They will be pardoned for federal crimes. It doesn’t matter. State laws are the only option if you want to hold any of them accountable.

If it has anything to do with this administration and the options are to crime or not to crime, it is always to crime.

Yeah, I am just saying some of the things I have heard. People don’t want the cognitive overhead of having to make decisions before trying a thing. They just wanna sign up and look around get a feel for something before deciding to dive in.

Mastodon in particular has a steep onboarding process. In order to get it useful you have too

• Sign up for an instance (which they have to find)
• search for people to follow when people are thinking in topics.

There isn’t an easy way to stumble into new things. I found it tedious and others I have spoken with have said the same. I suppose Mastodon isn’t for me (hence why I am here).

I don’t already know who I want to follow though. What do I search for?

BTW these are things I have actually discussed with people when they are trying to look into fediverse stuff. They don’t want to know how it works. They just want to open up their devices and turn their brains off.

Which is probably a good thing for federated services as it filters out a bunch of people we probably don’t want here. It’s like a test to join.

My issue with starter packs is I don’t want to commit. What if I pick the wrong one? What if I pick the wrong one instance!?

The anxiety of picking the wrong instance is a design failure. Content discovery shouldn’t depend on getting that choice right.

The fediverse needs a better content discovery/curation infrastructure.

Called it

https://lemmy.world/comment/23102401

Art of the Deal ladies and gentlemen!

He’s trying to wrap it all under SpaceX and walk away with a bag when it goes public.

All those things can be done and not allowing fascism to grow by voting for the not fascist.

Ok. How?

What’s your plan?

basic human decency, listen, I agree with you. But this is an assumption that you’re making. There is a percentage of the population (some think up to 4%) that are absolute sociopaths. We also have to live with them. Even if they would be ok living without us.

It isn’t about a wish list. People will always be people. Until we somehow cure sociopathy or whatever drives people to be ignorant and cruel (my opinion on conservatives is they are probably borderline sociopaths).

Our options are to work with these people or go to war and exterminate them.

I don’t see how you holding everyone to your standard of morality (even if I wholeheartedly agree with you) is of any use in this. We HAVE to ALL live with each other and do the best we can. Aiming for your absolute unyielding moral compass doesn’t help.

Ok what’s your suggestion? To keep going with “worse”? To what end? What if I told you that not everyone wanted Bernie Sanders? What if I told you we live in a world where we need to live with each other and we all have different opinions and values?

Since you can’t get everything YOU want you think you’re morally superior to others around you.

Would you say that James Buchanan and/or Andrew Jackson are better or worse than Obama?

History is full of horrible presidents, kings and leaders. Progress isn’t a straight line.

I mean that’s the reason we have the words: “better” and “worse.”

If something is “better than”, then yes, I believe it is better.

Y’all act like anyone said Obama was a saint. Hell, some saints have been worse than Obama.

Yeah, very likely. I suppose the product focus will be government/military. They will get the AI find people to disappear or pick bombing targets. That’s apparently a profitable endeavor.

… and the billionaires draft the laws.

OMG that’s disgusting! Where? Where did they post that? Which site?

Nah bruh they have their own private Social Network that is invite only. It’s like a $100m+ club.

I switched to linear because trello got so bad. Jira has become bloated and impractical.

seacow.social

Yeah that’s what I mean by extra work. I can make the change myself or I can argue with claude code until it does what I want.