As stupid as I think they are, I also feel sorry for them; they don’t realize they’re being used as pawns and will be hung out to dry as soon as it suites Musk and Trump.

The reason they’re so young and inexperienced is that everyone else realized the implications and refused for their own well-being. The fact that none of the DOGE leadership wants to be officially “in-charge” is a giant red flag.

Not if literally anyone other than a Republican is elected.

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Most of the country wants this. For every person who tries to overthrow the government, there are more people who will fight to keep it as it is.

Swearing?! On my internet?!

I have a friend who’s really into serial killers and cults

Yeah, uhhhh, keep an eye on that guy.

Shouldn’t have trusted that fart.

Some mods would do it. I don’t know why, but they would.

I thought Tinder’s most expensive tier costing $500/month was a joke, but it’s actually a thing. Someone somewhere is paying $500 for Tinder every single month. Wild.

Repost bots are already rampant on big subs, but it would get so much worse if those bots could generate continual revenue.

simply spin the wheel

That’s how the Lemmy info page (what comes up when you search for “Lemmy”) does it, and the experience isn’t great.

Before I knew how Lemmy worked I just clicked the first option it showed, which (for me) was a non-English instance. The second option was that LGBT-focused instance that defederated with lemmy.world a few months ago. Of course I didn’t know anything about either community so I just picked randomly. I went right back to Reddit until they pulled the next anti-user thing.

Assuming you’re correct, what alternative is there besides MAGAs getting gut-punched with reality? All the issues that you say contribute to the problem are being exacerbated by Trump.

This particular comment notwithstanding, the banter on Lemmy is surprisingly Reddit-like, but in a good way.

Tesla investors are starting to care, it seems.

I’ve had people on Reddit and Lemmy dispute my comments by citing ChatGPT… AI is a really innovative wrench that people are using as a hammer.

I also blame the AI companies for pushing that usage. It doesn’t matter how many tiny disclaimers Google and Microsoft add when they return AI answers to queries by default.

I asked the locally-hosted version about Tienanmen Square and it gave an accurate description, but the wording was a bit sympathetic to the CCP. It was like “according to some people, this is what happened, but the government contests this.”

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My guess is that they’ll keep adding to WSL until Windows is just a legally ambiguous closed-source wrapper around Linux. They’ll make the GPL’d part so convoluted that they’re the only organization able to maintain it, which will force people to continue using their proprietary wrapper. Basically Android but for PCs.