Dude spent $44Bil just so he could behave like an insecure reddit mod...

I doubt it's because it's a competing service and it's more likely because it's a .io TLD... which is notorious for being used by phishers, spammers, and scammers unfortunately.

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook_com/forum/all/io-domain-spam-emails-out-of-control/6206daee-e035-4986-8d27-4c7d248a3350

Sadly, the brainwashing has been so effective that those who buy it never noticed that those gaslighting people into believing that no government system (eg, single payer) could ever work are the ones (Republicans) doing their best to ensure that government remains as broken as possible.

More people believe that our system is fucked than those who think this kind of system is normal.

We're just faced with so many hurdles, gerrymandering, red states that exist only because of minority representation have more power over larger population areas (districts by size and not population, electoral college) ... The majority of the country is merely surviving and the apathy sets in. I remind people that voting fascists out is the only way things are going to change and often the response is "Well, I tried that once and it didn't work." So they stop showing up to vote. Or they buy into the 'both sides' BS and post lame memes on Facebook and Reddit.

A lot of us really are painfully aware of how fucked it is.

If Lemmy became popular, what would prevent any three-letter agency from opening a server to get all the user data?

What makes you think they haven't already?

It makes sense if you remember that it's all about dazzling with bullshit to avoid personal responsibility. If you're looking for any logic or consistency, there isn't any. Also, mental illness.

Wait... did you just describe SovCit beliefs... or Religion in general?

Can't kill what is already dead.

The communities are all but gone.

The signal to noise ratio is the worst it's ever been.

Most subs are barely moderated. Actual mod involvement (as opposed to Automod) is low.

Reddit now openly collects and sells user data.

The Reddit we knew is dead and gone.

I'll second Proton. It sucks to have to pay for services again to have something that matches the generous free shit that we got before... but seems those wild west days of the internet, unless you were grandfathered on or have to give up a lot of info in return... are now long gone.

Holy shit... it's a large dot matrix plasma display. Haven't seen one of those in ages.

https://hackaday.io/project/179986-plasma-display-mc6205

That project has pictures that show you how they looked/worked.

"evidence found at neverland ranch" turns up a lot of results, admittedly, with far too much commentary and speculation describing "must have been used for..." rather than what may actually have been the case.

In hindsight...

How it was all reported in the media, commented on... was pretty fucking gross. Especially since the kid who made the allegations admitted to lying.

Nothing was held back on for the court of public opinion. Police statements amounted to "We found creepy dolls that only can be used for grooming..." "He had [this] because [he's definitely that]..." Later on the same police were caught giving adult magazines from the raid to one of the kids they claimed Michael molested... several months AFTER the raid... and then bagged the magazine for fingerprints. The way everything was handled, even if generously... we could admit that Michael was a bit of a kooky freak... the way the raid, reporting on evidence gathering (and apparent manufacturing of it) and prosecution was handled, that part of it seemed straight up corrupt.

There was always a tinge of ick about it all.

At best, Michael was a deeply damaged person who did whatever he could to cope with the loss of his childhood and... we'll never know what truly happened at the Ranch.

next week I’m finally going to get an AMD card and get rid of nvidia for good!

Replaced my 1080Ti with a 6700 XT when it was on sale. Couldn't be happier. All of my wake from suspend issues disappeared.

https://i.imgur.com/qTiPKfP.gif