RagingNerdoholic

Whatever. Let's not pretend that authoritarian China doesn't have its tentacles in the country's business operations to steer everything to its will.

Chinese government spyware disappears content it doesn't like. This shocking news and more at 11.

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Anchoring Effect is the term you're looking for. Now we just wish it was actually that.

I legitimately think retirement will be a largely nonexistent concept for anyone currently under 40.

Precisely what the Manshitoba PC's are doing right now. They've spent their entire mandate stripping public services to the bone, but now that it's an election year, suddenly there's an announcement every week of a new program for this and funding for that ... and big surprise, most of them are token effort, lazily implemented chickenshit that will be abandoned and left to wither one second after the election.

I hope Manitobans aren't this gullible, but the PC voter base has some real dumb, emotionally manipulable slackjaws.

I’m not a right wing nut… I grudgingly support this government … but I’ll still criticize it because we can and should do better.

Absolutely. The government we have right now is the least worst realistic option, but no government is beyond reproach.

Best I can do is spend your taxes subsidizing private corporations for things will still shit up the climate.

I don't host any instances myself, but I have experience with web hosting in general. Yes, the hardware will need to scale vertically with more activity, but I don't know what lemmy's anticipated load thresholds are.

I would guess a decent i7 with an SSD and 16GB+ RAM would handle lemmy quite comfortably for a good while. So the expense isn't entirely trivial, but it's nothing compared to a centralized service with hundreds of millions of regular users.

I don't know why you seem to be so adamant about defending phone use in class. Maybe we're getting hung up on the details here. "Ban" doesn't necessarily mean turning schools into a phone-free zone, it could (and probably should) just mean keeping phones out of sight and out of mind during instructional time.

Bullying is, was, and will continue to be a thing, and it's beside the point here, because phones are not some magic solution you think they are.

Really, the only direct cost of lemmy is the development. That's the beauty of lemmy's decentralized nature, the cost of actually running it is spread out among tech hobbyists with spare hardware and time (edit: and only ~$30/year or less for a domain name), or may even have some money to throw at new hardware. For most people, the connectivity doesn't incur any additional cost to whatever they're already paying for internet access.

There are plenty of free and excellent open source projects that neither charge money or generate profits, they're driven by passionate developers who give their and talent for the enjoyment of it and betterment of the community.___

Just checked and a bunch of the defaults are front-paging the same modpost about reddit killing third party apps. So it's still ongoing in some capacity.