OK. Take away the plea deal and put him in jail for a couple decades. Insurrectionist asshole.

Jesus christ. They aren't going closed source. It's like all these people are new to Linux and don't understand the GPL, nor the politics behind the license.

In the past, when there was a much higher tax on high income earners, instead of paying more in taxes, they would spread the wealth a little more equitably. This was true in Hollywood, in corporations, hell, in working service industry jobs. There were still rich, but so were others. In the past 40 years, we have been experiencing the greatest wealth transfer (over $50 fucking trillion ) from the working class to the 1% ever. And it's poised to get worse. Anyone who doesn't support unions and a strongly progressive tax is either ignorant of the history of the US, or an asshole. There is no in between.

The Republican party has led the initial charge, with a series of claims about extraterrestrial life that, until recently, would have been seen as career-ending.

LOL, more distraction from one party's inability to do their freaking job. It's funny that 1) alien visitors cross unfathomable distances using what must be technology far, far, in advance of anything we have, yet "crash" and 2) These "crashes" only happen in the US, or the US quickly swoops in to take all evidence of this from foreign countries.

tl;dr Americans are so self-centered and narcissistic it's painful at times.

On one hand, I really wish there was a RES add-on for Lemmy. Just so I could filter out the cascade of posts about reddit. I left the site and don't give a shit if it burns or not. On the other hand, this is pretty funny to read about.

The minimum wage is a complete joke. Tie it to median rental prices of the area. Tie it to inflation at the very least (after adjusting for the past decades of inflation). Tax capital and not labor. There is a lot that could be done, but we keep voting these geriatric vampires to DC and they can't seem to give a shit about most of the country.

I did the "change all my past posts to 'Fuck Spez and Reddit'" then delete my account thing today. I'm done with reddit. Maybe this here will work out for me, if not, whatever. I'm not going back to reddit.

I thought it was kind of funky at first. But I do like the idea that if one of them turns into some reddit-like hellhole, there will most likely be something similar on another instance. It doesn't take much to subscribe to multiple similar subs.

I don't know what the hell is going on in the minds of people like you. There is a fucking ton of data documenting unvaxxed idiots dying at a much higher rate than vaccinated idiots. It's like talking to flat earthers or something.

I was so hoping that crap like this, FAFO, and the other weak sauce bullshit wouldn't make it over here. I was stupid for even hoping that.

I get where you are coming from, but there was a lot of coverage of that event back in May.

Also, billionaires should not exist.

Nope. Death is a possible sentence for treason (while no less than 10 years in jail at a minimum). Insurrection sentencing is not more than 10 years and a fine.

So protesting intolerance is "no better" than promoting intolerance. Got it. Both side, blah blah, or something.

Free for all social sites just become overwhelmed by alt-right fascists.

I don't know, I remember hearing that everything would soon be IPV6 a couple decades ago.

When I was a kid (late teens) I read a Henry Miller book that had a line something like,"Do exactly what they tell you to do, and let them live to regret it." Just made me appreciate malicious compliance for most of my working life.

The first time I was at St Marks Square some Euro dude stripped to his underwear and started sunbathing. Police showed up and told him to put clothes on.

It's gross, but not surprising. Fox is just being Fox while its drooling, struggled to pass the GED, sycophants just drink it up.

Trump and his legal team spent the afternoon before his arraignment interviewing potential lawyers but the interviews did not result in any joining the team in time for Trump’s initial court appearance scheduled for 3pm ET on Tuesday after several attorneys declined to take him as a client.

Haha, what a mickey mouse operation that idiot runs. Trying to pick up another attorney the freaking day before his arraignment.

I was never a twitter user, but from the headlines I've seen it makes me think that Musk has some slimy back deal that will pay him off somehow if he torpedoes the site.