Disappointing, but not surprising. If you want to know why I quit the federation, this is why. The complete lack of accountability combined with abusive moderation is beyond toxic. No normal person is going to join a system like that.
I have downloaded my archive but have zero desire to ever return to mastodon.
I've sent in my appeal and i'm sure the removal will be quickly reversed, it's still very extremely disturbing such a thing could happen.
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Patchy the pirate: That's it? That was the [Solar] Power?
That was just [Light Emitting Diodes]
Context: The meme is a play on the version where patchy the pirate complains about steam power just being boiling water, which is itself a play on Patchy being disappointed at the SpongeBob lost episode just being 'cheap walk cycles'
Solar panels work through reversing the process in which LEDs produce light, quite literally being made from special LED designed to work in reverse. All diodes can do this to an extent, but solar panel LEDs are especially good at it.
They're called enameled cables, they've got a thin layer of insulation which prevents them from rusting or shorting.
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It's just a snake, what's the w- (trails off the side of the screen)
[Shifty eye monkey looks backwards in one panel and then forward in the next, becoming desaturated]
The stereotype of pedophiles using the dark web is absolutely true. I hosted an exit node and not even a day later got a call from my ISP. I told them I was hosting an exit node and they instantly understood the situation, went to close the node and have never hosted another one since.
What Israel is doing to Palestine today is exactly what America did and is doing to their indigenous population. Why do you think they're allies?
If people were actually taught history they would have known exactly what their genetic information being in a registry would result in.
UBI is kind of cool but it has some massive flaws. For example: Landlords and groceries can just raise prices to bring the cost of living up and since there are no rent/price controls (because "that would be communism") we'll be right back to where we started. What you want is Universal Basic Services. Anything you need to live is free. Literally impossible for anyone to game that system and equally impossible for people to slip through the gaps, but it's also never going to happen because "that would be communism"
So yeah this is why capitalism has go to, because any attempt at actually making a just and fair society will be dismissed as "being communism"
'Neither Left nor Right' is a fascist dogwhistle. Fascism has a rich history of marketing itself as the apolitical choice.
I'm laughing my ass off at old.lemmy.world whoever did that, hats off to them.
Sad day when "billionaires should pay taxes" is considered a far left position.
Any bird who lives primarily in the water is dumb as shit. They have unlimited protection above and around them, so they have zero adaptive pressure to put anything into their intelligence. Land birds have a lot to worry about so their brains are approaching human levels of intellect.
Socialized system vs capitalized system: The capitalist comes in and uses their venture capital to undercut the socialized system so that people stop using it. Once the socialized system loses interest and funding or are otherwise out of the picture, they they jack their prices up way higher than the original and because they're the only game in town, they get to keep those record profits in effective perpetuity.
The only thing more cringe than hearing people say this shit in the wild is the following lecture on its fascist origins that I follow it up with.
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We've all felt this at least once be honest with yourself.