Fascism always hurts itself in its confusion, along with everyone it touches, because it's a mental illness.

These sources aren't great. A book from 1969 is one of them. I would've assumed DNA sequencing had already confirmed which one our ancestry and genome is more closely related to.

If we branched away from one 700 million years ago, and the other 800 million years ago, then it's more like "potato potatoe".

I've always felt this way about tankies and the horseshoe theory in general. Conservatism spawned from the "Bourgeoise"; all the religious lords and landowners who profited from, and supported, monarchs and authoritarian rule. Tankie belief systems align with that "bourgeoise" perfectly.

The concept of authoritarian socialism is a contradiction. Without democracy, freedom of thought, and freedom of person — from fear of retribution for wrongthink — the workers never had a say; never "seized" control of anything. Tankies are nothing more than a continuation of the authoritarian rule that came before them. Both Hitler and Trump have said they represent the wprking class. Saying you represent the working class is meaningless. You need to prove it with your actions.

Ultimately tankies are closer to the Tsars, Kings, and colonialism they replaced, than they are to the concept of freedom and equality for the working class. They just want to be the oppressor, and probably believe that communism is the best chance they have to ever be in a position to fulfil that role.

I too am intrigued why tankies would support islamic fundamentalists murdering leftist french journalists... Doesn't add up... My only guess (beyond the general mental illness tankies display) is that French colonialism fucked up cultures around the world for centuries — across south America, Africa, and Asia — and they still hold political and military control over a few of them... But why cheer islamic terrorism? Why cheer the murder of leftist journos?

This sub should require links to the offending thread, so users can view in context. Otherwise this could've been posted anywhere. I'd expect this screenshot from the likes of Truth Social.

I wanna see this extended back to at least 1980, which was around the peak for nudity and sex scenes in film; after porn was legalized but before internet porn.

Those are both edits to existing replies where I was trying to be an asshole, AFTER I could no longer reply and received a ban message. Why Lemmy would let a banned user edit historic comments I dunno.

I can't seem to view my OG comment in my own history or modlog, or any of them prior to editing. The most asshole the OG comment got was "your bravado is reckless and dumb af", but still got like 95% / 40+ downvotes from a user base who believe nuclear war is a joke. It's the first time I've bothered using the modlog, and as a feature that was touted for its transparency it's honestly not much better than reddit. Can't even seem to view the mod who made the decision.

Accurate, except Lemmy mods are more the shittiest tankies/libs of Reddit. The vast majority of conservatives don't seem to have come here; probably to truth social, 4chan, and other established strongholds where they don't have to ever see opposing opinions.

IMO the "replicate reddit, but decentralized" approach will be the downfall of Lemmy. You sound like you're trying to do the right thing, but there is significantly more moderator centralization and authoritarianism on Lemmy than there was on early reddit. Most of the early reddit mods were people who genuinely had an interest or experience in that subs topic; not the tankie or excommunicated from elsewhere simply "domain squatting" dozens of popular community names and then dictating over them once they grew popular; trying to carve out their own personal safe space soap boxes. I have seen dozens of mods who'll debate someone and when they lose they just delete all of the opposing comments and ban the user they disagree with. Often they are the one and only mod of that community.

Users left Reddit because they didn't wanna have to deal with continued enshittification and unaccountable bad faith mods on a power trip. Lemmy only solved the former, and doubled down on the latter, while fragmenting users across numerous duplicate communities about the same topic; leading to significant post duplication amongst a sea of inactive duplicate communities.

If Lemmy doesn't solve its core issues I don't expect it to last long and will move elsewhere sooner than later. I feel like users should be able to join a group of communities about the same topic, and moderator control should be both diluted and distributed amongst them. As in, redistribute moderation across the user base by randomly showing a group of users a post/comment and using the average rather than relying on whoever created the sub to act in good faith. Decentralized services should be built as trustless/adversarial; expect and account for bad faith actors. I wouldn't have any problem being required to moderate a post/comment for every post/comment I make, I just don't want the responsibility of being a permanent mod, nor having to review every single thing myself.

TBF, in the free world it's illegal to joke about the death of dictators, politicians, and extremely dangerous criminals unless you are a politician &/or conservative. Everybody knows that.

Just another example of how judicial systems are run by ignorant dinosaurs who don't understand how anything works (e.g. series of tubes). You'd expect a judge presiding over this type of case to make a ruling after seeking advice from domain experts; on what was in the realm of possibility.

If Google were motivated to do this voluntarily, I'd expect it to be a 6-12 month project, at the very least.

Well obviously. It was 40k months ago, and that was merely a conservative estimate. The real death toll is definitely well over 100k if you include all the civilians Israel has intentionally starved and deprived of medical care.

Fascist thinks fellow fascist should be free to do genocide faster and harder!

Statistical modeling and machine learning theory goes back several decades. I'm not sure LLM's even use new algorithms. They may just apply various techniques that improve the performance and accuracy of pre-existing algorithms.

The Democrats are just as much a front for the shadow plutocracy that finances 90% of candidates at the state and federal level.

The only difference is one is a continuation of the "democracy" charade, while the other rips the mask off and officially kills it.

I just tried on the web and the only option is to create their custom doc format.

I don't want a custom intermediary format. I want to create and edit txt and md files — the thing you can do on every platform. They've had an E2EE client-side txt and html editor in mail for a decade. At the very least, these 2 should have been available on release of drive.

It absolutely is. This is a continuation of conservatisms culture war on truth and intellectualism.

Continue starving the beast. It's how these people treat the government.

How many of them have exited the rat race and could stop working forever without a problem?

Why can't I edit a txt or md file?

Good luck gettin anything useful out of my browsing history. Just millions of random queries about anything... an endless stream of consciousness that go nowhere... and porn... so much porn.