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[Facebook federation megathread] Downvote this post if you want lemm.ee to federate with Threads. (Updated)

Staying as far away from Meta has been my goal since leaving Facebook 8 years ago. I really like this instance, it meets all of my needs for my Reddit replacement.

I don’t see a reason to federate with a corporation unless they were able to deliver something I’m not currently getting and their corporate support would greatly improve performance/sustainability for this instance. But based on previous experience, a company entering a space usually makes it worse.

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Wendy Rogers may have violated Arizona’s ‘revenge porn’ law by tweeting x-rated pictures of Hunter Biden

So Hunter has his leaked nudes removed from Twitter. Conservatives saw this as an opportunity to claim a larger coverup. When nothing came to light and Hunter was found guilty of a few other charges they have resorted to literally just posting his leaked nudes.

I’m sorry but if this isn’t just one of the more revealing things about the GOP, I don’t know what is. Make something very normal and done by many people, including members of the GOP, and manipulate the facts to fit a narrative. Push that narrative to the extreme until Fox News reports it as FACT. Hope that wins a few votes in whatever upcoming election. When the initial info is revealed to be bullshit, the plan did its job.

Why post the nudes photos? Because some GOP didn’t get the hint that this was just political propaganda and are following through. The same reason Comet Pizza has been threatened with gun violence.

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Those who tried Linux and went back to Windows, what caused you to go back to Windows?

The best thing about Windows is that if there is something you want to do, either there is a detailed guide online for the specific issue or someone went a step further and created a simple tool to accomplish that task. Windows is stable/reliable/accessible.

To run Linux it would need to be just as easy to install, be as compatible with games as Windows, and not have to involve deep dives into Linux user forums to accomplish basic stuff.

With the main intention of Linux, outside of just not supporting Apple or Microsoft, is to be able to customize your OS experience. I don’t have time/patience/desire to do that. I want my computer to be there ready to open a game launcher and launch that game without issue. That is true about Windows 99.8% of the time, I have not had that same experience with Linux.

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Mississippi AG Wants Info On Out-of-State Abortions, Gender-Affirming Care

I never understood states rights and how separating our country into 50 different little countries is a good thing. It puts states at odds and forces the US Judicial system into having to decide. Putting the law deciding back into the hands of the federal government.

Isn’t the whole point that if someone doesn’t agree with the laws of the state they reside they can go to a state that does? It would seem needing to find out who gets an abortion or gender-affirming outside of your state is nobody’s worry. Those people are doing the exact thing conservatives want.

Does Mississippi plan on charging people in other states of committing a crime? Is it to make sure a Mississippi resident doesn’t cross a state border? If so, why? What intentions would the state of Mississippi have with this info if not to prosecute?

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Minnesota GOP out of cash

Depress the wages of the working class for the last 50 years. Suck your wealthy donors dry. Wonder why nobody has money to support your campaign.

Hard to sell the conservative agenda in a state that is pro-LGBTQ and pro-choice when those are the pillars of the current GOP.

People want a decent paying job with decent healthcare and a way to afford the cost of living. None of those things are compatible with conservative values.

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Do you guys believe in other super natural thingy?

There seems to be significant crossover between people who believe in religion and the supernatural/conspiracy. The simple belief in a higher power of any kind is already requiring a person to use belief instead of fact.

The few people I know who were religious as young people and turned atheist tend to also not believe in other supernatural or conspiracy nonsense. This is, likely, due to the similar qualities it takes to believe in god are also required to believe in aliens or ghosts or Bigfoot.

Watching the UFO subreddit (when I used Reddit) convince themselves they are looking at a UFO that is clearly a balloon being filmed from a plane moving at 400 MPH is so silly. But as silly as people believing in god. At least IMO.

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What's the point of buying new phones every years?

There are people that like new things, there are people who prefer older things. I am willing to spend money on a new phone every 2 years because it is my main computing device. I, also, don’t miss a lot of things of older phones. I never used as SD card, I never replaced a battery, and I haven’t used wired headphones in a decade.

I like my iPhone 14, the LiDAR gives me a ton of cool applications, the camera takes the best photos I’ve ever taken before, it will be kept updated for the next 5 years and the always-on screen is very useful for unlock-free info.

If you trade-in a fairly new phone, you can heavily discount a new phone purchase as well. It’s more like leasing a car vs owning a car. Pay for the time you use the phone, return it while it still has value in the 2nd hand market and get a fresh phone.

On the other hand, my brother sticks his phone in his pocket all day and doesn’t look at it at home. He bought an iPhone SE a few years ago and it just works. He would argue buying a new phone is silly as well. But we use our phones very differently and so our purchase habits will be different.

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How to shave a hairy ass?

I’m not going to search it out as I don’t want to screw up my YT algo. But there are educational/instructional videos that show everything right on YouTube. Seriously. These type of videos are probably on PornHub or whatever as well.

One guy shows both shaving and nair removal of butthole hairs. And he shows you his butthole and the entire process in vivid HD detail. Make sure you use the proper nair, there are varieties specified for “bikini area”

The top community is happy for your future smooth butthole.

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How did posting online change from, "Be careful what you put online!" to many sharing a lot under real names?

The truth is that this overexposure on the internet hasn’t caused much more harm than before social media. Most people, not all, but a majority have zero bad intentions. So sharing details about yourself to a mass audience is screaming in the void. Nobody cared about your life before it was on the internet, nobody cares now. Social media companies selling your data is for a shitty reason but not an unethical one. They just want to sell you stuff and they are salesmen that know everything about you.

On the other side, people who want to do bad things can and will regardless of details about someone on the internet. Stranger danger is a fallacy and the person who can/might victimize you is someone you already know. Sure, maybe it saves time, but it doesn’t really change victimization. People can stalk someone in real life, can steal their mail, can social engineer the people around their victim, it’s just a bit easier when a lot of it can be done by befriending someone on social media.

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Another bus of migrants from Texas arrives in Los Angeles

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Who represents the “real” conservatives/Republicans? It would seem any state with Republican control is aiming for similar anti-immigration policies. If everyone is doing it, then it becomes the standard. If nobody from the party can speak out against it, it becomes the standard. When the conservative majority Supreme Court instills conservative policy despite public opposition, it becomes the standard.

How would shipping immigrants across state borders unannounced ever be a way to help people? And it has been many buses, are we forgetting the last few years of Florida sending people to progressive states? It might be publicity stunts, but hundreds of people getting shipped around the country based on false information and left sitting out to dry only says “conservatives think immigrants are less than human and can be shipped around like cattle”

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I really wish the US would do something about the dying mall spaces. In the failing commercial real estate market they are just being left to rot away.

Turn them into small communities. Build housing within or above the mall space, develop the space into a walkable city of sorts. One of the things preventing comfortable walkable neighborhoods in my area is the 6 months of winter. Creating that with the indoor mall, similar to the intent of the mall, would really make them useful.

That or just waste 100,000 sq ft of covered and climate controlled space while the housing market continues to skyrocket. Every new apartment being build around me, and seemingly everywhere, are that 5 on 1 design. Retail spaces on the first floor, apartments above. A dying mall lends itself to that style of living with an opportunity to create a really large and vibrant indoor park space.