I was originally gonna say Sigur Ros but that’s already been covered

My shout out goes to Niteworks then, who sadly did their farewell tour last year. One of my favourites:

https://youtu.be/GY7q1DjmsiE

And without fail, every accusation continues to be an admission

The hell are you on about?

Someone who basically just uses their screen to pull up a recipe to make dinner with is not going to have any problems. Similarly for someone who uses it to keep in contact with friends (directly, not via a social network).

Someone who only spends a half hour a day using their phone, but that usage is scrolling on twitter or some bullshit like that? They’re absolutely going to have problems. It only takes a few seconds to read a post and then a shitty idea might lodge itself in their head.

Focusing on just screen time rather than the content on it is expressly not focusing on the root cause, and we’re not going to fix anything if we focus on just the symptoms. It’s like trying to ban hammers because someone is smashing your windows with one. The hammer isn’t really the cause of the problem, and the person doing the smashing will continue a different way if they aren’t stopped.

Why do people focus on the screens and not what’s on the screens? That’s what needs to be regulated

There is no time limit that will render propaganda ineffective

The screen isn’t the problem, it’s the antagonists on the other side

Why are you knocking this?

This is the kind of shit people need to make the argument against it from a position of evidence.

Kinda takes a minute to pull that together. This isn’t a two paragraph blog

The Epstein distraction war

Huh, typically you’d set an instance to scale out, not in when CPU usage spikes

the only stuff that’s really on there is some music, photos, backups. If it gets lost, nothing important really is lost.

Photos are pretty important to a lot of people, I know that’s the most obvious thing on my server that people would miss and not be able to get anywhere else

Wait for the centralised thing to fuck something up (and they will), then say “hey I’ve been using this to get away from all the bullshit of [service name]”

In the mean time, post & comment. The more content & discussion there is, the more attractive it will be to others. If you’ve got a niche hobby you’re passionate about, get a community going or try to grow an existing one if it already exists.

I comment way more on Lemmy than I was doing on Reddit towards the end, partly because the people here are generally good to chat to, but also because I want this place to keep being good so I can continue to keep using it.

So the reason he’s come up with is literally just he thinks he’ll lose?

That’s a very good reason for there to be an election, Donny

California and New York should withhold federal taxes then

Gonna be hard to pay for goons if you’ve got no money

Hm. Secret police. Where have I heard of that before

Nearly a century later, people still bring up how Hugo Boss designed the SS uniform, Fanta was made by coke to sell to the Nazis and Volkswagen was founded by Nazis and used slave labour to build military jeeps and prison transports.

Now, I’m not saying this is directly equivalent to those instances, but a lot of these American organisations think people are going to forget their capitulations quickly.

Why aren’t you guys calling them concentration camps yet?

A man devoid of any actual accomplishment frivolously seeks to be remembered

That’s 270,000 people who were interviewed, trained and had accumulated domain specific knowledge paid for by the tax payer.

He’s bragging about burning your house down

”Your decision to withdraw at the last moment—explicitly in response to the Center’s recent renaming, which honors President Trump’s extraordinary efforts to save this national treasure,” the letter, shared to the Associated Press, reads, “is classic intolerance.”

Lol. Lmao even.

Imagine telling on yourself like this

I mean doesn’t that break the law?

Everything had to be released, I’m pretty sure at the very least, unreleasing what was already released is pretty black & white

I think if you get a smart lock from AliExpress you’re basically inviting someone to rob your house.

Tuya devices are not known for being particularly secure

The chances of a true philanthropist beating out the psychopaths currently at the top of the chain, is basically nil. They will always fight dirtier.

You need to ensure a government can exert power over the largest organisations in its country. If that ever becomes an issue, the organisation might start behaving as a de facto government of its own and start treating the actual government as a vassal.

Basically we need to kick corporatist politicians out of our governments before they finish rolling out the red carpet for the end of democracy, and start chopping up and/or nationalising these proto-megacorps. If only a few control the tools that put us all out of work, we’re not getting anything close to utopia.