I can’t stand it, I know you planned it

I can’t stand rocking when I’m in here 'Cause your crystal ball ain’t so crystal clear

My NAS just arrived today. I’ll have ~42 TB of self hosted storage for 1k.

Google is charging me something ridiculous like, 300 a year for the same.

Russian propaganda bot.

Oh he’s not a bot. They are a real verified human doing this as a labor of love.

Seems like you could market a line with even worse statements on it:

“This cigarette kills babies”

Airplane. Young Frankenstein. Emperors New Groove. Paper moon.

Please use mineral based sunscreen. The corals and turtles have suffered enough.

Do you have any idea who this person is? He’s about as close to something resembling a real communist as my dog is to a hippo. This guy lives in Toronto and spends most of his time spewing propaganda specifically to drive wedges between western Democracies. He an authoritarian imperialist who would never be allowed the opinions he holds if he lived anywhere but a western democracy.

He posts so much it’s shocking he even gets a git commit in. He’s a high end software engineer living in one of the most privileged countries on the planet, in one of the most expensive cities in the world, in one of the highest paid professions within that city. Statistically speaking, he is the 1% of 1%, and yet he spends most of his time lamenting his privilege and promiting the activity of authoritarian regimes. And it’s effective. He regularly gets content to the front of Lemmy. But read the first comment of those posts. It’s always garbage. This strategy is the same strategy the neonazis and fascists used to get Donald Trump into power in 2016.

And that’s where the rub is. Tankies are indistinguishable from neofacsists ideologically, and to debate them in good faith is to elevate their, truly bad faith behavior, to a level it does not deserve. I take the future of our world far too seriously to offer a good faith position to people who never have had it in the first place.

Tankies are mostly juvenile young men engaged in the same kind of quasiintellectual solipsism that result in a broad and now material neofacsist movement in the US. They are taking advantage of the same gullible psychodemographics that the modern neofacsist movement did. One should not take them in good faith, the future is too important.

I’m so glad I could be of service to you then. I’ll consider my contribution valuable and hopefully I can make you laugh here and there.

Bro you post hundreds of times a day on here, and it’s not even a remotely thought out thesis on society. You’re just an imperialist and it’s important to call you out on it.

and free labor on the part of @[email protected] to promote it.

Which is rich considering he’s a well paid software engineer working out of a western Democracy.

Tankies. The world would be so bland without them.

Whatever Toronto.

“Oh no. Thats disgusting. Which one? There are like… sooo many.”

Habanero protein shakes with extra coconut oil.

I think it becomes a question of what well back up and ‘insure’ as a society. Because we’re willing to back people up and insure against the risk of driving in a vehicle, we require certain safety standards, levels of training, etc.

I think people should and need to be able to make all the stupidest decisions they can possibly make. I also don’t think it’s society’s role to absorb that risk. I don’t think a major search and rescue operation should have been undertaken for people doing something that was incredibly risky and dangerous. It’s an edge that should stay sharp, and have real consequences. But I also strongly believe we shouldn’t be regulating people’s behavior to not also take that risk. That’s their business and the whole point of living in a liberal society. As a society we get to decide which corners to pad and which edges to soften. I’d like to see us padding the corners and reduce the risk for an immigrants voyage on an over packed boat to try and better themselt rather than some dipshit billionaires obviously stupid hobby.

I think both of them having the right to take that risk is a fundamental human right. But we as a society get to decide which risks well offer some cushion to.

a completely silly use of literally everyone’s time and money, as was the search.

If billionaires want to do life threatening tourism, then let them, but there should be no accommodations for the consequences.

It was a plastic death tube that was totally uncertified and bound to fail eventually.

Sure, and if it’s in your own personal risk tolerance, you should be well within your rights to do so.

The kind of reactionary hand wringing on this issue is telling about how conservative the world has become.

Sure, what odds?

That’s the neat part. You don’t.

basically the same as The Donald.

19 yo edge lord thinking being extreme is cool

We really really need to stop emphasizing growth of individual instances.

It entirely defeats the point of federation.