I don’t think this is a reasonable comparison between X and Bluesky. i also believe it’s fomenting strife where it doesn’t exist. Finally using AI to generate memes removes any possible value a meme can have, and that is a critical thought produced by a human using an entertaining image. AI destroys all of that.

Don’t use AI.

The common topological targets of eminent domain are problematic and obviously someone like Robert Moses was giving extreme reverence to the rich. But regardless of who was damaged by his eminent domain details, the value that it added for everyone was enormously positive, and would have been even greater were he not a racist. I’m specifically talking about his parks and railroads as detailed in the Power Broker.

The legal method he was able to leverage to build infrastructure should be excercised more broadly vs land-trusts, and holding companies like america’s ancient rail barons. Though you don’t even need to go that far. Just use it to reclaim abandoned rail-lines + RoW. Yes it’s a payout to the railroad’s, but it’s an enormous resource through the heart of many cities. National rail expansion merged with amtrack? new parks, bike trails, etc etc. It could be used to revitalize the very neighborhoods that were most hurt by past abuses.

Eh. People living somewhere shouldn’t be a burden for infrastructure and eminent domain should be used much more commonly for building things like passenger rail. That said Pumped Hydro, and hydro electricity have huge ecological footprints and really shouldn’t be used anymore. I can only assume that they reason they wanted to build it was some perverse incentive created by the Biden or Obama administration.

People bipartisianly support universal healthcare, most Hill Democrats don’t. Why do democrats keep voting against the interests of their constituents?

Saudi Arabia is absolutely bad. I’d go so far as to call them the EA of Countries.

Ultimately your concerns stem from the philosophy of privacy, but you are weak on what practical privacy means. You have to give up a certain amount of privacy to participate in society at all. This is the case regardless of any technology. Once you decide you need a cell phone, you now have a tracking device on your person that can be used by anyone that wants to track you, specifically. You cannot prevent this regardless of what you do. Assuming you are not a person of interest for a nation-state, this exchange of privacy for convenience is rational.

There are things you can do in-order to increase your privacy in any un-trusted network though. For example: MAC-address randomization. DNS Proxies, VPNs, Privacy focused Browsers block-lists no-script etc etc.

Not all of these are relevant in all situations, and all of them can be made moot as soon as you login to some place. i.e. logging into a lemmy instance means that you now are uniquely identifiable and information can start being collected about you.

Now the question of “trust.” i.e. you don’t “trust” your friends network? Why not? Any argument that you can make about not knowing their network applies 10-fold to the cell network that you have absolutely chosen to trust. So the measures that you take with your own device to protect it from the public phone network, are equally effective on any wireless network. And that is where privacy advocates start getting squirrely.

tl;dr, if you have already taken the above steps, all untrusted networks should be treated the same according to your personal privacy envelope.

This is a great example of someone who has a lot of fear in their life that stems from ignorance, but tries to pass it off as something else. But make no mistake, you have a large gap in knowledge, and that knowledge gap combined with the paranoia of what you read from “privacy advocates” means your life is much harder and more insecure then you realize.

It’s a systemic issue with Waymo and any all the taxi “disruptors.” Choices are made to put people in danger in order to extract profit by using cars AT ALL that is the problem, not who or what is operating them. Technology jesus isn’t going to save grandma.

As a senior Network engineer, Macbook Pro is my goto. Jack Black Label is good, but I still prefer Lagavulin 16yr or founders All Day IPA.

“Beat China” at what?

Miles of wire is easy and low maintenance. Miles of pipes doesn’t make sense, but water is also not hard to localize. Miles of stroads is what defines suburbia. A rural highway with a driveway every 2-3 miles defines rural living and it’s perfectly sustainable. It would be better if the rural hubs were connected to cities via railroads, like they used to be, but still they aren’t too bad as is.

The dumbest most neoliberal take ever. Maybe poor people deserve it?

Actually I take it back, dude is probably a white supremacist.

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Can you give an example of one of those websites?

Not all communities are for all people. Maybe it’s refreshing that there exists a place that doesn’t have the same community principles.

Do they really believe any LGBT would believe such a dumb and low effort headline?

LGBT people are just as susceptible as anyone else to believe dumb shit, possibly even more so sense Liberal ID Pol is crafted for them specifically.

Cloudflare is in an interesting space. They are a service provider (ddos protection, scalable edge caching, SSL termination, etc) that allows the highly centralized internet to function. However they aren’t a gatekeeper at all. You only need cloudflare if you are in the top 5% of internet websites by volume. So when cloudflare has a problem, Lemmy isn’t affected, but Reddit is. My blog isn’t affected, but someone like https://blog.ipspace.net/ is affected.

My personal browsing habbits meant I didn’t even realize there was a cloudflare problem until I read an article about it on Lemmy. Anyway, just a tangent, but as a network engineer I’m sure i’ll be interested in the RCA.

idk, but apparently hundreds of users also have no problem with the policy of the official platform. So maybe that isn’t the right space for you.

What a weird thing for a translating service to do.

Even in a full-communism-now utopia, the idea of compensating people for their creative endeavers and labor is still going to happen, that compensation will be indistinguishable from “money” as it is currently used.

Maybe we will lose low effort artists but gain great music by passionate people.

You’ll never be able to find it or hear it though. The barrier to entry for AI music is so low, even lower then the “low-effort” artist you are deriding, that typical streaming sites will be inundated by it and nothing else will be found. The algorithm™ already prefers low-royalty music, and AI music will certainly have the lowest costs to play.