Yeah, hexbear and .grad seem to be mostly tankie users, but it seems much more split on .ml. The admins are questionable, and I’ve seen tankies there disproportionally, but since it was the default instance for a long time, there are also a bunch of non-tankie users. I think lumping .ml in with hexbear and .grad really downplays just how bad those two are.

For example, I hope you wouldn’t consider planning how to exterminate Jews allowable free speech. There will always be limits on free speech, the question is where your limits are.

They sensor criticism of the CCP

When hexbear federatedn with SJW, I spent a day arguing Russia invading is bad actually, North Korea isn’t a democratic utopia, and China isn’t a shining pillar of socialism. Then I blocked them all because that was exhausting. So idk if hexbear is still so tankie, but they definitely were at that point.

You’ll call some things free speech and others not. No instance is going to allow everything. You’d need to create your own instance so it aligns with your views. Then the other instances will decide whether they want your content or whether to defederate.

And picking any of the big instances is fine and easy. The hard thing would be hopefully you don’t get a tankie instance.

Hooray, been a month since the last vid.

Tinder loses users by making good matches, so maybe this algorithm will match people worse to retain them longer? But that is also what’s keeping people from using the app in the first place.

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Some dictators certainly did, getting regime security in exchange for valuable resources.

Absolutely, and that includes Russia. They don’t get a free pass to exploit them now just because others have done it before.

Or like buying weapons? Just bartering for commodities?

That’s just payment, right? That’s a lot better than nothing.

Hopefully kuiper will eventually be a meaningful alternative. Though Amazon also isn’t great…

I love the planets! Such a good collection of pieces, so may different emotions.

Star wars definitely takes a lot of inspiration from these, but all the better!

Anyone know how to donate directly to Ukraine drone teams targeting oil infrastructure? That’s actually a legal (and unambiguously moral) way to blow up refineries.

Even so, voting third party or not voting is worse than voting for the people on the right.

Even if that’s so, you’d still need to vote for the people on the right, because voting third party in first past the post is objectively just terrible for everyone with similar goals.

Until we get ranked choice voting, you still need to support them though.

Yeah definitely. The way the rocket equation works out, the second stage gives most of the Delta V, but the first stage needs to be much bigger because it needs to lift itself and the second stage.