That’s beyond bad taste and into active stupidity.

This towel is warmer and bitier than usual.

There are whole-ass companies selling laptops with Linux preinstalled now. They work. Even with Bluetooth.

So basically, the more people who believe in the value of some thing, the more that thing holds actual value?

Yes. That’s how value works.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_value

The paradox of value (also known as the diamond–water paradox) is the contradiction that, although water is on the whole more useful, in terms of survival, than diamonds, diamonds command a higher price in the market.

Real money is backed by a country’s respective economy

True.

its an IOU from the government

False.

An IOU from the government is a bond.

If someone says something that a lot of people want to be true with no evidence… it ain’t true.

Even the descendants of slaves are living in a country slavery helped build.

Nothing they do will ever mean anything, because nothing can redeem the past.

And HTTPS does that. It’s encrypted.

Well, I suppose Fascists will always hate fat people.

I’m aware of how you think it should work (Usenet, basically) but how does moderation actually work on Lemmy? Can someone be banned from a sublemmy on one instance and not banned from it on another?

I don’t want to share an instance with the nutballs on the tankie instance or the nutballs on the fascist instance.

The media is interested in a horse race. Horse races sell ads. Therefore, they need to make Biden seem unpopular with mainstream Democrats (so there’s somehow Controversy over whether an incumbent President should run) and they do that by painting him as being purely a Not-Trump. Because the alternative is that Biden runs in 2024 without any drama and defeats Trump like he did in 2020, and foregone conclusions don’t sell advertising space, even if they’re good for the country.

Plus, of course, you have grifters like the people pulling RFK Jr’s strings and Cornel West and whoever else, who need to seem relevant in order to get “low-information voters” (idiots) to donate to their campaigns which are Definitely Not book tours in disguise.

Chromium browsers don’t allow extensions (uBlock Origin being the best) to block ads as effectively due to their implementation of Manifest V3. The Firefox implementation doesn’t share that limitation.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/12/chrome-users-beware-manifest-v3-deceitful-and-threatening

https://www.theverge.com/2023/1/17/23559234/firefox-manifest-v3-content-ad-blocker

https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2022/05/18/manifest-v3-in-firefox-recap-next-steps/

Yes, there is a difference, but it’s minor and big stuff, like adblocking not working as well, are true of Chrome and Chromium.

Edge is Chrome.

Insurgencies work and has been proven time and time again. See: Iraq

The insurgents lost in Iraq. I know you stopped paying attention when FOX News moved on, but the Iraqi government won.

Yeah, I don’t trust TERF Island to do this right. They’ll ban Contrapoints long before they ban Rowling.

They’re completely meaningful and not at all patronizing. (Do you even know what that word means?)

Not wrong, in that the studies are valid, and completely relevant to your point.

Guns kill their owners far more often than they kill home invaders and other intruders.