Really makes me wonder why criminals won’t use the actual Matrix protocol instead of this one. They wouldn’t have to pay for its use.

It must have been somewhere around early 2020 when I was casually browsing Mastodon. I found about a federated Reddit alternative and got immediately interested. I registered to Lemmy.ml and in 2021 founded Sopuli when federation got implemented properly. And here I am!

Musk’s grift is to portray himself as a some kind of “rebel” against the establishment and elites, as a “good guy”, even though he belongs to the elites as a billionaire.

My resolution? 1920 x 1080, same as it has been since 2010.

The same thing happened when Microsoft’s Bing AI launched.

When Clickhole was under The Onion, they had a parody of InfoWars named PatriotHole. This is like a circle closing. Definitely the funniest news I read today, there’s some justice in today’s world!

Hopefully many other news outlets around the world follow suit. I once emailed Yle, Finland’s state media outlet about how staying on Twitter doesn’t work and why Mastodon (and the Fediverse in general) would be the better option. Later they shut some of their Twitter accounts down… and continuing on other platforms such as TikTok.

My view on “Youthanasia” is mixed. It’s evident how Dave Mustaine wanted to chase the top of the charts and how many metal bands had a hard time staying relevant in the 90s. With 1992’s “Countdown to Extinction” Dave already attempted to streamline Megadeth’s sound in a similar manner to what Metallica did with their “Black Album” and it yielded success, so “Youthanasia” was the next logical step forward. The album succeeds in that streamlining, but it happens with costs one can expect.

The overall mix is softer and more polished but it feels duller, especially compared to 1990’s “Rust in Peace”. Many songs have their tempo approximately at 120 BPM as the producer Max Norman wanted so, and their structure is conventional verse-chorus-type of thing. The strength of early Megadeth was in quirky song structures: technical guitar riffs, fast tempos and abrupt changes mixed in, and Mustaine snarled on top of it. “Youthanasia” has all that replaced with catchier songs and Mustaine attempting to sing melodically (“A Tout le Monde” as a good example). Yes, I get that Megadeth wanted to expand their sound and do something different, but is that evolution or many steps back? One’s mileage may vary.

This is a big topic after all so there is no way one can just “move on”.

It totes doesn’t sound there’s any agenda hidden…

Don’t they remember what is said in the Ten Commandments? “I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. You shall have no other gods before Me."

Of course if they are the megachurch type of Christians, their only real god is money.

Jay’s January 6th interrogation

For that audience they don’t need to be funny, they have to be racist.

Even a potato can run Linux so regardless of a distro it should be all fine.

“Njet problem, normal katastrof.”

And God forbid if someone uses archiving sites like archive.is!

There should be a memorial for victims of EA (all the studios they have acquired and then shut down), similarly to the Victims of Communism memorial.

This was also around the time when the public perception about Musk was different. Reddit thought of him as a “real-life Tony Stark”, who put a car in space and is a little eccentric. That perception about him peaked on August 2018 when he appeared on Joe Rogan’s podcast. Around 2020 he started to go deeper into QAnon-esque rabbit-hole, turning into the despised far-right wacko he is today. Of course he has been always an opportunistic hack.

I have also seen Telegram groups dedicated to drug trade migrating to other platforms such as Signal.

Once again, Trump is making political satirists’ job more difficult.