Yeah, it was a surprising-shouldn’t-be-surprising situation, seeing them all walk around with planks in their eyes with their faces eaten off, jeering at the flecks in the eyes of others with their faces eaten off. They don’t like threats to the delusions they identify with. Classic social-dominance groupthink stuff.

I hope they enjoy their flavour of totalitarianism. /s

Troubling, given how much the put-up-or-hack-up users-are-developers ethos having slipped as more and more come in enjoying the convenience wrapping, with their consumer mentality.

That is amusing if BSD do that. Being from there.

having to face lower quality arguments without nuance along with trolling or having to face low interaction rates, or ridiculous beehive charades of argument chains too surreal to seem real,

Yep. And at times, that and worse from mods.

As per the

all the “bad diversity” has been removed

effect.

Gate-keeping. Groupthink of the mods.

Though, lets remember, this is still the fediverse. It’s not a monolith where the mods are the mods. Mods some communities are worse, some are better, and we can always start our own communities and host our own instances.

Robust enough against lemmy being “dead”, like @goat@sh.itjust.works said.

For over 17 years or so, I’ve envisioned a laptop (and, later, also SBC) design where the entire sides are jam packed with usb ports.

Your hate reinvigorates this idea, knowing other people also hate the shortage of usb ports on laptop designs.

Keyboard, mouse, wacom tablet, external hard drive, another external hard drive thing, plasma lighter charger, … Yup, that’s what I have here… already got that many, before needing more space for pendrives.

Though, I use a single 1-6(or more) expander hub. I’m sensible like that.

Not to the point of post/reply removal nor banning, yet. But I get that vibe. At least enough to offer the plausibility. As may fit your example experience.

Or plausibly even autistic themselves, with CPTSD, and the resultant black&white overly reductive reflexive “thinking”, contrary to the “a place for undogmatic”.

Red Dwarf may be prophetic, and all the old formats will come back. Old formats, as in older than CD/DVD.

And the floppies may even get big, really big, for the really important stuff, to help make sure we don’t lose it.

Them being armed will make it a lot more thrilling when you persist in asking them under what conditions are you lawfully obligated to comply.

That’s the old blurb, they changed it a little while ago.

How little a while ago?

*refreshes page again*

Still says

An international (English speaking) socialist Lemmy community free of “ML” (read: Dengist) influence.

looking at it from here.

Reminds of The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR)'s, Article 4, basically undermining all 30 (even number 30 itself) of The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), allowing states to “derogate” any of the articles of human rights for an emergency. [¹]

… Like they never encountered the thought (… or… it was their intent…) that if you tell governments they’re allowed more power over people and free to commit what would otherwise be crimes, for an emergency, then they will create emergencies to access those powers and to relinquish their duty to uphold human rights and their duty of care.

[¹][Did have to search for that… thought it was one of the UDHR articles themselves that had that derogation bit.]

Works with several other flags too.

War is good for business?

Yep.

Plenty bad reasons though.

Mostly around abuse of the vulnerable, data-mining, advertising/marketing/psyops/publicrelations, pedophilia, pedovoria, disempowerment, indoctrination, dumbing-down, wealth extraction maximisation, profiling, voter suppression, gerrymandering, insurance scams, etc.

Still struggling to conceive of even a single good reason…

… So it helps us detect the crooked politicians who would vote for such a thing?

If only all those agents hadn’t told us to not use the political compass, we might be less lost now. :3

Ahhh. Neo-liberal.

Gotta love that Orwellian marketing.

Neo-liberal. Neither new (neo), nor liberal.

Basically, same old fascist.

Yup.

Welcome to newspeak, USA-flavor.

Still drinking hair of the dog to nurse the McCarthyian redscare hangover.

Layers deep into the newspeak. Liberal, conservative, democrat… all these terms already many contortions and inversions distanced from original meaning. Soon, even “him”, “he” and “himself” too. Then even “is” and “not”, and then the CIA’s work will be done.

Armed thugs of the state break into every home, and install their bigbrotherware operating system, and kill anyone who flinches like they might be committing any acts of dissidence. There we go. Everybody happy. And of course, you wont own the software. You’ll be renting it. Like everything else. Own nothing, be happy. Maybe they care. :/

I wonder if that “this distro is not allowed in California” approach is even compatible with the various free software licenses.