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Yes I very much respect the minority of conservatives who are loyal Americans instead of power mad neofascists trying to subvert our precious 245 year old democracy.

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It looks like this is all intentional. It is a good thing that this all came out now and not later. lemmy.ml has admins that are worse than beehive.

https://lemmy.ml/post/1167199

That is awesome but is it affected by the api policy changes?

They don't have the entire Mastodon functionality yet but it is awesome we can follow Biden on Mastodon.

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King Charles III isn't my king either. Still a king though. And doing a much better job than King Charles I

I am staying away from beehaw for that very reason. I regard them as a local bbs.

This is a feature, not a bug. I'm not sure how you know they are the same user, but if they do the same thing that got them blocked before, you can block them again.

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Everything always felt judgemental...

I think you are awesome man!

but it could be seen as merely a false statement

That's how I see it too. Taiwan can't be a country since Taipei is the real capital of China.

If it is actually the case they are doing it for political reasons that its a good thing it happened now when Fedverse is in rapid growth and not a year from now.

Dang. All this time I have been "boosting" instead of "upvoting".

I don’t expect many lemmy servers to continue in the next six months.

LOL. I am expecting Lemmy to continue far into the future.

Fuck Convicted Sex Offender Treason Trump

Convicted Sex Offender Treason Trump conspired with Steve Bannon and others before the election even happened to circulate the Start the Steal lie.

https://www.npr.org/2022/07/22/1112138665/jan-6-committee-hearing-transcript

...audio from Trump advisor, Steve Bannon, surfaced from October 31st, 2020, just a few days before the Presidential election.

Let's listen. [Begin Videotape]

STEVE BANNON: And what Trump's going to do is declare victory, right? He's going to declare victory, but that doesn't mean he's a winner. He's just gonna say he's a winner. The Democrats — more of our people vote early that count. Theirs vote in mail. And so they're going to have a natural disadvantage and Trump's going to take advantage — that's our strategy.

He's gonna declare himself a winner. So when you wake up Wednesday morning, it's going to be a firestorm. Also — also if Trump is — if Trump is losing by 10 or 11:00 at night, it's going to be even crazier. Because he's gonna sit right there and say they stole it. If Biden's wining, Trump is going to do some crazy shit.

Can anyone tell me how I can follow President Biden from kbin.social?

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If that's the case I will go to Mastodon. But I would love to follow Biden on kbin.

there are 10 million bureaucrats in china

Who can very easily take orders from Taipei

yes, it is. it's logistically impossible.

It's not. The PRC simply needs to apply become part of the Republic of China again. That is literally all it takes. The rest is just details.

they really do support the CCP.

They really do not. We've had the Covid protests, the Hong Kong protests, and the Democracy Wall protests. When the Communist dictatorship is overthrown, it will happen fast, and Taiwan's help will be needed for their expertise in democracy. Also, the current dictator is literally the very worse one since 1976.

independent organizations have done studies in China.

It is literally impossible for "independent organizations" to objectively "study China". But in general dictatorships NEVER have more than 15-25% or so of the population. Your stance that Chinese do not want freedom and democracy and control over their own country seems racist. Your stance that only white people want and are capable of having freedom and democracy is totally obsurd.

it's very possible. it's happening right now in Hong Kong.

Because Britain foolishly turned control of Hong Kong to Beijing instead of Taipei. If China tried to invade Taiwan it would result in another Ukraine situation, where the entire free world unites against the imperialist aggressors.

I support Taiwan too. I prefer Democracies over authoritarian regimes.

No you don't. Let's be real here. You are an apologist for the Communist tyranny. You do not understand how obvious it is but no American would ever say what you said.

people didn't want to express a different opinion than what the 'masses' have already decided on, because they would be downvoted and lose karma

Critical difference. Reddit had groupthink literally enforced by the software. If you had negative karma in a subreddit and you tried to post, it would say "You are doing that too much, please wait 8 minutes to post again", even if your last post was 2 weeks ago.

Periodic reminder that Steve Bannon confessed about the Start the Steal conspiracy before the election happened.

https://www.npr.org/2022/07/22/1112138665/jan-6-committee-hearing-transcript

…audio from Trump advisor, Steve Bannon, surfaced from October 31st, 2020, just a few days before the Presidential election.

Let’s listen. [Begin Videotape]

STEVE BANNON: And what Trump’s going to do is declare victory, right? He’s going to declare victory, but that doesn’t mean he’s a winner. He’s just gonna say he’s a winner. The Democrats — more of our people vote early that count. Theirs vote in mail. And so they’re going to have a natural disadvantage and Trump’s going to take advantage — that’s our strategy.

He’s gonna declare himself a winner. So when you wake up Wednesday morning, it’s going to be a firestorm. Also — also if Trump is — if Trump is losing by 10 or 11:00 at night, it’s going to be even crazier. Because he’s gonna sit right there and say they stole it. If Biden’s wining, Trump is going to do some crazy shit.

Reminder that Steve Bannon frankly confessed Trump's Start the Steal conspiracy plans to a group of Trump insiders before the election.

https://www.npr.org/2022/07/22/1112138665/jan-6-committee-hearing-transcript

…audio from Trump advisor, Steve Bannon, surfaced from October 31st, 2020, just a few days before the Presidential election.

Let’s listen. [Begin Videotape]

STEVE BANNON: And what Trump’s going to do is declare victory, right? He’s going to declare victory, but that doesn’t mean he’s a winner. He’s just gonna say he’s a winner. The Democrats — more of our people vote early that count. Theirs vote in mail. And so they’re going to have a natural disadvantage and Trump’s going to take advantage — that’s our strategy.

reality check... Trump's tax cuts passed.

Exactly! That alone is why it's very important to vote against the GOP and their gigantic tax cuts for billionaire elites.

What did you get from Democrats having both house and presidency,

Increased minimum corporate tax rate from 0% to 20%.

Increased subsidies for ACA

Tax Cuts for middle class. $2000 per person. Plus $200 per dependent per month.

Reduction in medicare drug costs

Reduction in student loans. Sabotaged by GOP Supreme Court.

Action on climate change.

...And Biden got all that stuff done with just one vote Dem majority in the senate, which included Manshin and Arizona lady who isn't even Dem anymore. If Dems had huge majorities, they could enable a flood of progress just like they did in the 1930's and 1960's.

The cope here is too strong today lol

The "both sides" nonsense is strong today lol. But still easily refuted by reality.

Asking someone to download and install a Usenet client then set it up to connect to a server of their choice and then subscribing to newsgroups is way above and beyond what most people are willing to do in 2023, sadly.

This is not true at all. People download phone clients all the time. And there were also Usenet web clients. Subscribing to newsgroups is exactly the same as subscribing to subreddets or kbin magazines. And you have to pick a server for Fedverse also, but the the Usenet server doesn't matter at all like a Fedverse server does.

The only reason people don't use Usenet is because the free servers disappeared and ISPs no longer provided it with your internet service.

I’ve seen lots of people say “federation is like email”, but to me it’s like Usenet.

It is a lot like Usenet, but Usenet has some superior features.

Discussion groups are automatically merged across all servers. So it is decentralized but does not feel decentralized.
Newreaders only show you content that you have not already read/seen
Readers let you kill articles in subscribed newsgroups and threads within subscribed newsgroup articles so that you don't see them in the future.

We cannot let the neofascists win their War on Democracy. Lock up all these disloyal traitors to our country or another putch will happen.

This country is going to implode one way or another.

Then it is a good thing America is the most successful country in the entire world, Ivan. So that we don't have to worry about Russia's imminent implosion. I guess that is why Russians are fleeing their country in droves.

500,000 mph is 800,000 kilometers/hour or 800 megameters/hour. So it could reach the moon (384 megameters) in under 30 minutes. It could reach Mars in 68 hours or less than 3 days when Mars is closest to Earth (54600 megameters).

But they are both far enough away that is doesn't really matter.

The difference is huge. The moon is practically right next door to us (384 megameters). Mars closest point to Earth is 54000 megameters.

It's like having a friend living 384 meters down the road vs living 54-150 kilometers away.

if the shop is 10 km away vs 30 km away

It's nothing at all like that. The moon is 384 megameters away. Mars is 54000 to 150000 megameters away, depending on orbits.

So it would be like 384 meters vs 54-150 kilometers.

Escaping the gravity well on the moon is also much cheaper.

[In terms of infrastructure and accessibility, it’s really no contest. The Moon is closer, always has a view of Earth, can exchange signals and deliverables hundreds of times more quickly than can be exchanged between Earth and Mars, and is easier to land on and take off from. Certain infrastructure could be easily shared between the Earth and the Moon, such as the internet, whereas Mars would likely, due to its remote nature, need its own standalone infrastructure.]

If the community is on kbin that the kbin mod removes the spam. If the community is on lemmy instance than mod on lemmy instance removes spam.

Isn't that how it works? The mod on the community instances removes the spam and then it gets removed on all sites right?

Likewise, mods on lemmy and kbin might lock comments on a post that’s getting toxic, but that lock doesn’t carry over to kbin, and they can’t do anything about it.

Wouldn't a lock on a thread on that community's site prevent any new comments from coming back to that site over the fediverse?

Hey Alexa, only conservatives love to be lied to. All the rest of us dislike being lied to, and we think that the people who love to be lied to are the dumbest of the dumb. And an AI that lies is a useless piece of garbage.

They’ll never have the full Mastodon functionality

Until they do, my only interaction with Threads will be to follow Biden on kbin.

That is the way I look at it too. Beehaw has decided to withdraw from the main network and slowly become just a small local bbs.

Hopefully they make at least as much as unpaid interns do.

Also, Carthage must be destroyed.

Everybody who hasn't deleted all their comments should go and delete 10 or so comments. Like I did. The idea is to overwhelm admins who are trying to restore comments.