Make sure you follow davel’s links where he is absolutely sure that no one Russian is doing propaganda anywhere else on the internet or had anything to do with getting Trump elected. He can tell you all about it.

Also, it has nothing to do with anything, but randomly looking at this community reminded me: There is actually a fair question in one sense about whether what China is doing to the Uyghurs can be considered genocide. The reason? Well, they are sterilizing people, forcing abortions, separating children from their parents, destroying religious sites, forcibly “re-educating” people into an different culture than their native one, and otherwise fulfilling a lot of the components of genocide. But, they also do the exact same things to people of every ethnicity under their control including Han Chinese. So a person wouldn’t be totally off their rocker to say “Sure, for any other country in the world that would be explicit genocide meeting several key criteria, but in China’s case it has literally nothing to do with the ethnicity, they just like human rights violations! And they’re applying them impartially.”

I have not had the chance to raise this with one of the pro-China tankies, but if it ever comes up I will report the results.

Are you saying I was being silly?

You might be onto something

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This is screaming for someone to ham it up with some new signs. I would be pretty surprised if no one’s done it inside a week.

They wouldn’t have to be at the White House, although that would also be entertaining. It could just be the same format and posted literally anywhere.

A shelf + brackets will cost maybe $2 at Home Depot. You could (if you wanted) literally just have the shelf a foot off the floor, still under the table. Use drywall anchors.

Okay, so way back when, Google needed a way to install and administer 500 new instances of whatever web service they had going on without it being a nightmare. So they made a little tool to make it easier to spin up random new stuff easily and scriptably.

So then the whole rest of the world said “Hey Google’s doing that and they’re super smart, we should do that too.” So they did. They made Docker, and for some reason that involved Y Combinator giving someone millions of dollars for reasons I don’t really understand.

So anyway, once Docker existed, nobody except Google and maybe like 50 other tech companies actually needed to do anything that it was useful for (and 48 out of those 50 are too addled by layoffs and nepotism to actually use Borg / K8s/ Docker (don’t worry they’re all the the same thing) for its intended purpose.) They just use it so their tech leads can have conversations at conferences and lunches where they make it out like anyone who’s not using Docker must be an idiot, which is the primary purpose for technology as far as they’re concerned.

But anyway in the meantime a bunch of FOSS software authors said “Hey this is pretty convenient, if I put a setup script inside a Dockerfile I can literally put whatever crazy bullshit I want into it, like 20 times more than even the most certifiably insane person would ever put up with in a list of setup instructions, and also I can pull in 50 gigs of dependencies if I want to of which 2,421 have critical security vulnerabilities and no one will see because they’ll just hit the button and make it go.”

And so now everyone uses Docker and it’s a pain in the ass to make any edits to the configuration or setup and it’s all in this weird virtualized box, and the “from scratch” instructions are usually out of date.

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As is often the case, the behavior they are telling you you MUST not do, and they will NOT stand for and you definitely will suffer for it, is what they’re afraid of.

At some point the public opinion will hit critical mass at the street and individual level. Maybe (and maybe not). There is a reason they always want to get out of the area as soon as possible, and have stopped wearing identifiable uniforms.

I have no idea whether a group of ICE agents getting mobbed by an angry crowd that outnumbers them 20-to-1 will be a good thing or a bad thing, if things do reach a point where that happens. I legitimately don’t know. It’s definitely better than no one doing anything until they’ve escalated to filling up all these detention centers they’ve been building with people who mentioned “protest” on Facebook. Also, certainly, them threatening retaliation against people who are showing signs in that direction is a real and dangerous threat.

I’m just saying there is a reason they are calling out judges and bystanders as the threat that they MUST shut down. It’s because it is by far the most easy and reliable undoing to their power. It means a lot more than the Supreme Court, honestly, at the end of the day.

I had to do a little double-take and remind myself not to downvote. This is one of the most reprehensible things I’ve ever seen.

Yeah, my funding’s been all in disarray since the Trump cutbacks started. I’ve had to start a whole proxy war in Nicaragua to self-fund the whole thing and it’s been a huge pain in the ass, let me tell you.

Maybe you could stay out of Canada, if you have no awareness of the BS people like you submit us to.

I know when I talk with Canadians about stuff like “Trump is a dope why is he doing this”, they always start ranting about China and Russia and traitors and theft and hate. It’s a perfectly normal thing to do, and I’m the weird one here. Truly.

I want to start asking you about the slrpnk admins again. Why did you want to involve yourself in standard fare Lemmy drama and why, the only time you got coherent and started trying to make some sense, was it on behalf of one of their strange moderation decisions? Why was that what motivated you to step out of low-effort-chaos land? As far as I can tell, almost literally every other thing you say is this type of schizophrenic nonsense. You’ll start talking about electric vehicles and within one sentence you’re yelling about the US proxy war on Russia and Mexican state sponsored terrorism and Yemen. But the slrpnk moderation drama was a super weird outlier, as minor as it was, and I’m still curious about why that was.

At my mom’s funeral, a woman I had never seen before got up to speak.

Her son was one of my mom’s clients. He’d just been diagnosed with autism as a toddler, and doctors had told her stuff a lot like this: That he would never hug her, never have a normal life. When she came to see my mom to get started with his therapy she was absolutely distraught and desperate. She said my mom snapped her back to reality by cutting her off when she was saying what the doctors had told her. My mom basically just scoffed and said “They don’t know.”

And with that, it was dismissed.

Everybody’s different. Her son is fine. She had him stand up at the funeral, mortified obviously, because she was super proud of how well he was doing. She talked with pure joy about how well he was doing in school, in life, just kind of being a slightly neurodivergent normal kid.

I’m not saying this just to emphasize how awesome my mom was, although she was, but just to reinforce what you already know: “They” have no idea, and this kind of thinking that they do is absolutely counter to the way that human life and human development actually works.

In fact, in all corners of human history that I’m aware of, this kind of ruthless “practicality” has been associated with nations and movements that don’t last very long. It’s not practical or effective. In fact, on both a societal and a personal level, the obsession with finding people who can be labeled as inferior is usually a sign that someone’s not very superior, which is why they are constantly doing that, and they know it.

I was interested because it made sense, then a little bit confused about somehow bringing China into it, then I read “Russia” “ Traitorous lying filth” and so on and went back and read the username and it all clicked into place.

Never change buddy. I have no idea how you’ve kept this account going for this long but I’m planning to report this comment.

I’m not sure this is actually necessary. I found that a single post of a moderately-interesting community to !newcommunities@lemmy.world wound up federating my stuff to all the main instances instantly.

I get the concept, and maybe depending on the details of the network it might be needed (it might be a good approach on Mastodon for example, which has a much harder chicken-and-egg problem in terms of getting your stuff federated). I’m not sure it’s doing any active harm or anything. But at the same time I do feel like importing this kind of “not enough people are seeing my stuff how can I make sure as many people as possible see my stuff” tools over from the SEO marketer’s toolkit might be a bad habit or pattern to get into.

1. Put up genuinely interesting stuff on the community, at least 1-2 times per day so it has a little flow of activity.
2. Once there are a screen’s full of posts or so, post the new community on !newcommunities@lemmy.world and !communitypromo@lemmy.ca. People will see the thing and subscribe to it from everywhere (if they are interested) and it will get federated to most of the main servers.
3. As the activity continues, people may decide to post stuff of their own there, and other people will run across it either from the “local all” feed of your instance or from the “global all” feed somewhere else. They may subscribe to it, they may happen to see a cross-post from someplace they are subscribed to, but however it works out there will grow a steady flow of subscribers, if people are interested in it.

The sort of filtering aspect where not every new community will automatically get its posts thrown into every single person’s feed every day, is a feature not a bug. The steps above are enough to get it popular if people are into it, but also limiting enough that it won’t get publicized above its organic popularity level and start spamming everyone’s feed.

strategically America absolutely stands to benefit economically, militarily, and food security wise from annexing Canada

I can absolutely completely agree with you there. I’m just saying that Trump doesn’t give even the slightest little bit of a shit about any of those things.

That Axios article they linked to is one of the most infuriating things I’ve read in a long time.

There were Democrats in congress who thought it was productive to ask the Republicans whether it was okay for them to travel to El Salvador, apparently. Hopefully events will continue and eject them from the party, and they can make new careers as street musicians or in retail.

When U.S. President Donald Trump threatens to annex Canada, he is, in many ways, eyeing the Ring of Fire. The wealth of chromite, copper, nickel, platinum, vanadium and gold in Northern Ontario are globally significant, part of the critical mineral wealth that, according to former prime minister Justin Trudeau, has Trump wanting to make Canada “the 51st state.”

I absolutely don’t think this is true. Trump does not value minerals any more than he values factories or values the military being strong and protected.

Mostly, I think he fantasizes about Canada being a state because he is The Weak Strongman:

https://snyder.substack.com/p/the-weak-strongman

Somewhere in Canada, he knows that there are people outside his orbit who can treat with him on a somewhat vaguely level playing field, and that’s intolerable to him because he is too feeble to accomplish anything on a level playing field, and so he needs to co-opt them somehow so he can start to tear them down. I think that’s what he cares about, not minerals.

Yeah. It means nothing at all in terms of what Trump is actually going to do to stop the slaughter. He’s not going to do shit.

1. I’m not sure I would take anything from the New York Post seriously
2. It’s interesting to me that even the New York Post has started to float the idea of coming out anti-genocide, they definitely think this makes Trump look good.

on the 50 communities here on lemmy he mods to silence discussion that doesn’t align with his views.

Who is he on Lemmy? I didn’t know he was here too. Do you have some examples of silencing discussion that doesn’t align with his views?

I’m aware of reports of him doing messed-up moderation on Reddit, which is sus. If it sounded like I was in his corner I am not. I’m just saying like you were that more clarity would be better.

Edit: There’s also this and this