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mookulator ,

Expand and term limit SCOTUS. This system is ridiculous

mookulator OP ,

When somebody powerful does something perplexing, my guess is usually “because money”. Is that the case here? I’m not that informed about how politicians get their money…

mookulator OP ,

I’m not basing my statement (about American sentiment) on what I see on the internet though! The polls and votes seem to support abortion access.

mookulator OP ,

Yeah here’s a take that resonates with my cynicism about Republican politicians. They literally see it as a way to get more numbers in the long run because they know it disproportionally affects poor people (ei forces them to have more kids) and they know they can get those people to vote for them through other manipulation.

Seems like a pretty long con though right? The same cynicism tells me these politicians just care about short term wins.

mookulator OP ,

I’d like you to cite a source to back up that claim.

mookulator OP ,

Granted, but that doesn’t really answer the question. I’m asking why they’re so insistent on doing it, not how they’re maintaining power despite being unpopular.

mookulator OP ,

Wow I’ve never heard of someone wanting to ban a medical procedure all together because they experienced an adverse effect of it. Thanks for the view into a psyche that I didn’t know about.

mookulator OP ,

I’ll say I don’t buy this argument, though that’s just my opinion. I don’t think these politicians care one way or another what happens to people as long as they get more power. I find it far fetched to say they’re seeking power so that they can be cruel.

Cruelty is a means (or side effect), not an end.

mookulator OP ,

Yeah I mean I think most people know that there are negative consequences that can happen, just like with any medical procedure. I’m just surprised by the fact that people might get a medical procedure then want to prevent all future people from getting it because they had a bad experience. Shows what I know about people.

mookulator ,

It’d be really nice if they clustered by instance. Then one could theoretically follow all politicians in their favorite party without having to look them up manually.

mookulator ,

Sometimes local subscribers is nice to know. Maybe not more important than total subscribers, but useful nonetheless. Especially on a small/specific instance where you get to know your instance-mates, you might want to know how many of them are following a thing and whether you’re about to introduce them to something entirely new.

mookulator ,

Is anyone under 40 still on Facebook? I think it’s all old people at this point.

mookulator OP ,

Well would you look at that

mookulator ,

The four-color theorem is pretty cool.

You can take any map of anything and color it in using only four colors so that no adjacent “countries” are the same color. Often it can be done with three!

Maybe not the most mind blowing but it’s neat.

mookulator ,

Expand and term-limit SCOTUS. This system is ridiculous

mookulator ,

Surely there is a way to effectively fill vacant government positions.

mookulator ,

Expand and term-limit SCOTUS. This system is ridiculous

mookulator ,

I know he says it’s pronounced “jif”, but I just don’t care. It’s like “gift” without the t

mookulator ,

I’ve seen this comparison many times and it does nothing to help my understanding of the fediverse. I have no idea how email servers work.

mookulator ,

That’s kind of the problem I think. I was able to find like 2 people there I want to follow. Lemmy is going to be far more successful at displacing its alternative because all the communities you’d want to subscribe to are here.

mookulator OP ,

No. My other instance is WireBase.org. It’s a smaller one

mookulator OP ,

Glad I don’t reuse passwords.

I always wonder about this though. Are hackers really going to manually test out my password in miscellaneous sites? How would they know what sites to try? And why me along the hundreds of thousands of passwords they would have stolen with mine? Seems like that’s something they would do if they’ve targeted a particular person, not if they’ve stolen a whole dump of credentials

mookulator OP ,

Thanks. I think it is possible for users to block communities one at a time! I can do it in Memmy

mookulator ,

Can a brother get a tl;dr?

mookulator ,

This post is about a government contract that is racist in nature. Is that close enough for you?

mookulator ,

Ironic that you criticized the comment for hyperbole and then use the straws an fallacy to try to shoot it down. The comment did not claim that all 350 million people are racist. You just acted like it did so you could criticize it.

And yes, the US is an amazing country with far fewer racists than ever before. I agree with you there.

mookulator OP ,

Yeah exactly. With the example I gave, there’s a good amount of content on each, but none of them is so active that I’d want to follow it alone.

mookulator OP ,

The other way to go is to automatically cross-post across federated servers if they have the same community. Why doesn’t it work like that?

mookulator OP ,

Or maybe the community owners could do it? Seems like a natural extension of federation is for communities to track their counterparts in the federated servers

mookulator OP ,

Yeah there would be plenty of circumstances where you wouldn’t, like politics or local news or something. But I have to imagine there are more circumstances where you do want it. I said this below - what if the community owners grouped themselves with their counterparts, kind of like sub-federations

mookulator OP ,

I get that. And definitely simpler. But what if a new community pops up? It sounds tedious to keep checking back in the search engine

mookulator OP ,

Yeah the more I hear counter arguments from people on here, the more I think the best solution is for communities to group together and opt in to cross posting with one another. Are you saying thats a flawed idea too?

mookulator ,

Lol yeah but we were 12 back then and we still understood the internet better than anyone else 🙃

mookulator ,

At least you know the instance host isn’t selling your data right? The advertisers already have it 🤪

mookulator ,

Can someone explain why r/privacy is so up in arms about this? Seems fairly obvious that my actions in the public domain are public, but they’re all “Lemmy doesn’t care about your privacy”. Why?

reddit.com/…/warning_lemmy_federated_reddit_clone…

mookulator ,

I was kind of joking, but now that I think about it isn’t that better? The problem isn’t really advertisers having your data, it’s companies doing skeezy things to be able to make more money with your data.

This way, instance hosts are free from that incentive and can just focus on making a good website.

mookulator ,

I was kind of joking, but now that I think about it isn’t that better? The problem isn’t really advertisers having your data, it’s companies doing skeezy things to be able to make more money with your data.

This way, instance hosts are free from that incentive and can just focus on making a good website.

mookulator OP ,

How do the coworkers of the instance host get paid?

mookulator OP ,

Wow two developers! How do I support the other person?

mookulator ,

I’m down with it. I would like to occasionally hear what influential thinkers/creators etc have to say, but don’t want to use Twitter to hear it.

mookulator OP ,

This happens to me sometimes too! Very wierd

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