Count Regal Inkwell

You’re missing the important factor of the cultural zeitgeist

People who flocked to RedNote weren’t just going there for an alternative to TikTok

They were specifically going there because the US government said “you can’t go on the Chinese App!” so they said “Oh yeah? I’m gonna find an even MORE Chinese app to hang out at!”

I have long since given up on Normies ever coming to the Indie Web, federated or otherwise

Ever since the big Xwitter exodus, when people went to BlueSky when Mastodon was right there.

THAT died and got replaced last month.

Came home from a trip

Plugged the machine in

Popping sound

It was dead

Methinks eventually going completely nuts is part and parcel of the supervillain lifestyle

I know what I signed up for.

Now all I need is a hero type who will antagonise me and mess with my plans… But never kill me or take my wealth to reduce my power. And also we’ll have a rivalry that borders on the homoerotic sexual tension.

Gluten free bread lacks any of the pleasant qualities of actual bread (my gluten allergy is “makes you have the shits” and not “kills you”)

You can get good biscuits and cake without gluten. Good cereal. Passable pasta. Even decent pizza crust.

Not bread. Not by a long shot. The best gluten free bread in the world is just decent at its best, not to mention costing 15x the price. REALLY not worth it.

you’re not gonna eat a spoonful of jelly

Speak for yourself mangohead

Down with the tyranny of delicious sweet things being spread on salty bread which ruins their taste. I eat jams and Nutella like they’re a dessert.

But im allergic to gluten :(

Still pretty efficient if they also hit the gym and make their arms/back strong.

They carry a lot less than a vehicle, but the travel time is instant.

I feel ‘Magic’ is able to cover a lot of these…

Anyway

Immortality, Insanely Rich, Magic.

I will then become a supervillainous evil wizard. Sorry-not-sorry.

Lucky you

I’ve gone through two NVMe drives these past few years.

Both just started fucking up and crashing my whole OS with them.

Go back to Reddit with this shit.

Replace the yous for theys. Same thing.

I did, but then I realised I’m wrong about the VPN thing.

I was thinking of the RESTRICT act from 2023, which did ban the usage of VPNs (and was the “Original” Tiktok ban law)

Apparently in the year and change I spent not really caring (look, this is an American problem, y’all slam your metaphorical penises in the car door at least three times a day. And I have my own country’s dick-slammings to care about. I only hear about it when it’s particularly egregious or when I see a meme like this that is cheering for the dick-slamming) the RESTRICT act got shot down, and another one was quickly drafted.

The one that was approved does not ban VPNs. So. That’s on me. My b.

Anyway, given y’all are under Trump’s thumb now, I give it eeeeh six months before RESTRICT 2: Censorship Boogaloo starts making the rounds.

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Russia is a menace to US’s peasantry, as they might drag the US to a(nother) proxy war.

Whereas China is a menace to the US’s aristocracy, in the sense that China is currently richer than the US of A, and despite thousands of articles about how “CHINA’S ECONOMY WILL COLLAPSE TOMORROW!” for the past 15 years, it has yet to happen.

Ergo, the US government won’t do shit about Russia, but will bend over backwards for anything related to China.

Actual regulations on data privacy and algorithmic manipulation. It’s not that complicated. The EU figured it out. Fuck me, my own country, Brazil, a third world hellhole, figured it out. We have very strict rules on data protection.

Ofc, this would never happen because 1. Big corpos own the US government and actual regulation on privacy would hurt THEM, and 2. The US Government actually WANTS algorithmic manipulation to happen, except they want THEIR algorithmic manipulation and not anyone else’s.

Just the usual Americans thinking the world revolves around them and we should all accommodate their derangement.

God forbid a foreigner talk about anything though.

Nah they want your money and attention same as the Americans

I will say that being from Latin america I am fundamentally less scared of China than I am scared of the US. The US took my country’s future from us twice, both times in living memory, and one I was already around for.

While the worst thing China has done here is uhhh

Buy land to open a factory in our sovereign soil and illegally mistreat workers in that factory.

Really not anywhere near the same level as backing two far right coups.

Yet they had the excuse and idiots like op are cheering on their censorship

Actual privacy laws like the Eu? Nah let’s just make an american version of the Great Firewall.

Blah blah blah “we built our own great firewall and painted it red white and blue, and even banned the use of vpns to get to foreign sites which even China doesn’t do. We’re totally the good guys BTW.”

Americans are so fucking stupid, oh my god.

@EDIT: So it turns out the RESTRICT Act, that I was thinking of, and which banned VPNs, was shot down. And the current and approved Tiktok ban law doesn’t do that. So. My b. This one is on me. I stand by “Americans are so fucking stupid oh my god”, though, because you’re still cheering for loss of net liberty.