[-] Kirk@startrek.website 5 points 6 hours ago

"Lemmy" is not a single place, it's software that anyone can use. The phrase "Lemmy as a whole" is a contradiction of terms. If you're looking for a censorship free space, just create your own instance. If you're looking to force your speech upon others, check out Reddit.

[-] Kirk@startrek.website 2 points 6 hours ago

Yes exactly. Within the MAGA universe loyalty is paramount. What the do looks strange and contradictory to us, but in the universe where one man decides reality, the more you can make that reality a well, reality, the more valuable you are. Even in defeat.

[-] Kirk@startrek.website 7 points 8 hours ago

I've actually always preferred a look with minimal scan lines but there's no question that pixel art looks significantly better on CRT.

[-] Kirk@startrek.website 5 points 8 hours ago

This may be a dumb question but isn't OTA TV still basically exactly what you describe?

[-] Kirk@startrek.website 4 points 8 hours ago

b4 actually switched with dr pulaski but it was very brief and off camera

[-] Kirk@startrek.website 3 points 8 hours ago

every goddamn day of my life

[-] Kirk@startrek.website 11 points 8 hours ago

all good I'm mining more as we speak

that's right everyone lemmy is a crypto thing too

[-] Kirk@startrek.website 32 points 10 hours ago

"Lemmy is good but the huge problem is the waiting process to sign up. You also have to pledge to contribute to Lemmy if you get access."

lol never change reddit

[-] Kirk@startrek.website 128 points 14 hours ago

For those not in the know:

Swartz's involvement in Reddit is debated. He is considered the co-founder of Reddit by Y Combinator owner Paul Graham as a result of the merger of Swartz's project Infogami and Reddit. With the merger of Infogami and Reddit, Swartz became a co-owner and director of parent company Not A Bug, Inc., along with Reddit cofounders Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian. Ohanian considers Swartz a co-owner of Reddit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz#cite_note-7

[-] Kirk@startrek.website 9 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

I'm not so sure, the entire modern GOP culture prioritizes loyalty to the leader above all else (even the stock market!) I think it's possible these lieutenants understand that taking the fall for the leader will be viewed by the party to be an act that demonstrates the depth of their loyalty (and therefore helps their future career).

EDIT: Giuliani I think is probably an exception along with some other characters like Mike Lindell that actually are too dumb to understand what's going on.

[-] Kirk@startrek.website 33 points 20 hours ago

They must know that their primary role is to take the fall for Trump, right? Their job is to absorb the blows and bad press (and sometimes literal bullets), and once they get too much baggage they get dumped. It's mafia style governance.

[-] Kirk@startrek.website 6 points 20 hours ago

The Venn diagram of 4chan users is a smaller circle entirely within the reddit circle.

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It sounded like a stretch to me at first, but if you consider that the very concept of intelligence as something quantifiable and measurable (like IQ) implies a linear scale where some (guess which ones) people are simply better.

The funding behind AI comes out of a belief that it can be a tool to control and influence the population. It makes sense that it's origins would be in something similar.

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