Whatever your opinion on the topic, posting this kind of thing to social media is a dumb move.

You think that law enforcement, billionaires and their security are not aware of social media and how to monitor and manipulate it?

You’re just making yourself, and everyone talking about this, a target and increasing the chance that someone kicks down your door, if you’re lucky it’s only the police.

The reason that mods remove these comments isn’t because they’re licking the corporate boot. If you let people plan violence at your house then you’re part of it. If you let people plan violence on your servers, then you’re part of it. That isn’t even going into the morality of what you’re suggesting.

Nobody should engage with this and it should be removed. Nothing good will come to you for going down this path.

As long as your purchase is over $10,000, you have immunity from prosecution for vehicular manslaughter during the transaction.

This law brought to you by Carls Jr.

Fair enough, the first blackberry with a camera was 2006 (the Blackberry Pearl). So mid-00s smartphone.

Yeah, it has real ‘Early 00s Smartphone Cameraphone’ vibes

The only problem I’ve had is that you can’t view HDR content in YouTube on Firefox.

That’s not a big part of YouTube (yet), so it is largely unnoticeable.

If you’ve ever heard him speak about your field of expertise then you’ll know that he is 100% full of shit and bluffs his way through conversations.

Infinity -> Eternity

If we all wiggle in the same direction we can probably put another coin into the money pile on the other tracks.

I grew up in the age of Internet forums, in the ancient days of the late '90s-early-00’s before the (Eternal September) Smartphone dumped every human being onto the landscape.

Having small communities is so much better. I often hear people complain that Lemmy isn’t big because there are not communities with 3 million people like there are some subreddits. Much of the reason that Reddit is shit is because of how big it is.

On the old Internet, you could know the people who were part of the community. I have old friends, that I’ve known for 20+ years, that I met playing MUDs on BBSs. Now, I couldn’t tell you the name of a single person that I’ve ever interacted with on social media in the past year.

Digg and Reddit came on the scene and pulled a huge crowd because we didn’t have The Algorithm to recommend content and these link aggregation sites were the first time people got a taste of that kind of ‘See all of the newest things from every corner of the Internet in a single place, curated by a process that produces good quality results’ that we now just expect from recommendation algorithms.

The old communities were essentially starved of population. Nobody wants to take the social effort required to become part of a community when they can just scroll Reddit mindlessly.

There’s very few people that even had a chance to experience the magic of spontaneous communities full of people working together.

If you still want a taste, check out the Something Awful forums.

The barrier to entry is higher: you have to learn the rules (read the rules), the social norms and there is a $10 one-time fee (so getting banned has some sting to it, read the rules).

In exchange you get an actual community of people. Many of the people posting there (or, in the various Discords now because that’s a thing) have been on SA since they were edgy teenagers and are now professionals with careers. That isn’t to say that there are not trolls and assholes, those exist in any community, but there’s a much higher ratio of good to bad posters.

One of the interesting decisions that they do is that rulebreaking posts are rarely ever deleted. If a person is probated (temp ban) or banned, their comment stays up with a “(User was Probated/Banned for this post)” edited into the post so you can see, and hopefully learn, from the bad behavior. In addition, there’s a ‘Wall of Shame’ section where you can see everyone who’s been actioned against, who the moderator was and the moderation reason.

I’ve always hated the fact that comments on Reddit just disappear. You can never see what a mod removed and there is no reason why it is removed. This allows all kinds of bad and manipulative behaviors to be done by people with moderation access.

It’s promoting the idea that the opinions of politicians from the 1700s carry any more weight than the opinions of doctors from the 1700s.

Adherence to “what the founding fathers wanted” is a toxic meme. They were historical figures, that’s all.

The Supreme Court uses this meme as a totem to excuse motivated reasoning in their decisions and people are simply conditioned to accept the words of 300 year old politicians over the reality of the present.

We can understand the danger of Trump without quoting from old slave owners, pretending that they carry special wisdom.

for no gain.

Nearly $3 billion USD flowed through the TRUMP cryptocoin rugpull, whoever owned initial coins made very, very large gains.

The $3 billion in quid buys a lot of anti-Ukraine pro quo

But, thanks to the Supreme Court, Trump could go on national TV and say he change US policy on Ukraine because he was bribed and he’d still be immune to any legal consequences (other than impeachment, but never anything criminal).

Social media doesn’t do nuance.

No encryption was broken.

Broken would imply that Apple has the ability to decrypt stored user data using advanced data protection. This is not the case.

Selling you a box to put your stuff in and selling someone else a locked box to put their stuff in doesn’t mean Apple broke into your box. It means your big brother won’t let you have locks.

The man has billions, he could retire and live a life of hedonistic bliss unavailable to any human in history.

Instead he chooses to meddle in politics and signal boost the worst portions of humanity.

I can’t find any fucks to give.

Freetube/New pipe

If it’s age restricted then I just don’t watch it.

So, you’re on team “divide everyone” because Trump is doing it?

You’re not pushing back, you’re playing the game.