Yeah, any economic system that concentrates power into one group is bad, whether it's corporate monopolies or a single government (which ends up kind of like the ultimate monopoly in a communist state). Communists IMHO have a fundamental misunderstanding of human nature and how incentives can be exploited for the benefit of everyone. We need a form of capitalism that promotes competition (because profit is possibly the most powerful motivator of innovation), but also keeps companies in check with strong regulations, strong workers unions, and profits taxed appropriately. It's also important to recognize that some basic needs should be met by the government like public education, public utilities, correctional systems, national defense, welfare, healthcare, etc. But even with public services, there should be room for private companies to innovate and provide premium alternatives to keep the government in check (with exceptions obviously, we don't want private military and private prisons for example).
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They could call it Lock Jaws 🤣
For what it's worth, I just looked up the lyrics instead of listening because I hate country music and didn't want to waste my time, but I understand those who just listened instead. To add to what you said, there's also the obvious difference in friction involved with going to the store and buying beer vs tapping a link on your phone.
As long as they didn't staple the wire or something.
E2EE only exists up to the bridge, not the whole way to your client
I just want to clarify that most bridges can be set up to have E2EE between the Matrix client and the bridge (regardless of whether the bridge supports encrypted chats on the bridged service because not all do, e.g. Facebook), but it is true that the bridge itself has to decrypt and translate between Matrix and the 3rd party chat service, so as you mentioned trusting who hosts bridges or doing it yourself is really important.
This seems like the kind of thing where the justice department could be exerting pressure and building a federal case. I'd be interested to see what kinds of emails are flying around behind the scenes.
It is a server config option. Lemmy.ml uses a banned word list, while other instances don't. The words are still there and visible from instances that don't censor.
I can't speak for OP, but for me, after finishing an undergrad degree, the side effects of Adderall made it less tolerable than just finding a job in a field I'm actually interested in. Now I just have to deal with all the other responsibilities that being an adult entails, which sucks without meds, but at least I can sleep normally 🤷
Ah okay, I see that I made an assumption of how memmy would behave based on the issue wefwef had to address the other day. I feel like this setting could possibly be worded a little better then because it certainly sounds as though all images would be their full height (and zoomed to fit the width of the user's screen) with it enabled.
Say, for example, somebody (not naming names) posts an image of beans whose aspect ratio is 10x taller than that of your screen's... This setting makes it so that you have to scroll forever to get past it because it won't resize its height to fit your screen's height.
Belief in astrology is probably even somewhat correlated to mercury poisoning...
One problem I have with it is that topics can trend and spread so quickly that they get in front of facts and it can easily become a vehicle for misinformation and witch hunts. I think I've decided I'd rather get information a little later from fact checking sources than consume and potentially contribute to spreading false information. It just seems like it's the perfect vehicle for toxic behavior even if it has legitimate benefits when used correctly.