We do have the additional context outside the story that under the interim CEO Mozilla has made two other unpopular decisions:

• Bought an AdTech company
• Added AI features to Firefox

The Fediverse has 1 million active users. Threads has 130 million active users. This is not an EEE play because a 100% successful EEE play would amount to increasing the Threads userbase by less than 1%. Meta is doing this for non-EEE reasons.

One possible non-EEE reason would be to have plausible deniability for monopolistic practices. If they make a show of interoperating with irrelevant nobodies like us, they can pretend to be a nice tech company rather than a mean anti-competitive monopoly.

Now would be a great time for the federal NDP to have a leadership race. A year until next election. Singh is past his prime. Get some free press.

Would Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, and arguably Afghanistan be the fault of Marxist-Leninist-Stalinist colonialism?

Stalin made homosexuality illegal in the Soviet Union and continued the Russian colonization of central Asia. Brezhnev invaded Afghanistan. The laws weren’t repealed until Russia seceded from the Soviet Union in 1991

It was occupied by Italy in WW2, which is outside the “Scramble for Africa” period but is an occupation by a European power

If I wanted to talk to a Bluesky user, I’d be on Bluesky. Block and defederate

That’s literally Russia’s military strategy: conscript minorities and throw them as human waves into the meatgrinder in order to ethnically cleanse Russia while genociding Ukraine

The Internet Archive picked a dumb fight that it couldn’t win. I want to donate money to the Wayback Machine, but I can’t because they’ll spend it appealing this stupid thing.

Adjective vs noun. Noun-izing some adjectives makes them sound like a slur

A black doctor vs a black.

A Jewish doctor vs a jew.

A female doctor vs a female.

You can’t be a cleric of any of the interesting gods: Umberlee, Gond, Bane, Bhaal, Loviatar, Myrkul

Which other crimes should also be punished by drowning you and your children in the ocean? Shoplifting? Speeding? Littering?

What would I fold a Macbook Pro into? Quarters?

Me too. I assumed this was about the sport of curling

Ontario has now passed two different bills banning cell phones in school. It’s a great distraction from actual problems. I fully expect we’ll pass a third in a few years if our provincial government is re-elected

Teachers don’t need a sheet of paper at a legislature somewhere to take away cellphones. They can do that already, and if the kids disobey a legislature won’t help. I assume no one is expecting kids to go to prison for having a cellphone

• Man: Hi, I’m from Pakistan. May I move here?
• Other country: No.
• Man: I guess I’ll have to open a club in Pakistan.

Are you actually using Bash? You might be in a different shell. You can check with echo $SHELL

If some of the traffic (commercial traffic) is more worthy than other traffic (non-commercial traffic), why doesn’t the province institute tolls that would naturally clear the unworthy traffic out of the way of the worthy traffic?

You are defining “communism” to mean not whatever Lenin, Stalin, Mao, and friends did. That’s fine. Repudiating those monsters is great. However, when you do that you might as well call your thing anarcho-something and not “communism” to make it clear that you are not a fan of having a vanguard of idiots seize power and rule on behalf of a dictatorship of the proletariat in order to eventually hope to achieve a communist society by first having a strong central power as a transitional phase.

Keep on not licking the tank treads crushing freedom like the ones that destroyed the Prague Spring of 1968 and the Hungarian Uprising of 1956 and you won’t be called a tankie

I certainly block every .ml community I see and it’s working great for me.

I’m off Twitter and on Mastodon since November 2022. Mastodon is such a chill place once you’ve found people to follow and made sure the trolls are blocked. Staying off Reddit has been harder, but it’s also a shadow of its former self. Lemmy isn’t quite what Reddit used to be, but neither is Reddit these days. Too much noise, not enough signal

What exactly is a permanent ceasefire?

The South Korea-North Korea ceasefire has been in place since 1953