Aren’t Mastodon instances maintained by volunteers in their spare time? I can’t imagine how they manage to continue moderating it once there are ten thousand or millions of users on it. At least the moderators on Twitter were paid. It was their job. I think people massively underestimate how much work this is.

What a colossal waste…

Because they are surprisingly comfortable, I actually wear them all the time in the house.

The point is, they are there of their own free will. They want to be lied to. They want to use it to justify their inherent hatred. They are not good people who have been seduced by evil. They are evil. Maybe not all of them but most. You can’t talk with them, you can not convert them back to good.

Or maybe i’m just bitter and frustrated, who knows.

Division is created by choice. The left saw the same news, read the same lies and heard the same bullshit, but we did not became hateful and ignorant racist and mysoginist. The right isn’t the right because the billionaire pushed them that way; they choose to be like that and used the billionairs lies as reason for it. They became that way because they wanted to be that way.

We tried for decades to work with them to make the world a better place for everybody. They don’t give a shit. So why should we?

Fuck them and fuck the billionaires. The left is big enough to kill them both. We just have to do it. Cut the cancer out!

And then you realize far too late that stuff like this is strictly regulated and you forgot to comply with all the standards for product safety and hygiene and the state is going to rip your ass so far open that a truck can make a u-turn it it.

I mean Terminator 1 takes place in 1984. As far a quick search goes, there were no background checks, no assault weapon ban, no waiting period, …etc

Why photon? alexandrite is insanely much better imho: https://a.lemmy.world

Hey thank you, I feel honored!

I just leave one quote here:

According to the Department of Housing and Urban Development, it would cost $20 billion to end homelessness in the United States.

I got 150 hours out it. That seems to be the sweet spot for a solo run before it becomes too repetitive. But of course there are also a few with thousands of hours. And if you play with friends you can get way more out of it i think. Imho it is definitive worth it.

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I thought the idea of cassette futurism is to show fictitious retrofuturistic tech. Specifically how 70s and 80s tech would look like in the (far-) future. and not how the actual tech looked in that time period, no matter how futuristic it looked back then.

What i expected to see was Alien and Blade Runner aesthetics and not GameBoy and Commodore. As it is now, it is simply “pictures of old tech”.

Well kinda. The Mozilla “Project” goes back to 1998. The Mozilla “Foundation” to 2003. As said, Phoenix was released in 2002 and then renamed to Firefox in 2004.

But in that 4 years they worked on the Netscape code to make Phoenix, they were as well funded by AOL, or not?

Is there even a “before”? The very first release of Firefox was in 2004. Google started paying Mozilla in 2004. The only time there was no funding from Google was 2014-2017. In that time Yahoo took over that part.

There was however the 2 year period from 2002 - 2004 when Firefox was still “Phoenix” which was mostly funded by AOL.

To my knowledge, there is not a single moment in the life of Firefox when it has had to get by completely without external funding. And 95% of that time, it was Google.

That reads as if the EU is just sitting on its hands and doing nothing. Please keep in mind that there is significant financial support coming from the EU:

Source: https://www.ifw-kiel.de/topics/war-against-ukraine/ukraine-support-tracker/

Where the EU cannot compete with the US is in the supply of military goods. For the simple reason that these do not exist to the extent that the US has them.

Edit: I have to correct myself in a detail. The graph of course shows Europe not the EU. So it includes e.g. the UK as well. The point still stands though looking on the rest of the data.

https://youtu.be/JG0MxhkQ67w

I’m no american either so no idea. There are quite some things where I as a European can only think either “wtf, how is that legal?” or “wtf, that makes no sense”.

Especially that the president can apparently choose any people with any qualifications (or a complete lack thereof) for any position whatsoever. even if they are completely unsuitable or even completely contrary to the purpose of the position.

A modern democracy should have certain safeguards in place. Or at least some fucking standards and requirements.

has joined key diplomatic calls and even attempted to broker peace with Iran.

I have to stop reading the news here. I can feel the aneurysm growing in my head.

Keep going. They got last year already severals fines for GDPR violations. suming up to 2.26 Billion. Needs moar!