Rioting Pacifist

Ban short haul flights and fund HSR with fuel subsidies given to flights.

You can’t replace Paris to Athens with HSR yet, but there is no reason to use planes for trips that would take less than about 3hrs.

kind of curious why they would rather pay Russia for oil than stop subsidized air fuel, but I guess even white lives don’t matter as much as those holiday snaps.

We are talking about a specific thing: https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/dsa-vlops

And the winner for first slipper Nipple post is you.

yeah a different law or amended law could be different, it could punish posting by death, let’s stick to the actual law being proposed

Yeah that’s how laws work, if it included them it would be a different law or a significantly different proposal.

Small platforms are excluded but don’t let that get in the way of your hysteria

Well the Philippines is just a US proxy (& Filipino are dumb and have no agency), so this is actually anti-imperialism

Also I’m anti-racists and very smart

Lol

For clarity MLism was reverse engineered by Stalin to justify the violent oppression of the working class, it spread to other regimes that wanted to justify the same, but Lenin didn’t have a lot to do with it.

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.

Isn’t there actually evidence that israel knew an attack was coming and didn’t do anything about it?

That’s not what a false flag is though, a false flag would be Israel faking Oct 7, which is insane, and you shouldn’t run for office if you’re dumb enough to believe that.

not stopping it to drum up support for a genocide sadly makes a lot of sense to me.

You hear this a lot with 9/11 conspiracy theories too, the reality worse, it’s that bad people never miss an opportunity to do bad things, be it invading Afghanistan & Iraq or Palestine. And intelligence services are generally complacent so when something is an order of magnitude worse than expected they sometimes fuck up.

If he posted something founded in reality, taking then bait on the balloons is still a major fuck up.

The reality is there a lot of antisemism and if you want to be anti-zionist in politics you have to be very careful to avoid saying/doing things that the very controlled (by capital, you’ll notice Farage saying actually anti-semetic stuff dropped out then news cycle real quick) press can use against you.

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