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Former Biden press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre leaves Democratic Party

https://www.axios.com/2025/06/04/karine-jean-pierre-independent-new-book

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eestileib

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Hard to tell whether she's tacking right or not, it kinda reads like she's trying to suck up to Republicans.

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jordanlund

in reply to eestileib • 3 mesi fa • •

FTA:

"Catch up quick: Jean-Pierre became the first Black woman and openly LGBTQ+ person to become the White House press secretary after Jen Psaki left the post."

I think it's safe to say she's not sucking up to Republicans, but crazier things have happened!

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eestileib

in reply to jordanlund • 3 mesi fa • •

Oh I know who she is.

I've been sold out by people I would have expected it from less.

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Democratic brand is currently an albatross. Expect a lot of people going “independent” for lack of a defined third party in the coming years. We saw in 24 what a determined group who despise genocide above all can do to sway a presidential election.

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Japan's annual births fall to record low as country's 'silent emergency' deepens

https://apnews.com/article/japan-newborns-record-low-population-aging-87e3cea32daa398277751842ac9db471

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flamingo_pinyata

in reply to RandAlThor • 3 mesi fa • •

I'm noticing a pattern here. Not just about Japanese society but many others as well.

It's never "we want to have a child so we will"
It's always "this is a series of rules, procedures and conditions to fulfill before you can have a child"

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cornshark

in reply to flamingo_pinyata • 3 mesi fa • •

Who is saying the second quote? The government?

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HikingVet

in reply to cornshark • 3 mesi fa • •

They made it up.

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cornshark

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Right but I'm trying to understand what exactly it is they made up. Who is the hypothetical speaker here?

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thejml

in reply to flamingo_pinyata • 3 mesi fa • •

It should never be just “we want to have a child so we will”. That’s self centered, short sighted and irresponsible.

Anyone looking to have children should think through at the minimum:
- do we have the money to raise a child?
- who will be able to raise and care for them
- will the child have the ability to grow and succeed in the environment we’re bringing them into?
- will the above to be to the standard we would want for the child?

To bring a child into a bad environment, with no time or money to spend on the child, is to bring the child into this world setup for failure and would only put a drain on the system, the resources, the climate, the relatives, etc.

People are choosing (in Japan and elsewhere around the world) to not have children because of the less than favorable conditions outlined above, and many others.

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flamingo_pinyata

in reply to thejml • 3 mesi fa • •

That's true. My argument is that before, when people had more children, they didn't care about bringing them into a bad world. Even 100 years ago it was expected some of your children will die.

Now, children dying is not a nice thing. Luckily we solved it and these days if you behave like our ancestors you will have too many children for society to be sustainable.

But if you're in a situation where there are too few children for a sustainable society, encouraging risk would help.

All being said, I actually believe we need to reduce the human population. But we don't know how to handle a sudden decline, or if we can level it out later. So a gradual decrease would be preferable.

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otp

in reply to flamingo_pinyata • 3 mesi fa • •

How did you notice that pattern? It seems none of the rest of us have ever heard of that before...lol

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Bender12

in reply to RandAlThor • 3 mesi fa • •

As always, this is only a problem for capitalism and billionaires needing more workers to exploit. I see no issues here.

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Eheran

in reply to Bender12 • 3 mesi fa • •

This is a massive problem for everyone, what are you talking about?

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QuoVadisHomines

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Some folks here are as devout believers in their system without any evidence just like those that regularly attend churches

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shalafi

in reply to Bender12 • 3 mesi fa • •

Damn you're smart! To let the rest of us know how smart you are, I have a few questions you can answer for us:

Explain how fewer young workers can produce enough in taxes to run the country.

Explain how a dwindling tax base will support the elderly.

Explain how to avoid an economic collapse as fewer and fewer people require fewer and fewer goods and services.

Some of y'all have the economic understanding of an angry 15-yo.

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rockerface 🇺🇦

in reply to shalafi • 3 mesi fa • •

So these are resolved by:

Increase taxes for the rich people.

Stop demanding infinite growth out of economy, so that stopping that growth isn't labeled "collapse"

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pelespirit

in reply to rockerface 🇺🇦 • 3 mesi fa • •

I upvoted and agree with you, but how do you stop demanding infinite growth out of the economy? Do you go after the shareholders and taxing the rich a lot more would fix that? Serious questions.

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rockerface 🇺🇦

in reply to pelespirit • 3 mesi fa • •

Well, yes. The shareholders are the ones demanding growth and profits that don't go anywhere beyond their pockets. Tax the rich, and remove the incentive to profit infinitely.

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Damage

in reply to shalafi • 3 mesi fa • •

Explain how fewer young workers can produce enough in taxes to run the country.

Our knowledge and craftsmanship improves continuously. Fewer people are needed today to produce and administer things than were needed years ago, we just decided to produce more. That is not necessary.

Explain how a dwindling tax base will support the elderly.

What do the elderly need? Essentially medical assistance. That's what we should focus on improving right now.

Explain how to avoid an economic collapse as fewer and fewer people require fewer and fewer goods and services.

We've learned that "the economy" is mostly disconnected from the well-being of the average person. It's a matter of will and organization, really.

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QuoVadisHomines

in reply to Damage • 3 mesi fa • •

Ok so you have no solution other than hope that one comes along.

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CarbonIceDragon

in reply to Bender12 • 3 mesi fa • •

It's an issue in any economic system. No economy built with any current or near future technology functions without human labor, which people can no longer supply once they get old enough for their health to decline, regardless of who owns what.

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AnarchoDakosaurus

in reply to CarbonIceDragon • 3 mesi fa • •

Its not as if there's a lack of humans.

If they don't want their population to collapse they can accept immigration and change their culture to be more welcoming to outsiders. Or don't and keep on the same path.

Noone is putting a gun to politicians heads and making them do any of this. Nothing they can do will naturally increase the birthrate.

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CarbonIceDragon

in reply to AnarchoDakosaurus • 3 mesi fa • •

I think there is something they can do, or more to the point, there's a reason the birthrate is so low there. I don't think it's a coincidence that some of the most overworked countries on the planet have such low birthrates. Taking care of children is labor, unpaid labor at that, that has a lot of other expenses associated with it. What I think they could do, is compensate people for it, not some pittance that doesn't cover a fraction of the costs of raising a child, but an amount that would actually be sufficient to make having a kid or not, with a parent (either parent) home at any given point for them, a financially neutral decision for a family (to include the opportunity costs of not working) rather than a very expensive one.

Evolution being what it is, it would seem implausible for the average number of kids people actually would want to have, if it wasn't a burden on them, to be lower than replacement, else the human species wouldn't have come to exist in the first place. For individual people, sure, everyone has their own feelings on the matter, but averaged across society, one would expect most people to desire kids enough if they could manage it to keep the population at least stable.

It would be incredibly expensive, yes, and so the tax burden it would create would probably be unpopular, especially among people that didn't personally gain from it, but continuing the status quo is nothing less than extracting the abstract resource that human labor can be thought of as, at an unsustainable rate. That situation will either end willingly or it will end in collapse.

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Yawweee877h444

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You're 100% correct. And capitalism is going to fight tooth and nail to come up with capitalist explanations and capitalist solutions, whatever those may be.

At the end of the day, the masses go to jobs for long hours that they hate, even if they "followed their passion". Capitalist hustle adds overwork, and takes from the joy of some work you may have potentially enjoyed. Not to mention jobs that are very necessary, yet very unenjoyable like construction or factory work or whatever. The pay is only enough to cover costs, so you have to keep working and can never escape.

All of this to prop up the billionaire class so they can enjoy giant mansions, Lamborghinis, yachts, and whatever.

Have a kid? I don't have the money, nor do I want an innocent child living this life.

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QuoVadisHomines

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A large elderly population that needs benefits but isn’t producing labor’s requirements are met how in alternate systems if those needs require medicines that Japan must buy from other nations?

Remember in Japan’s case there are not enough workers paying into the system to maintain benefits for the growing elderly population which is expected to increase.

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Envy

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We've tried everything but moving away from a capitalist system or allowing immigrants into our country and we're all out of ideas

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pelespirit

in reply to Envy • 3 mesi fa • •

I'm really interested on how you think they should move away from a capitalist system, what the actual steps are. If you're saying that they should treat their employees better and make the work culture more accommodating for families, I get your point.

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Envy

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Yeah their whole shtick has been mimicking American corporatism et al since before the 80s. Aint working out for them.

Actual steps? We have books about that since the 1800s. Usually involves overthrowing the bourgeoisie, arming the proletariat, and dismantling their networks of propaganda

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pelespirit

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They haven't been mimicking American corporatism, they were set up that way after the war. You could almost call them a commonwealth since we have military bases there and protect them.

Edit: Compare them to Puerto Rico except the part about being an American citizen that can't vote, and you'll see that they're very similar.

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Envy

in reply to pelespirit • 3 mesi fa • •

Key aspects of American influence on Japanese capitalism:

Post-WWII Occupation and Reconstruction:
The US occupation, led by General Douglas MacArthur, introduced significant changes to Japan's economic system. This included: 

Land Reform: Breaking up large landholdings to benefit farmers and reduce the power of wealthy landowners.

Breaking up Zaibatsu: Attempting to dismantle the large, powerful business conglomerates (Zaibatsu) to promote free market competition.
Promoting Free Market Capitalism: Shifting the Japanese economy towards a more free market model, inspired by American ideals.

And they're not a commonwealth of ours. If you think the US would defend Japan or Taiwan in the next few years, you're as big of a fool as those that doubted a lying populist like Trump would win.

I won't be arguing any further. You do you chief. Sorry that the facts dont add up and you wanna squabble over things neither of us can change. You seem to have found a good home on shitjustworks, the vibe suits you

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pelespirit

in reply to Envy • 3 mesi fa • •

Key aspects of American influence on Japanese capitalism:

Post-WWII Occupation and Reconstruction:
The US occupation, led by General Douglas MacArthur, introduced significant changes to Japan's economic system. This included:
Land Reform: Breaking up large landholdings to benefit farmers and reduce the power of wealthy landowners.
Breaking up Zaibatsu: Attempting to dismantle the large, powerful business conglomerates (Zaibatsu) to promote free market competition.
Promoting Free Market Capitalism: Shifting the Japanese economy towards a more free market model, inspired by American ideals.

I think we're agreeing, we set up the Japanese markets. Not sure why you're getting so antsy about this.

And they're not a commonwealth of ours. If you think the US would defend Japan or Taiwan in the next few years, you're as big of a fool as those that doubted a lying populist like Trump would win.

I didn't say they were one, I said they're almost like one. Do you think the trump administration would defend Puerto Rico? He threw paper towels at them when they had a disaster. Again, not saying Japan is a commonwealth, but trump sticking up for them isn't a guide either.

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Ecco the dolphin

in reply to Envy • 3 mesi fa • •

I'm not coming to argue you on your main point. As a Communist, I think communism would be great in Japan, and a lot of other places.

However, you are completely wrong about the USA not defending Japan. Unlike taiwain there are several large american military bases in Japan, and actually Japan is not allowed to have a large military of its own through its constitution (I edited this, corrected)

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty…

article 9 of Japanese constitution involving its military

Okinawa is one base a lot of people have heard of, but there's like 20 american military bases there. Japan depends on the USA for its foreign defense.

Since Japan is the largest foreign holder of american government debt (bonds) it might be appropriate to call them a vassal state.

clause in the Constitution of Japan outlawing war as a means to settle international disputes involving the state

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shalafi

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Not working out: Going from being completely flattened to the 4th largest economy in the world. Fucking failures.

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QuoVadisHomines

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You know that the American corporations took a ton of lessons from Japanese companies in the 1980s, right?

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NaibofTabr

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Yeah their whole shtick has been mimicking American corporatism et al since before the 80s. Aint working out for them.

There absolutely was an effort in Japanese businesses to imitate American businesses in the 1980s, but it was also very much a two-way street and it's important to keep this in mind. Some of the toxic work culture elements that exist in the US corporate world today were imported. Also keep in mind that learning about other businesses was more difficult at the time because the Internet wasn't a thing yet. Computers were barely getting local proprietary networks in very few, leading-edge businesses. If you wanted to learn about business operarions in another country you'd have to buy physical media (newspapers, industry journals, commentary books) or visit in person. It was slow and expensive.

Ultimately a lot of what you're referring to tracks back to Theory Z which was also called "Japanese Management".

In fact there has been a lot of cultural crosstalk between Japan and the US, going back a long time. For instance, baseball

Baseball was introduced to Japan in 1859 and is Japan's most popular participatory and spectator sport. [...]
The Japanese government appointed American oyatoi in order to start a state-inspired modernization process. This involved the education ministry, who made baseball accessible to children by integrating the sport into the physical education curriculum. Japanese students, who returned from studying in the United States captivated by the sport, took government positions. Clubs and private teams such as the Shinbashi Athletic Club, along with high school and college teams, commenced the baseball infrastructure.

When the digital electronics revolution came in the 1970s, Japan was both a competitor and a partner for the US. In the 1980s Japan's economy rivaled the US. Frankly, a lot of it did in fact "work out" for them, though it's difficult to separate the economic success from the electronics industry boom (how much of the rapid development of electronics was dependent on the corporate culture that had developed during the previous decade? how much of the business success was a result of the demand for the electronics products? how much of the demand was created internally by the businesses themselves? how would you even go about drawing lines between them?). The exploding popularity of video games (a side effect of the electronics revolution) resulted in a massive cultural export from Japan to the rest of the world, including the US.

And really the rabit hole goes way deeper. I highly recommend this video: by Moon Channel

So what you said is true, technically, but it is really a half-truth which projects the idea that the relationship was somehow one-sided, when in reality it was very much not.

Flashback: When Japan Nearly Overtook the US Economy

In the 1980s, Japan emerged as an economic powerhouse, experiencing a period of remarkable growth that led to speculations about its potential to overtake the United States as the world’s largest…

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ShinkanTrain

in reply to Envy • 3 mesi fa • •

Ban anime.

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UnderpantsWeevil

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Surely the solution to Japan's population crisis is to introduce American style prudish protestantism.

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CheeseNoodle

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We made everything super expensive and created a toxic work culture that weighs on your every waking moment while cutting salaries so that both people in a relationship need to work full time... why is no one having kids?

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UnderpantsWeevil

in reply to CheeseNoodle • 3 mesi fa • •

Might be worth noting that this is a huge swing from a bygone era of high infant and child death, such that women were expected to have children early and often in hopes that they could outperform the mortality rate. Population rates in Japan had been low and relatively flat for centuries. Then the industrial revolution and modern medicine dramatically reduced mortality rates, causing populations to climb rapidly for around a century.

Now we're settling into a new normal of sub-replacement rate births (not no births by any stretch, just births slower than the post-40s boom years) and everyone's freaking out like Japan won't exist in another generation.

The Japanese people could likely support a higher population via socialist public policy. But they could also just have a smaller population going into the 21st century. It's not like 123M is a magic number the nation needs to persist. If Japan's population fell into the 80M mark, what's the horrible thing that could happen? Koreans and Philippinos and Italians and Egyptians might be legally allowed to immigrate at last? Oh no!!!! Death of a nation!!!

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QuoVadisHomines

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They wouldn’t be able to afford retirement payments for their elderly population. That is the risk

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otp

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How big of an issue is that in Japan? I know that older people there tend to like being employed even into their senior years. I don't know how much is out of necessity.

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resipsaloquitur

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Oh no, more space and resources for one of the most crowded and resource-constrained countries on earth.

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QuoVadisHomines

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They need more workers paying taxes into their system than retirees taking benefits out if the system. As Japan is the oldest nation on average this is a huge problem.

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Trump Announces Russia Will Strike Back at Ukraine After ‘Good Conversation’ With Putin

Trump announced that Russia would "respond" to the recent Ukrainian attack on Russian airfields while reflecting on his "good conversation" with Vladimir Putin.

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...yeah? I mean, they're at war, no? That's kind of how wars work.

Boxer receives double jab and uppercut. Announces he will strike back.

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plyth

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The issue is that because of nuclear treaties between USA and Russia, Russia is required to park their nuclear bombers out in the open. If USA wants Russia to keep them out in the open, they had to make a good argument.

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SereneSadie

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He's a certifiable Benjamin Button.

He becomes more of a pathetic crying toddler the older he gets.

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Brain-computer interfaces: Brain implants are letting people move, speak, and interact with machines using only their thoughts. The first FDA approvals may arrive within five years.

Brain-computer interfaces

Brain implants are letting people move, speak, and interact with machines using only their thoughts. The first FDA approvals may arrive within five years.

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The face you make when you know that you’re completely fkd

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Brain-computer interfaces: Brain implants are letting people move, speak, and interact with machines using only their thoughts. The first FDA approvals may arrive within five years.

Brain-computer interfaces

Brain implants are letting people move, speak, and interact with machines using only their thoughts. The first FDA approvals may arrive within five years.

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Mt Fryatt and Geraldine from the Athabasca Falls Trail, Icefields Parkway Jasper NP

Located not too far from the Sunwapta falls, Athabasca falls is a popular waterfall on the icefields parkway. At just half a mile round trip to the falls, it is great for a quick visit. Continuing upstream from the falls may give you a chance to separate from the crowds while seeing magnificent views of Mt Geraldine and surrounding peaks. There is also an area that lets you check out the slot canyon downstream, but it was still closed when I went there on May 4th. The falls itself was decent, but the whole area would be great for a picnic, which could pretty much be said for any stop along the parkway.

Athabasca falls rushing with Mount Kerkeslin in the background. The jagged nature of the rock here is because it is made of hard gog quartzite being sheared off as opposed to more smoothly eroded.

The top of Athabasca falls. While the other side is gated off, this has pretty easy access.

The slot canyon being formed downstream of Athabasca falls.

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Trump tax bill will add $2.4 trillion to the deficit and leave 10.9 million more uninsured, CBO says

https://apnews.com/article/cbo-deficits-tax-cuts-trumps-big-beautiful-bill-64d7de49aef62ba07b7f6f45c1ca73d1

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Asafum

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When asked for comment the White House replied: "Yeah well the CBO are communist illegal immigrant antisemites!! The Joe Biden clone robot is remotely controlling them, they're going to be deported! Thank you for your attention to this matter."

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Oxysis/Oxy

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And thus they wish death on 10.9 million Americans

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Envy

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Its okay though,the demoncrat$ were gonna have death panels (/s)

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HubertManne

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They had weakened the aca by kicking the one leg out and this will basically push it back to where it was. hospitals will have to inflate costs to make up for the uninsured (or just go under) and its a slippery slope back to where we were. Sucks because the aca was one of the few good things of this millenia.

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socphoenix

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The way they’re going it’s not gonna be long before we start hearing about hospitals not being required to treat you in the ER without proof you can pay to keep costs down

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CaptDust

in reply to Redditsux • 3 mesi fa • •

Republicans have had over a decade to "fix" the ACA and the best they've proposed is nuke it with nothing to replace.

GOP is not a serious party, they are arsonists.

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Aedis

in reply to CaptDust • 3 mesi fa • •

Also, democrats had had since 1973 to codify roe v wade but they never did.

The democrats are also not a serious party. They are grifters.

And that's why we are in this mess.

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CaptDust

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Democrats have proposed:
- Freedom of Choice Act
- Women's Health Protection Act
- Reproductive Freedom for Women Act
- Ensuring Access to Abortion Act
- Freedom to Travel for Health Care Act

(And likely more I'm forgetting)

All related to codifying Roe / protecting women's choice, and all failing to pass into law due to Republican resistance. Politely fuck off with that nonsense.

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Aedis

in reply to CaptDust • 3 mesi fa • •

Freedom of Choice Act:
Joe Manchin (D) voted against, nullifying the tie breaker effect that the VP (D) would've had.

Reproductive Freedom for Women Act:
Bill was introduced too late, killed on Jan 3rd 2025 as it still hadn't reached the senate floor by presidential turnover. Certainly feels like it was on purpose. It's not like senators don't know how long bills take to pass.

Women's Health Protection Act:
Joe Manchin (D) voted against, nullifying the tie breaker effect that the VP (D) would've had.

Ensuring Access to Abortion Act:
Never passed the 60 vote threshold.

Freedom to Travel for Health Care:
Never passed the 60 vote threshold.

You got more? Keep them coming. I can keep showing you how Democrats torpedo their own bills and then blame the Republicans to keep the status quo and keep fundraising off of us.

Yeah for the last two there, the filibuster is the culprit. But Democrats also had the opportunity to get rid of it with Biden and didn't. So then you deal with it, keep bringing the bill on the floor till you get cloture.

But at least they don't try to set everything on fire. Still the better option. But still not great.

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mattbnr

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We are adding $1 trillion every 100 days as it stands right now. So something has to change.

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DrDeadCrash

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Something that doesn't make it worse though, right?

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crusa187

in reply to Redditsux • 3 mesi fa • •

2 trillion in tax cuts for the wealthy. We can’t afford that at all, wtf?!

DOGE cuts, as harmful as they were to government function, are not even a drop in a $2T bucket.

Mainstream Media: why aren’t you hounding repugnantcons daily about the rich robbing the working poor like this?!

The billionaires already pay on average just 8% of their income in taxes. That’s way less than the vast majority of us pay. And they need to steal from us to pay even less?! These bastards need to pay their fair share, one way or another.

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First time?

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AnUnusualRelic

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How about US consumers?

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小莱卡

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People also forget what they did and continue to do in the marshall islands and their literal apartheid there.

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Palestinian Red Crescent details medic’s account of 15 colleagues’ slaughter

cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/30795942

Exclusive: Asaad al-Nasasra told PRCS he heard Israeli troops shoot first responders while they were clinging to life

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2025-06-04 15:08:37

Palestinian Red Crescent details medic’s account of 15 colleagues’ slaughter

Exclusive: Asaad al-Nasasra told PRCS he heard Israeli troops shoot first responders while they were clinging to life

Palestinian Red Crescent details medic’s account of 15 colleagues’ slaughter
^{Lorenzo Tondo (The Guardian)}

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Taco Trump Whines That He Can’t Figure Out How to Do a Deal With China

cross-posted from: lemmy.ca/post/45433502

Archive link: archive.ph/YQ9qo

RandAlThor

2025-06-04 15:42:44

Taco Trump Whines That He Can’t Figure Out How to Do a Deal With China

Archive link: archive.ph/YQ9qo

Taco Trump Whines That He Can’t Figure Out How to Do a Deal With China
President Xi Jinping has reportedly been avoiding a one-on-one call with Trump.
^{Janna Brancolini (The Daily Beast)}

#politics

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Blackout

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"It's like they speak a different language or something" - Trump (likely)

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friend_of_satan

in reply to RandAlThor • 3 mesi fa • •

Where's that ghost writer when you need them?

RandAlThor via World News

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Taco Trump Whines That He Can’t Figure Out How to Do a Deal With China

Archive link: archive.ph/YQ9qo

Taco Trump Whines That He Can’t Figure Out How to Do a Deal With China

President Xi Jinping has reportedly been avoiding a one-on-one call with Trump.

^{Janna Brancolini (The Daily Beast)}

#World

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givesomefucks

in reply to RandAlThor • 3 mesi fa • •

China thinks long term and their government doesn't have to worry about elections.

There's no reason for them to grovel for short term concessions like democracies have to, they can just wait trump out.

Even better, companies from other countries that used to buy Chinese goods from American resellers, are now just buying direct from China to avoid tareifs nonsense.

Long after this is really over, American resellers can't compete with buying direct.

Like, I wonder why trump thought all these billion dollars global corporations kept bending the knee to China in the first place....

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DominusOfMegadeus

in reply to givesomefucks • 3 mesi fa • •

Jesus, don’t tell him!

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floofloof

in reply to givesomefucks • 3 mesi fa • •

Like, I wonder why trump thought all these billion dollars global corporations kept bending the knee to China in the first place…

I don't expect his thinking got as far as that question.

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Gsus4

in reply to givesomefucks • 3 mesi fa • •

You can already see the severed trade networks start to heal circumventing the US. This is going to be brexit x 100

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Anonymaus

in reply to givesomefucks • 3 mesi fa • •

Democracy and trump shouldn't be in the same sentence

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liverbe

in reply to RandAlThor • 3 mesi fa • •

Good idea to steer clear of TACO man then.

Chinese diplomats tend to avoid putting their leader in unpredictable and potentially embarrassing situations.

fne8w2ah via World News

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Train ticket enforcement must be fair and proportionate, watchdog warns

ORR criticises ‘inconsistent outcome’ across Britain’s network with some passengers unfairly punished for honest mistakes

^{Gwyn Topham (The Guardian)}

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Kaput

in reply to fne8w2ah • 3 mesi fa • •

No ticket youtube.com/shorts/QmkuNZiwq6U

- YouTube

Profitez des vidéos et de la musique que vous aimez, mettez en ligne des contenus originaux, et partagez-les avec vos amis, vos proches et le monde entier.

^youtube.com

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aeronmelon

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Clicked hoping for Dogma, was not disappointed.

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Kaput

in reply to aeronmelon • 3 mesi fa • •

Well now I'm curious, what is the dogma one?

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koper

in reply to fne8w2ah • 3 mesi fa • •

Train ticket enforcement must not exist. Make it free, like Luxembourg. Saves a lot of administrative costs, turnstiles, queues and police interactions.

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Junkers_Klunker

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Yea, if they want us to use public transport then fucking make it a viable option.

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ohulancutash

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For that to work tens to hundreds of billions of investment to increase capacity would be needed first. Can’t even get one HS line built at the moment.

squirrel via Fediverse

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FediForum starts in less than 24 hours

FediForum

FediForum: moving the Open Social Web forward

^FediForum

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magnetosphere

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FediForum brings together the leading thinkers and doers who build this new Open Social Web.

Oh. So not lazy end users like me. Well, I wish them the best!

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Blackout

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I don't see star trek memes on the schedule, it's like they don't even use Lemmy?

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US Senator Slammed to the Ground and Handcuffed at Noem Event in L.A.

Video footage released by Padilla’s office shows the Democratic Senator approaching the podium during Noem’s remarks: “I’m Senator Alex Padilla. I have questions for the Secretary,” he said before several men, including officers wearing FBI insignia, physically pushed him back. Moments later, Padilla was shoved to the floor face-down in a hallway outside the briefing room, handcuffed, and temporarily detained in an adjoining room.

“Sir! Sir! Hands off!” Padilla shouted during the scuffle, which unfolded in front of reporters and staff in a federal building in downtown Los Angeles, where protests have raged for nearly a week over a Trump-ordered crackdown involving ICE, National Guard troops, and U.S. Marines.

Senator Slammed to the Ground and Handcuffed at Noem Event in L.A.

Padilla was shoved face-down in a hallway, handcuffed, and temporarily detained.

^TIME

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Blaze (he/him) via Fediverse

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Voyager changed the default instance to lemmy.zip

cross-posted from: discuss.tchncs.de/post/3785704…

chore: set default instance to lemmy.zip, remove lemm.ee
Thank you for all your work!

Release 2.35.1 · aeharding/voyager

📝 Other Changes chore: set default instance to lemmy.zip, remove lemm.ee PR: #2034 Due to lemm.ee shutting down on June 30th, 2025, if you have an account on lemm.ee, I recommend to export you...

^GitHub

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in reply to Blaze (he/him) • 3 mesi fa • •

Congrats to @Demigodrick@lemmy.zip, seems like the transparency and the great monthly reports (lemmy.zip/post/39959863) paid back!

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Demigodrick

in reply to Blaze (he/him) • 3 mesi fa • •

Wow, that's amazing 🥲

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𝔽𝕩𝕠𝕞𝕥

in reply to Demigodrick • 3 mesi fa • •

You deserve it, one of the best instances [and admins] by far.

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Quicky

in reply to Blaze (he/him) • 3 mesi fa • •

Bit shit for UK users though since lemmy.zip is blocked for them. Not exactly going to encourage new users from here.

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gressen

in reply to Quicky • 3 mesi fa • •

They should direct their concerns to the source of the issue - the ones that put UK in this predicament.

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Quicky

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Realistically that is never going to happen. The biggest issue the fediverse has is onboarding. People just looking to try out a reddit alternative aren't going to bother emailing their fucking MP just because the default settings of an app won't let them sign up. They'll just give up and go elsewhere.

If we want to encourage growth, adding additional barriers isn't the way to do it.

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Demigodrick

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I fully agree with you - I'm legally liable though under the act and am not risking fines.

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Quicky

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Yeah I don't blame you either. But I do think the default server should be more inclusive than less, particularly at the potential starting point of a user's introduction to the fediverse.

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aeharding

in reply to Quicky • 3 mesi fa • •

I could see that argument, but I also wanted to pick the best instance for most people, not necessarily an instance that works in every country with every shitty law. We're all volunteers here.

And I might change in the future, or create a way for the app to chose a fallback default instance for a better user experience.

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Quicky

in reply to aeharding • 3 mesi fa • •

Yep, a region check that sets an alternative default for countries that are blocked by the default server makes way more sense than the default being inaccessible for them.

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greybeard

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A region check might be a good way to handle it and load balance at the same time. Pushing people to a larger variety of instances while also making it easy on them. The down side is certainly the overhead of vetting and maintaining the list.

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Gladaed

in reply to Blaze (he/him) • 3 mesi fa • •

Ok, but why did they do this and why is it good?

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squirrel

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Lemm.ee is shutting down at the end of the month.

adminbot

2025-06-03 21:21:33

lemm.ee is shutting down at the end of this month

Hey everyone

We’re really sorry to say this, but lemm.ee will be shutting down on June 30, 2025.
What you need to know

As of now:
New user registrations are disabled
Creating new communities is disabled
What you should do:
You can export your settings at lemm.ee/settings to take them with you to another instance.
If you're moving to another instance, consider adding a note to your lemm.ee profile with your new username. Your old profile will still be visible from other instances even after we go offline.
Alternatively, if you want to delete your lemm.ee profile, now is the best time to do it, so the deletion can federate out before we go offline.
If you're one of the folks supporting us with a recurring donation, please remember to cancel it (Ko-Fi donations should have been cancelled automatically already). Our leftover funds are already enough to cover our bills for next month, so we can keep things running without any more support.
Because of how Lemmy is built, everything posted on lemm.ee will still be accessible from other instances, even after we go offline.
Why this is happening

The key reason is that we just don’t have enough people on the admin team to keep the place running. Most of the admin team has stepped down, mostly due to burnout, and finding replacements hasn’t worked out.
The sad reality is that while there are a lot of great people on Lemmy, there are also some who use the platform to attack others, stir up conflict, or actively try to undermine the project. Admins are volunteers who deal with the latter group on a constant basis, this takes a mental toll. Please understand why our admins chose to step down, and be kind to the admins on whatever instance you decide to join.
We know this sucks. We're genuinely sorry it’s ending like this. Thank you to everyone who spent time here and helped make it better.
– lemm.ee team

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𝔽𝕩𝕠𝕞𝕥

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Lemm.ee is shutting down, so they had to change. Lemmy.zip is the best choice

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Sc00ter

in reply to 𝔽𝕩𝕠𝕞𝕥 • 3 mesi fa • •

Been trying to figure out where to migrate. This is the biggest endorsement that I should shift to .zip

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greybeard

in reply to Sc00ter • 3 mesi fa • •

I had the same problem with lemmy.one shutting down. I've been exploring around and am currently trying feddit.online, because it isn't lemmy based. So far I'm liking it, but Piefed just got a proper API for apps and the first app launched yesterday, so we'll see how it goes.

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Blaze (he/him)

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lemm.ee/post/65824884

adminbot

2025-06-03 21:21:33

lemm.ee is shutting down at the end of this month

Hey everyone

We’re really sorry to say this, but lemm.ee will be shutting down on June 30, 2025.
What you need to know

As of now:
New user registrations are disabled
Creating new communities is disabled
What you should do:
You can export your settings at lemm.ee/settings to take them with you to another instance.
If you're moving to another instance, consider adding a note to your lemm.ee profile with your new username. Your old profile will still be visible from other instances even after we go offline.
Alternatively, if you want to delete your lemm.ee profile, now is the best time to do it, so the deletion can federate out before we go offline.
If you're one of the folks supporting us with a recurring donation, please remember to cancel it (Ko-Fi donations should have been cancelled automatically already). Our leftover funds are already enough to cover our bills for next month, so we can keep things running without any more support.
Because of how Lemmy is built, everything posted on lemm.ee will still be accessible from other instances, even after we go offline.
Why this is happening

The key reason is that we just don’t have enough people on the admin team to keep the place running. Most of the admin team has stepped down, mostly due to burnout, and finding replacements hasn’t worked out.
The sad reality is that while there are a lot of great people on Lemmy, there are also some who use the platform to attack others, stir up conflict, or actively try to undermine the project. Admins are volunteers who deal with the latter group on a constant basis, this takes a mental toll. Please understand why our admins chose to step down, and be kind to the admins on whatever instance you decide to join.
We know this sucks. We're genuinely sorry it’s ending like this. Thank you to everyone who spent time here and helped make it better.
– lemm.ee team

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schnurrito

in reply to Quicky • 3 mesi fa • •

this is your brain on it being ok for governments to regulate the Internet 🙁

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mbirth 🇬🇧

Unknown parent • 3 mesi fa • •

It’s not lemmy.zip that’s blocked in the UK, they (lemmy.zip) block every visitor from the UK as they don’t want to get in trouble for violating the UK’s Online Safety Act.

Online Safety Act: explainer

^{Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (GOV.UK)}

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Quicky

in reply to schnurrito • 3 mesi fa • •

I'm not sure that the answer to a government's regulation of the Internet should be an individual's blocking of access for an entire country. Seems like 2 sides of the same coin to me.

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greybeard

in reply to Quicky • 3 mesi fa • •

This is them, to the best of their ability, complying with UK law. If more people tried to comply, perhaps the UK government would realize how foolish their Online Safety Act is and do something about it.

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/home/pineapplelover

in reply to Blaze (he/him) • 3 mesi fa • •

Still waitin for lemmy.7z or lemmy.tar

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Quicky

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It’s not actually complying with UK law, it’s removing it from the equation so it doesn’t have to. I don’t begrudge the decision though, it will have been a difficult choice to make. That said, it’s a sledgehammer approach to self-censorship, as a response to an inability to comply.

Like I say, I don’t have an issue with Lemmy.zip being unavailable in the UK. But I do think it is potentially damaging for Fediverse uptake to promote a default instance that is unavailable to such a large number of users.

For comparison purposes, the UK easily has the second highest number of Reddit users by country. It is a remarkable decision to exclude that potential market by default.

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Blaze (he/him)

in reply to Quicky • 3 mesi fa • •

Wouldn't the UK potential new joiners register on feddit.uk anyway?

lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/45919699…

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Quicky

in reply to Blaze (he/him) • 3 mesi fa • •

Speculatively, but it would assume prior research, which many people simply won’t do. If a de-facto app (say Voyager on iOS) offers a default option that’s unavailable for a selection of its potential users, it’s another hurdle within onboarding that is already the biggest barrier to entry. If we want to grow as a platform (more users equals more content), putting up a default wall saying “your kind aren’t welcome” to entire countries seems obtuse.

Yes, those potential new UK users can get around it by picking another instance, but the question is how many will give up if they can’t get over the first hurdle.

The suggestion of changing the default instance by region, where those instances prohibit specific regions seems logical enough to me.

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Video curto em versão dublada e legendada apresenta o FediVerso

Com duração de 4 minutos, a produção — licenciada em Creative Commons — apresenta uma explicação clara e acessível sobre o que é o Fediverso, destacando suas principais vantagens, como a interoperabilidade entre plataformas, a ausência de anúncios e a independência em relação às Big Techs.

As legendas do vídeo foram criadas de forma colaborativa por ativistas de diversas partes do mundo, em idiomas como espanhol, holandês, francês, coreano — e também em português brasileiro, com tradução realizada por Tarcísio Surdi. A versão dublada a seguir foi realizada pela equipe da Produtora Colaborativa.PE

O vídeo integra a introdução às redes federadas do Observatório do Fediverso (alquimidia.org/fediverso), uma iniciativa da Associação Alquimídia, que também compartilhou em plataformas comerciais, como parte da campanha #VemProFediverso.

Apoie essa iniciativa: compartilhe e ajude a espalhar a ideia de uma internet mais livre e descentralizada!

VemProFediverso #Fediverse #Fediverso

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#Fediverse #fediverso #VemProFediverso

Observatório do Fediverso – Alquimídia

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#fediverse #fediverso #vemprofediverso

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☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆ via Memes

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Capitalism in theory vs capitalism in practice

#memes

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in reply to ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆ • 3 mesi fa • •

Non-democratic/psudo-democratic socialism/communism: "You're paying for this service whether you want it or not. There is no motivation to make a quality product."

Democratic socialism/communism: "Well, only 60% of you care about this enough to vote. We'll put some funds into it, but definitely not what it needs. And oh dang, everyone hates it now, guess we'll defund it."

Edit: I'm not disagreeing with OP. Capitalism sucks too. Socialism and Communism *can* suck. It depends on the governing body. There are good examples of all three economic systems working and bad examples of all three screwing people over. I'm anarchist and believe good systems will eventually fall to corrupt politicians if safeguards are not in place to prevent it, and there's a bunch of sneaky intentional and unintentional loopholes to sneak in power grabs.

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meanwhile in the real world

Professor of Economic History, Robert C. Allen, concludes in his study without the 1917 revolution is directly responsible for rapid growth that made the achievements listed above possible:

web.archive.org/web/2020011904…

Study demonstrating the steady increase in quality of life during the Soviet period (including under Stalin). Includes the fact that Soviet life expectancy grew faster than any other nation recorded at the time:

jstor.org/stable/2672986?seq=1

A large study using world bank data analyzing the quality of life in Capitalist vs Socialist countries and finds overwhelmingly at similar levels of development with socialism bringing better quality of life:

ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/…

This study compared capitalist and socialist countries in measures of the physical quality of life (PQL), taking into account the level of economic development.

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/243090…

This study shows that unprecedented mortality crisis struck Eastern Europe during the 1990s, causing around 7 million excess deaths. The first quantitative analysis of the association between deindustrialization and mortality in Eastern Europe.

academic.oup.com/cje/advance-a…

Romania, the inustrialization of an agrarian economy under socialist planning
* documents1.worldbank.org/curat…

Capitalism, socialism, and the physical quality of life - PubMed

^PubMed

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The profit motive is an exceptionally inefficient motivator for creating quality goods and services, while producing based on needs often results in more risks being taken and a higher quality end result, as the goal is to fulfill the need and not to take a profit. It's easy to see the failures of Windows over time vs Linux when it comes to being a quality OS, but this extends to Socialist economies like the PRC, which despite being a developing country has developed far better and more extensive infrastructure than the US, such as a robust High Speed Rail network. Even Cuba, with all of the sanctions and embargoes, has one of the best healthcare systems in the world. When compared with economic peers, it isn't even close.

What Capitalism brings is massive disparity, centralization of Capital, a fusing of bank and industrial Capital, dominance of financial Capital, Imperialism, de-industrialization, stagnation, and then crisis. Socialism is that next step beyond Capitalism where Humanity directs production according to a common and deliberate plan, rather than submitting to the chaos of the market and the plunder it requires to be satiated.

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I just bought your company with almost zero of my own dollars but a fuckton of private equity and invented money based on the possible future revinue we expect based on a math model chosen because the judge in that district is our pal and will accept it in court

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Discussion of non-human animal holocaust

Sensitive content

#vegan #speciesism

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Paul Krugman: Why does MAGA hate New York City so much when the subway is safe and so many fewer people die in traffic than, say Florida?

Hating New York

What we can learn from a MAGA obsession

^{Paul Krugman}

#politics

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awake01

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Sort of like the obsession with Chicago vs. places in "red states" with substantially higher murder rates like St. Louis or Memphis.

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ceenote

in reply to daniel_callahan • 3 mesi fa • •

New York could be Shangri-la and MAGA would still hate it. Facts and figures about crime and health don't enter into it. It's only tribalism, and always will be.

Sidenote: living in a different US city that's heavily car-dependent, I envy New York City's public transit.

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(....)

Hating New York

What we can learn from a MAGA obsession

^{Paul Krugman}

#politics

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chase_what_matters

in reply to daniel_callahan • 3 mesi fa • •

OP, why is this post titled, “(….)”?

Pro via Science

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How ‘supergenes’ help fish evolve into new species

Researchers have found that chunks of ‘flipped’ DNA can help fish quickly adapt to new habitats and evolve into new species, acting as evolutionary

^{University of Cambridge}

#science

Pro via Health - Resources and discussion for everything health-related

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Is the Plastic in Your Kitchen Harmful?

Plastics in the kitchen may pose a risk, but their true health impact remains unclear. Researchers stress the need for more studies to understand how everyday plastic use affects our bodies.

^{URMC Newsroom}

#health

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BBC rejects White House claim it removed Gaza story

As Trump press secretary says BBC takes ‘word of Hamas with total truth’, corporation accuses Karoline Leavitt of political point-scoring

^{Michael Savage (The Guardian)}

#World

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in reply to daniel_callahan • 3 mesi fa • •

It said the White House had conflated that incident with a “completely separate” report by BBC Verify, the corporation’s factchecking team, which found a viral video posted on social media was not linked to the aid distribution centre it claimed to show. “This video did not run on BBC news channels and had not informed our reporting,” it said. “Conflating these two stories is simply misleading.”

BBC is misunderstanding this. They didn't conflate the two separate things intentionally.

I fully believe they did it out of sheer incompetence and ignorance, and when they realised the mistake, they did what they always do and doubled down on it. The dimwits who elect them will get confused otherwise.

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The BBC seems to annoy the extremea of folk in the UK. The left claim it to be a Tory mouthpiece; the right claim it to push left agenda.

If you've got the opposing ends moaning like fuck then I figure they're doing something right.

(edit: BBC, not NBC, no idea why my phone's gone full American)

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Pro via Technology

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What could have caused the fatal Air India crash? An airplane engineer weighs in

Footage of the crash circulating in the aftermath clearly suggests an issue with the plane’s flaps. Ahmed Busnaina, a university distinguished professor, says the engine might have been the problem.

What could have caused the fatal Air India crash? An airplane engineer weighs in

Engine failure is one possibility, according to Ahmed Busnaina, an airplane engineer who studied the design of jet engines.

^{Tanner Stening (Northeastern Global News)}

#technology

Ash_Bones via politics

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Trump Administration Seeks Nuclear Arms Budget Hike as Science Funds Are Cut

The Trump administration has submitted a budget proposal to Congress, calling for an increase in the National Nuclear Security Administration’s annual spending on weapons activities from $19 billion allocated this year to $30 billion by fiscal year 2026.

The Trump administration’s request comes amid efforts to cut budgets at other science-focused agencies, including NASA, the Department of Health and Human Services, the Environmental Protection Agency, and the National Science Foundation.

The White House’s budget plan proposes reducing the National Science Foundation’s funding from $8.8 billion in 2025 to $3.9 billion the following year.

In a statement, a Trump administration official said, “The President’s budget strengthens U.S. leadership in research and development by ensuring federal funding goes toward legitimate research rather than wasteful spending.”

To support this stance, the official cited the example of the $100 million “Environmental Justice Fund” at the Environmental Protection Agency.

The justification document sent to Congress states that the security agency aims to modernize the nation’s nuclear arsenal and “protect the American people.” It claims the weapons budget supports a “safe, secure, and effective” arsenal, provides nuclear propulsion systems for the U.S. Navy, and upgrades nuclear facilities across the research and production complex. It also notes that nuclear weapons funding will go toward six simultaneous warhead modernization programs, including the sea-launched nuclear cruise missile.

But will escalating nuclear weapons truly provide greater security and mutually beneficial cooperation between nations, rather than investing in our social, technological, and scientific development?

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/science/nuclear-weapons-budget-nnsa-trump.html

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NotAGamer

in reply to Ash_Bones • 3 mesi fa • •

Donald Trump really really wants to set off a nuke. He's obsessed with it. It doesn't matter what target. It will make him feel like a man. His ego is out of control.

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Optional

in reply to NotAGamer • 3 mesi fa • •

He's a demented narcissist. He's literally sick.

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Someonelol

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Why bother improving our knowledge of the universe when we can already make even more nukes? FFS...

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Dopo che i miei tanti — anzi ahimè tantissimi — tentativi di scrittura creativa estremo-alternativa sono malamente falliti, nelle ultime 2 settimane scarse mi era saltata in mente una nuova via che, forse, potrebbe funzionare… o forse no, solo il tempo ce lo dirà. Fino ad ora, però, qualcosa sta effettivamente uscendo fuori, quindi sento […]

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2025-06-12 22:02:43

nuovo sito della roboctt — attenzione alle parole inscatolate!

Dopo che i miei tanti — anzi ahimè tantissimi — tentativi di scrittura creativa estremo-alternativa sono malamente falliti, nelle ultime 2 settimane scarse mi era saltata in mente una nuova via che, forse, potrebbe funzionare… o forse no, solo il tempo ce lo dirà. Fino ad ora, però, qualcosa sta effettivamente uscendo fuori, quindi sento che è passato abbastanza tempo da poterlo dire anche qui, senza paura che vada tutto in fumo dopo pochi giorni come ahimè i miei precedenti dettano… 🙏
Ero in un pomeriggio così, in cui, visto che non mi andava di programmare o fare altre magie varie, come peraltro ho raccontato nel post introduttivo, ho deciso di provare un piccolo CMS per fare un sitino secondario, in cui raccogliere articoli così su roba più colì. Questo, dal profondo della mia infinita fantasia, giustamente si è chiamato da subito stuffoctt, perché l’idea è che contenga la mia roba… ma in maniera idealmente meno disordinata e meno da consumare al momento, rispetto al mio fritto misto, che nel bene o nel male è molto alla giornata. Quindi eccolo qui, online da tanto: stuff.octt.eu.org. 🕸️
Sembra di per sé un’idea cagosa, senza alcun beneficio se non farmi sprecare la giornata che volevo sprecare, il costruire l’ennesimo sito, visto che ho già il sitoctt fatto alla perfezione… ma purtroppo, riguardo quello inevitabilmente mi continua ad arrivare addosso e non si schioda il problema del troppo attrito dello scrivere lì sopra, essendoci il casino di Git di mezzo — e più di così a riguardo non riesco ad elaborare. Volente o nolente, il mio culo è estremamente pesante, e quindi pretendo un CMS — e che sia performante e senza strani glitch, a differenza di WordPress — altrimenti semplicemente finisco per non scrivere; c’è veramente poco da fare. 🤥
In queste settimane ho dunque già scritto diversi articoli, più o meno lunghi ma comunque tutti abbastanza contenuti e scorrevoli, che ruotano attorno a diversi argomenti, da guide tecniche (ed è bene che io le faccia, perché da ragazza magica è bene che io diffonda il sapere che gli dei mi hanno concesso per il bene dell’umanità mortale) a cose più pazze. Tipo, tra qualche minuto finisco l’articolo recensione di un manga doujinshi che ho letto ieri sera mentre, come detto stamattina, marcivo… e per il resto ho messo altre cose, che vi invito (~~vi supplico…~~) di andare a recuperare. 🥰
Non volendo fare l’ennesimo sito duplicato per niente confondendo già più del mio solito la gente, comunque, ho deciso di variare un po’ target rispetto al mio solito: mi sono fatta sopraffare dal demone dell’internazionalizzazione, e quindi ho deciso di scrivere in inglese, sperando che questo possa magari portarmi tutto quel pubblico che fino ad oggi non mi ha cagata di striscio non per qualcosa, ma perché non legge cose scritte in italiano. Se poi mi verrà da usare questo strabenedetto CMS per scrivere anche nella lingua migliore… non lo so, mi inventerò qualcosa; magari uscirà la versione 3 del sitoctt… (Non fatemici pensare, che sennò già mi dispero.) 🎗️
Ad ogni modo, è comunque purtroppo necessario da parte mia rimanere sul chi vive e non pensare di aver appena vinto. Infatti, se a questo punto è difficile che vada tutto in fumo per mano mia (cioè, per tecnicamente sua assenza, per mia inazione) se i motori di ricerca non si spicciano ad indicizzare, o comunque eventuale traffico esterno a venire, questa roba sarà praticamente mezza per niente. Certo, rimane sempre un’ottima distrazione dalla vita, e forse a lunghissimo andare anche materiale riciclabile (anche se, vai a capire come)… boh dai, a parte fare gli articoli devo davvero iniziare a spammare anche questo sito malamente; come il fritto misto, però più in grande, visto che è in inglese. 🧨
#blog #blogging #HTMLy #new #personal #personale #site #sito #web #website

Blaze (he/him) via Fediverse

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Blaze (he/him)
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I just migrated a community from Lemmy to Piefed using the migration feature, it worked quite well

Context:
I tried to use the Piefed migration feature to migrate !barcelona@lemm.ee to !barcelona@piefed.social

piefed.social/c/barcelona now exists, with all the existing posts there, as well as the icon and description.

It even moved some subscribers (there are around 100 now), from what I understand those were Piefed subscribers that got automatically moved.

The one caveat is that from Lemmy instances, the community doesn't have show old posts (see lemm.ee/c/barcelona@piefed.soc…), but if you were restarting a community from scratch you wouldn't have access to your old posts anyway.

This ensure that at least the posts are transferred to a community on an active instance, which is probably the main concern for lemm.ee communities at the moment.

#fediverse

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FrostyTrichs

in reply to Blaze (he/him) • 3 mesi fa • •

Disclaimer: I'm not trying to discourage people from moving to or using piefed. I understand the enthusiasm for it and utility of it. This is meant to foster discussion not hate on piefed.

Is it just me or are a lot of people just ignoring the fact that a lot of communities and people are centralizing to pretty much a single point of failure again? Wouldn't it be wise to expand the number of piefed instances to help keep things spread out there too if that's the platform you prefer?

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Blaze (he/him)

in reply to FrostyTrichs • 3 mesi fa • •

At this moment, 9 out of the 10 most active communities are on LW: lemmyverse.net/communities?ord…

You have to scroll 3 times to see !television@lemm.ee, the first Lemm.ee community.

Lemm.ee was already a decentralization factor from LW, but it was still tiny in terms of communities compared to LW. Moving all of the Lemm.ee communities to Piefed.social (not that it's the case anyway, I've seen communities moving elsewhere) would keep the status quo that we were all living with.

Of course ideally over time more Piefed instances emerge, and we can spread a bit more. Also, thanks to the Piefed migration feature, we'll be able to move communities much smoother (even including subscribers).

Lemmy Explorer

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FrostyTrichs

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At this moment, 9 out of the 10 most active communities are on LW: lemmyverse.net/communities?ord…
You have to scroll 3 times to see !television@lemm.ee, the first Lemm.ee community.
Lemm.ee was already a decentralization factor from LW, but it was still tiny in terms of communities compared to LW. Moving all of the Lemm.ee communities to Piefed.social (not that it's the case anyway, I've seen communities moving elsewhere) would keep the status quo that we were all living with.
Of course ideally over time more Piefed instances emerge, and we can spread a bit more. Also, thanks to the Piefed migration feature, we'll be able to move communities much smoother (even including subscribers).

Right, I've seen pretty much that same reply already.

I think it's a chance to learn a lesson from how and why lemm.ee is shutting down. Right now I think people are risking moving the same problem somewhere else. Sure, in theory the problem gets better with time because the tools to move around are there, but that only matters if there's somewhere to move.

It would be much more encouraging to see dozens of new piefed instances being launched/advertised. I think there's a big push towards something new because it's in the right place at the right time, and I genuinely hope it's a successful project long term. I just hope the people utilizing it are willing to support it as a platform and not just as a flagship instance.

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Blaze (he/him)

in reply to FrostyTrichs • 3 mesi fa • •

The one constraint we have is time. Lemm.ee is shutting down at the end of the months. Some of the polls will take a few days, then depending on the communities, it will take a few more days for the migrations to happen, but we can't wait for dozens of new instances to pop up.

Using a diverse set of Piefed instances is indeed better, and hopefully that what we'll try to achieve down the line.

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FrostyTrichs

in reply to Blaze (he/him) • 3 mesi fa • •

I think the urgency is being blown out of proportion as a knee jerk to really crappy news. There is almost a month to move, which should be plenty of time for new instances to launch and communities to disperse. Even after the shutdown the rest of the fediverse will be able to redirect users to the new communities, wherever they are homed.

Again, I'm not against piefed or against people moving somewhere they feel more comfortable or like more. Those are positive things that the fediverse could definitely use. I just don't understand why we can't learn the lesson and move on instead of moving on and hoping it doesn't happen again before more instances pop up.

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Blaze (he/him)

in reply to FrostyTrichs • 3 mesi fa • •

which should be plenty of time for new instances to launch and communities to disperse.

I mod a few communities, I can tell you I want this to be over as soon as possible. I'm busy in the coming weekends, and if there's something I've learned about the Fediverse, is that usually, if you want something to be done, you do it yourself.

Even after the shutdown the rest of the fediverse will be able to redirect users to the new communities, wherever they are homed.

The Piefed migration feature requires lemm.ee to be up if members want to get all of their communities content (post and comments).

I just don’t understand why we can’t learn the lesson and move on instead of moving on and hoping it doesn’t happen again before more instances pop up.

I've seen quite a few communities move to sopuli (a few communities I mod are voting for that one as well). It's not like everyone is moving to Piefed, some communities are, others aren't.

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FrostyTrichs

in reply to Blaze (he/him) • 3 mesi fa • •

It's fine mate, I'm not here to crucify people who want to or have moved to piefed for any reason. People should be able to go where they feel comfortable and welcome and be happy about it. Do what you want and what works for you, of course. All I'm saying is that people should take note of what has happened and why, and do what they can to mitigate that problem going forward.

As long as communities are migrated and redirects are up before the last day of lemm.ee the transition will be miles ahead of what we've seen in the past where instances go dark without warning. Communities and users survived then and they will survive now I'm sure.

It's just a bit strange to see all the people saying how they would've helped lemm.ee if they'd known sooner or if more cries would've gone out, and then nobody spins up instances to actually DO the things they say.

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Blaze (he/him)

in reply to FrostyTrichs • 3 mesi fa • •

It’s just a bit strange to see all the people saying how they would’ve helped lemm.ee if they’d known sooner or if more cries would’ve gone out, and then nobody spins up instances to actually DO the things they say.

I guess there's a difference between joining an existing team and starting a server on your own.

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altphoto

in reply to Blaze (he/him) • 3 mesi fa • •

Let me tell you what I don't like about Lemmy and piefed. Nothing. There's nothing on these wonderful things that is not better than the other places we've tried. I love fedi.

Gsus4 via World News

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Lula vows to defend Brazil's Supreme Court as US threatens judge

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/lula-vows-defend-brazils-supreme-court-us-threatens-judge-2025-06-03/

#World

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Phen

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Right wingers love to claim that that judge is being authoritarian, ignoring the facts that:

He was picked at random to oversee every case related to the coup attempt.
The whole court is constantly reviewing all of his actions and are yet to find any wrongdoing.

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Mihies

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Totally not meddling into foreign countries

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Mike3322 via World News

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F-35 jet and Abrams tank costs soar with Trump’s 50% tariffs

Trump’s 50% steel and aluminum tariffs raise costs for F-35 and Abrams production, impacting U.S. defense. Explore the effects on supply chains and budgets.

^{Boyko Nikolov (BulgarianMilitary.com)}

#World

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NoSpotOfGround

in reply to Mike3322 • 3 mesi fa • •

If the F-35 was made solely out of aluminium, like an equal-mass paperweight, the price of the raw material would be about 0.013 million USD per aircraft. In reality it sells for about 80 million. I doubt it's price will soar because of the cost of aluminum.

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Theoriginalthon

in reply to NoSpotOfGround • 3 mesi fa • •

Exactly the raw material cost is insignificant, what costs is the machining, assembly and quality control.

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BassTurd

in reply to Theoriginalthon • 3 mesi fa • •

On large batches like washers and screws, that's correct. A good chunk of these contracts are smaller orders where the BOM accounts for the bulk of the machining process. Anecdotally, when prices went up during the pandemic due to supply chain, our manufacturing costs for most of our aluminum orders doubled. You want a dozen radio control knobs? Sorry, machining only takes an hour, but material just tripled in cost, and you have to buy 120' minimum.

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Buffalox

in reply to NoSpotOfGround • 3 mesi fa • •

The super advanced electronics and engines are negligible, and so is the high level machining.
No what REALLY matters is that the cheapest part which is the raw materials, is increasing in price.

I suppose this must be the thought process for the majority that downvote your obviously true comment.

PS:
IDK if the numbers are accurate, but the image they paint is.

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floofloof

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People don't want to admit it judging by the downvotes, but there is nothing in the article that justifies the headline, and your point seems correct. If they were to pass the increased costs of importing steel and aluminum to the buyers of these military vehicles, the increase in price would hardly be noticeable. You can admit this without it meaning "I like Donald Trump."

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BassTurd

in reply to floofloof • 3 mesi fa • •

The main buyer for these are the US government. There is no passing off the cost, there's just paying more for the same thing. The increase to material import costs is significant to the manufacturers of parts and assemblies.

I worked in aerospace manufacturing for about a decade. When aluminum prices went up during COVID due to supply chain issues, it in most cases, more than doubled the price of components we were making.

Often, a company will order say, 3 radio boxes. That could require 3 aluminum blanks to produce. Unfortunately, at small quantities, there's no price break on materials, and often if you only need 3 blanks, you still have to purchase 10 blanks of material as a minimum lot charge. That cost does go to the buyer. If they order 10 radios, there would be no change price, because of the minimum lot. If the cost aluminum of blanks jumps from $200 to $300 each just because of tariffs, then the total cost on one that 3 radio order jumps $700 extra on extra material.

It's a messy example, but when the prices change on the core items, everyone up the supply chain takes a chunk of that pie. If you're shooting for 12% profit, that 12% on the new tariff price for material from distributors, manufacturers, and any number of assembly processes up the supply chain. It all cascades.

But the big thing is that these aren't get sold to other countries en masse, so there is no passing it on

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systemglitch

in reply to Mike3322 • 3 mesi fa • •

America, the land of Fools.

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AllNewTypeFace

in reply to Mike3322 • 3 mesi fa • •

Good news for Eurofighter, Saab, Rheinmetall and so on.

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Noerttipertti

in reply to Mike3322 • 3 mesi fa • •

So, are they great yet?

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Oyml

in reply to Noerttipertti • 3 mesi fa • •

I'm sure it's great for some.

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ShinkanTrain

in reply to Mike3322 • 3 mesi fa • •

So they'll make less war machines, right?

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wanderwisley

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I can’t stand all this greatness it’s driving me crazy.

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shiroininja

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We should pass that cost on to Israel

Tad Lispy via Fediverse

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Tad Lispy
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Migrating communities in the wake of the lemm.ee shutdown

I'm a happy lemm.ee user and a mod of a small community hosted there. I'm also subscribed to a bunch of communities on lemm.ee. Sadly, they have just announced that they will be shutting it down. I understand that I can open an account on another instance and subscribe to the same communities. For my own community, I can probably re-create it on my new instance and DM every subscriber. But how do I find all the communities from lemm.ee in their new places? I'd like some practical advice.

adminbot

2025-06-03 21:21:33

lemm.ee is shutting down at the end of this month

Hey everyone

We’re really sorry to say this, but lemm.ee will be shutting down on June 30, 2025.
What you need to know

As of now:
New user registrations are disabled
Creating new communities is disabled
What you should do:
You can export your settings at lemm.ee/settings to take them with you to another instance.
If you're moving to another instance, consider adding a note to your lemm.ee profile with your new username. Your old profile will still be visible from other instances even after we go offline.
Alternatively, if you want to delete your lemm.ee profile, now is the best time to do it, so the deletion can federate out before we go offline.
If you're one of the folks supporting us with a recurring donation, please remember to cancel it (Ko-Fi donations should have been cancelled automatically already). Our leftover funds are already enough to cover our bills for next month, so we can keep things running without any more support.
Because of how Lemmy is built, everything posted on lemm.ee will still be accessible from other instances, even after we go offline.
Why this is happening

The key reason is that we just don’t have enough people on the admin team to keep the place running. Most of the admin team has stepped down, mostly due to burnout, and finding replacements hasn’t worked out.
The sad reality is that while there are a lot of great people on Lemmy, there are also some who use the platform to attack others, stir up conflict, or actively try to undermine the project. Admins are volunteers who deal with the latter group on a constant basis, this takes a mental toll. Please understand why our admins chose to step down, and be kind to the admins on whatever instance you decide to join.
We know this sucks. We're genuinely sorry it’s ending like this. Thank you to everyone who spent time here and helped make it better.
– lemm.ee team

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rglullis

in reply to Blaze (he/him) • 3 mesi fa • •

Should I add an entry for metacritics or should you?

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Blaze (he/him)

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Not sure, seems like I'm a flat earther anyway: lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/45833491…

geneva_convenience via Progressive Politics

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US Senate permits arms sales to Qatar, UAE amidst controversy over jet gifted to Trump

Lawmakers alleged that the Pentagon’s acceptance of a $400m Qatari jet and an Emirati firm's recent investment in a Trump-affiliated cryptocurrency had compromised the integrity of the sales.

The resolutions sought to stymie a $1.9bn weapons sale to Qatar and a $1.3bn weapons sale to the UAE.

The Qatar sale consisted of eight MQ-9 Reaper drones, a model previously employed by the US in Gaza and Yemen, along with Hellfire II missiles and 227-kg bombs. The second resolution opposed the sale of six Chinook helicopters to the UAE.

Arms sales to the UAE have previously faced criticism over the UAE’s support for the Rapid Support Forces, a Sudanese faction accused by some, including the US State Department, of committing acts of genocide.

US Senate permits arms sales to Qatar, UAE amidst controversy over jet gifted to Trump

Arms sales to Qatar and the United Arab Emirates have been given the go-ahead after a Democratic Party-led effort to halt them failed in a US Senate vote on Wednesday. The resolutions failed 39-56, allowing the deal to proceed.

^{MEE staff (Middle East Eye)}

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A_Chilean_Cyborg via Fediverse

3 mesi fa • •

A_Chilean_Cyborg
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Lemmy,Mbin, piefed, what even are those?

First of all, how is called this category of programs, instance engine?

Second, why there are 3 different, basically inter-compatible projects out there, what are the benefits of each one over the others? and why does Lemmy prevail all of them.

*i will be using feddit as a umbrella term for all the reddit-like fediverse.

I don't have much of a technical Background to know how this things work under the hood, but I'm quite curious of where all of this is heading.

I see a lot of awesome features locked away in these other projects that would be just nice if it was standard to have them, like piefed's hashtag-like system that allows people to seek things by topic instead of going to a specific community hosted in a specific instance, it would instantly fix the fragmentation problem across feddit, lol.

How the future of feddit will be? will be all be using Lemmy or other specific project, or instances will use whatever project they like and they will be cross compatible enough that it won't be much of a deal what project is running underneath?

#fediverse

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pruwyben

in reply to A_Chilean_Cyborg • 3 mesi fa • •

The term I've heard is Threadiverse (i.e. Fediverse with threaded discussions), but that was coined before Threads launched so it's a little awkward now.

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A_Chilean_Cyborg

in reply to pruwyben • 3 mesi fa • •

hmm, threads are kinda mega-dead anyways, has been a long long time since last i have heard about it.

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JayGray91🐉🍕

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recently I've seen forumverse as well. while kind of true, old school me slightly balks because I miss my true forum format lol

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madjo

in reply to JayGray91🐉🍕 • 3 mesi fa • •

PhpBB for life!

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Dee

in reply to A_Chilean_Cyborg • 3 mesi fa • •

I don't have the time for a detailed response right now, but to keep things short: you've probably heard of the fediverse. The concept that lemmmy can talk to for example mastadon. That is done via ActivityPub. To allow seemless integration lemmy instances communicate with each other via ActivityPub. Now what would happen if someone designed a software that worked like lemmy and is capable of reading its ActivityPub communication. That is what Mbin and Piefed are. Of course, since their communication is designed to speak lemmys language, lemmy can understand them to.

As for uniqe features, just because most things are the sane doesn't mean all things. Everything is still comunicated via ActivityPub, and lemmy could, if they so desired implement them. The Beauty of the fediverse is that compatanility can be inmplemented one sided.

And finally, the reason lemmy is prevelent is because its the oldest. They are years older than the others. The downsides of lemmy are the slow development Speed and the political opinions of the devs. The upsides are that it is stable, and development, while slow, is consistent. Long term, it might end up getting dethroned by Piefed, but it is Impossible to tell now

EDIT: I so.ehow mest up the spelling of ActivityPub once, and my phones auto completion just made me repeat the mistake every single tine. Fixed it now

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A_Chilean_Cyborg

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thanks for the answer!

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AwesomeLowlander

in reply to Dee • 3 mesi fa • •

ActivityPub*

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MelonYellow

in reply to Dee • 3 mesi fa • •

Activity🐶 😛

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Cris

in reply to Dee • 3 mesi fa • •

By the way, it's ActivityPub, like activity publication, or public activity 😀

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Dee

in reply to Cris • 3 mesi fa • •

Yeah, i wrote it on a phone in a hury. So i failed to look things up properly

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Cris

in reply to Dee • 3 mesi fa • •

Lol, no worries. Hope you have a lovely day!

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LumpyPancakes

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Is a hury like a Huey from Short Circuit 1, but with an accent?

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Dee

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I am cursed

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Snoopy

in reply to A_Chilean_Cyborg • 3 mesi fa • •

We call them threadiverse or forumverse.

They are very different.

Currently Lemmy lacks lot features compared to PieFed and Mbin.
- Mbin support mastodon, tag, change link to link's title, customization...sorry i don't know well Mbin but it is a good software 😀
- Piefed support tag, flair, multicommunity, temporary filters, i read the article, block downvote from people who aren't subcribed to community...
- Lemmy was there before PieFed. So it was my first software they have lot apps, lot UI.

Anyway, i recommend you testing them so you can get a better understanding on their pro and cons 😀

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A_Chilean_Cyborg

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Development wise, how do you see piefed develop into the future?

any chances of it just dying?

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aasatru

in reply to A_Chilean_Cyborg • 3 mesi fa • •

There is always a chance of open source projects dying off, but if there's an active user base who enjoy the software it will usually not die easy.

Mbin is a good example of this. It started out as Kbin, which was a project dominated by one very active developer who made the whole thing on his own. Unfortunately he did not prioritize getting other people on board, and he then suffered what seems to have been pretty severe health problems. Last thing we heard from him was a picture from a hospital bed. I hope he's alright.

Thankfully, as what he had made was open source, Kbin lives on in the form of Mbin. If you check my domain you'll see I'm still on a site called "kbin.earth" rather than mbin - this is why.

PieFed's developer is better at taking other developers onboard. If you check out !piefed_meta@piefed.social you'll see monthly development updates. The head developer (Rimu) runs the show, but seven other people contributed last month alone.

If Rimu decides to quit, other people can and will take over as long as there's an interest. PieFed has the added advantage here of being written in Python, which is a language many people know.

So it should be pretty robust, all in all.

As for the future, PieFed just now launched app support. I guess one thing to look out for is the emergence of alternative user interfaces.

Developments are happening fast and the developers are quite creative. It's fun to follow. 😀

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VivianRixia

in reply to aasatru • 3 mesi fa • •

Like with what happened to Kbin, I think it's great that we have 3 ongoing projects doing roughly the same thing. So if one is them dies out, we can just swap to the others. As a user invested in the threadverse, I think this is a net positive.

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rglullis

in reply to Snoopy • 3 mesi fa • •

Piefed also has this Mastodon-esque tendency to implement features that only work on their system and are not interoperable with the rest of the ActivityPub software. Which is the kind of thing that is only "nice" until they are a minority player, but could make them one of the most hated systems if they start getting significant users.

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aasatru

in reply to rglullis • 3 mesi fa • •

I don't think this is accurate for either of the two projects to be honest.

PieFed made sure to make their API as close to Lemmy's as possible, and they created feeds so that it would be as easy as possible for Lemmy to integrate in the future.

Vibes between the developers of the two platforms seems good enough.

No need to make up drama where there is none.

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rglullis

in reply to aasatru • 3 mesi fa • •

The flair part does not federate.
They send fake (non-existing) actor ids for votes to obfuscate the identity of the real user. It is "compliant", but completely against the spirit of a public social network.
Every proposal that I've seen from them had ActivityPub as an afterthought. Creating "Feed" as a type of Actor, using a special formatted type of message to share ip addresses of abusers for "spam mitigation" even before considering a simple usage of the Flag activity, etc.

I am not saying they have bad intentions. I am just saying that they prefer to develop things that work for them first and for the rest of the Fediverse second.

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r00ty

in reply to rglullis • 3 mesi fa • •

They send fake (non-existing) actor ids for votes to obfuscate the identity of the real user. It is "compliant", but completely against the spirit of a public social network.

There have been discussions about how to implement this before. But it has to be done in a way that is agreed by other threadiverse software. Unless they actually provide profiles for these fake actors there will be problems since some software will look up the profile info to cache it, even for likes..

Personally I'm of the opinion of a standard header to mark a favourite message as a private one and use a random ID that the originating instance can use to validate the message as genuine. But, this needs to be adopted properly by all.

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rglullis

in reply to r00ty • 3 mesi fa • •

There have been discussions about how to implement this before. But it has to be done in a way that is agreed by other threadiverse software.

I think we should move away from "threadiverse software" and embrace a transparent social web.

If we want to be transparent, we need to stop creating these leaky abstractions. Votes are not private. A vote on Lemmy is just a Like, a downvote is just a dislike. Instead of pretending this information should be private, we should make it clear to the users that they should only react in anyway if they feel comfortable in sharing their opinion in public.

vocata

Vocabulary-Agnostic Transport Agent

^Codeberg.org

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Snoopy

in reply to rglullis • 3 mesi fa • •

That depend, what your are trying to achieve.

Your point is valid. PieFed point of view is also valid. There are circumtance where voting is better private than transparency. As for myself, i would completly remove the voting system because it is useless.

Why are you voting ? Do you like the cat picture ? The article ? The title ? We will never know. So what's the point of voting since we don't know its reasons ?

Why it is at the top of my timeline ? And what about minorities ? Let's imagine 10 deafs people 1000 hearing people. If ya 1000 hearing people downvote a post because you don't want to see a post with sign language...

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rglullis

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So what’s the point of voting since we don’t know its reasons ?

Don't overcomplicate this. Voting is a way to collectively curate content. If it is relevant to the community and you feel the content is a positive addition to the community, you vote up. If you think it's a negative addition, you vote it down. That's all that there is to it.

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Kichae

in reply to rglullis • 3 mesi fa • •

Voting like this is a bit of a dark pattern, though. Especially downvotes. They come from places where the platform owners want to download the responsibility of community management to the community itself. This has a nasty tendency to silence valid criticism while simultaniously supporting brigading behaviour.

At the very least, we should be having serious, design-focused discussions about eliminating or highly restricting downvotes.

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fuzzzerd

in reply to Kichae • 3 mesi fa • •

StackOverflow solved this specific issue pretty well IMO. Each downvote costs you a reputation/karma/fake-internet-point. Lemmy doesn't count karma, so that'd a bit of a nonstarter, but for systems that do, that feels like a good way to discourage rampant use of downvotes.

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Snoopy

in reply to rglullis • 3 mesi fa • •

I never downvoted any posts, you may check my alts. I don't do that. I simply ignore or tell users or repport.

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OpenStars

in reply to rglullis • 3 mesi fa • •

Your points seem phrased unnecessarily adversarially. Flairs are a brand-new feature, but if it helps, polls were added a year ago and those federate - not to Lemmy of course that lacks them entirely despite repeated requests to add them for many years, but to other federated platforms that have them e.g. Mastodon.

I've always disliked the spirit of "anonymous voting", and am glad that they discontinued that.

I do not see how what you are saying is all that different from Lemmy.

It is easy to criticize from afar - it is hard to actually build something. But PieFed is managing!

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rglullis

in reply to OpenStars • 3 mesi fa • •

To be completely honest, my dislike of AP server software is not restricted to PieFed. I think all of them are an evolutionary dead end and I wish we stopped wasting our time trying to emulate closed social networks.

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OpenStars

in reply to rglullis • 3 mesi fa • •

Hrm, interesting. This seems a strongly minority opinion though: people enjoy talking, whether it be focused on non-anonymous user-centric short-form content like Mastodon or Friendica, or topic-focused threaded forums like Lemmy + Mbin + PieFed + nodebb + flarum.

But if you mean only the implementation, you could very well be correct, knowing so much more than I about such. "Most people" simply want stuff delivered to them for free, not really thinking about how it gets done. I appreciate that you actually take the time to care:-).

I will add that I for one have no desire to visit a non-closed social network, such as 4chan, bc the amount of spam and trash seems likely to be insurmountable. That said, we need not be limited by what Reddit would do, and that is actually one of the chief things that I appreciate about PieFed - that it is moving beyond what Reddit offered, and is desiring to continue much further along those lines, rather than convert into purely profit making.

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melroy

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Thanks for saying mbin is good software 👋😊

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Cris

in reply to A_Chilean_Cyborg • 3 mesi fa • •

Lemmy, piefed, and mbin are all similar pieces of software that run on a server.

They are each capable of hosting a small social network website with a similar reddit-like format. They all also support the activitypub standard, which means that they can be linked together, so that when you go to one of those social media sites (lemmy.world for example) you can see any other site that they're "federated" with, even if that social media site is powered by a different software that supports activitypub (I'm on lemmy.world but I can see communities and posts from piefed.social)

I generally call lemmy, mbin and piefed "fediverse platforms" because they're each a platform that you can make a fediverse account on, but that usage is a bit imperfect, since each individual site could also be described as a platform, and is where your account is actually hosted. You could be more specific and call them "fediverse/federated link aggregators" if you wanted to specifically refer to the ones with a similar format to reddit.

These pieces of software are different because they're built in different ways (different languages and underlying structure), have different priorities, and as software projects are run in different ways with different leadership, all of which is how you get differences in features and implementation. Lemmy is the oldest of these similar platforms, and as such is the most established. In the open source world it's very easy and common to end up with a lot of fragmented similar projects. Its both a blessing and a curse.

There isn't perfect language for all these things because in the grand scheme of things, it's a rather new way for social media platforms to work, so the language around how to describe or refer to these things hasn't really "settled"

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rglullis

in reply to A_Chilean_Cyborg • 3 mesi fa • •

How the future of feddit will be?

I don't know what it will be, but I hope that it becomes less about "instances" and servers and it becomes more a proper web of independent applications that share the social graph.

Evan Prodromou (@evan@cosocial.ca)

@julian@community.nodebb.org @silverpill@mitra.social @pfefferle@mastodon.social @dmitri@social.coop @thisismissem@hachyderm.

^CoSocial

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cecilkorik

in reply to A_Chilean_Cyborg • 3 mesi fa • •

The whole point of federation and open protocols is that you aren't tied to any specific piece of software, or any single provider, or any single set of features. People can experiment and innovate and collaborate and expand to build new things on top without losing access or interfering with people who prefer the old methods. People or software that abuses the system on the other hand, can be blocked or defederated.

A healthy software ecosystem should have many different pieces of software all written by different people with different goals, but all implementing most of the same things. Some will be more popular than others, and the popular ones might not agree with your own personal tastes, but that's just life. The point is that we (and software developers) all have the freedom to choose how we interact with this system without any formal rules or maintainer group deciding what is allowed and what isn't (except within their own software and/or instance).

and they will be cross compatible enough that it won’t be much of a deal what project is running underneath?

They are already cross-compatible enough, they are as cross-compatible as they need to be. It's not clear what more you could ask for. If you want them to all look and work exactly the same then what's the point of having different software at all? You're acting like the different features and choices are a downside when it is in fact a benefit. Pick the one you like the most and use it. If you like Piefed's hashtags, then use Piefed, it's great! There's nothing "locked away" in Piefed, everything in it is available to everybody, as it should be!

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r.endtimes

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The only cross compatibility you need is posts, comments, votes, we got that, anything extra they add on top of that or ui they come up with is exclusive to their platform. All that matters is that the content is shared, this way people get to customize and pick whatever suits them. Some get old reddit vibe, some ppl get reddit third pirty app vibe, some want to also see microblogs in one place, etc. I like having options, I grew up as everything became closed off and the options went from massive visual differences to numbers.

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Meta Sues Nudify App That Keeps Advertising on Instagram

As part of what it claims is a new crackdown, Meta is suing a nudify app and "strengthening" its enforcement.

^{Emanuel Maiberg (404 Media)}

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Google: Android Open Source Project not being ‘discontinued’ amidst Pixel change

Google says Android Open Source Project not being ‘discontinued’ amidst Pixel change impacting custom ROMs

With the launch of Android 16 earlier this week, Google did not release the Pixel hardware repos and device trees...

^{Abner Li (9to5Google)}

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Trump Gets Snippy Over 1 Embarrassing Claim About His History With Harvard

Uh oh... Looks like Michael Wolff hit a nerve with the orange utan there.

Trump Gets Snippy Over 1 Embarrassing Claim About His History With Harvard

Author Michael Wolff speculated about what's fueling Trump's "grudge" against the university on "The Daily Beast" podcast.

^{Elyse Wanshel (HuffPost)}

#politics

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pezhore

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God that picture of Barron in the article. What fucking teenager goes into a hairstylist and says, "give me the Gordon gecko"?

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ExtremeDullard

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I hate the Trumps as much as the next guy, but I specifically refrain from dumping on Barron Trump, and you should too: the kid hasn't yet said or done anything that indicates he's going to become a dirtbag like his father or his retarted siblings, and he might very well choose to decide to distance himself from his terrible family.

Same reason why I don't dump on the Musk kids: at least one of them is decent, and the others might become good people too and they deserve a chance.

Give Barron Trump a chance too.

American social media personality and daughter of Elon Musk (born 2004)

^{Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)}

Rimu via Fediverse

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PieFed has a mobile app

Well, actually, PieFed.social has enabled it's API which means that the app Interstellar can be used with it. Find out more about the app at interstellar.jwr.one/. iOS users can use the testing version at testflight.apple.com/join/JXRt…

feddit.online, another PF instance, has enabled the API too and I expect others will follow in good time.

Join the Interstellar: Fediverse Client beta

Available on iOS

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u

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It's not working on my oneplus x. I tried to install the three apk. Only the armabi-v7a.apk can be installed but it crash immediately when I open Interstellar. I guess my 10yo phone might be too old.

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jwr1

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Yeah sorry, I'm guessing Flutter (Interstellar's UI framework) doesn't support devices that old.

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75 Democrats express "gratitude" to ICE in antisemitism vote amid LA riots

75 Democrats Express 'Gratitude' to ICE in Antisemitism Vote Amid LA Riots

Seventy-five House Democrats backed a resolution condemning antisemitism and expressing "gratitude" for ICE.

^{Sonam Sheth (Newsweek)}

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When an instance like lemm.ee shuts down, what happens to the posts and comments?

While I understand the concept of federation I'm unclear as to what it actually entails at a technical level. When lemm.ee eventually shuts down, will all of that user content (posts, comments, votes, etc) cease to exist? Is it mirrored on other instances?

#fediverse

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JeeBaiChow

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They probably get harvested and sold to some data broker for use in training another shitty ai model.

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Lost_My_Mind

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This isn't reddit. Thatxs not what we do here.

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Tanoh

in reply to Lost_My_Mind • 3 mesi fa • •

Pretty naive to think someone isn't doing it already, but as someone else said you don't need to shutdown for it. Infact it is worse if you shut down as you don't get new data.

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artifex

in reply to Lost_My_Mind • 3 mesi fa • •

Not like we can stop it. If it’s online and not behind some kind of auth it’s getting slurped.

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catloaf

in reply to JeeBaiChow • 3 mesi fa • •

They don't need to shut down for that.

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irelephant [he/him]

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All the images disappear, since they are just links on remote instances.

A copy of all the accounts, comms, posts and comments stay on any instance around to recive them, but they are not fetchable.

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South Korea elects Lee Jae-myung president - The Korea Herald

cross-posted from: piefed.jeena.net/post/179335

Voter turnout reaches 79.4 percent, 4th highest since 1987
Lee's projected victory expected to turn page on political crisis that shook the nation for past 6 months

South Korea elects Lee Jae-myung president - The Korea Herald

Lee Jae-myung of the Democratic Party of Korea has clinched the presidency, turning the page on six months of relentless political upheaval and a leadership vac

^{Ji Da-gyum (The Korea Herald)}

#World

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TheBeege

in reply to wanderwisley • 3 mesi fa • •

Why?

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wanderwisley

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Just with the history of Korean leadership being corrupted and with the events of last year.

schizoidman via World News

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Global alarms rise as China's critical mineral export ban takes hold

German automakers became the latest to warn that China's export restrictions threaten to shut down production and rattle their local economies, following a similar complaint from an Indian EV maker last week
China's decision in April to suspend exports of a wide range of critical minerals and magnets has upended the supply chains central to automakers, aerospace manufacturers, semiconductor companies and military contractors around the world.
Diplomats, automakers and other executives from India, Japan and Europe were urgently seeking meetings with Beijing officials to push for faster approval of rare earth magnet exports

https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/global-alarms-rise-chinas-critical-mineral-export-ban-takes-hold-2025-06-03/

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tal

in reply to schizoidman • 3 mesi fa • •

China's decision in April to suspend exports of a wide range of critical minerals and magnets has upended the supply chains central to automakers, aerospace manufacturers, semiconductor companies and military contractors around the world.

We were working on this several years ago.

Extraction:

lemonde.fr/en/economy/article/…

In the Mojave Desert, the rebirth of the only American rare earth mine
With support from the US government, mine operator MP Materials is reviving the Mountain Pass site. The company is taking advantage of the global appetite for magnets for electric motors and wind turbines.

Those MP Materials guys also do processing.

argusmedia.com/en/news-and-ins…

Attempts to establish commercial-scale rare earth separation and processing outside China are growing in number and progressing gradually with a view to ramping up output over the next two years.
Mineral resources developers are scrambling to reassess and upgrade their estimates of mineable rare earth element (REE) content as western governments attempt to encourage producers to establish production closer to home. And new efforts to develop high-volume processing capacity outside China — which currently accounts for more than 80pc of global refining — are emerging.
Western countries are well behind China in advancing technical processes to refine REs from raw materials, as they seek alternatives to the highly polluting solvent extraction process. But with China banning the export of RE extraction and separation technologies in December 2023, as well as exports to the US of key electronic metals in December 2024, the impetus is growing to come up with viable Western production.
RE oxides are used in the manufacturing of permanent magnets for electric vehicle (EV) motors, wind turbines and electronics, as well as batteries, lasers, metal alloys, medical devices and military equipment.
Given that latter application, the US Department of Defense (DoD) has awarded more than $439mn in financing since 2020 to support a new domestic supply chain, from the separation and refining of materials mined in the US to downstream production of magnets. In a broader trend towards "friendshoring" of critical material supply, the DoD considers Canada, Australia and the UK as domestic suppliers.
Like the US, European countries are also targeting domestic production in a bid to secure their supply chains.
Projects include the expansion of Nd and NdPr processing capacity at UK-based Less Common Metals (LCM), the addition of NdPr production at Belgian chemical group Solvay at its plant in France in 2025 and French consultancy Carestar's plan to start production in 2026 of RE oxides from mining concentrates and, later, recycled magnets. REEtec in Norway plans to start a commercial NdPr plant in 2025 and Swedish state-owned LKAB plans to start an RE oxide demonstration plant by the end of 2026. These initiatives are in line with plans across Europe to increase EV manufacturing and renewable energy.
Rare earth mining projects in Africa and Australia are largely targeting supply deals or integrated production in Asia or North America. Miners in Brazil, such as Aclara, are also planning integrated production by developing separation plants close to demand in the US and Europe.

Western RE refining projects attempt 2025 push

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Gsus4

in reply to schizoidman • 3 mesi fa • •

Lemme ask: isn't China's dominance on rare earth extraction just because their environmental laws are basically non-existent? Any other country could do that at scale if they really needed to, but it would take time and sacrifice nature.

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Ocean current ‘collapse’ could trigger ‘profound cooling’ in northern Europe – even with global warming

Ocean current ‘collapse’ could trigger ‘profound cooling’ in northern Europe – even with global warming - Carbon Brief

A “collapse” of key Atlantic ocean currents would cause winter temperatures to plunge across northern Europe, overriding the warming driven by human activity.

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FundMECFS

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Oh please oh please. These heatwaves are killing me.

Let there be a silver lining to the 1% destroying the planet.

Tony Bark via politics

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Trump formally asks Congress to claw back approved spending targeted by DOGE

The White House on Tuesday officially asked Congress to claw back $9.4 billion in already approved spending, taking funding away from programs targeted by Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency.

^{The Associated Press (Federal News Network)}

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DMCMNFIBFFF

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The request to Congress is unlikely to meaningfully change the troublesome increase in the U.S. national debt. Tax revenues have been insufficient to cover the growing costs of Social Security, Medicare and other programs. The Congressional Budget Office estimates the government is on track to spend roughly $7 trillion this year, with the rescission request equaling just 0.1% of that total.

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BigMacHole

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Clawing BACK money that's ALREADY been Approved for LOCAL BUSINESSES is Exactly the type of Big Brain Business we NEED to FIX OUR STRUGGLING ECONOMY (that wasn't Struggling until Trump became President!)!

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Lasherz

in reply to Tony Bark • 3 mesi fa • •

Elon wants more money to spend on his shitty companies, congress wants more money to spend on their donors, and Trump wants more money to put towards DHS brownshirts. It's like circling dogs fighting for which is going to eat the poor first.

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TheFogan

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Elon wants more money to spend on his shitty companies

Well more than that, musk wants the nail in the coffin for all the government agencies that want to tell him things like, you can't work people to death, you can't tell people cars are self driving when they crash into stuff on their own, you can't commit massive frauds, you can't spew poison gas all over Memphis, etc...

Musk benefit's massively from a huge chunk of what he ordered DOGE to do, even if we only count the destruction of the departments he shut down, and don't factor in the possibility that the money may be re-alocated towards his own companies.

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irish_link

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I hate this headline. On first glance it sounds like they are asking Congress to claw back the money that Doge already cut and put it back into the places it was cut from.

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Tony Bark

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Yeah, I'm not a fan of it either.

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irish_link

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Thanks for posting the info though. More info the better informed we all are.

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undefined

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I also just hate “claw back” in general.

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BeeegScaaawyCripple

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It's a term of art.

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irish_link

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I agree.

Allah via Technology

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the illusion of human thinking

Timothy Nguyen (@IAmTimNguyen)

LLMs aren't the only ones faking it 😂

^Nitter

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YSK: db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com set up a AI image generator bot on the Threadiverse for anyone here to freely use

db0 set up an AI image generator bot both on the Threadverse and Mastodon some time back for anyone to use. All one needs to do is mention it in a comment followed by the text "draw for me" and then prompt text, and it'll respond with some generated images. For example:

@aihorde@lemmy.dbzer0.com draw for me An engraving of a skunk.

Caused it to reply back to me with:

Here are some images matching your request
Prompt: An engraving of a skunk.
Style: flux

The bot has apparently been active for some time and it looks like few people were aware that it existed or used it --- I certainly wasn't!

I don't know whether it will work in this community, as this community says that it prohibits most bots from operating here. However, I set up a test thread over here on !test@sh.itjust.works to try it out, where it definitely does work; I was exploring some of how it functions there, and if you're looking for a test place to try it out, that should work!

It farms out the compute work to various people who are donating time on their GPUs via AI Horde.

The FAQ for the bot is here. For those familiar with local image generation, it supports a number of different models.

The default model is Flux, which is, I think, a good choice --- that takes English-like sentences describing a picture, and is pretty easy to use without a lot of time reading documentation.

A few notes:

The bot disallows NSFW image generation, and if it detects one, it'll impose a one-day tempban on its use to try to make it harder for people searching for loopholes to generate them.
There appears to me in my brief testing to be some kind of per-user rate limit. db0 says that he does have a rate limit on Mastodon, but wasn't sure whether he put one on Lemmy, so if you might only be able to generate so many images so quickly.
The way one chooses a model is to change the "style" by ending the prompt text with "style: stylename". Some of these styles entail use of a different model; among other things, it's got models specializing in furry images; there's a substantial furry fandom crowd here. There's a list of supported styles here with sample images.

db0 has encouraged people to use it in that test post and in another thread where we were discussing this, says have fun. I wanted to post here to give it some visibility, since I think that a lot of people, like me, have been unaware that has been available. Especially for people on phones or older computers, doing local AI image generation on GPUs really isn't an option, and this lets folks who do have GPUs share them with those folks.

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Automatically generated preview images for AI Horde styles - amiantos/AI-Horde-Styles-Previews

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