Hyperreality

Yep. Don't forget you're not limited to lemmy instances.

I'm on Kbin and follow this lemmy community from there. Commenting/reading with my kbin account and on kbin's site. But like I don't have to limit myself to kbin, you don't have to limit yourself to lemmy.

Which takes some getting used to. Hell, apparently you can access lemmy through mastodon(the fediverse twitter alternative). Apparently that sucks, but it is possible. Kbin -> Lemmy works great though.

Caveat: both lemmy and kbin are still in beta/alpha. So bugs are still being fixed as we speak. Unlike reddit it's taking the people running these instances weeks not decades to fix though.

TLDR: it all takes some getting used to, there's still work to be done, but it's already better than reddit in many ways.

I don't envy French voters, who will be forced to choose between Macron's successor and Front National in the next election.

Because presently it seems like Macron, the police, and young French muslims are cooperating in a concerted attempt to enflame the situation and help get Front National elected. And all while Europe is defacto at war, facing an existential threat in Ukraine.

Lucky that Macron can't run again, but it'd be nice if he didn't run a key NATO member into the ground while blaming it all on video games.

Apartheid era Emerald mine in Zambia:

https://futurism.com/elon-musk-dad-emerald-mine

So has facebook:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisitions_by_Meta_Platforms

AT&T is the best known example. They supressed innovation for decades, buying up or squashing anything that posed a threat to their monopoly. A phone bought in 1920 wasn't that different to a phone used in 1980. Judging by what happened when their monopoly was abolished, if it hadn't been for AT&T we'd have had the internet in 1960.

People have no clue about how detrimental these (quasi-)monopolies are for technogical innovation.

Companies like facebook, microsoft and google are actively preventing innovation not furthering it. They've become so big, they no longer have a vested interest in things changing too much, so they squash anything new.

Corporate vampires, undermining democracy, hurting the planet, and actively hindering progress. Fuck 'em.

Someone should design an armored train that can be used by the military.

Why not take a cell phone?

I'd assume it was useful to record stuff.

You can always disable tracking and pop it in airplane mode.

"Can I come over to your house and shit in your hair?" said the pigeon.

"No thank you. I'd rather you do that somewhere else." said the man.

"Censorship! Triggered! Snowflake!" Said the pigeon. Then he shitted in the man's hair anyway.

Kbin is basically still in alpha. They're fixing stuff like this. It'll be fixed soon.

I get no reply notifications, so there's that.

It's clear that kbin still has a lot of bugs. Guy running it is a bit overwhelmed right now. Hopefully they're able to fix issues like this sooner rather than later.

It's a common thing for people who move (country) as kids. Sociological term is Third Culture Kid.

The 34th Rule of Acquisition. War is good for business

They say they don't, but we know they trade with the ferengi, and that federation staff on non-federation worlds received latinum to buy stuff. Quarks isn't handing out drinks for free, for example.

Federation credit is also a thing.