That’s beyond bad taste and into active stupidity.

This towel is warmer and bitier than usual.

There are whole-ass companies selling laptops with Linux preinstalled now. They work. Even with Bluetooth.

The dollar is representative of the work you contributed to the economy

If that’s true, nobody on Social Security Disability would be getting money.

So basically, the more people who believe in the value of some thing, the more that thing holds actual value?

Yes. That’s how value works.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_value

The paradox of value (also known as the diamond–water paradox) is the contradiction that, although water is on the whole more useful, in terms of survival, than diamonds, diamonds command a higher price in the market.

Real money is backed by a country’s respective economy

True.

its an IOU from the government

False.

An IOU from the government is a bond.

If someone says something that a lot of people want to be true with no evidence… it ain’t true.

Even the descendants of slaves are living in a country slavery helped build.

Nothing they do will ever mean anything, because nothing can redeem the past.

And HTTPS does that. It’s encrypted.

Well, I suppose Fascists will always hate fat people.

I’m aware of how you think it should work (Usenet, basically) but how does moderation actually work on Lemmy? Can someone be banned from a sublemmy on one instance and not banned from it on another?

I don’t want to share an instance with the nutballs on the tankie instance or the nutballs on the fascist instance.

Chromium browsers don’t allow extensions (uBlock Origin being the best) to block ads as effectively due to their implementation of Manifest V3. The Firefox implementation doesn’t share that limitation.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/12/chrome-users-beware-manifest-v3-deceitful-and-threatening

https://www.theverge.com/2023/1/17/23559234/firefox-manifest-v3-content-ad-blocker

https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2022/05/18/manifest-v3-in-firefox-recap-next-steps/

Yeah, I don’t trust TERF Island to do this right. They’ll ban Contrapoints long before they ban Rowling.

You can only go as high on that scale as your opponent did. For example, you can’t refute the central point of an insult or an attempt at shaming without missing the point that it is simply meant to make you angry or meant to make others completely disregard you. Similarly, if the “argument” is incoherent babbling, you don’t refute it so much as point out that it’s nonsensical.

Here’s a good article about debate and meta-debate.

Somewhere between Tech Conservative and FSF Member.

I don’t care about Stallman as a person. I care about being able to use the software I like and not get spied on, and the FSF actively works to ensure I can do that, so even if trying to use all FSF-approved software isn’t practical now they’re still helping to make things better. They are an important counterbalance to the bullshit.

You’re the product on paid platforms, too.