Agreed. Perhaps the best implementation is a highly integrated mix of Mastodon and Lemmy where Mastodon is used for general discussion and news and Lemmy is used for organising communities around subjects like politics and religion.

Completely unrelated question: how hard does one have to rattle a sabre before it snaps the blade?

I like this idea.

Twitter was supposed to be the “online town hall”. And online public spaces are not publicly owned, they’re run by private companies that can ban you at their own whims.

With each country having their own federated platforms, they can truly act as online public spaces where the usual laws apply as they would do offline.

You’d need to employ thousands of moderators though if everyone was online but honestly I think it’s worth it.

But don’t be handing out prison sentences for posting stupid shit. Online harassment and calls for violence can still be legally handled the same way they are offline, but jailing people for offensive jokes and stupid hot takes is just idiotic.

Best way is temporary bans increasing exponentially in length, then small percentage of income fines again increasing exponentially.

Also, and I’d argue we already need this, a court system for online crimes. This means the regular court system doesn’t get more workload added on to it and specialist judges and lawyers can be appointed.

Elon Musk: now singlehandedly responsible for the US falling further behind China in innovation and research (for the record, fuck the CCP).

I seriously hope the UK takes advantage and offers visas and funding for the research. We’ve already got a good research sector though it took a hit from Brexit. Taking in these US scientists, even if it’s only for four years, would accelerate the UK’s growth, suck it Yanks!

p.s. also the EU would love to have them as well.

The freedom to eat, the freedom to earn a fair day’s pay for a fair day’s honest work, the freedom to afford a house, the freedom from wall street usury, the freedom patriotically build secure and supportive communities, freedom healthcare, protecting the landscape of the greatest country on earth for all of America’s generations to come, etc.

Loads of ways to spin free market socialism, take your pick.

You know the answer already, but I reckon you’ll be too much of a coward to do it.

Prove me wrong.

[History Channel Gesture]

Rare Earth Nodules

Enjoy watching the genocide of your people, you’ll be next, so instead of crying crocodile tears why don’t you do something PROACTIVE about it.

All the information is on the task card, you have two months, your time starts now.

America: where young people are coddled until they’re 18 then it’s either sell your body, sell your soul, or both multiple times over just to survive.

That moment when you take a drag of your Blue Raspberry vape and the dosimeter next to you maxes out.

Taste: slightly metallic, not great, not terrible.

So a nucler reactor is just a kettle with an extra spicy heating element?

The number of soldiers isn’t the issue. The two issues are the civilian casualties would be unacceptable for SK and the NK civilians would halt progress as they’d need support from the SK army.

The other one is that China would almost certainly invade from the north because NK is a buffer state between it and SK, a US ally.

Well they did say “Your body, my choice”. I wonder how they’d react if it was their body and someone else’s choice?

Agreed, it comes off as petulant and is really grating when fellow supporters get all smarmy when said individual/group doesn’t immediately adopt the next thing in progressive politics the nanosecond it enters public discussion.

So about €3.50?

They don’t call them “Serving Suggestions” because they’re mandatory, they call them that because they’re a challenge.

I can’t comment on why they failed because I don’t know enough about the launch method’s pros and cons.

But we British seem to have a bit of a jinxed history when it comes to rockets.

But that doesn’t mean we have zero space industry; Cornwall and just outside of London is host to a good number of space companies that produce satellites and other space hardware.

But as exciting as that is, it doesn’t capture the public’s imagination which is disappointing when we had a filmmaker like Gerry Anderson who created iconic TV shows and films like Thunderbirds, Captain Scarlet, Stingray, Joe 90, Fireball XL5, and Space 1999.

But hopefully Scotland’s Spaceport will invigorate the industry here when they manage to Caber Toss a rocket into orbit.

To the surprise of no-one. The UK sucks at space stuff: this, One web, Virgin Orbit.

Shouldn’t have stopped Black Arrow.

This is particularly American sensibility about not drinking alcohol casually around children. It’s very strange. In the UK and Europe, if a kid is having a birthday party at their house it’s completely normal for the adults to be having a casual beer or wine and socialising whilst the children play, obviously not drinking to get drunk and within the legal limits for the driver.