The sole advantage to being as old as dirt is having been vaccinated already.

Exactly, it is “A community of privacy and FOSS enthusiasts, run by Lemmy’s developers,” and not a community for spreading nonsense like Google secretly listening to your conversations to better recommend YouTube videos to you.

Found the Java developer.

Reporter: [REDACTED]
Reason: BS

Maybe I should have removed this post, because it is ridiculous.

Yes, one single person. Many such case.

Well aren’t you a joykill to the 24-hour news cycle.

This is very much believable, and a thousand times more believable than your phone listening to you to send you ads.

Trick or treat is a threat. They can’t refuse you treats because of the implication.

Thank you state media, very cool. Fledgling director Michael Abramowitz is a never Tumper, so his tenure likely hinges on next week’s election.

If a comment were removed from instance A, you could go look at the same post on instance B and see whether the comment is also removed there. You don’t need a user account on either instance to do this.

You’d have Musk-levels of wealth before long, so maybe.

The Sun will eventually fry all life on Earth and boil off the water & atmosphere. Eventually the Sun will die out completely, leaving you on a cold, dark rock.

If you’ve been following this war through the war propaganda of Western governments and Western corporate media, you might think those things about Russia, but they’re about as reality-based as the Ghost of Kyiv.

This is also ignoring the strained ties between Russia and China lately

This couldn’t be further from the truth. Where are you getting this from? The latest BRICS summit was held in Russia last week, with little Western coverage, because it doesn’t bode well for imperial core hegemony.

• China and Russia have almost completely abandoned the US dollar in bilateral trade as the push to de-dollarize intensifies
• New payment system for South Africa, China and Russia being tested
• Geopolitical Economy Hour: How can BRICS de-dollarize the financial system?

Why would it need to be monitored? I can’t think of a reason that an instance would not want to honor them, and if they were to, someone would eventually notice and complain. I don’t see a value in monitoring/policing it.

Practically no one bases choices off newspaper endorsements, so we don’t have to pretend they matter. Newspaper owners and their editors want us to care, because they want to feel relevant, important, and venerated. The reason this is big news is that the media love to talk about themselves.

But this is a good reminder that corporate media don’t work for us, they work for oligarchs and advertisers.

Yes, you are off here. Firstly because the US never has been and never will be much of a democracy, and secondly because shaming the constituency into voting has never and will never result in more votes.

Fewer people voting is not the cause of less democracy, it is a symptom of it. Some people have been losing faith in it, and why wouldn’t they, when grinding neoliberalism has slowly worsened their lives over the last ~45 years?

Possibly this was me yesterday.

While such requests could be intentionally ignored, I’m not of aware of a case where any actually have been. I can’t see why anyone would, and going rogue like that is liable to get your instance defederated.