[-] Arsecroft 9 points 1 week ago

Great! I never wanted 20 million users in my subreddits or irc channels or friend list.

We'll all be happier this way. I'm happier this way, anyway.

[-] Arsecroft 14 points 3 weeks ago

I find your imagery accurate and disturbing.

[-] Arsecroft 8 points 1 month ago

I heard this years ago and it stuck in my brain: Everyone wants to be the last immigrant.

Turns out latinos can be just as short-sighted and selfish as everyone else, because there is no actual difference between humans that look different, despite the hundreds of years of propaganda to the contrary.

[-] Arsecroft 12 points 4 months ago

I haven't eye rolled so hard in a while. Didn't this already happen last season? Get some new material.

[-] Arsecroft 8 points 6 months ago

bro just have an AI do it

its just like, pixels or whatever

/s

[-] Arsecroft 12 points 6 months ago

CEO probably doesn't know what that A in AOSP stands for

[-] Arsecroft 12 points 7 months ago

If anyone wants to help instead of shitting on those of us unwilling or unable to leave:

https://floridiansprotectingfreedom.com/

[-] Arsecroft 12 points 7 months ago

looks like we're up, at least.

[-] Arsecroft 9 points 1 year ago

Seems like he's already been fined $500,000, so probably not worried about the legal consequences anymore.

I am pretty sure there's also IRS issues and possibly other federal law implications, but who are we to keep him from slamming his body parts in doors?

[-] Arsecroft 10 points 1 year ago

If they have anything interesting or non-hateful to say they'll say it on another instance. The hate they spew is only on these instances because the admins are hateful.

If there is a vote I will vote to defederate and I'll sleep perfectly well because the slippery slope fallacy is just that. If I want to see their hateful garbage I'll sign up for an account there.

[-] Arsecroft 12 points 1 year ago
Universal literacy was supposed to educate the common man to control his environment. Once he could read and write he would have a mind fit to rule. So ran the democratic doctrine. But instead of a mind, universal literacy has given him rubber stamps, rubber stamps inked with advertising slogans, with editorials, with published scientific data, with the trivialities of the tabloids and the platitudes of history, but quite innocent of original thought. Each man's rubber stamps are the duplicates of millions of others, so that when those millions are exposed to the same stimuli, all receive identical imprints. It may seem an exaggeration to say that the American public gets most of its ideas in this wholesale fashion. The mechanism by which ideas are disseminated on a large scale is propaganda, in the broad sense of an organized effort to spread a particular belief or doctrine.

Edward L. Bernays, Propaganda

[-] Arsecroft 13 points 1 year ago

I'm new here, and I dont have a very developed opinion about this, but my gut says that Meta is going to try to absorb (embrace, extend, extinguish) the fediverse.

I've seen a lot of good reasons to do that, but I think that it might just be to get at the software. It seems silly that they would do that given that it's free, but also they would be destroying a competitor at the same time, and really I've been working long enough that it wouldn't surprise me.

Anyway, i think that maybe democracy would be a great way to decide a question like this, and it would also be interesting to figure out how to set that up in a way that the people asking the question can know whether someone is trying to cheat.

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