I’ve seen people mention that Trump knew about Epstein, but I’ve never seen them make the connection to him withholding that information from us for decades.
It creates the argument that either Trump isn’t as all-seeing as his base would like to believe, or he’s part of the cabal that protects pedophiles like Epstein. We’re not allowed to look in this direction.
It’s my understanding that websites can identify your OS and there’s nothing we can realistically do about it, but it has something to do with how fonts are rendered. I’m not an expert, but this is what I recall from trying to obscure my OS from websites.
Here’s a post on the matter: https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/173233/how-do-i-hide-the-os-i-am-using-from-internet-sites
Javascript isn’t that big of a deal.
Because it is.
We live in a hyper-consumerist, scam society.
It’s gotten so bad most people don’t even realize the problems when they see it. Unfortunately, I think AOC was defending paying $>10 on a single meal, so she’s part of the problem.
She always wears very nice suits.
Damn. That video is hard to watch. It’s clear Zelensky is at a grave disadvantage because American English is not his first language.
It would be way easier for him to reason with these people and get his message out if he could just talk like a normal American.
He’s not able to explain what’s actually a very simple and clear concept: the US gave Ukraine security guarantees that it did not fulfill. Then he gets steamrolled by people who can speak English better than him and all he can do is sit back and watch.
Donald Trump also praised Epstein, saying he liked women on the “younger side.”
“I’ve known Jeff for fifteen years. Terrific guy,” Trump told New York Magazine that year for a story headlined “Jeffrey Epstein: International Moneyman of Mystery.” “He’s a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side. No doubt about it — Jeffrey enjoys his social life.”
Brow-beating is an extremely effective tactic on the internet.
We see it on both sides, so most discourse devolves into whoever is censored/moves on with their life first loses.
It can make the appearance that Russian trolls with their literal non-stop promotion and shilling of trump bullshit in 2016 are more successful than they are, which invariably contributes to their success.
I wish we could see what was happening as it’s happening. Unfortunately, all we can do is let it happen around us and future generations can study how we’ve been taken advantage of without realizing it.
Donald Trump knew about Epstein but didn’t tell us; we had to find out for ourselves.
The fact that nobody is saying this and none of you have considered it until reading this comment should be very telling at how deep their power runs, and how stupid we are for going along with it.
We literally aren’t allowed to have our own thoughts. We can only think and talk about what the powers that be have deemed appropriate.
What benchmarks are you seeing that are telling you this is a better deal than the alternatives?
Come on, you can be specific so I don’t have to assume what you’re talking about.
If anyone asks me this, I’m going to tell them I don’t know but I’m figuring it out as I go along.
Newsie.social has (had) 20k active users, mostly professional journalists. It has in the brink of shutting down due to lack of funding for two years already.
Fosstodon started with enough donations that they could even send some of their money to upstream projects. Nowadays they are invite-only because they don’t get enough funding to sustain infinite growth.
Moth.social was active while they were sponsored by Mozilla, they are shutting down in March 12th due to lack of funding.
Can you provide any sources for where you’re getting this information? Did any of these instances share their server expenses and how much was being donated, or are we just supposed to “trust them bro”?
This is just wishful thinking. Go ahead and open an instance with open registration, see how long it will take for you to regret it.
Are you delusional? I’m not even going to entertain how stupid this response is.
And there is a huge number of admins that got users and then burned out due to harassment, spam, entitled users asking for/against federation due to petty drama…
And there’s a huge number that don’t and enjoy having power over the discourse, as evidenced by how many of them do it.
I have to say, you’re pretty naive innocent to the world around you. It’s to be expected that you’re going to bat so hard for people trying to take money from you without verifying their expenses.
*Apparently he reported my comment to have it censored for calling him “naive” rather than present arguments that show us that he’s not.
Right. Stay in your fairyland.
an expensive and cumbersome responsibility
Wait till they see how expensive and cumbersome fighting a war is…
What do you have to say about Ukrainians setting up defenses other than nukes?
Honestly I don’t even care if it’s half as fast as a 4070, that’s fast enough for me.
You’re the one who’s trying to argue its power, and then when presented with a better option you say “it’s fast enough for me.”
Have you seen benchmarks comparing the performance of this iGPU to dGPUs?
Please share.
You’re deluding yourself into thinking this iGPU is more powerful than it actually is.
Have you seen benchmarks comparing it to some of the competition?
For $2000, you and your friends could be getting better hardware.
I’m sorry, this is a product for suckers. Anyone who buys this has more money than sense. It’s just a fact of life.
It’s okay if you don’t realize this now, but hopefully one day you will. It’s alright to be wrong and taken for a ride. We’ve all been there, including me. It’s part of why I’m so keen on identifying bullshit like this now; I’ve seen it before and will continue to see it again.
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There is not a single Mastodon &server out there that have increased donations or reach a sustainable level after they reach a few thousand users.
Are you referring to active users, or just accounts-made? If you’re referring to active users, then can you point to any Mastodon instance with thousands of active users and the donations they receive?
If you’re referring to accounts made, then you don’t really have a point because thousands of accounts are unlikely to substantially increase server costs unless they’re all active (see above).
Also, there are not enough admins around “doing it because they want to” if we want the Fediverse to grow a few millions users.
Are you joking? There’s no “shortage of instances” going around. As more people join the Fediverse, more admins will start instances. This is a non-issue.
In fact, I’d wager the vast majority of instance-owners are bored, twiddling their thumbs due to their lack of users.
Instagram has 2 billion users, Pixelfed largest instance has less than 200k active users. We would have to get 10 THOUSAND admins in order to compete with Instagram.
See above.
I don’t see why you’re being so hostile to him. I also didn’t know this about a livable wage. I didn’t know we were doing studies on it and thought that it actually referred to a subsistence wage.
I would actually usually say I don’t like the term livable wage and think we should say “respectable wage” instead. It looks like they mean the same thing, though.
This is a great question and something we shouldn’t shy away from considering.
As far as hosting a mastodon instance? That’s something that should be done for free with the only income being donations.
These people do it because they want to. It’s not necessarily “work” for them, which is why they do it for free anyways. It’s also sustainable. As more users join their instance, costs for hosting will increase but so should donations. It’s not that expensive to host servers, despite what some conpeople and their useful idiots may have told you. (don’t assume you know the costs of hosting if you’ve never done it yourself.)
Admins get a lot of power that they have no problem abusing, either. This alone would make me a moron for even considering paying them for it.
“Yeah bro, I’m gonna pay you to host your instance where you have absolute control and can censor anything you don’t like.”
This is fun for them. That’s why they do it.
More cooperation is better, but this will have to do in our
retardedstupid society.(it’s okay to say stupid but not retarded, which is retarded.)