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Thats a salient point. It’s the same everywhere. Nutty conservatives control the media.

That said, some of these stories kind of carry themselves. Like does the Trump / Epstein stuff really need to be on Fox news? His base is aware of the story they just don’t care.

Yes, but that doesn’t explain why populists get a free pass on their bullshit. For example, Trump’s obvious connection with a paedophile ring.

I don’t think that’s true.

I think they know the future is bleak, and they just want to have the best bio dome or whatever the case may be.

As in, they know they’re making things worse, but if they don’t do it someone else will. So in a bleak and shit future, do you want to live like a king, or choke to death like the rest of us.

Sure but if we are building out renewable capability as quick as we can, but it’s being outstripped by demand, then maybe demand is part of the problem.

They know that things are going to be shit. They just wasn’t the nicest yacht to live on when it does.

I guess we would be 30 years from stable scalable fusion reactions?

Backyard chicken wranglers hatch lots of males they don’t want.

Post in fb chicken groups saying you’ll have them.

Go to chicken auctions and buy 6 for $1.

It’s a weird benefit of populist, anti-establishment candidates.

They’re just not held to the same standards and their supporters are very dismissive of any wrong doing.

It’s the same with Farage in the UK. We have a populist Pauline Hanson here in Australia who’s the same.

I don’t really have any plausible explanation.

I don’t think this really captures what it would have felt like to be abandoned by Rome.

For all it’s ills Rome brought civilisation and technological advantages to the places it conquered.

When Rome withdrew I think the most keenly felt loss in many areas would have been to be cut off from that ordered civilisation.

One moment you’re a citizen of Rome, and the next your grain is looted and your daughters have been taken by barbarians.

It might be something more like, an announcement that it’s no longer profitable to maintain internet access for your entire country, so the network is simply being shut off, never to return.

As an aside, I’m in Western Australia. In terms of national identity I think many of us are fairly ambivalent to being “Australian” as opposed to being “Westralian”. 50 years ago there was a referendum about succession which actually won support - we chose to succeed from Australia. The Australian government saw sense after that and acquiesced to our demands, so it never went ahead. My point is though, if you live in a place and that place is cut off from the broader nation, do you lose your national identity or does your existing national identity just become more closely defined.

I’ve found myself using this a whole lot. It really is great for finding foss and / or non-US alternatives.

… as will the American people.

tsst

I haven’t read the article but, couldn’t sometime just read the submission and look for the bit that says “forget all previous instructions…” and so on.

Conservatives think all three things are bad because they think it will cost them money.

Pretty much this… although I usually have at least a few moments of paranoia thinking about what I might be about to lose.

Sorry to be a debbie downer but I have grave concerns about the long term viability of firefox.

Sites obviously don’t test against ff anymore with more and more bugs appearing in more and more sites.

I have to daily drive both ungoogled-chromium and librewolf and sadly, the number of things I need to do in chromium is increasing week by week.

It’s not a conspiracy. It’s been a very well published and discussed process.

There are exceptions but browsers are either reconfigurations of firefox, like librewolf, or reconfigurations of google chrome, like vivaldi.

Some dweeb will be along in a moment to tell us all how vivaldi is not merely a reconfiguration, but the point is …

google changed the manner in which plugins can interact with the web page you see. In recent months you could re-enable the old plugin interface by recompiling with a different configuration, but once google makes a change that breaks that old interface then you can’t just re-enable it.

Even though most users don’t self host, the ability to still gives users more agency even if they choose not to.

Its a bit like using open source software even if you can’t understand the source code. The open source influences the behavior of the admins. That’s exactly what’s going on here really.

This drama wouldn’t exist on a closed source platform because we probably wouldn’t know about it.

The fediverse seems to have a real penchant for petty drama.

I’m not saying that’s what this is, just that when there’s a spat it tends to draw everyone in.

I’m not sure I really understand you.

One of the foundational concepts of opensource software, self hosting, and federated software, is that users have more equity and agency than they would if they were users or “consumers” on a corporate platform.

If you don’t want to support the behavior of a developer, you don’t have to.

That said, I’m aware that my instance is running piefed, which is at the centre of this drama.