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Can't serve as many ads on the website because of ad blockers tho.

Imagine buying a physical book, reading it, and putting it on the bookshelf in your living room, only to have family members and friends borrow it and read it for free.

Shouldn’t that say that “it seems that he’s a successful man”?

I had that exact conversation at work a few days ago. Someone was insisting that Spaniards are Latino, so I asked them if Spain is in Latin America or Europe. That was the key to them eventually figuring it out.

A person you fired can't be poached.

You can't keep them out, but you can choose not to Federate with them. They can't take over. That's the point of having independent federated servers.

Well, don't use Facebook to talk about doing things that are illegal. Why do people not use common sense?

Did they say what they do want shoved down their throats?

If not for gaming, I would run Linux. Linux on gaming just isn't on par yet.

Because that's where the freak show is.

Nobody wants to be underpaid anymore.

I spent some time on Threads to see how it was and it's a fucking cesspool of like-mongering and look at me oneupsmanship bullshit that was so fucking tiring to look at that I deleted the app after 4 days.

If you think the problem is in the countryside, you've never been to New York City, and particularly the Bronx.

"...but none of me..."

How many of you are there?

There's a contradiction here. The Supreme Court ruled that Speech can't be compelled, not that you could bar certain people from a business. You could decline to decorate a cake with "MAGA", but not decline to sell a cake to a Republican, for example. What those signs are promoting is still illegal.

I love riding my bike on the weekends and if my commute wasn't 1.5 hours each way, I'd go to the gym pretty often.

But just as a side note, a user can block an entire instance as well, at least on Mastodon. I haven't checked for that functionality on Lemmy. That's not defederation, but it prevents you from seeing things you don't want to at the user level.

That's fascinating. I wonder if it's unconstitutional, though. It seems like this is the type of set up the 2nd Amendment was actually talking about rather than Bobby Boy in the woods with an M1 tank because why not.

Ban yourself and then you don’t have to worry about it.

Your job might have keyed it that way to meet diversity quotas. Don’t rock the boat unless someone else brings it up first.

That's a good question, but I'm not sure I'd wanna do that.

Telegram chats aren't e2ee by default. You're essentially putting your chats on a server owned by a rich Russian person as a hobby.

That’s an exercise in futility. If Lemmy takes off like Mastodon/Pleroma/Misskey/etc then you would spend your time trying to create accounts on hundreds of Lemmys, some of which will be private or invite only meaning you can’t. Plus, anyone on Mastodon etc. can comment on Lemmy posts. It’s not a task you can complete.

As much as I dislike Meta, the idea that you’d have to pay to present a link to a news article is idiocy. Let the news sites see how their traffic goes without those links.

This sets out my own thoughts on the situation as well. Thanks for posting.

No. What I meant to say is that native English speakers in the Bronx have poor literacy rates.

https://www.norwoodnews.org/bronx-barriers-literacy-challenge/

I wonder if that was intentional on the instance owner's part?

I got suckered by an encyclopedia salesman when I was younger. It was one of the biggest wastes of money of my young life. I had no need for it at that time and later, when I could have used it, I had the internet (or Internet with a capital I back then) and college libraries.

Good point.

Made me think of A Clockwork Orange.

I have hypertrophy of the turbinate in the right nostril. It's blocked basically all the time. I was prescribed fluticasone and what's basically a salt water rinse. Neither really does much. I also have GERD, so I ordered an under-mattress bed wedge to see if the elevation can solve both problems at the same time.

Thanks!

Derp.

How about a "convenience fee" for making an online payment. Why should I pay a fee to make the transaction more convenient for the company who no longer has to pay an employee to take the payment in person?

Thank you for the explanation.

What happened with exploding heads?

It's because the 2024 election is coming up.

Probably a combination of flat out retards and recent immigrants for whom English is a second language.

There are fewer ultra rich that need killing though, so it should be easier and quicker this time around, right?

I wish.