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Agreed there, but I'd say wait until there's an actual person discovered. Anonymous notes left by criminals... aren't trustworthy sources. It could be by someone that is protesting isreal.... or it could be by someone that believes all Palestinians are terrorists, and wants everyone else to believe it too.

Course either way, doesn't matter, it's one crazed person or group, and we can't let him speak for anyone of a whole no matter how much we dislike the other side.

Honestly I'm at the point where I just don't know which way minimizes casualties. I feel like it's like trying to calculate if the nukes in WW2 saved more lives than they cost.

Stopping facism seems off the table. If something manages to moderate it, it may kill less per year, but may last decades longer.

Letting it run without rails it may kill millions, may start a war, but it might collapse on itself sooner.

IMO the real mystery is, did the people who had the spine to say no to trump in 2016-2020... part of why he got elected again... if trump had say been allowed to launch a nuke into a hurricane, would he have been able to make his comeback.

We need a bank account check on him.

Because growth... Without the R&D money, Microsoft or Yahoo, or someone else would have figured out how to do what they do faster/better, waited until google was a forgotten name and then enshittified.

Public trading... it's capitalism. By law you have to try and extort every penny.

Quite true... I suppose that's also the problem of the networks that are focused at privacy/control nerds first, and trying to get more mainstream users second.

The suggested follow is the types of features we are afraid of... The developers came to these places because they don't want to be told what to do... IE literally that's the exact problem with twitter right now, is Musk is personally shoving his right wing crap in our faces whether we want to look at it or not. But what regular people want... is to have crap shoved in their faces that they like and agree with.

Which I suppose development of mastadon and the like just hadn't reached the point, we go at minimum viable, and get what you specifically are looking for... with a lack of excitement for trying to use algorythms to tell people what they like.

Was going to say, why wouldn't it be the USA.

Competition is... well about competitive. A unilateral Tariff hurts everyone equally.

So if China was selling batteries to the US at $4

Taiwan was selling them at $3.90

You slap a $2 tarrif on both countries.

China raises the price to $6 to compensate, Taiwan to $5.90, Both countries make the same profit per battery sold. Unless there happens to be a US company that can make the batteries at $5 (not likely as we don't currently have the infrastructure, and a lot of products are dependent on natural resources that we just don't have).

Tech so loves to repeat the same loops, and IMO I think it's on us the fediverse for really failing to communicate the value of instances as well as making them easy.

(Number of people that have told me they think mastadon sounds like a good idea, but they don't know how to pick the right instance). I try and smack them and say "it's just like e-mail, you and your friends don't have to choose gmail, your friend can be on yahoo, and you still talk to eachother. Whcih makes sense when explained, but it seems like few hear that kind of comparison.

So... we have a new platform, to replace twitter... yay!... should we take counts on how long before either enshittification begins, flooding of ads or changes to be unusable), or it sells out to another already established billionare that abuses the power of media control etc...

My point is, they gave enough lip service, half gestures etc... to try and convince the "don't murder everyone in Gaza" some hope that they could be worked with. IE, they delayed one shipment, Harris didn't meet with Netanyahu that one time.

Again fully agreed they were ineffective half measures, but that was enough to let the Pro-Isreal lobby go in super deep "OH MY GOD LOOK HOW ANTI-SEMETIC THEY ARE!!! I NEVER".

Take Rust in Linux, for example. Even with support from Linux’s creator, Linus Torvalds, Rust is moving into Linux at a snail’s pace.

Because Linux is the biggest software in the entire world and they do lot of stuff their own way. Rust is integrated slowly for future new projects. It makes sense to move in snail pace. The government doesn’t suggest the Linux project to stop using C entirely. The government “recommends” to start new projects in memory safe languages, if it is a critical software. That makes sense to me.

Doubly so... Don't care what the language is, or what the advantages are... Even if there's a considerable security advantage to a new language... There's no such thing as a language that's advantages outweigh the security risks of rushed development to convert decades of tested code.

Lets be real, while I love the idea of users making informed choices... lets be real... how big do you think the labels on cigarettes to say "they will give you cancer and kill you". People aren't bright, you can warn them until the cows come home, they want to play a game, they will buy it. Very few of them would have listened to any warning no matter how blatent.

People are stupid... and lets be real for 99.9% of people "we'll send out the code and let you set up private servers", is really no different than we'll shut down the servers and you can never play again.

Now maybe the "the servers are guaranteed to remain until X date", is a reasonable one. Very least tells people their games have a shelf life and not to buy it after a certain point in time.

IMO I think the common thread of democrats policies... is they keep thinking if they put one foot in both camps, that they will get both camps.

So, on Gaza... they took the stance of. "let the genocide continue, send the weapons, but also send sternly worded letters".

Result: The stand with isreal crowd hears "The democrats don't support isreal". The stop the genocide people, hear they are still supporting the genocide. Result, everyone hates their stance.

Hence why musks superpac sent 2 ads, one to jewish areas pretending to be the harris campaign saying "I stand with palestine", and an ad to the muslim populated areas saying "I stand with isreal".

Same on the border, instead of announcing how BS the "Migrant crime" claims are, or how bad for everyone mass deportation is, she just said "I tried to give you everything on the border, you stopped me".