“our poor people are the poorest of any functioning democracy on Earth” - Does this mean that the author doesn’t count the developing world as functioning democracies, but does count all of the developed world as functioning democracies?

“Our poor people are the poorest” sounds suspect to be honest - Haiti? Congo? If you count $200K in student loan debt as poorer than $0 across the board, sure, but if you go by actual quality of life, there’s no way.

Not only is @[email protected] right, but additionally, this article is extremely biased in favor of Xorg and is much more of a (completely unfair and one-sided) take-down of Wayland oriented at technical folks and not at all an explainer for laypeople

In the interest of discussion, what tactics would you personally use if you were a Gazan paramilitary looking to liberate yourself from apartheid? Not saying I’m a fan of how things have gone down either but this discussion is always rewarding when I have it

tell me I did not just look this thing up and see a barrel jack power port 🤢

my 2017 laptop charges by USB-C, this hardware looks gorgeous in every other way but the only excuse for a barrel jack is if you need to move more than 100 watts, and even that last holdout for the barrel jack is dated

It can charge by USB-C apparently, but the barrel jack is still there 😔

He literally overrode a majority house vote and senate vote. There’s no question of him issuing new laws whenever he wants, all he had to do was sign it and he didn’t. I’m guessing these bills were also probably on his desk for a while too and now was the convenient time to sign them.

Damage control for Friday’s trans-backstabbing veto, eh?

Doing so would be a valuable contribution to the discussion and morally good so I sure hope so

Mastodon is also not backed by any major donor and also has a better UI??

This comment kinda makes it clear that it’s your service and you’re plugging it though so I’m glad I could have that suspicion of mine confirmed

what does this have that Mastodon doesn’t?

and why is the very first thing I see on the starting page a slur?

the privacy policy is a fucking nightmare

and also you have literal nazis on your trending

lmao this place sucks

I initially uploaded a gif, it looks like that breaks things, especially in jerboa. I replaced it with a different graph to the same effect.

Perfect case of Betteridge’s law of headlines. No, the AIDS pandemic is not ending. Almost nobody has access to this level of care and that will not change until we fix some other things (you can all see my home instance lol). But this is promising for our understanding of the virus and the human body as a whole, so it’s not sensationalism, just overly optimistic.

ummm fuckign absolutely

You’re definitely valid for being concerned about privacy, but I think much more of privacy is how you configure your system and less how it ships, especially when it’s all Linux under the hood anyways. Additionally, privacy features aren’t much good when they’re bundled, set to defaults, and never fully configured - it’s both a great learning opportunity and provides even better security to set up things like browser extensions, a firewall, tor, etc. yourself so you can know their ins and outs than simply having them installed by default and never touching them.

Of course the privacy difference between Windows and Linux is so night and day that that leap on its own might be everything you’re looking for and then some, but Linux is always what you make it, so you’re not giving up much when picking one or the other! The only big things you’re locking into is a community and a package manager/repository, and Mint is definitely top notch in those regards, so it’d be hard to do better.

They’ll keep doing it though. Maybe not with this one creator, for the sake of proving that they get final say whenever they want, but all the other anti-vax content will stay up, because it’s profitable.

willing to bet if you ask it 100 times it’ll be a white man for over 90 of them

Remember, when a corporation says they’ll donate something when you buy something, like rounding up to the nearest dollar or donating $0.25 for every purchase, they are doing it because they were going to throw their money at some 501©(3) for tax reasons anyways and they figured they’d make it a big opportunity to publicly launder their reputation as an ad campaign

If you want to donate, never let a grocery store round up for you and take your tax write-off so they can pay even lower taxes subsidized by you, just donate $10 every month or so and take the tax writeoff yourself.

wanna talk about it?

I will say, for one, this is being sarcastic, and for two, when anyone talks about the “libs” from an instance like mine, we are punching right - we sit to the left of liberals

“an improvised explosive device” is admittedly a pretty fun thing to call “jerking off into my own face and hitting myself in the eye and being too self-conscious about it to go to medical until it got infected”

Wow, more than a billion! Remind me again, how much does one single Lockheed Martin F-35 cost? How much money did the NYPD cost in police misconduct settlements year? And how much did the pentagon just lose last time it was audited?