Quite the opposite. Due to systemic corruption autocracies are economically highly inefficient with low productivity across the board with all kinds of long term effects this brings. And while it might look bad for democracies at the moment, I think many of the current crop of autocracies will be short lived. In the end, economy is where it’s at, and autocracies are horrible at it.

You’re right. An even shittier reddit that failed due to extreme greed before? What’s the point?

Given Musk’s latest remarks, they need to implement an alternative yesterday. I fully expect Starlink to be cut on Monday.

This is the correct answer.

What federation protects from is the singular owner of the platform sweeping in and setting/enforcing new rules for some or all communities. This could still happen on one instance, but new instances can mitigate the effects. Single communities can still turn bad, but it will be up to the users to decide whether to stick around or move to other communities.

OK, so this is where things are now. Wow.

Is this exchange real? Surely this can’t be, right?

I just deleted the reddit app today, apparently not a minute too early.

This attitude is exactly the problem. The current situation is new and unprecedented. Not seeing the difference is the type of ignorance that allowed this to happen in the first place.

Das ist wirklich irre, ich muss mich damit unbedingt mal näher auseinandersetzen.

Nichts anderes hatte ich erwartet: https://discuss.tchncs.de/comment/16719631

Just for anyone who still holds out hope: NATO as we have known it is over. The US won’t come to the defense of the other members if they are attacked. It’s time to move on.

I strongly disagree. They are actually very dumb and there is no grand strategy at play here. While everyone tries to understand the sense behind the erratic decisions, there really is not much to understand at all. It’s as simple as “we don’t want to spend money on European defense anymore”, so all activities related to that are stopped, without any regard to the consequences.

Not supported by my banks yet, but here’s hoping.

Obviously climate science will be just straight up stopped.

I’ve reduced my Amazon usage over the last years to almost zero. There are so many better specialized shops available, it’s not even a competition.

I went for ultra big. 42’ 4k OLED with no scaling is beautiful for gaming and practical for work.

I’ve noticed an uptik of pro Chinese propaganda content here on lemmy in recent days. I am afraid the fediverse had been discovered.

The beatings will continue until morale improves.