YEAH BROTHER

That’s interesting. You are the second person recently I have seen randomly accusing people of being MAGA for literally no reason at all.

Tell me more about how you know that. How does it connect?

I feel like they’re just deliberately picking fights and being obnoxious. To what end I don’t know. I guess we should break out the “Don’t feed the trolls” sign drawn in ascii, like on Usenet of old.

I reported you for “the fuck is wrong with this person.”

No one is downvoting, no one is rationalizing, I am OP so obviously I am in favor of the story. It’s nothing to do with Apple, no one here loves Google, IDK what you’re on about but it is nothing productive. I hope you find someone who loves Google and hates this story. Will you then feel satisfied in whatever you’re saying? IDK but they haven’t shown up yet and it feels a little unlikely that they will.

What on earth are you talking about?

Yeah. The thing is, that’s a lot more hard, and you don’t get to spend time with cushy people who will give you big cushy piles of money. It’s just all these scruffy people, with all of their troublesome problems.

I like how they think settlement is going to keep them safe.

It is not. One you have paid the Danegeld, you will never be rid of the Dane.

Dude, just click it. They have a whole UI and everything.

If only lemmyverse.net drew from more than once instance. If only.

I think they have figured out that paying trolls $2 a day by the thousands, to influence the genuine public opinion, is a hell of a lot cheaper than bribing politicians. For one thing, the people sometimes have a habit of getting sick of the Georgescus of their country and ejecting them, and they wind up showing up all mopey on the streets of Moscow, asking when they’re going to get fed and housed.

It was the same way at the end of WW2. The end was clearly coming, and a lot of town-level officials and councils were trying to organize a coherent surrender, and preserve the infrastructure so people wouldn’t be stranded or starving or have an insurmountable task ahead of them, trying to rebuild in the aftermath. And generally, there were a couple of local Nazi-party members who were FANATICAL about needing to fight to the last man, sabotage all supplies, whatever it took, in the absolutely insane delusion that it would make a fart in the wind’s worth of difference as to whether the allies were going to win or not.

After having caused significant disruption to the minimization of suffering, they generally fled like roaches in the kitchen, never to be seen again, when the allies actually arrived. And the people of the town were left to scramble to try to do what they’d been trying to do for weeks, and sometimes getting shot for, while they’d still been around.

It’s a good idea and exists at https://lemmyverse.net/instance/lemmy.world

99.36% uptime overall, other stats could be added

IDK what benefit there would be to having downdetector that was specifically for Lemmy sites, there is downdetector after all, but in general there are a couple of sites that do this. Fedidb is another one that tracks some fedi metrics also, although to me they seem a little unreliable / inconsistent from instance to instance and month to month sometimes.

For its demise being inevitable, they’re sure doing a pretty good job of resisting so far. I wonder how well Georgescu’s operation would do if it was being attacked by 40% of Russia’s federal budget for three years.

• 1932 Germany
• Two months ago, thanks guys, Palestine and immigration policy are saved now

This one, at least as applies to liberals in government in the USA, is a lot more accurate.

Oh and also they need some money for medical bills now. They’ll be sure to send you some texts about it.

The point is, ATC was overworked before Trump came along, and all the dumb shit he’s been doing probably hasn’t had time to impact individual ATC operations in a way that would have caused this. But yes, there’s still the future, and I’m sure that whatever additional dumb shit he plans to do to fight “DEI” in the system will hurt an already struggling system in unnecessary and crash-inducing ways.

There was a mixed ruling at the US Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit as the appeals court affirmed a jury’s finding that Cox was guilty of willful contributory infringement but reversed a verdict on vicarious infringement “because Cox did not profit from its subscribers’ acts of infringement.”

That ruling vacated a $1 billion damages award and ordered a new damages trial. Cox and Sony are both seeking a Supreme Court review. Cox wants to overturn the finding of willful contributory infringement, while Sony wants to reinstate the $1 billion verdict.

Cox has said that letting the piracy ruling stand “would force ISPs to terminate Internet service to households or businesses based on unproven allegations of infringing activity, and put them in a position of having to police their networks.” Cox said that ISPs “have no way of verifying whether a bot-generated notice is accurate” and that even if the notices are accurate, terminating an account would punish every user in a household where only one person may have illegally downloaded copyrighted files.

Record labels urged the court to reinstate the vicarious infringement verdict. “As the District Court explained, the jury had ample evidence that Cox profited from its subscribers’ infringement, including evidence ‘that when deciding whether to terminate a subscriber for repeat infringement, Cox considered the subscriber’s monthly payments,’ and ‘Cox repeatedly declined to terminate infringing subscribers’ Internet service in order to continue collecting their monthly fees,'” the record labels’ petition said.

So, current precedent is that the ISPs do have to terminate, but there’s no penalty if they don’t. Is November recent enough that the ruling has actually had any impact? Did the Supreme Coury decide to take up the case or not yet? How much does it means that the ISPs “have to” terminate users, but there doesn’t seem to be a penalty if they don’t? Is the fact that there was no ruling until recently, confirmation that they were doing it voluntarily for their own reasons before November? Or were they doing it “voluntarily” because they didn’t want to defend lawsuits like this, except Cox which was refusing to do it apparently? I have no sure idea of the answer to any of those questions. That’s why I said “I think.” But, unlike some people on the internet, I don’t just make up some bullshit and then decide that’s what I “think” and go spouting off about it. I’m just relaying my best guess, reasons for it, and being honest about the fact that it’s a guess.

I don’t think that it’s actually true that ISPs are liable if they don’t take down users. I think they go along with it because (1) it’s easier than arguing (2) those users are using a lot of bandwidth and the piracy forms a handy excuse.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/11/supreme-court-may-decide-whether-isps-must-terminate-users-accused-of-piracy/

Wait: So after the KDP tried to do a violent revolution against the fragile post-first-revolution government of 1919, including explicitly rejecting the idea of holding elections because they might not go the KDP’s way, they were still so butthurt about the fashion in which the rest of the government had defended itself against getting shot and overthrown, that a generation later they still couldn’t stomach the idea of getting together with the SDP even to ally against literal Hitler. Even though the SDP by that point didn’t give a shit about their own attempted overthrow anymore, and just didn’t want the Nazis. And in your mind, that’s all the SDP’s fault for not just getting shot or exiled, like the KDP had in mind in 1919.

Like I said: The real life example is very different than the meme. The Marxist tried to shoot the liberal 13 years before, and was still so upset about the shooting-back that they got, and so, the windmilling and FUCK YOU. Great. Sounds like a fun bunch to interact with. Oh, and also, when they finally DID get in charge of things in the East, after the war, it was a fucking nightmare that lasted for decades. Which was part of the SDP’s objection to it in the first place. Great stuff.

Outside of some types of geopolitical / strategic maneuvers, it’s pretty much never a good thing when something being “leaked” causes you problems. And it’s pretty much never that, when something “leaks.” If someone wants to distribute that information, I assume they can sell it to your adversaries, quietly, and you’ll never know.

The public leaks are pretty much always that you’re up to some heinous shit, and the public finds out as they should, and then you set up a high whining sound that you should be exempt from scrutiny or opposition, because you’re above those people, and you should be able to cheat and disrespect them without consequence, because you’re too special to have to take part in society except from far above it, safe.