Because scapegoats are easy to use for scoring political points. And because somehow it’s never the government at fault for the ills of the country. I mean it’s only been 30 years of single party rule.

So they are getting fucked, just not how they were hoping.

This brings back memories.

I am pretty sure he is yelling “Get off my lawn!”

They couldn’t of course pool their payouts to pay for an ongoing international advertising campaign exposing what happened. That would just be a horrible idea…

But he is unarmed!

Wait, what’s wrong with People Eating Tasty Animals!?

The man from earth. Essentially its a bunch of people in a room. Well worth the watch.

“Snap back to reality, ope, there goes gravity” - Eminem.

(Simulated)Thoughts and prayers…

Forbidden calamari…

There is of course reticulum.

Gatekeepers will gatekeep. The demonstrations are just that. Demonstrations. They are not seeing the Forrest for the trees so to speak. The idea is that you can create a network with pretty much anything, and demonstrates that capability. I think the people complaining are expecting that people interested in implementing this would only use it illegally or outside of reasonable norms.

To a cat, a gecko is a gecko…

Everyone will have their own use case. Some will like the networking or prepper aspect of it. Other would like the privacy and chat security aspect. Its nice to know of options because you never know when it would/could become a necessity. It is still very early days, but I don’t see it working hand in hand with things like Mastodon and the like.

On a related note, have a look at reticulum… still early days, but growing fast https://reticulum.network/manual/zen.html

Yes, but sadly also no. They don’t play in the big leagues, but taken over the whole continent it adds up.

I don’t know man. I know some of those kids in Africa, and they don’t all prioritize the environment over things like food and shelter.

I thought that was sticks of RAM in the thumbnail