this is one of the primary pillars of the u.s. democracy people.

if this falls, the u.s. should be officially declared a fascist state. there will be nothing from preventing the u.s. government from crushing any and all media it deems unworthy including and specifically your personal blogs.

this is removal of freedom of speech with extra steps to pretend like its not.

its harder than it looks

i would just point out that lemmy is merely a single platform swimming in the fediverse content waters… there are other options that provide differing features while interacting with the same or more content. see https://fedidb.com/

im an mbin cheerleader

dunno man… unlike the american dicatorship they got top notch evs and shit. top. notch.

the only life a republican values (other than their own) is that of a fetus, and even that is temporary.

theres 2 groups… people trying to prove dark matter is matter of some kind… and those where ‘dark matter’ is a placeholder for ‘anomalous mass’

as just a layman observer, im in the second camp. no need for some new crazy thing when it could very well be tied to something else we dont fully understand but know exist, black holes.

I have reached the stage where I will wear crocs

my family would institutionalize me if i said this; correctly inferring my brain had broken in some catastrophic manner

gross

like it or not; we are a biologically social species… or else

dont forget its the fediverse, it exists somewhere;

https://moist.catsweat.com/m/microblogmemes@lemmy.world/t/1741524/Won-t-somebody-think-of-the-children

https://cdn.catsweat.com/58/85/58850f99d83b09c17b3aef4b9f0051c4b4e3a7293f3dec6a42df4898a7b781fa.webp

it (need) inversely scales with the size of the company.

you need jack-of-all-trades when youre starting out, proof of concept type stuff or your business is just niche and tiny. you sometimes cant just immediately pay for every role.

as the company grows you replace each hat worn by that one individual with a laser focused employee who can do it better.

eventually, the jack is out of hats.

occams razor dontchaknow

Does anyone know of software that already provides topic-level blocking out of the box without needing long manual lists?

yep, reddit, facebook, twitter…

we were 2 inches away from not having to deal with any of this nonsense.

Removed by mod

cant pull out all the stops on militarization without a de-facto declaration of war.

the war on drugs, now with more war!

sometimes… the 911 operators had machines that connected to a shitload of audio sources simultaneously… think all emergency service radio bands (police/fire/sheriff) as well as the land-lines and cellular networks… this was back before texting to 911 was a thing.

i was always testing external radios and phone sources. the cell providers were the worst (at the time)… sometimes 911 would work for Primeco but not Verizon or whatever so each cell provider had to be tested independently.

it was just weird first doing it as i grew up terrified i would accidentally dial 911.

i got a job working tech support for 911 and had to make test calls regularly from different sources

the fediverse is incredibly public.

its like having your own little radio station broadcasting into the void. once those waves hit the air you cant take it back.

deletes/edits are niceties… but the fact is you put it on the fediverse and everyone else gets to decide what to do with it.

theres only one party that thinks hunger is a political issue.

anti-science. anti-facts. anti-humanity

the regressive party strikes again