I think I get the point you’re making but climate change will fuck over the same people who end up getting fucked over by war.

As is often the case, the wealthiest can deal with the side effects of climate change. The ones who will be most affected by famines and natural disasters are the poorest, most marginalised, most deprived.

I suspect it’ll make conflict more likely, not less.

It’s not a typo, I just lazily wrote the comment like I’d speak.

Not sure why you assume this? I never made the claim

[x] Doubt

Even if you disagree, using a pronoun is just polite. She’d have to go out of her way to do this.

One day it’s gonna come out that it was all a prank organised on 4chan, isn’t it?

Aaaaaaaaaaand this is how you nuke support from orbit.

This way isn’t working either. It’s time to go back to the drawing board and brainstorm some better ideas.

I suspect it’s for the publicity. Events like this attract different demographics than the usual targets, so it’s more exposure. It might not make the tabloids but it does get reported on.

Historically, any publicity has been seen as good publicity. But, given the reputation they are building, I think this is not how it is playing out.

So I agree, it just makes people with little to no power feel blamed. Time for a change of approach.

I know Google is a big corpo but its hardly the only reason behind the state of the internet. It is a major factor, but to single out Google when Microsoft and others have played just as significant of a role is odd.

The word “agenda” triggers a Pavlovian rage response in me.

The sheer number of times I’ve seen some right-wing numpty angrily posting things like “what is your AGENDA?!” in response to political figures has permanently tainted the word for me.

On Lemmy it is more like 40 something year old neckbeards that haven’t seen the light of day in 2 decades. They claim to struggle to make friends at parties but could easily run a country.

Jo Cox was murdered by a fascist wasn’t she? What kind of warning are you talking about?

If I had any doubts about his guilt they were eradicated as soon as he called this a deep state conspiracy. Nobody is conspiring against has-been comedians.

I hope that the police look into these allegations. Chasing his monetisation is not a punishment since he is already wealthy.

The problem with that is that the public should never get to be judge, jury, and executioner. Rumour and gossip should not be the basis for something this severe.

Brand has made more than enough money to live his life peacefully out of the public eye. The court of public opinion is only capable of ruining the wrong peoples’ lives, people who don’t have wealth and fame. The rich and powerful can uncancel themselves after a short period of exile, should they wish.

It’s not a tax on poor people, its a tax on unhealthy food, which you’ll be surprised to find out that everyone eats regardless of economic class.

I think this would be more effective than a lot of us lefties would like to admit. “Healthy” food is already affordable, people just don’t want to eat it when there are other options.

I really do wish allegations of this level of seriousness could go through the legal system before being presented to the court of public opinion. If he’s actually assaulting 16 year olds then he needs sending down!

Neither of the two points you’ve made address what I said. Maybe you misunderstood. By “MySpaced” I mean “become irrelevant”.

Being open source won’t prevent this, sadly. 4 years is still young, but if a critical mass shifts back to Reddit then Lemmy will be considered a failure.

It’s time for Lemmy devs to really think about the pain points and how to address them.

It’s clear that federation isn’t working as intended. Because of that, moderation is too difficult. Defederation has been a major drama for Lemmy, which is only being made more likely given these complaints have not been addressed.

Then there’s the curse of choice that makes gaining non-tech users a lost cause. It is leading to extreme fragmentation which makes people drift back to their busier platforms.

These issues need to be addressed or Lemmy will be MySpaced within a year.

When I was learning programming I wrote a small program that I called for_you.exe. It printed an animated ASCII penis ejaculating on some boobs. I emailed it to my girlfriend and thankfully she thought it was hilarious. We’re still together.

Sometimes I’d settled for a simple description of what the tool even is. Sometimes the readme is just straight into compilation steps and I feel like we’re rushing into something.