I'm a Linux guy and I don't really care about Windows, but I'm glad to see this happening and every day I thank Europe for being the main entity fighting for regulation of big tech monopolies, because America is really failing.

I call bullshit. Yeah I'm sure they spend 2/3 of their income on rights holders, mainly Joe Rogan, Ed Sheeran and Taylor Swift.

The average musician isn't making shit, and yet the spotify execs are sipping champagne.

Among the great tragedies of our time is the fact that this slimy rapist dirtbag conman isn't already yesterday's news. Fade the fuck away, Donald.

The American right are beyond pathetic that this whining fat orange bitch is the best they've been able to come up with for 3 consecutive election cycles. At best he's a distraction from the shit our country needs to do and at worst he's a danger to the entire world, us included. Demented dotard belongs in jail and nowhere near the levers of power.

Republicans are absolutely desperate to try to equate Biden with Trump so they can say "well Biden was impeached too" or "Biden had documents too".

That's what it's all about, and it's a gross distortion of government and democracy.

This is only the tip of the iceberg. Trump is a fucking convicted felon and a serial rapist. Fuck him. Now on to sentencing.

To be clear, staging militant attacks from a hospital is a war crime.
To make matters worse, it opens up the likelihood and justification of counter-attacks against that hospital and the people in it.

According to international humanitarian law (IHL), health establishments and units, including hospitals, should not be attacked. This protection extends to the wounded and sick as well as to medical staff and means of transport. The rule has few exceptions.

Specific protection of medical establishments and units (including hospitals) is the general rule under IHL. Therefore, specific protection to which hospitals are entitled shall not cease unless they are used by a party to the conflict to commit, outside their humanitarian functions, an "act harmful to the enemy".

Medical establishments and units enjoy protection because of their function of providing care for the wounded and sick. When they are used to interfere directly or indirectly in military operations, and thereby cause harm to the enemy, the rationale for their specific protection is removed. This would be the case for example if a hospital is used as a base from which to launch an attack; as an observation post to transmit information of military value; as a weapons depot; as a center for liaison with fighting troops; or as a shelter for able-bodied combatants.

Source: The International Committee of the Red Cross

Nobody should beat around the bush here. Hamas are using injured civilians as a human shield to stage attacks, and in doing so they are inviting retaliation and suffering under well-establish terms of international law. There's not really any particular gray area here. It's horrible, it's unethical, it's criminal, and it's just plain wrong.

This dude gets more unhinged and desperate every passing day, but a huge chunk of Americans just can't see it. It's crazy.

Hopefully he's dead (from natural causes) or in jail (from natural consequences).

Yeah man, I feel sorry for the people who will have to live under the fucking Taliban, but we've spent way too much time, money and blood on Afghanistan already.

We shouldn't have been there in the first place, but for them to just instantly roll over to the Taliban... Just compare it to Ukraine, where they are fighting for their lives and freedom against a much more powerful enemy.

It's long past time for Afghanistan to deal with their own problems.

I feel like I've given my answer to this question regarding Beehaw once before...

But as I see it, the main driving force and overall source of value for services like Lemmy, Kbin, Mastodon, etc., is federation. That is to say, federation among a wide variety of different users and servers across the fediverse using protocols like ActivityPub is what sets this entire thing apart from legacy centralized and corporate social media, like Reddit or "X".

I was initially on Beehaw myself and I liked the mature and kind atmosphere, but I ended up splitting for Kbin due to issues with defederation (on top of being curious and interested in Kbin as an alternative software to lemmy). But whether we're talking about "Beehaw.org" or "Kbin.social", in my view the federation is a huge part of the appeal, and I wouldn't see myself continuing to use a server if it cut itself off from the rest of the network, regardless of whether they did it for "good reasons" or not.

Like, if Beehaw wants to be just a significantly smaller and more highly moderated centralized alternative to Reddit, that feels like a pretty weak pitch which, at best, might end up with a community roughly the size of a classic forum. I'm not really interested in that. I want the Fediverse to succeed as a decentralized, open, scalable, and community-moderated alternative to legacy social media. Frankly, my interest in Beehaw as a community hinges completely on it being a part of that movement or not.

I can understand how federation may have posed significant challenges towards your goal of detailed moderation and creating a safe and friendly space, but only in the sense that you were possibly not fully prepared for the level of exposure to a large number of federated users. But even so, if Beehaw is ever to grow into something bigger (which, to be honest, is not a given, especially if you set out on your own as just another disconnected and insular social media website), you will eventually have to deal with the harsh reality that the kind of moderation that you're interested in doing is going to be a significant challenge as your community scales, federated or not. (For example, you may be prepared to moderate content in English, but are you prepared to moderate content in other languages? How will you know when someone starts spreading disinformation and hate speech in Burmese?)

Finally, I think you might want to consider the general movement towards federated social media. Between ActivityPub and the Fediverse, Meta's interest in federating Threads, BlueSky being developed around federation to some extent, federation support in things like WordPress, and a number of other social media platforms tip-toeing their way into the idea, I personally feel that there is a pretty interesting paradigm shift happening right now. Some of that has to do with moderation, responsibility and government pressure on big tech, I think.

But nevertheless, social media is gradually moving towards federation, and I think that's a good thing for the internet as a whole. You nice people at Beehaw will really have to search yourselves to determine whether you see the value in federation (both in terms of connecting people, but also in terms of allowing various communities to self-moderate to some extent) or not.

I do hope you'll stay, even though it means facing the growing pains of moderation challenges sooner rather than later, because the fediverse is better with us all connected and communicating together. I'll be sticking with the fediverse with or without Beehaw, but I do wish you all luck in your goals should you decide to set out on your own.

Bring in a billion dollars of investor money.

Hire thousands and thousands of employees.

Spend way more than you bring in every year.

Hire some shitty CEO with a terrible track record. Pay him way too much money.

Become desperate for cash and think of ways to milk your users dry.

Get rid of bad CEO and pay him even more money.

Then when all that backfires and you've further tanked your reputation you go back to the drawing board and realize the only option to cut losses is to fire half your staff, or more.

And that's the story of Unity3d.

He confuses two obviously different places like every other day, and we're supposed to think Biden is the demented one?

Not to mention the fact that he's glorifying authoritarianism again.

Fuck this loon. The sooner he phases out of existence the better.

Make no mistake, even if he loses the popular vote, Trump is going to take getting reelected as some kind of mandate to act as a dictator and do whatever he wants with the full power of the US government and military behind him.

Democracy will not survive another 4 years of this increasingly unhinged husk of a moron.

Poor Gym, this level of abuse must be a lot to wrestle with.

Capitalism has given a lot of people out there a raw deal: low wages, increasing gap between the rich and the poor, home ownership is out of reach to many, healthcare is unaffordable to many, having a family is prohibitively expensive, we own almost nothing and rent almost everything, even basic necessities like food, water and clothing are painfully expensive. What's more, when you look at the systems in place today, it appears that these aren't bugs, but features.

I'm a socialist because I believe that society ought to use its collective power and money to guarantee all of its people a minimum of the basic, essential things that they need to live, by subsidizing food, water, shelter, clothing, heat, electricity, data, education and healthcare.

Outside of those crucial things, capitalism is just fine, as long as people are being paid fairly for their time. And, as we've all seen, capitalism needs strict rules and guard rails to make sure that workers aren't being constantly exploited. If capitalism was working well for everyone, we were all getting paid fairly for our time, and people could take care of their needs (not to mention their wants), then nobody would have any reason to care or complain about capitalism. But sadly, as it is today, capitalism is just not working for a lot of people, and many people out there are not even having their basic needs met (even despite getting an education, taking out loans, getting a job, getting a second job, working hard, etc.).

To me, creating a prosperous and happy society is much more complex than picking capitalism or socialism, and some mix of both is probably the best of both worlds.

Trump leading another insurrection, but this time against the judicial branch instead of the legislative branch???

SHOCKED fucking PIKACHU fucking FACE.

Here's a great follow-up experiment: leave "X" and never turn back.

Save your money, buy a Steam Deck or a desktop PC, play games online with the internet service that you already pay a shit ton of money for, and don't look back. It's really stupid that we allowed game consoles to charge us to play online.

Between Trump avoiding the debate and DeSantis avoiding even been seen with Biden after a disaster, the Republicans are really nailing the point home that they are absolute wusses. Political cowards.

More of that please.

Regardless of what happens to him and whether he's brought to justice, let's at the very least have more of that.

Sure they're "worried" but we've heard it all before, haven't we?

I really can't stand the number of Republicans at every level of government and discourse who are willing to mildly furrow their brows at Trump's shitty, fascistic authoritarian behavior, only to openly vote for him on election day. They really don't give a fuck what happens to the country and are just as likely as Trump to sell their soul to the highest bidder in order to grab as much power as possible.

Is it just me or is mastodon.art the source of almost all of the drama on the fediverse?

This thing is gonna flop hard.

AI is just going to be the next way that we're all gonna get fucked over and exploited by the mega rich. What a future...

Just wait until you learn who cranked the interest rates down to nothing and handed a bunch of free money to the rich at a time when supply chains were almost completely shut down during the pandemic...

Well fuck. I can't wait to try to explain this to my 65 year old parents who basically only watch British tv via VPN...

Absolutely batshit to attack a piece of free and open source software that everybody loves. I guess they must have struggled with the donut tutorial.

Haley’s husband is an Army Colonel currently deployed to Djibout. Trump knows this.

Trump thinks Haley is Pelosi. I'm not sure he knows what fucking year it is anymore.

Of course, none of that takes away from the very real and key fact that the is an asshole...

Fine by me.

Let's lock him up in a holding cell while he awaits his trial, just to be safe.

Hmhmmm... Did he also rape a woman named Mercedes? 🤔

I guess we've arrived at the part where a bunch of low-information lemmings come to say that Biden is bad for striking Houti terrorists who have been attacking and hijacking international shipping lanes, after being warned multiple times over the last weeks to stop. Boo fucking hoo.

Pro tip: when the US military gives you a "final warning" to knock off your shit, maybe listen.

So they always say... and then keep reading and posting tweets all day every day.

Tutorial: How Putin can stop the tragedy of war in Ukraine

1. Pull troops out of Ukraine.
2. Jump out of highest window in Moscow.

On top of that, we can't expect communities to POOF into existence.

We have to be part of them to build them, which means making them if they don't exist yet as well as posting and commenting in the ones that do exist. I hope that people who are used to lurking on Reddit will go out of their comfort zone a bit and start to participate in fediverse communities so that we can build things up more quickly.

It's not a "single" acquisition though. Microsoft have been acquiring huge companies (Bethesda, for example), hit games (Minecraft), and key development parters from competition (remember Rare?) from the beginning of Xbox.

To think that they spent all of those billions of dollars to buy out everything but that they aren't going to use that to benefit their platforms, is just crazy to me.

Just like they said in one of their internal emails, they are in a unique position to spend their competition out of business, and the entire industry will be worse for it.

The House Republicans truly have zero intention of doing their job or serving the needs of the country.

Flies know a piece of shit when they see one.

Like, holy shit, how can anyone look at the modern GOP and see anything other than the most inept traitors and useless clowns in US history?

I hate remote work because it means I have to pay attention to overall output and the progress of the project instead of constantly surveilling and lording my authority over the workers, who I view as subhuman tools for my own enrichment.

Does that about sum it up?

I'm sorry to say it, but you're a bad joke.

This massive push to make Trump the big bad wolf as scary as possible to scare people into voting for Biden when they fundamentally disagree with his actions is really getting ridiculous.

Cheeto and his buffoon squad are not competent enough to be nearly as dangerous as the media is trying to scare us into believing.

To describe a first-hand account from a witness' sworn testimony in a legal proceeding as a "massive push" or something the "media is trying to scare us into believing" shows that you have a very weak grasp on media literacy. The last thing you should be attempting to do is create narratives on behalf of Trump--he already has an army of useful idiots downplaying his fascist actions, so he doesn't really need you.

Their "coup" was just walking into the capitol, literally smearing shit on the walls, and then getting locked up in prison for doing it.

An unsuccessful coup is still a attempted coup, just like an unsuccessful murder is still an attempted murder.

Not to mention that you're downplaying what happened on election day, on and around January 6th, and multiple points in between and since. Here's a small sample of actions by Trump and his allies:

• Trump and his allies call for the vote counting to stop on election day, ultimately leading to the harassment of volunteer election workers.
• Trump and his allies gain unauthorized and unsupervised access to voting machines in contested states.
• Trump and his allies organize multiple slates of fake electors in an attempt to change the outcome of elections in states that he had lost.
• Trump and his allies continuously spread lies and disinformation about the 2020 election, despite knowing internally and losing nearly 100 court cases on their demonstrably bogus claims.
• Trump and his allies discuss invoking martial law and the insurrection act to forcibly and illegally steal voting machines from contested states.
• Trump pressured Pence into overturning his election loss during the certification process, despite being told that it was illegal to do so by his own staff.
• Trump not only called for mass demonstrations on January 6th that he described as being "wild", but he also personally ordered his armed, dangerous and violent crowd to assault the US Capitol in order to force Senate Republicans into going along with his plan to overturn the 2020 election.

I could do more, but frankly I don't have all day to fight against stupid disingenuous bullshitters. I'm sure that you know all of this stuff already, because it's not like it isn't common knowledge. So I guess the real question is, "why lie about it?".

Maybe it's because you want Trump and his increasingly fascist supports to further take control of the United States government. But either way, it's not Biden who is damaging the country, it's the fascists who support Trump, and the ignorant/complicit people like you who un/knowingly empower them.

One thing is for sure, the next Trump administration is showing many signs of being more fascist, more authoritarian, more autocratic, and more dangerous than the last. And I personally don't believe that he and the people who support him have any intention of ever allowing for a peaceful transition of power to any other democratically elected leader, based not on some kind of "lugenpresse narrative", but purely on their own actions and words.