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the joy of open source

I mean once China starts pumping stuff in volume, then it has translated into cheap consumer goods historically. I don’t see why this would be different.

it’s really nice to have a decent and user friendly open source app

yup

lol no, I’m simply dismissing you

It’s kind of a general problem we in the west now, everything is purely driven by ideology at this point and we’re becoming more and more disconnected from the material reality of the world each and every day. I really do think there’s going to be a massive crash, and Israel might act as the catalyst for it.

For sure, bibi is just a symptom here. The whole society is fundamentally fascist. I think the real problem they have though is that the US has run into material limits of what it can do. And Israel can’t really fight this war on their own, so if the US is tapped out then they’re in very deep trouble.

Oh, I don’t mean he’s going to get jailed over any of this stuff. It’s more that there are factions and infighting internally.

yeah, seems like getting a daily summary would make more sense

Bibi is going to jail if the war stops, so he can’t stop the war. But I agree it goes beyond him, the whole society is fascist and it this point not even rational anymore.

Plenty of tools can be dangerous when used improperly. For example, bleach is very useful for cleaning, but I would advice against drinking it.

What part of my argument is flawed, nothing I said is contrary to your statement.

Reddit does have the advantage of being a single site where search is easy to do in a shared db. Since Mastodon is federated, discoverability is going to be inherently worse as requests have to propagate through the network. But I think that for blogs it’s less of an issue since you tend to follow people for their writing.

In my opinion, Lemmy is already a great replacement for Reddit. So, it makes sense for Mastodon to focus on its core functionality which is blogging, while Lemmy can fill the Reddit niche in the fediverse.

I actually think substack format would be a better fit. It’s already a blogging platform at its core with good discoverability. That’s exactly what sites like substack provide and why they’re popular for blogging. Reddit/Lemmy is more of a news aggregator where people post links and discuss them.

sure kiddo

I can tell why you didn’t want to link to the whole site because it completely undermines your narrative of cherry picked short term data which is not indicative of long term trends. Meanwhile, Russian oil revenue has shot up significantly thanks to the global oil shortages, and it represents a smaller percentage of economy as well. So, what we’re actually seeing is that there isn’t any significant shift compared to previous years, while revenue has shot up. https://energyandcleanair.org/may-2026-monthly-analysis-of-russian-fossil-fuel-exports-and-sanctions/

same

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Something becomes a tool through usage though. So, LLMs can be a tool just as anything else when we put out mind to it.