Well, just tell us one.

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It’s one fucking CEO. Give him seven years. Suspended sentence.

And none of them are internally consistent. People choose which parts to give priority to.

You could watch Star Wars and come away thinking fascism is a great way to bring about order as long as there are no meddling space wizards, but that’s not the point of it.

There was a guy that dated a girl I had a crush on all through high school. We later became friends and hung out almost constantly for a couple of years. We drifted way apart later, but for a time we were pretty tight and had some great times.

I also hate-fucked a (different) girl who really hurt me in high school. I carried that resentment around for almost twenty years. Not constantly, of course, but my memories of that time were always tainted. Anyway we connected on Facebook as she was divorcing. After a few weeks, hate-fucking became angry-fucking and the rest is history. Eventually we married and now we have two kids together, plus three from her first marriage.

Wow… I spend exactly zero thought on Reddit. Someone is big mad, and I give no shits.

We 100% don’t agree on everything, and I don’t know how unified we can be given the number of diverse interests under the umbrella. Feminists don’t have any natural overlap with folks who want to eliminate cars or with atheists. The only unifying goal that makes proponents allies is opposing conservatives.

You’ve got black folks who are going to live their entire lives oppressed by systemic racism being told to just go along with getting rights excruciatingly slowly and trust their grandkids will have it great.

I’m afraid as much sense as your point makes, it isn’t realistic.

Lemmy is definitely not that. It’s an echo chamber like any other. Ideas that mollify or agree with the zeitgeist are promoted regardless of merit.

My understanding from following the issue is they are just going to be removed from app stores. Desktop use isn’t much and an ISP block would be thwarted by a VPN which are cheap and ubiquitous.

That said, take my words with a grain of salt. I’m not a primary source.

Inability to reinstall when a phone is broken or replaced will send it on a slow death spiral if all they do is remove it from the stores. Or in Android’s case I guess this could drive users into adopting other app stores.

I think they will literally delete the app from our phones if they have that capability.

TikTok users aren’t going to Bluesky, they’ll go to IG. Perhaps Reels, but I doubt it

X is loosing users to Bluesky, but much more slowly than right after the election. Engagement is much higher per follower there and everyone I’ve seen has been happy to move but I also think it’s about a critical mass of big accounts moving over and bringing their followers. A lot of left wing journalists are there. A lot of news has broken there before X, but I actually learned about Mangione’s arrest here on Lemmy first.

I think Bluesky has potential, I joined after the election when it was gaining attention (deleted my Twitter account long ago) and it was around 18M users. It gained another 3 million rapid fire, but now I think it just hit 24 or 25M. So the X-odus could use another kick in the pants.

I don’t necessarily like huge social networks, but I’m voting for it to kill X.

I think there are a lot of progressives, but I think not enough of them live in swing states. I’m one, and I know there are some around in the college crowd. When Michigan went blue trifecta in 2022, I thought the pendulum was swinging, but now it looks like I was wrong.

This guy might be an asshole, but I’m not certain that he’s wrong.

This is our interns last week as a dev intern for a big car maker. Bright kid. Had good ideas and in a private candid conversations he had identified many of the same problems with our team (I’m new, too).

I didn’t ask salary, but I’m sure he is getting paid, and I’m sure he has a bright future once he speaks up a bit more and takes more initiative (as an intern, it’s no surprise he was there to listen and learn, not act like the expert).

That’s just my long way of saying lots of big companies have IT interns, not just IT companies.

Yet, if Trump said it live in front of cameras, it would be “a joke.”

Shhhhh… they are trying to create a narrative! You can’t just go contradicting them like that!

UBI only exists to solve a problem of capitalism […] moves it from the rich to the poor.

I’m not sure I agree that UBI is the best way to solve this, but we are in agreement about the massive flaw in capitalism. When the richest man extracts the final dollar from his rival, capitalism is over. Money has no meaning because no one has any except for that one guy. That’s an impossible extreme, but it demonstrates the fundamental flaw that without money circulating, there is no economy.

Putting money into the hands of the poor stimulates the economy. It gives them some ability to participate beyond the simple need for shelter and sustenance. Anyone with no discretionary income has no role other than demand for basic necessities (that’s not intended as an insult, that’s the reality of a wealth-based society)

That being said, handing money out to everyone has an inflationary effect, so there would have to be some thought put into countering that. And I guarantee payday loan places would find a way to keep the poor impoverished.

Anyway yours was a good comment I thought I’d piggyback into. There are flaws with UBI, but unfettered capitalism is unsustainable and it certainly one way to address the issue.

Too late in my case. I don’t even have a Windows partition any more on my desktop. Haven’t for over a year.

You mean like we’ve suddenly achieved lower denial rates or single-payer healthcare? Nothing so grand, but people are talking and both sides of the political spectrum have found a semblance of unity over this—which is probably the biggest thing they don’t want to see, is people taking their eyes off the culture war and noticing the class war.

I’m with you there.

I think this is about as likely as other conspiracy theories: not at all.

We’re going to find out that he’s just a guy. Which is disheartening when we imagine someone coming along and saving us and setting right all the wrongs.

But also he’s just a guy. I’m not saying killing is the way forward, but he inspires the belief that we can change the world ourselves. We don’t just live in a world controlled by the rich or shadowy conspiracies; we live in a world where we can have an impact.