Nazis must be so unwelcomed at a bar, they must not be able to walk out.

Modlog says:

reason: not the community for inflammatory comments

I don’t recall your comment being inflammatory tbh ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

Do you think state violence against protestors would be the precursor to civil war or at least an insurgency?

Americans are armed, right? Would state violence be met with silence?

I hope it really is a powder keg. The Greenland situation is really scaring me. I thought it would just be 2 day bullshit Trump ramble. Unfortunately, the story simply isn’t leaving the news cycle. Every day, the trump admin is doubling down on this. Fkin scary man

Here’s the thing imo. Bots used well can be really useful. The most attractive part about Reddit/Lemmy though is the comments. Seeing what people have to say about stuff is quite nice.

BUT. I can see how bots can be super helpful to subscribe to content where community interaction isn’t that important (like art posted by artists on Instagram, Twitter and so on). The main attraction is the art itself. Not the comments.

This way, I can see what my favorite instagram artists are up to without selling my soul to zuck.

I would agree (not an evolutionary biologist). Game theory at the end of the day ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

• I thought all women had balls.
• Testicles act as urine tanks.
• Sex is a procedure done in a hospital, under the supervision of doctors. A couple goes to a hospital to perform sex when they plan on having a baby.
• Penetrative sex involves parting butt cheeks and “dropping the penis in”. This was my first wet dream lmfao, where I was “dropping my dick” in a hot friend. Except, the friend was a boy and so was I.
• Thinking I was straight.

(Clearly, I got access to porn quite late, and sex Ed didn’t exist at school or home)

When I was young, like >7,

I’m sorry, couldn’t help myself… Do you mean <7?

Noted

I’ve seen the following types of people:

• People who ask how to do it, and get amazed.
• People who legitimately are not bothered by ads.
• Who think it to be a “headache”, and to just “let it be”.
• Who are incredibly tech illiterate to the point of frustration.

I used to use brave when I just started becoming privacy aware. Here are the reasons why:

• it’s chromium based. I loved the way chromium based browsers looked, especially when compared to Firefox. They had a comforting feel to them, whereas Firefox had a very “office-ey” feel to it.
• I wasn’t aware of the issues of chromium dominating the market share that it does and how monopolization in this manner can be harmful.
• I wasn’t aware of the people behind brave.
• I had seen older people use Firefox (with the default UI, which I didn’t like). That’s why, I associated Firefox with “old and outdated”. I hadn’t seen anyone use brave, and it looked quite good at the time for me.

Now, I use Mercury, a Firefox fork (ikik, it hasn’t seen an update in a long time, shush). I’ve loaded it up with my custom CSS, so its appearance is exactly the way I like.

The reason to promote Firefox is different. As far I’ve observed people here, Mozilla isn’t viewed in a particularly high regard here. It’s just viewed as the “less bad” option.

Google is an ad company. Targeted ads pay more. Invasion of user privacy is highly necessary for having good targeted ads. Hence, Google simply cannot not invade user privacy.

Mozilla is incompetent, yes. But it’s a non profit with a revenue model very different than that of Google.

Blink has a scarily high share of the market. Google is blink’s curator. This gives Google a scarily large amount of power. That is another reason I’ve seen many cite as a reason to use Firefox.

I’ve never seen anyone dick riding Mozilla.

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Sure, I’ll take a look :)

I think 2023?

• Nothing wrong with a service existing.
• Racist to assume that only people belonging to a certain race use these apps.
• The apps are exploitative, sure. Advocate for better labor regulations here.

This is the equivalent of saying “don’t wanna make your own coffee? Go to Tim Hortons to be served by lower class Indians”. Same message, but with the racism highlighted.

Fr. Imagine a competent, evil politician.

Kde looks unpolished. Always reminds me of windows.

I don’t know why, but gnome is just attractive in a way that makes me want to suck gnome dick

BTC is highly inefficient.

Central banks are good, as they can manipulate interest rates to avoid recessions. This is not possible with BTC.

The USD was tied to gold during the great depression. This fact was one of the biggest reasons why the depression lasted so long. Had the USD not been tied to gold, the depression would have been much shorter.

If BTC becomes the primary method of transaction, be prepared for recessions to be as devastating.

Not European, but here’s a structure that I think would be best (for all currencies, European or not).

Central bank creates a nationalised corporation “National payments processor”. Loans out money to NPP to create a copyleft MasterCard competitor.

NPP’s objectives are to reduce interchange fees, establish sovereignty in this space while keeping transactions secure.

Now, from what I understand, a retailer cannot charge different rates for different payment processors. Meaning, if I am a retailer, I can’t charge more to customers who pay using Amex (who have high interchange fees) compared to those who pay using visa/MasterCard (lower fees).

Meaning, if NPP keeps interchange fees low, the benefit would be passed on to retailers directly. Consumers would see 0 benefit. If consumers see 0 benefit, no one’s going to pay using NPP. This is the case with interac in Canada. Interac payments are better for retailers. But I see 0 cashbacks through my interac card. Why should I not use my visa credit card instead that gives me better cashbacks?

Therefore, here’s what NPP does: it charges marginally less interchange fees compared to visa Mastercard, WHILE passing most of the fees charged to the retailer directly to the consumer as direct cashback.

Consumer adoption happens because of better cashbacks, retailer adoption happens because there are people willing to pay using an NPP card (and also the sliiiightly less interchange fees).

Now, to the organisational structure of NPP. State owned corps are prone to corruption. Accountability structures are top down. If I, the taxpayer owner of NPP am seeing corruption in NPP, I have to threaten my MP with my vote, who has to threaten the PM with their vote, who then has to threaten the finance minister with their job, who then has to threaten the head of the central bank with their job, who then has to threaten the ceo of NPP with their job.

Instead, while the state maintains equity over NPP, the operations of NPP are controlled by a state started consumer cooperative, where member owners are those who own an NPP card. This way, accountability structures are much more direct. The inefficiencies of state owned corps are severely reduced while maintaining the benefits.