Enjoy everyone, we’re living through fediverse history. This is our dancing baby (or maybe more like the “love you” worm).

Has anybody actually followed the links? I’m mildly curious where it goes.

Amazing. Like OP, I’ve lost count.

Pretty much what I do with Lemmy, too.

Didn’t he go through literal millions or something the movie? You bet your ass he was tired.

I mean, is it? I think you assume too much about the value they place on rigorous intellectual debate.

Their thing is that the established, local version of Islam is perfect, handed down from god and miraculously transmitted flawlessly by whatever mullah is in charge today. Having a different take, besides presenting a very personal health and safety threat to the guys in charge, is non-figuratively heresy.

As for the edit, it’s worth noting that autocracies can become very flexible, in their own way, as soon as they stop bothering with the ideology. North Korea has gone on paper from communist to a mystical bloodline monarchy in what, a few decades? Of course, with the ideology goes any incentive to have a strong economy or technological base, let alone human rights, because it’s a bad tradeoff for less control of the peasants…

Ah. Okay.

If you go back a bit, I did try to point out it’s different here when I figured out that’s what you meant.

“Please purchase a premium subscription to skip sudden interruptions”

Edit: Well no, not right away. It would be “please give a credit card number for security purposes”, and then a few years down the road it force-updates to the new version that sometimes edges you unless you press the “purchase lootbox” button on the mandatory app.

I think this kind of shit flies because people honestly assume anything their electronics does is technically necessary.

Again, I’m not in America, and that’s not even what I meant. There is no exception to minimum wage for tipped workers here.

Well, the answer to that question would just be no. Like I said, it’s the law, and things can be sketchy here but not like that.

Yes, that is a (very incomplete) summery of my own statements.

Really? Count the things you’re not allowed to show in public. It’s almost like you can’t go through life with your eyes literally closed so the world doesn’t bother you.

You have to know that, though, so you must be trolling.

I always keep an eye out for the comments that would be the most incomprehensible shown in the last century.

I haven’t had the displeasure yet.

And why would they tell me, a relative stranger who, while actually local, seems kinda like a dirty city liberal? Or worse, they know who I am and that I’m weird.

What I hear around the community lumps staff in with employers, and I haven’t heard people badmouthing their own employers much at all. I do avoid the antivax cafe.

Look, you seem to be making a ton of assumptions about what my local environment is like, how much time I have, how good my Lemming social skills are, and how much importance I would place on this one particular aspect of our society, versus all the others I could be thinking about. I appreciate the concern for service workers, but being hounded about this feels more like you’re arguing for it’s own sake.

I have no special knowledge of the working conditions of local restaurants.

As the other posters have pointed out, we’re already on it. Which, no offence, is a symptom of why we don’t want to be part of the US - our government actually works.

I looked over the official list, and it’s stupid detailed. Like, a couple of goods mentioned are papers for wrapping cigars and fitted cases for church bells.

My impression is that he thinks morality is dumb, basically. He’s the protagonist of his own story, to the degree you’d expect from a raging narcissist, but not every story has a protagonist that’s good.

Heh. Jokes on her, I’m poor.

Yep, got it. Twice, actually, somebody’s finger must have slipped.

It was kind of inevitable that fraudsters would figure out making a sockpuppet on here is easy.