Had to move a small team away from skype/teams quickly so renting dedicated matrix hosting in Europe and not federating the instance has been working great, except for some issues like group calls over jitsi not working properly and users reluctant to learn more odd interfaces.

Genocide bad. But topic: French/Russian relations. Expect downvotes for trying to hijack.

We do need to improve how we use the fediverse if we are going to cover topics fruitfully.

There’s more than one genocide currently happening, and if you are North American, you are passively participating. Please post that broader discussion in its own thread, it’s how discussion fora work. I will get you started: the genocide on turtle island hasn’t fully stopped. The Uyghurs are being erased. Island nations are being dispersed. Sudan is suffering. These are all urgent and connected, as with Gaza. We all have a stake.

Then throw it in a full bathtub!!

Vancouver BC has had exposed trolley wires for many decades, no major mishaps. Sometimes drivers have to jump out and reconnect the charge arms, which puts them in the road for half a minute.

Can you point out the actual, demonstrated risks?

This message paid for by The White House.

Um. I guess your intent was not clear, sure looks like you accuse OP.

You do understand that you started a shitthread by accusing OP of being a paid fascist, right? Then leaned into it. But most of your comment history is flip quips, so par I guess.

Trolling it is then, eh?

Don’t be a bonehead and drag down the discourse, Scotty there is regularly posting and commenting against the authoritarian regime in the US as well.

Lemmy has a lot of reddit-like baggage, but it’s a small community, it’s easy to recognize users and verify their history, and even tag them if you use the right reader.

Right, that list somehow reminds me that I need to go get a copy of Children of Men, very topical, sadly, and worth a rewatch.

It sets itself to autostart, and then hid the setting deep on a second screen. Opt-out plus malicious design, for one example, and the algorithm and pay structure for another.

If you’re canadian you already paid for cbc publishing the transcript, so here:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/mark-carney-speech-davos-rules-based-order-9.7053350

I fucking hated spotify from the moment I first interacted with it, primarily due to the way the app worked, and its exploitative position as middleware.

Convenience be damned if it’s a net loss to society.

Guns will only defer a cultural problem.

Self education that leads you and your friends away from heroic individualism, hypercapitalism, parochialism, cults, and other cultural excesses that lead to authoritarianism. It’s what we’re dealing with around the globe but the USA is struggling to understand.

Types out the opposite of what they meant

Gets corrected and has a tantrum

…calls antifascists nazis

Hmmmmm

Great idea! Instead of fine alcohol, we can just leave barrels of shit behind.

Fucking thank you. It bears repeating. I’m sure USA generals know this very well.

Yes, trigger troops and recon, no doubt.

No they don’t think they can repel an invasion, but they know they can make it very costly. Different bioregion, same advantage as the Vietnamese resistance, and cold is even harsher on troops and equipment than the jungle.

They also lack snowmobiles and dogs.