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I don't think that's the right spot for either of them tbh, I'd say Fables should be a lot further left over the "mainstream" line and Rock should be several steps further up and right

Yeah but skinny jeans make my autistic ass look great, though

Because they can, and you can't stop them. Just like every other data sink.

At the very least, fascism, pandemics and gambling are nothing new.

Precisely.

I don't want China spying on me, but at the end of the day, they have exactly zero legal jurisdiction over anything that I do. The data they gather from me may as well be completely useless outside of some statistical tracking.

American companies, however, will spy on me and then gleefully sell that data to insurance agencies, law enforcement, or ICE kidnapping squads, who have the capability to come find me and harm me or my family. And we already know that American cars spy on you and report your movements to a home server, this has been proven more than once.

The American media empire has been completely in the shitter for over a decade, it's ripe for takeover from anyone who has even the slightest amount of respect for their own art.

English is the lingua franca (no, the irony is not lost on me...) of international commerce. If you remove English education from your populace then you are cutting them off from the rest of the world, economically. The only people who then will be able to comfortably buy and sell things overseas would be people who already have the spare time and money to learn a new language.

Unless you plan to get the entire rest of the world speaking primarily French as an economic vehicle as well, this is just shooting yourself in the foot. I think that ship has probably sailed already.

It's not.

You have an account on a server (instance). That server has an administrator. I have an account on a different server, which has a different administrator. We can speak to each other in the middle from these two separate servers, via federation protocols.

The administrator(s) on your server are loud and proud authoritarians and frequently silence any discussion of general resistance, among other topics that they don't like. This is not a personal failure on your part; there's not much way to know about it except to be told or to inspect the mod logs yourself. Now that you've been told, though, you have the opportunity to move to a server that actually respects your right to speak on the internet.

Or you may elect to stay on LW and be banned or censored without warning, and be lightly associated with auth-left idiots for anyone who knows what the LW admins are like. That is a choice that can be made.

If you are going to make a move, I'll warn you that .ml is known for similar. Just about most anywhere else is hosted by sane people, frequently as independent projects, even more frequently as a direct response to LW and ML's dumbfuckery.

This sounds like a Dracula Flow bit lmao

"We out here shootin' tardigrades. Smokin' on that baby-back, third-degree, JB Weld, mega-millions Zaza. Shot a rope on the spacewalk and that bitch encircled the entire planet. This shit ain't nothing to me, man. I'm twelve million years old, I left a brick on the moon back in the BC era. Don't fuck with me."

The French Foreign Legion would like a word. Perhaps several.

I guess most companies today don’t actually care about their own company.

Correct.

In many cases because of "fiduciary responsibility" it is quite literally illegal for a company to prioritize long term sustainability over quick profits. Every single company who has opened an IPO and begun selling stock has committed long form suicide.