Rioting Pacifist

Not really 3/7 and multiples of it, rounds to 43%, so the lower bound means at least 7 cases.

Aromantic+Asexual

So you mean the state budget?

It’s typically available, e.g https://ebudget.ca.gov/home

Maybe all the sex workers that say criminzalization isn’t the answer are on to something.

Decriminalize & legalize adult sex work if you want to address child trafficking.

Anarchy (good)

We already overproduce everything that is necessary for daily life, food, housing, energy, clothes.

The problem with waiting for post-scarcity is it ignores that it’s a few assholes hording essential things especially housing that force us to work and earn those assholes more money and power, as long as that continues, increased production doesn’t matter as they’ll use the extra production to buy even more stuff we need to survive!

I get that it feels good to give Americans a taste of their own survailance border, but this is bad, building a survailance network “at the border” will inevitably expand inwards.

I don’t think your fingerprint is in your passport.

I think $8 is premium lite which is just no ads.

YouTube costs $8/month to not show ads.

It’s hard to tell, because companies that make their money from ad revenue also spend a lot making their apps more addictive in order to sell you more ads.

You can tell that they are making less than whatever their premium costs though, so for example YouTube makes less than $8/month selling ads.

If people aren’t trying to sell you shit, and don’t have to make their website more addictive it’s relatively cheap to run, for example Wikipedia that has a pretty dynamic read/write load, get 11 billion unique devices a year on just the English site https://pageviews.wmcloud.org/siteviews/?platform=all-sites&source=unique-devices&start=2025-04&end=2026-03&sites=en.wikipedia.org which is about half of the page views: https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2026/01/13/wikipedia-at-25-what-the-data-tells-us/ but spends ~$180m/year across all languages, so it costs about 1c a year/unique device if I’m doing my math right.

Obviously some service like YouTube will cost more because it uses more bandwidth and Gmail will cost more because each user is served individual emails and spam filtering has always been CPU intensive, but the hardware costs are fairly minimal anyway (most of the cost is on staff), so if it wasn’t for the ads Google would have less staff and hosting their services would be much cheaper, maybe not 1c/year but almost certainly less than $1

Obviously Lemmy instances are currently much smaller than reddit, but I’d bet by unique user count Lemmy instances are likely running far more effectively than reddit and likely in the sub dollar category.

On the flip side if you want to make something a subscription only service you need to spend a bunch of money processing payments and subscriptions, probably more than the actual hosting costs.

Edit:

Lemmy.world spend ~$2K to serve 14k users a month, which is about 14c/user/month or $1.70/year

https://lemmy.world/post/45439860/23152012

That doesn’t work in reality, as evidenced here, it’s far more likely people compromise their security for convenience than the other way around.

Also sometimes opsec requires in get messages from certain chats quickly. Knowing where ICE are in a timely manner is important.

I reckon the Pope could kick Vance’s ass TBh

It would be nice if Signal let you do this per conversation.

It’s sort of a victim of its own success, I use it for both things that do and don’t require opsec

The UK has every right to deny Ye entry, the issue is that the law is so vague that it’s implemention is up to the home office and largely used to pander to the (foreign/non-dom owned) press, the UK has effective abdicated control of its borders to the media.

Ironically this also weakens democracy in favor of an all powerful executive.

He is literally a Nazi

Is he?

Does he organize nationalists or promote white supremacy or does he just say stupid shit?

Because if it’s the latter this will be weaponized against anyone left of center far more effective than this.

Wether it’s Ye or Kneecap, having visa laws/the right to perform applied to individuals on a whim to pander to the media, is bad and reduces the rights of everyone.

Ironically this weakens democracy in favor of an all powerful executive.

There’s no queer police coming to dictate who isn’t valid.

Fuck/don’t fuck whoever you want, you’ll always be valid.

#NoQueerCopsAtPride

This makes so much sense:

1. Centralized maintenance compared to individual rooftop solar
2. Peak generation during buisness hours is actually a huge bonus instead of a drawback

1. It came from a corporation so was designed by 1 guy not a committee and some people will never forgive it for that.
2. The systemd suite is far more than an init system and keeps getting bigger, I genuinely think it’s just a matter of time until it has a mail retrieval service built into it.
3. It offers clear benefits so even distros resisitent to depending on a tool when there are alternatives have adopted it
4. It doesn’t pander to slacktivist on stuff like including an optional DoB field

That’s about it, I find it kind of annoying sometimes as it messes with stuff I knew how to do (harden per-user-tmp partitions), but overall the benefits to distro maintenance must be worth it so I don’t worry about it too much.

Much like the DoB stuff I find the pushback to it far more annoying than the actual inconvenience of sometimes not being able to configure a tweak how I’d like.

That would be a mechanism for doing it, I’m just pointing out that, according to most economic theories (which I think are wrong) money requires Treasury notes to exist, otherwise you’re printing money which most economists claim will cause inflation.