That's because conservatives think they're not going to be treated like 'the plebs'. They think if they're loyal to the empire, they'll be exempt from the imperial boomerang when it comes back (it's here).

Didn't someone have kompromat on him from like 2015 where he was pissing on escorts in a bed Obama slept in at a hotel or some petty, childish shit like that?

"I think Israel should stop killing people - and if peaceful means are exhausted, we are forced to use any means necessary. Entire bloodlines are being erased. Buildings and churches older than European countries are being bombed by US missiles to rubble. They can stop whenever, people can't come back to life."

"I think Israel should genocide all Arabs."

atzanteol@sh.itjust.works: "THESE THINGS ARE THE SAME!!!"

Appreciate the steer - I was able to change my password, but nothing I change in the 'Settings' field saves when I click the button. Sorry for asking but really appreciate the support.

Edit: working now, not sure what was different - either way, thanks for the help, appreciated

In many ways - that's the point! They had the funding to develop things which would then become the building blocks for other technologies. Blue sky research is research done without a commercial outcome - but enables future projects with immediate application.

It's the only way we progress.

Is there any way to change the email address on an existing lemmy.blahaj account? I'm not the best at research, sorry about that - but I wasn't able to find an answer through a search engine and I haven't found the option on any of the listed frontends.

New normal, folks. So begins the era of climate migration.

A reminder that this is why we should never tolerate selfishness. We're now largely screwed because we, as a species, valued our individual comfort over expert research.

We knew what we needed to do - but no, profits. Such a dumb way to die.

Australia once again vindicated for banning beef from the USA years ago.

Yeah, not a fan of the ominous shadow threads™️ casts. I don't trust them not to flood the fediverse with assorted toxic garbage to push people back towards their walled garden platforms.

The fediverse offers something radical - a new shot at genuine self determination and a socialised, self-governing internet. That shit spells B-A-D N-E-W-S for incumbent platforms (imo) and they're bad actors in general; they wouldn't think twice about smothering anything that threatens their short/long term profits. Who'se going to stop them?

Might be a little bit overly risk concious but goddamn. If I were them, I'd be trying to kill alternative ecosystems before they grew - especially if mine (metas) is both trash to use, and be used by.

A badge of honor.

To be held in esteem by Israel - at any point in its history - is a deep stain on any reputation to put it mildly. Anyone with humanity is an enemy to fascists and ethnostates.

We used to be a fucking country, man.

The world has Wifi because of the blue-sky research done at the CSIRO. This resource extraction colony is run by short-sighted deadshits.

Holy shit - this was THAT whistleblower.

Yeah, what they did was a huge turning point and, imo, the point of complete collapse for Israeli propaganda. No wonder Israel is trying to make her unalive herself - she brought the reality of Israeli culture into public conception.

Legitimately wild for the Pope to point blank call the US regressive.

Not out of hypocrisy (though, yeah - solidarity with survivors and the colonised) - but because he was actually really justified in what he said to reach that.

Wild. Absolutely wild. The US is so comically bad faith a society even the pope can eloquate why it's awful.

So a massive wealth transfer - right after Covid, ANOTHER unprecedented wealth transfer.

Side question: when are you people in the imperial core going to do something about this with all that God given Liberty™ and Freedom® you continually bomb and destabilize the rest of us for?

Oh contraire - we're 20 years late

One anecdotal chime in: I dropped the Zuck for a year and gradually realised that my city runs all its cultural events through Facebook - unless you know or someone invites you, that was pretty much it.

I think I did miss out on meeting new people or seeing old friends by chance, simply because I didn't know to turn up somewhere for a gig or whatever - and the old addage has some truth imo; often you just need to be in the right place at the right time for things to happen.

Here's hoping Queensland has the spine to say the same thing about the Olympics.

They want to bulldoze a 100 year old primary school so they can knock down a stadium we already have - to build a new one worth 2.7 billion in exactly the same place. Meanwhile, our rents are going crazy as locals get forced out of their support networks, there's rough sleepers being displaced and at times outright attacked by the states support workers, our education system is now decades underfunded and the health system isn't far behind.

We didn't ask for the Olympics. The campaign was a businessmans vanity project. It's insane to shoulder the burden of that frivolity right now.

Because the people benefiting from its brokenness aren't ready to stop salting the earth for numbers.

That's the neat thing, he doesn't!

I think suspicion is the absolute least we can react with to a soulless megacorp like Meta.

Honestly? I think defederating from them is wise. In some ways, I think this is kind of like the tolerance paradox; we're open and tolerant but we know the second Meta smells money or power they'll betray that tolerance, so do we show them tolerance knowing how they'll exploit us?

I don't think we should. Don't let them sack the commons.