Cool_Name

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[–] Cool_Name@lemm.ee 20 points 1 month ago (23 children)

I just generally doubt anything Musk does because of his track record. However, is there a particular reason why Starlink is inherently not viable? Could a competent person do it or it is fundamentally flawed? To put it another way is it cybertruck bad (yes people want electric cars but not a barely driveable dumpster held together with glue) or hyperloop bad (physics said no)?

 

I propose that we coordinate a mass mailing campaign of letters to the white house telling trump that we do not approve and that he can go fuck himself. Obviously he doesn't actually receive these letters, but a big surge of complaint letters could get news coverage and he hates negative news. It will also undermine the delusions he's trying to promote that the low approval rating is only due to biased pollsters.

[–] Cool_Name@lemm.ee 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This publicity will probably bring in more money for the internet archive than what was cut.

Still a dick move by musk, but I'm glad it's not an existential threat to the project.

[–] Cool_Name@lemm.ee 4 points 2 months ago

Bukele will crack by the 18th hour of filibustering.

[–] Cool_Name@lemm.ee 31 points 2 months ago

His lawyers can try to split hairs about "facilitate" vs. "effectuate" but saying he will never come back to the US after being ordered to try to get him back to the US seems like the most obvious violation possible of a 9 - 0 supreme court decision. If republicans were honest, trump could be removed from office by Saturday morning. What would there be to even investigate?

[–] Cool_Name@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago

I don't mean it as a gotcha. Clearly too many people don't care about the rights and dignity of other people unless it affects them. I wish they did, but the current political climate makes it clear that they don't.

So I think this is worth bringing up to people about any social justice issue. Racism and nativism are used to control white workers. Patriarchy hurts men. Transphobia hurts cisgender people.

However, it is crucial to communicate to people that these ideologies are fundamentally bad and need to be abolished or else people can walk away thinking "We need to implement transphobia the 'right' way so it stops hurting cis people."

[–] Cool_Name@lemm.ee 132 points 2 months ago (6 children)

It bares repeating, transphobia hurts cisgender people and transgender people.

[–] Cool_Name@lemm.ee 10 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I don't say anything on reddit.

[–] Cool_Name@lemm.ee 37 points 2 months ago (7 children)

I hope the republicans have better aim this time.

[–] Cool_Name@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

No, but I know some ex JWs.

[–] Cool_Name@lemm.ee 0 points 2 months ago (3 children)

This is some JW disfellowshiping level behavior.

But sure Elon, you're not the one in a cult, it's everyone outside of your group that's crazy.

[–] Cool_Name@lemm.ee 1 points 3 months ago (2 children)

What's in September?

[–] Cool_Name@lemm.ee 31 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Your jobs a joke, you're broke, and now you are a bug!

 

I was trying to explain federated websites to a friend and she asked if there is a federated dating app. She recently went through a break up and the apps are dreadful as I'm sure many of you know.

It'd be hard to launch a dating system on the fediverse because it the type of service that relies heavily on network effects. People want to be on the dating app with the most people. However, I think there is an opportunity because the mainstream apps are so notoriously awful, monetized, and enshitified.

It could be a community within an existing network or it could be its own website. I don't know, I'm just putting the idea out there.

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