No it doesn’t matter that much. Unless you are seeing too many posts of stuff you don’t like (e.g. US politics, tech news) and not enough of what you want to see (e.g. science, local content from a more regional instance, anarchist stuff, etc.), or you have a beef with how moderation is done on your local communities, then you should move to an instance more tailored to your needs.

IMAP and/or Authenticator skips step 8 to 14.

Okay.

I would not like someone that treats everything like a test flight program to run the FAA, or in fact run anything that’s not a test flight program.

Thanks for doing your part to keep the conversation going, on home-grown social media!

Let me just find millions in venture capital money behind the couch cushions, brb.

Not there aren’t any good points, but overall the lacking factuality of the post and the wonky formatting makes me suspect whether some or all the post text was copied from an LLM answer.

Does it really matter to people that your karma total is the same when viewed from different instances?

Lemmy can be made better, yes, but the essential thing is that people need to give up a level of convenience to relinquish control from the entrenched kings (“landed gentry”).

Sure, bud. Your average white person totally acts like this:

[ Add tariffs +25% 🪙 -30% 🕊 -25% ⚖️]

clicks

[ This breaks your agreement USMCA 2019. Are you sure you wa… ]

clicks Yes

Wait why is my trade income decreasing?

Glad you found an interface you like. Enjoy your time here!

They will quickly move to the Austrian artist’s plan.

Totally ineffective measure by Trump on Canada. Canada’s supply management system is already intended to stop Canadian dairy farmers from overproducing, focused solely to meet our own needs. So farmers and processors are already limited on the US export front. 250%, a bajillion %, is not going to make much difference for this specifically. It just means we close our small export market to them.

One can wish for the best for Mexico while being aware of its history and issues it continues to face. But the fact that Mexican residents appear to be trusting President Sheinbaum to take real action to solve them, and as a person and leader she seems very capable of doing that to the extent of her governmental authority.

I do think Lopez Obrador and Sheinbaum’s policy of frequent mañaneras and answering reporters is great for governmental transparency, even if it will be characterized as daily propaganda.

If you want to read the story of someone’s experience trying to block all the big tech companies from their life back in 2019. Their first week was trying to block Amazon.

Edit: A big challenge would be if you wanted to avoid connecting to sites that run off of or have content served by AmazonWebServices. To do that for example, you’d have to click these archive links for Gizmodo instead of the direct links I did above.

archive ver for link 1

archive ver for link 2

So far, oil companies have “won” themselves a 10% trump tax on their inputs.

I mean Trump backed down from Mexico upon the mere threat of retaliation to come on Sunday. Sheinbaum is stronger than Trump the felonious con artist could ever be.

It’s far from over, because it appears to me that Canadian and Mexican governments are both aiming for a more permanent resolution. I think they should stay closely co-ordinated. In the meantime…

¡Que Viva La Presidenta! ¡Que Viva México!

Democrats, here’s your chance. Host Where’s Your ® Senator and House Rep When You Need Them Most Town Halls in red states, stat.

Assuming free and fair elections are happening in 2 years, you need to build rapport with your constituency, ask and answer the questions Trump acolytes will be silent or openly lie about.

How did Biden change the forecast to negative tho?

• Hello, Bye
• Thank you
• Excuse me
• Sorry
• Do you speak [your native language]? [Native Language] please?
• Where is …
• Check in?
• The bill?
• How do I get to…?
• I am from… [your country’s name in the foreign language]
• Yes/No
• How do you say [word] in [foreign language]?
• The bathroom?
• the hospital?
• the hotel?
• Help me!
• Emergency!
• Payphone? Portable charger? ATM?
• Taxi stand, Bus stop, Train Station?
• Restaurant/Eatery?
• Water, Food, [Your dietary restrictions]
• More/Less, High, Low, Left, Right, Up, Down

Counter government-sponsored hate with love. This is the grassroots organizing and community building I’m talking about. It might not look pretty but it’s by the people, for the people.

North Korea’s GDP would technically be up 5% from this. Great success.

They have slowed some appointments in House committees.

The Senate Democrats have stayed late to filibuster nominations

Democrats have repeatedly attempted unsuccessfully to enter federal agency buildings to investigate ‘what the Doge doin’

Democrats have an upcoming opportunity to refuse to pass a budget with the trillion dollar tax cuts that Musk and other billionaire are trying to somehow justify with every fibre of their being. This means that everyone in the House (including purple state Republicans) have to be in lock step, even 2-3 R-defectors will mean it doesn’t pass.

Democrats have been proposing amendments left and right, into the night… House members have suggested excluding people with wealth over $10M, $100M and $500M, all voted down. Senators like Andy Kim for example, have put on their Instagram pages, what they are trying to do.

Congresspeople are doing their job harder than they ever thought they would have to, but we should expect more.

I do think all the Democrats, should take more opportunities to visit their states to make people aware of what’s going on, what they’re doing in Congress to try to stop the worst stuff happening, and what ordinary people can do to push back as well. I think members should also boost each others message because probably pages like AOC’s have a lot more viewers from a district than their own district’s House Rep.