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I find it funny and fitting that most of this is written like how you would talk to a 5 year old when trying to explain to them for the first time the difference between right and wrong

I also like the turning around of "make america great again". I don't necessarily agree that America is "already great", but I do like how this points out that the slogan itself is unpatriotic, since that's an irony most Trump supports fail to grasp

I'm not arguing we shouldn't, but the "ideal" scenario with any natural resource is always to preserve it in my book

But this is certainly a case imo where the upsides would outweigh the downsides

No not at all. The core contributors of lemmy just happen to be communist

And? They don't run anything but their own instances.

Its FOSS. they don't have any ownership over the platform as a whole. If they started trying to fuck with the lemmy source code for their own agenda, then we'd just fork it and carry on as before

Also the fact that they all act like /r/the_donald trolls

Nothing makes me less inclined to hear out your opinion when you're acting like a middle schooler whose trying to look cool in front of his friends lol

Yeah between all the other alternatives I think strip mining the moon is pretty OK. It's not as good as doing nothing - but I'd rather do it on a body with no ecosphere instead of destroying habitats

Also just packing up and leaving means leaving behind all your family, friends, possessions. Very probably you'll have to practically start your career over from a much lower stage, learn a whole new language and live as an outsider in a culture you're unfamiliar with.

In addition, the people who would most benefit (the very poor with poor paying jobs that don't have these benefits) are the least able to do so. It's not just a plane ticket, you need lawyers to help you navigate the process.

And the reality is that despite what social media makes it seem, America isn't the unbearable dystopia the internet makes it out to be. Do we have problems? Abso-fucking-lutely, more than most first world countries, but not so much that it's sensible for most to uproot their whole lives to emigrate.

Hybrid is really the worst of both worlds, none of the benefits of having everyone in office, none of the benefits of never having to go into the office

Honestly I think the main reason we haven't seen this is because the core devs are also the admins of lemmygrad, and they can predict how most users would use that feature lol

That said, I totally agree, it's a win both for user agency, and avoiding needless defederation at the instance level

I don't think this is as fringe as you're making it out to be. Even after several criminal indictments, Trumps support for 2024 has only grown

you can remap vim to use whatever you'd like instead of esc, or just ditch your caps lock and make that your new escape key.

I know some vim users swear by remapping esc to jh or similar so you don't even have to leave the home row

Honestly, it looks like a gamer tag icon from back in the Halo 2 days lol