Sorry, not sorry, blocking radicals. You’re just energy vampires.

I don’t care for TikTok, whatever shakes them up and dismantles their foundation. TikTok is just a degradation to society, regardless who has it.

Absolutely not.

I really do believe that America should fix America first before it decides to try and ‘help’ other nations. The problem is, obviously, the wrong people are in place and doing it all wrong as possibly be.

Illegal Immigration has been a thorn in America’s side for a couple decades now in recent memory. The only ones who benefit from it, are obviously corporations who love the idea of cheap labor in the form of modern-day slavery. The immigrants who come here, are not seen as people, they are seen as assets. And it is glaring, how those assets are ironically seen as more valuable than natural born workers who got hired.

Don’t believe me? I’ve witnessed it where someone who immigrated here, got to take multiple months off from work and come back to retain her job. Meanwhile, people like me, have had to practically work and weed my way through the system to make sure I have days off, to make sure I keep my job secure. Tell me how in that way is it fair. There are probably numerous examples where naturally born citizens are sometimes treated lesser than, than those who came here from other countries and picked up similar positions to work.

But certain groups of people brush all of that under the rug and play the label game instead, rather than addressing the problem. It’s easier for people to side-step these issues when they aren’t the one experiencing them, so it must be comfy to think radically as if they don’t exist.

And I don’t really buy into the logic that the United States, and ONLY the United States mind you, should have open borders. Countries are allowed to have borders and keep them safeguard, it’s been a thing for CENTURIES! But because it’s the 2010s or 2020s, no no, we have to discard that ideal and apply it only to the United States. I’m sorry but the United States are as allowed as any other country in the world, to have borders and secure them as they see fit.

My point of the matter is, is that if you’re going to migrate to the United States, you’re expected to assimilate. Not be cherry picking and expecting people to bow to your will just BECAUSE you migrated, it doesn’t make you that special. You don’t charge over into places like Japan, Germany or other countries and expect them to bow to your will just BECAUSE you migrated from the United States, do you? If so, you’re part of that problem.

And if you don’t want to assimilate, then you’re best being shipped back. Otherwise, it adds to the problem and I think the whole honeypot melting thing that the US Government has tried pushing around for a while now, has been a fundamental failure. Because now it has been completely politicized and only has made more people argumentative over the issue when it should have just been simpler.

It is not a piracy site though it is treated as one, given the content. I would want to say it is safe but I think the IA is in the gray area. Like, it’s a place where you should get what you can while you can, because with all of the attacks and lawsuits targeting it, it is really uncertain how much time the IA has left It could be a few years but it could also be a few months, depending on who knocks on their door about things they saw that they want removed.

And IA has been complicit in doing what they can to abide by whoever wants stuff removed, so don’t take it for granted, I still would use VPNs to even download from it.

I am not supposed to have anything crunchy, for my oral health demands I get 11 teeth removed with more potentially threatened to decay further. I still got decent teeth to chew and everything, but I have to be cautious.

Ice Cream as well but not for diabetes, but could be lactose intolerant. It hasn’t really stopped me from eating it from time to time.

McDonalds is guilty pleasure at best. Nobody goes there to feel good about themselves.

They’ll just insert bots who’ll comment generic, soulless things to say instead. “OMG This product amazed me!” or “I cannot BELIEVE how nobody discovered this sooner!” all the while artificially inflating numbers.

It is like they know you’re using adblocks, so instead of trying to force ads down your throat, they try making your experience miserable by breaking their own viewer or whatever. It is absolutely petty of them.

Leave a video sitting there in idle for too long, come back, it plays for 10 seconds then has to reload itself. Sometimes, it doesn’t do this, so it requires a complete refresh.

They can do this bullshit all they want but I am not letting up on blocking ads.

I want Netbooks to come back for this reason. The only reason they failed the first wave was because nobody at the time thought to treat them as just smaller laptops that could be improved. They were just glorified pre-Chromebooks that were underpowered.

Technology has progressed since then so there’s no excuse not to bring them back. I loved the idea of carrying something that small around and not have it hinder me as much as a full laptop could.

It’s not dead, it’s just not matching the level of activity of users as the numbers of users there is reported on paper.

I’d like to see Lemmy get a lot of microcommunities like Reddit but the problem is, one user can do so much.

A good city or town is a good one when they can offer things that don’t require money. Parks, Events that don’t charge anything and vice versa.

Both have placed lunar exploration high on their national agendas and explicitly tied it to future technological and strategic advantage.

As the US practically guts NASA…

If the knight was equipped with a shield and sword - Knight.

If the knight had neither - Knight.

Even if the knight had no shield or weapons, it would fare better because his limbs become the next weapon being covered in armor a lion cannot penetrate. At least immediately. The only chance a lion remotely has is if it manages to knock the knight’s helmet off and go for the face and head following a takedown.

But I also wouldn’t say it’d be easy for the knight either because, all of that weight will just fall onto him should he be tackled. A full suit of armor typically weighs 50 pounds all over combined. So if a lion tackles the knight and manages to have enough intelligence to try and use suffocation as a means, that’s 50 pounds + the weight of the lion of 420, that knight is not getting up anytime soon.

Besides the AI bubble I’m wanting to burst, I want this cringe-inducing obsession people have over KPop to burst someday too.

It has turned some people into being unhealthily rabid over this.

It’s a little tradition and a bit of a promise, even though vague and breakable if we’re honest.

I wouldn’t have done that personally, I would’ve had it required that immigrants sign a doctrine as to whether the immigrant is going to uphold the laws of the country they’re migrating. Failing to do so would be automatic deportation.

Lemmy itself has been turning into a faucet of Reddit, they either don’t know that yet or they refuse to acknowledge it. Whichever.

You know, I’ll embrace any technology piece that isn’t from this shithead or Musk, anyday. Let me know of those alternatives.

I don’t think there really is any other way, without making it incredibly awkward. Can you imagine the scenario? Who would you find? Who would you know is directly responsible for the thing you’ve pirated?

See, there is quite a slope here to go down on when it comes to this very thing. Let me put it into perspective for you.

Pirating movies isn’t really hurting anyone that badly. Usually, actors and actresses are paid six to seven figures a film with lesser-than actors probably getting four to five digits of funds. They’re fine. It’s the greedy, ungrateful and unappreciative executives operating the studios that want more and more.

That’s just an example. A lot of the time, the rights of media content is largely signed over to the networks anyways so it would be a moot point to bother with doing this. I really don’t know what to tell you in regards to this.

I just think it’d be awkward to hunt down almost every individual involved with something you pirated, to directly support them. That’s a lot of lives to sustain and make up for in directly supporting. Not everyone here has bottomless pits of cash laying around, that’s why they sign with record labels and make deals with studios, because they have that kind of pull and money.

Also to consider, maybe some people are against piracy whom you want to support, you don’t know that. You can run into the wrong person, tell them you pirated their material, they could get offended and take you to court for it.

So to wrap it all up - it is not simply worth it. We know who we’re “hurting” and it isn’t the creators. All that they’d ask us to do the most, is appreciate what they’ve done.

You only read one line in before shilling apple? Lol

There is a lot of risk when it comes to investing. The stock market is a lot of guesswork and sheer gambling in of itself.

$15k to me would be a great savings foundation that will grow overtime.