Governments might have thought of that when they were spending decades endorsing wealth inequality and subsidizing everything from the top. Why make more people when life’s already not worth living and everything continues to get worse at an accelerating rate?

Aren’t babies cartilaginous at birth? Guess it’s still a skeleton as it is a structural frame, even if it’s not made out of bones yet.

Watergate is just the name of a hotel/shop/office complex in DC. The Watergate scandal had nothing to do with water, it’s just named after the place where it occurred. The -gate suffix for scandals is dumb.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/the-smell-of-newborn-babies-triggers-the-same-reward-centers-as-drugs-58482/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3029708/

Also, baby smells get you high and promote warlike behavior and ethnocentrism. Don’t forget those.

One of these 2:

• some leftover rice, reheated.
  or
• a couple small potatoes, microwaved and then cut into cubes.

Mixed with one of these 3:

• 1-2 packets cooked maggi masala ramen.
  or
• a can of chili and microwave for another couple minutes.
  or
• bagged madras lentils, similar to above.

This motherfucker wants someone “who understands the ‘importance of dialogue’” after he invaded Russia’s neighboring country, straight up stole land & children and sanctioned his troops raping, pillaging and murdering civilians?!?

Putin is not a serious person on any level. His words and actions have no business being treated in a serious manner.
He should be hunted down and disposed of like a rabid dog.
He’s not a human. Just trash.
Fucking cancerous trash.

Wasn’t referring to what Meta could do or even necessarily that there’s an issue with Lemmy’s software. More that there’s a bunch of servers with various configurations without resources dedicated to intrusion detection, mitigation or reporting. If something did happen at a server level to a hobbyist instance there’s no reason to believe users or maybe even the persons running the instance would know about it.

Probably. Not sure if this will do it. But there’s inherent privacy concerns in having a bunch of relatively insecure silos interoperating as a semi-social network even if most of us do so with varying degrees of anonymity. For the moment, most of us are here to avoid corporate overreach so motivations are in a certain degree of alignment. But it’s just a matter of time before something goes wrong or the winds change in an unforeseen way.

Is there anyway to implement (without spinning up your own private instance) the ability for individual users to opt out of federation of their content to certain instances, or would that introduce too much overhead and complication?

How’d you get in my house?
Would you please leave?
Who the fuck was that?

Have been too depressed for too many decades. Lost the ability to enjoy music. Miss it, but anytime I try it feels contrived and I hear people from my past deriding my selections for various reasons.

Civil war didn’t happen when Gore “lost” on some technical bullshit, it’s not going to happen anytime soon.

Stop letting him. You don’t owe him even an explanation. The nicest thing you could do for him would be to let him figure it out with as much time as he needs to do so. He hasn’t listened thus far or had any appreciable or effective consequences that gave pause to or caused change in his behaviors. I think you probably know this and are just looking for confirmation.

Take yourself and your family back. Why let someone like that be a further influence?

Needs more dark souls.

Gonna need a mobile BioShock port first, so they can Rapture while they Rapture or something.

Would be willing to bet that:

• Erdogan was informed of these plans by Putin personally and was fine with playing a part in them.
• Finland has documents that explain this.
• Finland has refrained from accusing Turkey of this because they actually value the NATO alliance and don’t want to sow discord, even if Erdogan is guilty.

Ya know what was a foundational part of the American dream? Pensions. Ya know which employers still offer them? Counties, states and the federal government.

Private companies exist solely to make the people at the top very rich based on the stolen value of employee labor while dumping catastrophic losses in the public sphere. That’s capitalism in a nutshell.

You’d have to be unbelievably gullible, naive, traumatized AND brainwashed to be a diehard for a system like that. But, somehow they’ve managed it. A deluded nation of Amway top performers just one move away from making their own imaginary millions. All simping for the system.

As someone who never had kids, I’m glad everyday that I never did.

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Russian grandmas and wives should take the money and protest anyway. Sounds like a great opportunity for a rogue propaganda campaign… Something like the following…

Option 1 - propaganda poster style

Option 2 - propaganda poster style

Option 3 - photo style

Option 4 - photo style

(All images created with bing image creator, prompt “Russian grandmother with russian government check and flaming wine bottle” some with “in the style of propaganda posters” appended.
Text made with google translate, english > russian, should say “I got mine. Time they got theirs.”)