Ironically, if you need an example of the creativity that results from being able to liberally borrow from other creators, Disney is a great example.
They could have done it because of his name, but just not admitted it, or given no reason at all. Systemic racism is hard to prove, which means it can be remarkably persistent
It is straight from the neoliberal privatisation playbook. Defund public infrastructure until the public complains, then "fix it" by privatising it
I suspect a worlder is a person who has an account on the lemmyworld instance
The "benevolent king" is a persistent myth isn't it? They feature in so, so many works of fiction
This is a threat, not capitulation
Europe is a sacrifice the USA is prepared to make
Somewhere out there is some very nice animated graphs showing just how big a billionaires wealth is. It's still too big to be properly comprehended...
Consider getting your own domain. That way you own your own name, but you can swap email providers behind the scenes
Do we actually care about "beating" Reddit? As long as a friendly & knowledgeable community exists on Lemmy, do we really care about also being the largest?
Mastodon has a feature that allows you to migrate from one instance to another within Mastodon. Lemmy does not, and I think this is an important feature to have
Does China have capital flight laws? Can they allow the millionaires to leave whilst retaining the actual material wealth?