mosiacmango

That’s a pretty good methodology. Threads are still distinct, but all on the same page at least. Hopefully lemmy can implement something similair.

I would reduce the distinctiveness of the threads, personally. Lemmy/reddit/etc commonly have separate subthreads on the topic same page, so its not like it needs to be a prominent feature that each subthread is from a different comm. Note it maybe, but less prominent seems better.

Correct? Those two are indeed separate countries with separate laws.

My explanation of the above was just a general breakdown about how nonprofit and for-profits differ. It was certainly US centric, if that’s your critique.

A lot of human actions are unfalsifiable because we can’t read minds. That why inference about what people say and do is important.

Musks and others nazi salute is just a reference to this behaviour writ large. It’s not the beginning of it at all. Nazi and alt right groups have been doing dog whistles for decades, and the internet has proved a fertile ground for the behavior.

Its fine to not be aware of things like “88” or “14 words” or the like, but they are dog whistle memes used by racists and nazis, the people the mainstream right has been shifting towards for years and years. You very well may have some cultural touchstones that coincidentally use the same memes without that racist context, but when you’re applauding the racists and using the terms at the same time?

Satre has a great quote about how facists dont care about what they say or do, as language is just a game to them:

Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.

Jean-Paul Sartre

This game is wholley embraced by racists, so giving people “the benefit of the doubt” plays right into their game of feigning decroum while ramping up hate.

Again this may be an unfortunate coincidence for the proton CEO, but that does not undermine the overall point that he currently appears steeped in rightwing ideology, and that is not okay for someone claiming to uphold freedom and privacy.

Lastly, Protons past donations are laudable, but plenty of groups had laudable donations before they became vile. Look at google’s past philanthropy as an example, or their since retired “dont be evil” motto. They certainly don’t live up to those standards today, and it looks like Proton is on the same course.

“Hide your power level” mask on behavior from the alt right love to play these plausible deniability games while still signaling their actual intent. You see it with the “my heart goes out to” or “i’m just autisitc” cover for musks nazi salute, or the “he was just waving” Bannon nazi salute. They made a nazi salute, but of course it cant be a nazi salute, wink wink.

I honestly find the 88 to be a faint indicator in this case, but it was a wildly tone deaf one if so. When someone claiming neutrality is making very partisan endorsements for a party that’s steeped in all of the same memetic game playing, you cant ignore the dog whistles.

Huh, I noticed you cherry picked two things to try to refute (interesting that you ignored him hiding “88” in binary and the fact he specifically tagged Trump in that tweet) and ignored all the others I listed. Its almost like you want to spread disinfo about how this is a non issue instead of actually digging into it.

Explain his fandom for J.D vance (a tech millionaire funded by the biggest, most privacy invading, facebook funding, Palentir creating tech billionaire ever, Peter theil) while endlessly criticizing Chuck Schumer, his statement that the GOP “was there for the little guy,” that the GOP was going to take on big tech even while they bent the knee and were donating millions directly to Trump in real time, his use of the term “triggered” to describe offending someone, on and on.

Go on, keep excusing all the clear MAGA “mask on” indicators. Tell us why a CEO in a foreign country, that keeps heaping praise on one party while using their cultural shibboleths, also “coincidentally” used an in-group dog whistle, is actually totally non partisan. That should be easy, right?

“State your ethics and then stand by them” is being hard headed?

When the above is a bar too high for you to reach, that’s a you problem, mate.

I’m well aware of the foundation, and the fact that they have left him on the board with zero consequences or controls.

Stating your ethics and then not enforcing them makes the statement pointless.

Non-profits make profit all the time. The key difference between a for-profit and a non-profit is that a for-profit company takes that money and gives it to its owners, and a non-profit is legally required to reinvest that money in its organization or missions.

Of course, non-profits can also do shitty things like nepo hires with vastly inflated salaries, throw parties and extravagant galas for “fundraising” and spent almost nothing on the charity aspect.

This is why lots of rich fucks setup their own “philanthropy” organizations. They can dump their wealth into tax free and pay themselves and their heirs ungodly sums while paying for villas/jets/etc from the untaxed non-profit.

Sure sure. The guy who unprompted endorsed a trump appointment that has deep US Telco ties, bizarrly said “the GOP is the party for the little guy,” had nothing but wonderful things to say about J.D vance, stated that Chuck Schumer slow rolled 2 internet privacy bills because of “quid pro quo” with his daughters working for big tech, used the phrase “triggered” unprompted, and just randomly added “88” to the end of his new user name.

Yeah, that guy is just neutral and disillusioned with the Democratic party. It’s not utterly clear what spaces and politics he aligns with. That would just be wholley unknowable.

Based on the total lack of description, I thought this was an emulator for the music instrument at first.

That would have been something to see.

George was writing his stories in the 40s, so at least has “product of his time” as an excuse.

Paul’s just a flat out piece of shit to be writing this nearly 100 years later.

Microsoft deprecated powershell ISE in favor of vscode. No new versions of ISE will be released going forward.

Vscode/vscodium is a whole lot better to work powershell in, but it sure ain’t a basic text editor. The days of first party basic text editing are gone on Windows.

So y’all just pissing in cherrios today?

This is a brand new, opt in interoperability tool between 2 small-ish social networks. No shit its not heavily used yet. People who are using it can ask their friends to bridge, which will bring growth over time, just like any social networking experience.

What exactly are you complaining about? That someone else did something cool you don’t care about? That other people may enjoy something you don’t?

Interoperability removes power from closed gardens. It makes the platform itself way less relevant.

“Bending over backwards” is how you undermine bluesky in favor of mastadon. We should 100% be doing it as much as possible.