winterayars

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[–] winterayars 3 points 5 months ago (3 children)

On the one hand this is true, but also i get it. Twitter is where the people are. Where are they gonna go, Tumblr? Mastodon instances everybody defederates?

[–] winterayars 6 points 5 months ago

And a lot better from a security standpoint. Hell, get a Bitwarden subscription.

[–] winterayars 22 points 5 months ago (5 children)

I think there will (or could) come a time. There has to be a limit. "Elon Musk sucks and Twitter is full of Nazis" doesn't seem to be the limit, though.

[–] winterayars 16 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Political Calvinball.

[–] winterayars 30 points 5 months ago

In that sense, TikTok is really their competition. They're upset not because it steals your data, they're upset because they're not the ones getting your data.

[–] winterayars 2 points 5 months ago

Europe does have some Union representation in the corporate org structure, fwiw. How much that helps... well... i'm not sure, i haven't seen it up close.

[–] winterayars 4 points 5 months ago

Red Hat works for the US military among other things, too. Not the greatest.

[–] winterayars 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Intel slowly dying sucks, but important Intel engineers going to RISC-V is actually pretty exciting.

[–] winterayars 3 points 5 months ago

I guess people want their statue of the world's #1 slavery defender back.

[–] winterayars 4 points 5 months ago

That's an important observation. A big part of the "authoritarian follower" personality is a desire to be "normal", to be like everyone else. If they think everyone just accepts Harris won they may not be happy about it but they'll be more likely to accept it.

[–] winterayars 3 points 5 months ago

They'll believe anything that's convenient for them to believe.

[–] winterayars 5 points 5 months ago

You know they're ready and waiting to do a repeat performance of Bush v Gore. It doesn't even need to be close, just take long enough to finish the count (see: PA being notoriously slow and probably quite important this time) that the Court has time to invent a decision.

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