The fact they chose not to use the (entirely accurate) headline of “US Denies Mads Mikkelsen Entry to US due to Vance Meme” is the most frustrating part

Is that all?

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I don’t see that much hate but plenty of anger

Won’t speculate as to why but will recommend the community push for keyword filtering at the account level (a la Bluesky) rather than relying on apps like Sync to help us sift through the garbage

Correctly, smugly and pretentiously

It’s buried… And I don’t want to dig past a certain somebody to get it…

He’s only 45 degrees from being normal whereas they’re 90 so…

Theoretically? I’d imagine it’s equal (or close) to the difference between global money supply and global money supply but I don’t think that’s what you’re asking

Who says this and what makes them think this phenomenon is exclusive to the US?

Che Guevara, Julius Ceasar and Galileo are household names globally and martyrdom is–in the words of religious leaders everywhere–“a whole thing, y’know”

Nobody can answer this question for you but I think to the countless examples of people not “getting out while they can” who are now–or were until their death–forever trapped in a bad situation that people today forget wasn’t that bad even within living memory

Is it right for you? I don’t know

Is it cowardly to let a sense of national loyalty compel you to be exposed to the mechanisms of government wielded by untrustworthy actors? No, and anybody saying otherwise is lying to you at best; lying to themselves at worst

Inb4 any what aboutisms: nothing I’ve said here is specific to any country

Those are 2 very different questions

More people always read the top-level comment

Certainly cite sources when relevant but never argue with a reply

Fruit bats, a banana peel, 2 of Saturn’s moons, the moment in time clothing was invented and anything else

There are no restrictions specified

I looked into moving to other countries which made it very obvious which skills were worth cultivating, changed careers accordingly and moved somewhere (in the US) that isn’t fully car-dependent until I could accumulate decent savings/investments. This was pre-covid and “orange pilling”, I just kinda lucked out

And, no, none of this was easy, just easier than saying “I’ll accept this without a fight”

I was just thinking this sounds like Lemmy becoming e-Mormons

The fact is most people are perfectly happy being herded like cattle if it means avoiding a slight learning curve and new ecosystem

I could be wrong but is the previous statement referring to Lemmy, Mastodon, Linux or my entire career of shielding management/entrepreneur types from minor technical details?

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Oh, that Tokyo

I worked at a company that wanted to kill their app (just a web view for the site anyway) but trying to convince all the users to move proved unfeasible

I suppose having a dedicated “launch this website” button has some level of convenience over typing out the URL

Tbf, the 3rd party apps improved greatly over the past 6 months

Forgive my ignorance (actually, no, bitterly hold a grudge against it but answer the question through your repressed seething anger) but why are there 2 Mastodon logos?

Not sure that’s how I’d describe '02 -'07