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acargitz

@ theacharnian @lemmy.ca

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  • The wolf who cried boy

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  • Right? Wrong?

    I asked you a question, I didn't make an argument or assert a position.

    This is surreal. It's like:

    You: why does everyone say good afternoon when it's only 12:30?!

    Me: what time zone are you in buddy?

    You: you didn't answer my question!

    Me: I mean, China for example is all on the same timezone regardless of how west or east you are.

    You: FINE. YOU'RE RIGHT. I'M WRONG. HAPPY?

    Me: wtf man, I just asked you your fucking timezone.

  • The wolf who cried boy

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  • It does. The centre-left in Montreal municipal politics corresponds to the left wing of the left in Canadian federal politics. So if I write a long diatribe lamenting how the centre left in Montreal is not progressive enough, and send it over to someone in Alberta, they would have no idea what I'm talking about.

  • The wolf who cried boy

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  • I'm Canadian, buddy. Which is why I asked about your political context.

  • The wolf who cried boy

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  • I note the spelling "right of centre". So help me out here: are you Canadian, British, Australian, Kiwi, ...? So when you say "everything that just leans right of centre is called fascist" what the fuck are you actually talking about? In your specific political context?

  • Karoline Leavitt says ‘Your mom’ when asked who picked Hungary for Putin-Trump talks

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  • That's what she said.

  • Climate goals go up in smoke as US datacenters turn to coal

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  • Meanwhile China is going all in on renewables.

    Here is a fact: an authoritarian non-democracy is doing a lot for securing the future of humanity, while the "leader of the free world" are vandalizing the climate and accelerating apocalyptic climate catastrophe.

    In 2025, China is a net positive for the future of humanity, while the USA is a net negative.

    If that makes you uncomfortable about what our political and economic systems in the West that brought us here, well, you know the meme: "facts don't care about your feelings".

    If you, like me, care about the future of democracy, we have to do a LOT of digging.

  • Florida sees 81% increase in whooping cough infections amid vaccine rollback

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  • Excellent opportunity to prove the superiority of our localized moderation model!

  • Peter Thiel: strict AI regulation will summon the Antichrist

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  • Wasn't this guy raptured yesterday? Hm, maybe he's not righteous enough.

  • White House Insists Stephen Miller Does Not Play with Dolls

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  • Nah, they haven't accused Democrats of playing with dolls so this is probably fake.

  • Jerry Seinfeld says people who say 'Free Palestine' are worse than the Ku Klux Klan

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  • Jerry Seinfeld says people who say 'Free Palestine' are worse than the Ku Klux Klan

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  • This whole discussion is centred on Seinfeld dating a 17 year old. It isn't some abstract academic debate.

  • Jerry Seinfeld says people who say 'Free Palestine' are worse than the Ku Klux Klan

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  • It's when they start saying nonsensical shit like this that you got to look up someone's age. Seinfeld is 71 and saying stupid things. Go to bed gramps.

  • Jerry Seinfeld says people who say 'Free Palestine' are worse than the Ku Klux Klan

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  • Jerry Seinfeld says people who say 'Free Palestine' are worse than the Ku Klux Klan

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  • Don't be obtuse. They're talking about a teenager.

  • Treasury Secretary Comes Unglued: ‘I’m Gonna Punch You in Your F—ing Face’

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  • This is courtiers fighting for Royal favour.

    Trump doesn't have a government, he has a Court.

  • Can we please stop arguing about whether Bluesky is decentralized?

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  • Of course I agree that decentralization for social media is hugely important. I'm just pointing out that there can exist use cases where centralization makes sense and/or is not a problem.

  • Can we please stop arguing about whether Bluesky is decentralized?

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  • Sure but I don't think that makes it "decentralized" it makes it as you correctly point out, open source. Those are orthogonal categories.There aren't parts of wikipedia that are hosted in other wikipedia instances that talk to each other the same way mastodon does. There is a unique, central, Wikipedia.

  • Can we please stop arguing about whether Bluesky is decentralized?

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  • But once you download It, any changes you make are only local. You cannot edit wikipedia using a non-wikipedia account (sure you can edit anonymously but then your IP functions as your account) and the articles are not systematically stored in different wikipedia instances. There is one Wikipedia.

    By the way, centralized doesn't mean "walled off".

  • Can we please stop arguing about whether Bluesky is decentralized?

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  • Centralization on its own is not a deal breaker. Wikipedia is centralized.

    Corporate/business ownership on it's own is not a deal breaker. There are many business mastodon instances: https://mastodonservers.net/servers/business

    It's the combination that is a deal breaker. Corporate AND centralized. We've seen this movie before. It's a predictably boring story that ends with enshittification.