i mean, it’s an article on america. there’s other articles about other countries. i think people like to see that specifically americans are facing consequences for global actions taken by the us president, which makes this one rise to the top over any other specific country’s similar articles.

just kinda boring to see this take on every post about america facing the consequences of their actions these days. like, maybe you could link to an article focusing on the global systemic impact, and we can have that discussion. instead it’s like everything that points out that americans are unhappy has this constant comment section being like “HOLY SHIT AMERICANS ONLY THINK ABOUT THEMSELVES”. which is totally understandable, but like, what do you expect to happen? there’s an impeachment and JD vance takes over and instantly things are solved? or do you expect a significant margin of the population of the continental united states to rise up and storm the capitol in a way that’s somehow more cohesive and effective than the last time there was a violent coup attempt at the US capitol?

inb4 something something the french protest and everyone makes fun of them, and “NO BUT I EXPECT YOU TO DO MORE THAN THIS PEACEFUL PROTEST BULLSHIT”

the only times i’ve had trouble playing a game on linux are when the developer specifically fucks with it so it won’t run on linux. the main reason for that is kernel-level anticheat software, which, from what i’ve heard, doesn’t really help with cheating much anyways. my computer is my computer, i don’t need microsoft or some game company going into my kernel. can’t wait for some drm company to get hacked and have windows gamers up in arms because they got ransomewared.

damn finally someone on the same page as me. we used to own things, now they’re being rented to us at a premium.

companies are returning us to mainframe infrastructure so they can rent it out at the most optimized-price-gouging fashion. nvidia’s just hedging their bets for when their taint-guzzling ai gambit inevitably splatters into the irrevocable shards of what’s left of the US economy.

honestly, given the rest of his comments, i’m not giving the benefit of the doubt on sarcasm anymore. if you’re this upset about a ban from a community you’ve never interacted with, then it seems odd to be upset enough to document things this thoroughly and make a drama based post about it. you can’t drop sarcasm like that whilst ostensibly acting genuinely in a manner befitting that which you’re professing to mock via sarcasm.

Edit to add: the reason sarcasm works is because people are supposed to be on the same page about things. reputation matters in interpersonal sarcasm, e.g. i can make much more sarcastic deadpan jokes in a group of friends whilst i wouldn’t do the same when i’m talking to a random person in public. on the internet, and especially on a federated network, it is difficult to assume a reputation when many instances interact. thus it seems reasonable to assume that, given what i’ve seen on this thread, he’s not being sarcastic.

lol where’s the troll besides someone “seeking legal action” against an online community that has apparently caused them sufficient distress to merit damages, whilst they’ve self-admitted they’ve never participated in said community? what a victim mentality.nobody is owed participation in an online community, and if someone has predetermined that you aren’t allowed in their communities, you should call them an asshole and move on with your life if you even care that much. jfc what delusions are people under that they think there’s any actionably legal consequences to something like this?

well, if you’re comparing your income to the average, then yes, anything that substantially puts you out of the average would be pertinent for a comparison

how many kids do you have and how much of your income is going towards their education/childcare?

lol cringe

Okay, I can see how you would interpret the source that way. It certainly does use statistical data to approximate deaths. It feels a bit disingenuous to state it as “its estimated that 600,000 people would have died by now”. That makes it sound like it’s just a number pulled from estimates of how much things cost, at least in my opinion.

One of the studies on Malaria was able to create “near-real-time projections” for 2025 malaria cases. A projection doesn’t mean the same thing as an estimate. You can can estimate that 50 out of 100 coin tosses would be heads, and you’d probably be right, but if you projected it, you’d have to measure the dimensions of the specific coin, control for wind, etc, and while you still might be wrong, you’d likely be less wrong than merely estimating based on the two possible outcomes and a glancing observation that the coin is roughly symmetric/evenly distributed.

In this study we synthesised the most up-to-date information of all-funder volumes of key malaria control interventions (ITN, IRS, ACT, SMC) with PMI data on planned volumes and spatial targeting of funding in 2025 to derive near-real-time projections of malaria control intervention coverage in Africa under two scenarios: a business-as-usual scenario in which PMI commodities procured and distributed as previously planned versus a ‘no-PMI’ scenario in which PMI funding and technical assistance is absent. https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.02.28.25323072v1

Not really sure where you got that from, given that the article and the article’s source of the tracker they are using has pretty clear language indicating that these are 600,000 recorded deaths that can be directly attributed to the reduction in aid. Where are you getting this?

i mean, albinoblacksheep, newgrounds, and ebaums world were things before and around the time of youtube; iirc the main thing youtube had was a clean design and a decent video player that handled buffering without stuttering. it made it easier for people to just upload a video and share it. ebaumsworld kind of had that i think, but the site layout was a mess and i’m pretty sure i remember them basically just stealing the content of other sites like albinoblacksheep

i use nobara linux and it was literally working out of the box

for what it’s worth, i don’t think it’s true. i tried looking into it and i don’t see anything that paints him as a zionist, just some claims about some of his fans being zionists, which is bound to happen given the sheer amount of people subscribing. not really seeing anything that points to a problem though…

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isn’t there a difference between a president actively pursuing a firing of someone based on their free speech, vs a company deciding to do it for any reason other literal government coercion? if disney decides someone is fired because they think the court of public opinion is going to result in a negative financial impact, that’s pretty different from the president of the country calling for his firing even if there’s a percentage of the population who called for their firing.

pretty sick of the false equivalencies between the government applying influence, and private corporations deciding actions based on what they deem profitable. neither are based on morals, but the government is supposed to be the one curtailing this shit, not fanning the flames.

that said, i do think i agree with you partly, if i read this correctly, in that people should absolutely be ready to be punched in the face if they hold a contentious opinion. a lot of shitheads would be shutting the fuck up a lot more if nazis got punched more often instead of being praised. if being not-fascist becomes a contentious opinion, you can be sure as shit i’ll be ready to be punched in the face for standing up against racist fuckhead nazis

for fuck’s sake, someone list the 5 drugs if you’re going to post a paywalled article. fuckin clickbait-ass shit