I think so too, but I disagree. No one is forced into a CEO lifestyle or profit-above-all mindset. I feel like that’s pretty much on him. Echoing a comment I saw elsewhere - my empathy is out of network for this guy.

No worries cops, Tump will install a new DOJ and then you won’t have to worry what anyone thinks about how you treat those uppity *******. This can go on the pile with the rest of the social progress we’ve made.

I’d like to add that the more I think about it, this is the logical eventual outcome to for-profit healthcare. How long it takes to get to this point seems like it would vary with a few other factors, but I guess we’ve reached it now for this timeline.

Same!

The energy has been pretty consistent:

Remember this next time you see all the maga folks with “We the people” stickers on their cars and windows.

The party of small government and respecting the will of the people, folks!

It’s so weird to see when I see members of one marginalized group further marginalizing another marginalized group rather than having solidarity.

2 women who marched for racial justice now will get to deliver it as Syracuse City Court judges

Shadia Tadros, 39, a first-generation Arab-American, and Felicia Pitts Davis, 52, a Black woman with parents from the Deep South, say they are arriving with a mandate: The status quo is over.

In the year of marches to address systemic racism in the justice system, they stand with the peaceful protesters. They marched, too.

Tadros and Davis — who point out they are different people with different backgrounds — share some goals on how they want to change the justice system.

Society failed them both.

I’d say society did pretty well by the CEO. It was unrelenting greed and placing profits over people that got him to his end. That’s on him.

So, we had 4 neonazi demonstrations in 2021.

22 in 2022

30 in 2023

34 in 2024, and we elected Hitler 2.0

I’m sure there are people who go to Mexico/Canada as often as Europeans seem to be popping into other countries, but most of us very rarely do.

But most of us do have to visit other states often, which works out to a similar radius as hopping countries in Europe in many cases, that’s why I made the comparison I did.

That’s pretty funny, but I’m years past accepting the “hurr durr ignorant american knows only one language” thing. Except as a response to someone harassing someone about their English capabilities, as seems to be the case in your example. 😁

The way I figure it, if the people two states away from me in every direction spoke a different language from me, and from each other, I’d probably be multilingual, too. (As would most of us)

I always hope that everyone speaks English and if they seem worried about how it sounds I remind them that their English is way better than my their language which usually breaks the ice.

Just clarifying because I feel we’re talking past each other:

You asked the folks in this discussion:

If the problem is fixable technical shortcomings, why not fix them instead of throwing up our hands and surrendering?

to which I said

Because not everyone is a developer.

to which you said

You don’t have to be a developer to use Lemmy

True. But that’s not what where we’re at in the discussion.

It sounds like mastodon still has technical issues . If Lemmy’s were solvable, mastodon’s are too. Otherwise, how did mastodon get built in the first place?

I’m quite sure they are solvable, but likely not by the folks complaining about the technical issues and choosing to use other services like bluesky. Because not everyone is a developer.

So in other words, I think your musing out loud about why don’t we solve the issues instead of giving up and using something else is being directed to the wrong people.

I think it’s just discoverability of content, and probably some UX. Mastodon isn’t really a great show of what ActivityPub can do.

I’m kind of surprised I don’t see Calckey or similar mentioned more. Personally I think it has solved a lot of Mastodon’s problems, but it seems niche even within the niche that is the fediverse.

https://calckey.world/

As a Linux user since 2007 I feel a little dirty uttering this phrase, but:

Because not everyone is a developer.

Reminds me of this little snippet of dystopia from a copilot ad about a year ago:

That’s hilarious and I hope you don’t mind that I’m going to steal it to post.

Robot Drug Delivery Dog is so much better than Robot NYPD Mass-Surveillance dog that I almost can’t express how happy OP makes me.

https://apnews.com/article/robot-dog-nypd-61bd64c94360e30f110f65626cc1687c

The city’s first robot police dog was leased in 2020 by Adams’ predecessor, former Mayor Bill de Blasio, but the city’s contract for the device was cut short after critics derided it as creepy and dystopian.

Adams said he won’t bow to anti-robot dog pressure.

Jesus. For just a second I had some hope that they learned something.

Thanks for that explanation!

So, arguably, a country like the US is a better place for such ideals to minimize the time spent in the first phase and hasten the transition to the second phase since we are already industrialized?

(Not, by the way, that I say this to suggest it is necessarily a fair tradeoff for the first phase. I’m not making a judgement there at all.)