That’s true. The only thing leftists hate as much as conservatives and liberals is other leftists.

(insert Groundskeeper Willie meme)

I agree completely. We really need to make onboarding to the fediverse as painless as possible. If there’s a barrier to entry the general audience will gravitate towards tech savvy folks. That’s cool and all but what made Twitter and Reddit so good was the diversity of voices.

There were tech folks but also senior citizens, people who don’t usually use social networks and those with marginalized voices. Both platforms started with mostly tech folks, Twitter didn’t really blow up until the color revolutions, reddit really came into its own after the digg exodus.

The fediverse is making big gains because of both platforms thoroughly shitting the bed but we’re not the only game in town. Threads has an extremely low barrier to entry but it’s an entry into a Max Headroom style blipvert hellscape. Making our barrier to entry as low as possible could really help us “rescue” those users.

Those pesky anarchists out here feeding the hungry and building dual power through community! If people can depend on each other for safety, security and human dignity how will the state continue to maintain its control!

Also, they use violence as a means of protest, only the police can use violence! No fair!

I feel like those were somewhat easy to find (but not explicitly stated).

• Lemmy.world for Lemmy
• Kbin.social for Kbin
• Mastodon.social for Mastodon

Once people are in there then we start talking up moving to and instance that fits their style. Kind of like picking a fighter character then picking a specialization at level 2. That’s still a hard sell on Lemmy and Kbin where we don’t have the account export/import/redirect tools that Mastodon has. I could see them coming pretty soon though.

There’s always some people walking around dead malls, even if the mall died years ago. Reddit will be around for at least 5-10 more years but it’s overall influence will start to decline. It will be slowly at first but I’d bet three years from now reddit will just be seen as a forum site for scammers, bots, incels and alt-right lunatics (more than it is now).

Bluesky and Threads are perfect examples of “fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.” I’ve got no sympathy for folks who will be blindsided when those platforms start squeezing them almost immediately.

Tech bros big mad when they can’t continue to exploit a workforce and have to play by the rules. “How can we disrupt if we can’t cheat and steal from our workers and customers?”

Those shit acre silicon carpetbaggers can get infini-fucked.

The Good Place is overall pretty positive. Same with Parks and Recreation as well as Abbot Elementary.

I bet I could convince you that there are no winners in global thermonuclear war with just 1000 games of tic tac toe.

Anyone who hasn’t read The Murderbot Diaries should read The Murderbot Diaries right now!

I’m not a democrat, I’m a leftist.

No, leftists are like vegans. Call a vegan a vegetarian, “I’m not a vegetarian, I’m a vegan!”

Call a leftist a democrat, “I’m not a democrat, I’m a leftist!”

(btw, I’m a leftist. Not a vegan though)

If someone refuses to admit their political affiliation in the US you can basically guarantee they’re right wing.

Have you read Children of Time? It’s also Tchaikovsky, it doesn’t really get space-opera-y until the third book, Children of Memory but it’s soooooo good. Soooooo good.

This sounds awesome. I usually put smoked ham hock in with a pot of collared greens but I’ll have to try it with barley. Thanks!

Stockton Rush is a killer and should be charged posthumously with four counts of negligent homicide. He’s just as culpable, if not more, that someone who gets behind the wheel drink and kills their passengers.

Wow, I hope Paul can defeat the Harkonen, he could do some real good in the galaxy. What they really need is to put their faith in a charismatic leader.

Also, I’m sad that Duncan Idaho died. I feel like if he lived there’s no chance he would become insufferable in the distant future.

I have to second The Final Architecture. Lots of action, lots of fleshed out alien species, a good solid crew to follow. It checks all the boxes.

The issue with this approach is that it further entrenches gaps that are already there. The best predictor of economic outcome is zip code. That’s because schools are funded by local property tax. Live in a wealthier area, get better schools. Better schools lead to a better outcome. Schools in poorer districts stay poorer. It’s a system that is self perpetuating.

Replacing affirmative action with something that is strictly income based could help but that ignores other systemic biases that are based on race rather that income.

I feel like if we’re ending affirmative action we should also put in place more restrictions on legacy admissions which is just affirmative action for dumb, rich kids and represents a much bigger chunk of students than affirmative action ever did.

We’re not talking about punishing anyone, we just don’t want to hear or see their bigotry. They can have their space and we can choose not to interact with them.