I’ve been thinking about this often lately as well. These fucking corporations with multiple billions at their disposal, and all they can produce is shit like Windows or macOS? AND it also costs money to use? AND it has ads in it?

Not only do I agree with you, I also want to point out the telemetry whackamole for those who care. (And those who don’t care aren’t going to bother with the whackamole, but their privacy is being violated just the same as those who do care.)

Trump: Hold my beer.

they’ve duplicated the censorship thing that reddit likes to do with defederations

I disagree that defederation is censorship, but no worries, we don’t have to agree! However:

i switched to lemmy.ml since it doesn’t defederate with anybody

https://lemmy.ml/instances

If you switch to the “blocked” tab you’ll see that this is absolutely not true.

One of my primary criteria when I needed to make a new lemmy account (due to problems with my original instance) was to be sure I picked an instance that had pre-emptively defederated from Threads. (as .ml does, but there are a lot more in that list)

This is crazy… misguided, hypocritical, extreme, and unsafe. Etc.

Just like back alley abortions. Both easily avoided by respecting the bodily and reproductive autonomy of women.

It’s gonna be dr oz.

You called it.

Can’t infiltrate the willing.

According to a third party on X

I agree with you and have even more to add -

Even more fun fact - the taxpayer money that will likely eventually be used to rescue this person, potentially saving their life, is an infinitesimal waste compared to so very many other things. I’m not ever going to shame someone or expect them to be billed/prosecuted/etc for their rescue unless they criminally broke the law in order to arrive at that state. (and maybe not even then)

I’m pointing out y’all don’t give a shit when a Dem does it.

And I’m pointing out (among other things) that you don’t know that to be true.

I’m not excusing shit.

OK.

Deep Cut whataboutism

The same people attacking Trump’s picks had no issue with Obama letting Citibank pick all of his people for him.

Really, you know that? Down to the last person? Pretty impressive.

Also - can you remind me when Obama was last in office?

Because it seems to me the time to complain about Obamas picks was when Obama was in office.

How about folks who weren’t even voting age then? Do they also need to STFU about Trump confirming what everyone already knew by making garbage choices for his cabinet based primarily on their likelihood to support his fascist goals? How does the 8 year old Obama whataboutism come into play in that scenario?

Just so we’re clear, that woman (the Baby Got Back woman) is actually the woman from 2LiveCrew’s “Me So Horny”, who is really an audio sample from the movie Full Metal Jacket.

The “Me So Horny” sample was also featured three years later, when Sir Mix-a-Lot included the sample in “Baby Got Back”.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Me_So_Horny#Samples

This is the kind of information that should not be forgotten to the mists of time.

(Just kidding, it’s totally the kind of thing that would be OK to forget, but I wanted to point it out anyway.)

It’s essentially normalized now AFAICT.

with zero actual content.

💯

Remember last time Trump was in power our feeds were full of Republicans behaving poorly in public? (in between the police beating protesters through most of 2020) - looks like we’re going to get that back again now.

TL;DR Trump will face no consequences as expected.

FUUCK. You are almost certainly correct.

Ok ok I’ll acknowledge that you are right. It doesn’t feel like much of a check when gestures around but I’ll grant that you are the best kind of correct.

LOL let’s see something actually get blocked before we conclude that. This is merely a delay.

Interestingly I can no longer see my own comment that you replied to when I click the link for it, though I can see it when I open a private window to it. That’s pretty weird. I checked the modlog and nothing…