But you especially wouldn’t in a dictatorship.

Why? I tried to live in a world with very little digital media and it was fine, an authoritarian dictatorship with digital media sounds like an absolute nightmare.

Not until news media starts quoting posts on Bluesky as much as, or more than, they do Xitter.

There’s still the force of habit and larger engagement on Xitter for many established names.

And that’s fine. Bluesky is in its last phase of proving the important point. Once all the regular journalists move away from Twitter, it will have been proven, that migration away from a defacto “standard” platform can happen, even though it’s a pain in the ass.

But Ben didn’t have the spine or brain to stand against Putin.

I learned recently that there is such a thing as nontheist Quakers.

I also agree with that. An example needs to be made of them, I just don’t think that’s the way. I’m sure something equally terrible can be thought up. There are plenty of horrifying jobs in a war, like dead orc removal and things of that nature.

Punished yes, but using the front lines as a punishment also doesn’t sit right with me. Being on the front is a sucky place to be, but when one begins using it as a punishment, it feels like a short step from there to being morally ok with russian-style meat wave attacks. When it’s prisoners and such, it likely easy to see them as expendable and that degrades our humanity and turns us into the enemy.

He’s not doing those roman salutes in public yet, though.

But it’s kinda funny that the oligarchs are so obsessed with Rome, famous for being a fallen empire, while enabling the fall of the US.

I don’t. It’s only happened to me once.

True in the sense that he’s acting in Russia’s interest, but I don’t think he consciously working for them. Rather I think that Russia won the cold war using information warfare.

If he hadn’t been there on his fucked up quest to try indoor plumbing and perhaps rape and/or murder some untermensch in the process, there’d been nothing to post. He’s responsible for the situation, the camera is just filming and it could’ve been just a clip of a nice snowy field.

There are plenty of russia-friendly places to go to, where they have similar videos, but why would we want them on a Ukraine space?

I’d rather watch some sorry fuck that’s participating in an imperialist war of conquest blow himself up, than a defender protecting his homeland from fascism.

Of course it seems wrong when you say it like that.

They’ll be wearing stylish pool noodles on the tusks to minimize furniture and gonad damage.

Or we create them with softer tusks. Maybe that’s better, the. They’ll also be worthless to poachers.

Those are closer to horse-sized, but it’s a good start.

I’ve said this a million times before, but if we’re playing gods anyway, can’t we make them dog sized also?

I would totally get one or maybe two.

This is probably produced by the same content farms that generate similar news about the impending death of EVs due to miraculous advances in hydrogen powered vehicles.

Obviously there are no sources and the only images are either unrelated or AI generated.

As to you question “why does anyone read this stuff?” I believe people love stuff that confirms their hopes and are more than willing to compromise on any level of skepticism, when reading stuff that aligns with their views.

That can’t be right. I keep seeing “suggested posts” on Facebook claiming that Honda and/or Toyota has made a revolutionary breakthrough with hydrogen engines, which will finally allow us to get rid of all those damned electric cars.

It’s literally any day now.

This is good news for bot farms working to sow division.