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How is lemmyworld so stable?
Looks like the guy who runs it runs a lot of fediverse servers, I guess he knows what he's doing: https://lemmy.world/u/ruud
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How is lemmyworld so stable?
Looks like the guy who runs it runs a lot of fediverse servers, I guess he knows what he's doing: https://lemmy.world/u/ruud
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Lemmy and Mastodon feel like the real web3.
It's nice to have this space to retreat to. Even if it doesn't outcompete the corporate web anytime soon, the existence of another option will constrain how bad they can get a bit, and will create a place for refugees to go after each new outrage. And it's not like the core functionality of any of the corporate sites was that complicated underneath all the bloat, after people have been on here working out the kinks for a while there's no reason it should be any less convenient of an experience.
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AOC says her life 'completely transformed' for the better after Pelosi stepped down from leadership
"I thought things would get worse," Ocasio-Cortez wrote in another text cited in the book. "I thought a lot of my misery was due to leadership more broadly having a thing against me. But … my life has completely transformed. It's crazy. And it's that that made me realise it was kind of just [Pelosi] the whole time."
"Senior members talk to me, [committee] chairs are nice to me, people want to work together," the congresswoman added. "I'm shocked. I couldn't even get floor time before."
Very interesting. Like AOC, I thought that she'd be in trouble under Jeffries, who has a reputation in NYC as someone who is really confrontational with the left, whereas Pelosi is seen as at least sort of progressive. I wonder if the difference has something to do with age - Pelosi is probably more progressive for her age cohort than Jeffries is for his, but she's just so ancient.
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Pornhub Sues Texas Over Age Verification Law
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I think there's a lot of vague support for keeping porn away from children that evaporates in the context of the actual issue at hand where porn sites are being mandated to collect and store the IDs of every visitor.
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Pornhub Sues Texas Over Age Verification Law
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Ironically it would be so much easier to do that if they actually implemented the law they're suing over, which demands they record the ID of everyone who uses the site.
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Elon Musk Wants to Relive His Start-Up Days. He’s Repeating the Same Mistakes.
This article came out in February and seems to have been pretty dead on, down to Musk reviving the ridiculous x.com branding.
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Unremoval of Piracy Communities
Hey that's great, good job! I'm so unused to any disappointing decision being reversed, this really is an amazing site.
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The best case scenario is that Trump really was such a moron as to believe Putin wanted peace and now feels betrayed and does a 180 on Ukraine policy. Much more likely he will stay the course on screwing Ukraine.
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The New York Times tried to block the Internet Archive: another reason to value the latter
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I assumed the piracy sub would be a safe space for this sort of thing
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Google workers complain bosses are 'inept' and 'glassy-eyed'
This is why companies should be run by their workers. Even places that start out with a good culture get taken over by the business school blob whose only job is to get promoted and loot the company.
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Elon Musk hosted an ‘anti-Biden’ dinner party. Here’s who attended
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Yeah it was a pretty dumb business move by Elon to become such a loud right-wing shithead when his core demographic of customers are people who are concerned about climate change.
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Biden administration asserts power to seize drug patents in move to slash high prices
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I think that's more the media's fault than the administration's.
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Killing the Middlemen in the Rideshare Industry
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Yeah exactly - the proposal here is to have a driver-owned worker cooperative run the app.
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If Lemmy became popular, what would prevent any three-letter agency from opening a server to get all the user data?
This is a public facing site, none of that data is secret.
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What is something that people think is dangerous but in reality is completely harmless?
Swimming around in a spent nuclear fuel pool: https://what-if.xkcd.com/29/
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Apple forced to ditch iPhone lightning charger
Good job EU, screw you Apple
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‘Antiwar’ MAGAs Are Suddenly Hawks Again on Attacking Gaza
The key to understanding it is they're pro-war, and in Ukraine pro-war means supporting the Russian invasion.
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Trump Says America Is Over 'As We Know It' if He Can't Do Crimes While in Office
If accountability for the powerful means the end of America as we know it I'm excited for the new America that we're about to meet.
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China Installed More Solar Panels Last Year Than the U.S. Has in Total
Fantastic. Remember guys, we're all on the same side on this one. This should be a signal for the US to get its ass in gear to do the same, but it's not like China expanding its renewable energy capacity is anything but great for everyone.
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Why are Democrats tarred as elites when the world’s richest man funds Trump?
Because rich Republicans also own the media.