And with the exodus of users from Reddit to Lemmy which created a significant base of decentralised online community, we just witnessed history where human beings achieved the next level of freedom of expression free from manipulation by a handful of powerful individuals

Of course we both are speculating without any proof, I am also merely speaking of my gut feeling.

I have been thinking that the rhetoric of saying Putin is weak because Prigozhin was able to momentarily rebel is kind of wishful thinking. I think weak is a pretty strong word.

If Putin is as weak as some of us think he is, Prigozhin would have continued to march towards Moscow already.

At the same time, if Putin is as strong as some of us think he is, his army would have reached Kyiv with a new regime installed already.

Hence the truth should be lying somewhere in between, for now.

I know it's not something many people want to hear because it isn't a polarized statement, for example, it's not as exciting as saying Putin is super strong and can nuke everything, we better bow down to him or Ukraine is super strong and can occupy Moscow tomorrow, let's give them F-35s.

The reality is war is a boring and extremely slow meat grinder. Sometimes you cannot stop it once it's started (because deaths can be remembered for a long time) and sometimes you cannot avoid it (forever appeasement is not far from escalating the situation and empowering the bully which is worse off). I can only wish that Ukraine winning the war can prevent the potential China-Taiwan war from happening.

When new weapons arrive on site, I expect things to change. I wish Ukraine get Crimea back.

If I were Prigozhin, I wouldn't return to Russia after the war. I wouldn't even eat or drink anything in which might have even the slightest chance of having radioactive material.

I know right, I know people make careless grammatical mistakes all the time, including me, which is completely fine but people outright thought that "should of" is correct and use it all the time starts to get annoying

Agree with you wholeheartedly

I perfectly understand "Duy’ou-ndarstend Diz?" but I really would not want to read this over and over again.

Of course, I don't aim to change everyone, you do you. I just want to use the opportunity to say there is a difference between "should have" and "should of".

I'm ok with the Lemmy plain designs.

I'm staying

Same as microwave oven, cell phones and laptops. Human beings freak out about stuff that they don’t understand, it was then thunder that human freak out about, it is now technology that human freak out about.

Thanks for the info about French and Spanish governing bodies. TIL

At uni, went into a washroom, saw a guy sitting on the floor bottomless, holding a cell phone taking self-portrait of his private part. The guy saw me and immediately rushed out of the washroom

Me, I stopped browsing reddit actively unless trying to find an answer on Google.

bots are actually ok if they are not trolls, some are good bots lol

How about we create c/RantUnderAuthoritarianRegime

lol I remember reading this on Quora

I see what you are doing here. But being able to edit title is so convenient, I couldn't live without it.

Maybe add a heads-up notice saying the URL has been specifically edited after some time has passed since post creation? e.g. Two hours?

Or do something like what Twitter is doing now, letting users add specific context on the title notifying people about what changed, even confirming misinformation?

Or always crosscheck the hyperlink in title or body with an open-source malicious site database and flag all malicious sites once and for all?

Partly it's really a social experiment, it may work, it may not work, at least for me, so far so good. I hope to see decentralisation thrive. If it doesn't that means the market decided that it doesn't work, then let it be.

I wish you all the best.

Thanks for the info

Hats off to @[email protected] and @[email protected] !

Isn't "have" either an auxiliary verb or verb and "of" a preposition?

Are these acceptable? If yes, why? If not, why not?

• I of heard that story before.

• Diane of already gone.

• John ofn't phoned, of he?

• I ofn't visited London before.

• Of you seen Roz?

• Of she been invited?

• They still ofn't of any news when I spoke to them yesterday.

I don't know man, Oxford Dictionary (click Grammar Point to expand) says that https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/have_2

A common mistake is to write ‘could of’ instead of could have or could've

I could of told you that.

I could've told you that.

The reason for the mistake is that the pronunciation of ’ve is the same as that of of when it is not stressed. This is a common error but it is definitely considered wrong in standard English.