they’re active, they’re welcome to join the moderation team. You’ve seen the community grow to become what it is. When I created the community it was with the goal to decentralise, so additional moderators were always going to be needed eventually.

Yup, Matter is just the evolution of ZigBee. It’s not where it needs to be but it’s going in the right direction.

I’m afraid there won’t be one replacement for WordPress, because it has so many applications. The pure blogging aspect could be substituted by Writefreely, more advanced users may go to Ghost, and I’m not sure what small business and corporate websites will turn to?

I think this is probably the best solution. All the power shouldn’t be centralised.

More is always better. I would love to see it officially become the go-to community for EV talk in the Fediverse

What’s so good about PieFed?

I’m honestly not expecting any revolution to start in America. They keep saying how they need guns for it, but it will be one of the last to join the revolution and only then go to try and hold on to a semblance of power.

This is why I want an anti-capitalist revolution. We replace the executives with AI and then by the time they realise how they empowered and galvanized the working class, we rise up to remove the boards of directors, putting the companies and dividends in the hands of the populous to feed into the UBI fund.