Why did they put such tremendous effort and then give all the crabs 8 legs though…

The crab video is really marvelous. I love the absolute clear frustration of the crab “ARGH NO DON’T TURN ME UPSIDE DOWN I HAVE EGGS TO LOOK AFTER YOU MORON”

Yes, but they’re taking home six and in some cases seven figures[1]. And at the end of the day, isn’t that what’s really important?

[1] pretty much all of which is provided by Google as a sinecure to make sure that Chrome keeps being not a monopoly

No idea. It’s still at 307k right now.

It’s not the off topic or the inflammatory stuff I’m talking about, that stuff I think everyone can agree on. I am saying that the model that Reddit and Lemmy enforce encourages people to create rules like “no democratic socialists” or “no electoralism” or “you can’t criticize Russia” that are widely seen by the populace as ridiculous and oppressive.

For example, Slashdot used to parcel out duties pretty similar to moderation to random members of the community after they’d been around for a while and participating and getting upvotes (sort of). That worked fine. It kept out the crap without encouraging people to start to wield their power to try to craft the narrative and create these little echo chambers that Lemmy seems to be beset with here and there.

And yes, I allow people to post stuff that doesn’t fit my narrative. I think all moderators should do the same.

I think they should have strong unions as the basic political organizational units, and deal with political parties minimally if at all. I think this whole thing of delegating governance to a particular class of people who are designated as the power-brokers and then choosing which power broker to put in charge is always doomed to failure.

IDK, I’m not an expert on any of this stuff, I have just observed that every new party that comes along to be the insurgent reformist movement that will fix the rot of the previous parties inevitably starts to get rotted itself. The problem is that having a populace that strongly organized and puts effort into making sure things stay on the rails requires that people put that effort in, and they generally won’t do that for as long as things are basically comfortable and okay…

Honestly, to me it reads as a reason why Reddit and Lemmy both have a broken moderation model.

If I feel like posting a politics things where politics people can read it, and I am not (in the majority view of the readers) being a twatface about it, there is no earthly reason why some greasy-fingered negative Nelly should be empowered to control my ability to do so. Let alone set “rules” for what is or isn’t allowed systematically. The whole thing is fuckin’ stupid. It makes no difference from my point of view whether it be Tankies or establishment Democrats or whoever else privileged to put their thumb on the scales.

“We got 7 Lex Luthors and no Superman”

You don’t need the conversation to proceed entirely on your terms - you want it to.

I’m not the one who dipped from it as soon as I got something that wasn’t entirely on my terms.

I’m done talking about this lol

He didn’t. Some of his allies did, but he was a lot more circumspect about it.

https://www.mediaite.com/media/news/watch-trump-waffle-on-releasing-epstein-files-in-fox-news-interview-last-year/

I mean I have no real problem with paywalls, the people who run the thing have to pay their people somehow else the whole landscape will just be propaganda that someone is willing to subsidize. But at the same time I won’t say that archive.is is some kind of awful malicious horrible-man.

“You just don’t accuse a PASTOR of SEX ABUSE Jesus Christ Marissa I better never hear of this again, I mean EVER.”

“Infamous”?

He’s already been proved in court to have committed rape, and very credibly accused of having raped a 13-year-old.

I’m not saying that what’s in the files is not even worse. But what’s already in the public record is already enough and then some.

I really would be happy to. I need them to answer my question first, though, in order to make the point that I want to make. Instead they evaporated, which means I don’t owe them continuation of the conversation with the blank void they’ve left in their absence.

It’s three in the plane and a bunch on the ground.

Biden threw a couple billion dollars of that climate change money to GM to develop an EV car, which anyone working in GM or even living in Michigan will tell you is not gonna happen lmao. All while banning foreign Chinese EVs from competing because of “safety” and “market protections”.

This is sort of a standard talking point to use to attack the IRA’s climate actions. It is true, and it sounds bad, and so by telling up this little anecdote about one particular thing it did, you can spin up a picture that aligns with how you want people to see the whole of the act, without asking the question, how big a percent of the whole was that “couple billion dollars”, and how effective was the rest of it?

To me, the most important thing is, “What will this do to emissions?” Everything else is bullshit. If it reduces the amount by which we’re killing the planet, I don’t care if some money goes to GM or whatever else.

Here’s the impact on emissions:

https://www.princeton.edu/news/2023/07/12/new-study-evaluates-climate-impact-ira

"The research teams found that the IRA will dramatically cut U.S carbon emissions, with economy-wide emissions reductions between 43 and 48% below 2005 levels by 2035, but not enough to reach 50% below peak levels by 2030, as the U.S. has pledged. The results were published in the journal Science on June 29.

“‘IRA doubles the pace of reductions but should have tripled it to hit our 2030 climate goals and get on the path to net-zero by 2050,’ Jenkins says."

It’s the first time in US history that anyone’s ever done something that significant. Is it enough? Fuck no. Does it include a bunch of gifts to huge corporations? I’m sure it does. It is worth remembering that all that money came from the corporations in the first place, in the form of increased taxes, so it’s not as much of a grift as normal DC nonsense is. But it’s definitely not a fake, although it’s easy to grab individual parts of it that make it sound like it is and spin them up and poo poo the whole thing.

Biden was a downgrade from Obama, and people already called Obama a coconut for his rather insane war crime history and ICE enforcement.

Y’all don’t remember what it was like before the ACA. Also, I know two people personally who were only not deported because of Obama’s immigration reforms. One is here (for now) on DACA, and one was actually caught right before 2009 and was fighting his deportation when Obama came in, and Obama’s reforms slowed down the process enough that long story short he was able to stay in the country.

I’m sure people were calling Obama a coconut. You also don’t remember Clinton. For anyone who is paying attention, the arc Clinton -> Obama -> Biden is very obviously leftward. But, most people in the US don’t really look at politics in terms of paying attention, it’s all just confident assertion and little turns of phrase like “coconut” and then you sit back all proud of yourselves.

When was the last time Obama raised corporate tax by a trillion dollars?

Sounds good. I just edited to add a link to the source.

They sure did. Like I said, I’d be happy to answer their question, I just want to see the answer to my question first.

Sure. Like I say, the actual point is fine, and you’ll see it not being banned in any number of places in this comments section (and your whole thing about how they were deleting any criticism of Kamala before the election is absolute pure self-delusion). I do feel like having your comment deleted for calling all the other commenters shitlibs (or threatening to break someone’s skull or whatever else) shouldn’t be all that hard to understand, and it’s weird that you are insisting SO HARD that it must be because you said something bad about Kamala or that she was less than perfect.

You do understand that this whole post is saying something bad about Kamala, right? I feel like I’m taking crazy pills