why am I not surprised that a ml user would try to “center wash” a party that’s supported by national conservatives (aka white christofascists).

and they gained the liquidity for those investments how?

you mean the long trusted VPN that has now been found funding fascists?

You can’t sell privacy in this world.

but it can be bought.

guess what.

it’s

just one?

call me when you find out how many have lists.

I wanted to build an entire social network that was based on that a decade ago.

the globe would be segmented into “tiles” and you could see activity in that tile. each user would have their own smaller tile that would be used to gather posts within their bounds, so in essence you could see a customized view if you were between 2-6 other tiles.

I wanted to go further and allow paid services to post information across multiple tiles. for example, if you had a product and wanted to target the whole world, you’d have to pay the fee for each tile in the entire world. of course you could still filter them out and such.

businesses could purchase their own tile where you could see things like how busy they are, menus, reviews, etc. this was particularly interesting for places like art museums where I wanted users to be able to see more information about displays and be able to have discussions about them within the community.

I had high hopes for it.

and then trump won his first term and I stopped working on it because I lost all motivation.

edit: tbh, lemmy and federation social networks in general have given me some small motivation but nothing more than thinking about how awesome it would have been. I would have been done with it by now if I had continued.

Holy shit! Is there nowhere this far right about ISN’T surging?

Russian and Chinese interference.

What is wrong with people?

Social media mostly, but the brainrot is so endemic at this point it’s self-sustaining.

your argument is disingenuous.

you’re blurring the lines between livestock and crop farming when I made it perfectly clear they are independent of each other.

so the millions of gallons of water used to grow the plants, the millions of tons of fertilizer washed away in that water, the millions of acres of forest land cut down to grow the crops don’t matter.

huh, learn something new every day. industrialized crops are good for the planet!

industrialized farming is killing the planet just as much as industrialized meat.

don’t forget the children’s hospitals, Russia sure didn’t.

it’s almost as if humans are petty power-hungry little bastards.

styropyro even made some with a high powered laser.

sounds like a great opportunity to inject attack through a comment.

well, at some point, everything is a crab.

so I would assume pretty similar.

great question though.

its a place where you can get prepackaged malware that runs on your linux install half as well as if it was running natively.

no, I’m making a reference to a shitpost that was made earlier this week where it brought attention to bestiality laws in conjunction with animal husbandry/breeding on farms.

the original image was a repost of a repost where someone made a catty comment about vegans.

the uproar was immense and caused the post to spill over to vegan communities where they clutched their pearls at the commentary that wasn’t even made by anyone on Lemmy and proceeded to raid the shitpost community.

the comments were a disaster and the entire thread was quickly overrun by veganistic puritans who just wanted a flame war.

it was honestly the most hilarious thing I ever saw on here.

post looks to be deleted now though.