It’s also why American global hegemony is bad; they all tend to move in lock step with each other. If there were a few more European and Asian payment providers out there we’d be a bit more diversity of policy and true consumer choice.

It’s not so much the control aspect as the anti-porn stance. It also comes in at the same time as a series of anti-trans moves from them.

This is the second time in my life that Labour have gained power after a long Conservative tenure, only to dive straight into enacting policies that were more right-wing than their predecessors.

How about he-said she-and-25-others-over-5-decades-said?

How about if 25 other women all accused you of the same thing?

At least 26 separate women have accused Trump of SA over the course of the last 50 years, many of them before he entered politics. One of them even got a civil court to find as fact that he committed rape.

Just how many witnesses do you need here? Would another 26 be enough? How about a thousand?

Yeah there was absolutely no need to include unfounded racist shit about “DEI hires” but it seems to be some sort of rule in 4chan that you have to be a bigoted fucknut in order to post

One of the great mysteries of the 21st century is how a tiny number of US companies control most of the world’s payment processing, when it’s not a technically difficult problem.

You could implement an entire end-to-end payment processing system in a year with a team of a few dozen competent engineers. The only difficulty is getting banks and retailers to sign up to it, but when the big players charge so much and create so much trouble this doesn’t seem like it should be a tough sell. In most cases literally all you’d need to do is charge 2.4% instead of their 3%.

No Z-words

That’s quite the example.

And the thing that’s so crazy is that “post-war period” describes a time when the country had just spent 6 years getting the shit bombed out of it and expending all its resources into sending troops abroad. If people can rebuild a country and still be able to support a whole family on a single salary, why can’t we do the same in a country that’s already had that work put in?

(that’s a rhetorical question, we all know why)

I can’t speak for the US, but in the UK from the 50s all the way to the 90s there was enough social safety net, affordable housing and government sponsored arts grants for someone from a modest background to be able to hone their craft in acting, music, art, writing, comedy etc.

Nowadays all that’s gone (shockingly a lot of it under Labour), and it’s only trust fund kids that can afford to spend five years not working a full-time salaried job.

I hope nobody who made fun of Trump for posting that AI picture of him with a red lightsaber, upvoted the meme depicting Leftists as Dr Evil…

also what even is that server? I’ve not seen it anywhere else and it only seems to have about 3 active posters… does it need to get defederated?

The second most annoying thing about microblogging platforms is when people (eg. “lumi”) make a perfectly good understated joke, and then someone else (“selinam”) stumbles in and explains it and everyone acts they’re the one that made the connection…

Captain G. M. Gilbert, the Army psychologist assigned to watching the defendants at the Nuremberg trials:

“In my work with the defendants, I was searching for the nature of evil and I now think I have come close to defining it. A lack of empathy. It’s the one characteristic that connects all the defendants, a genuine incapacity to feel with their fellow men. Evil, I think, is the absence of empathy.”

independent of locale/government, is an awesome ideal.

it’s got a bad rap from all the crazy crypto-bro/fly-by-night scams

One is an inevitable consequence of the other.

And your argument is a comically reductionist one that calls literally anyone you don’t agree with a fascist and calls for them to be silenced.

The amount of mental gymnastics you have to be doing to consider someone pro-fascist for supporting a left-wing party, just because you’ve decided that you know the only true winning strategy for defeating fascism (which apparently includes silencing dissent).

Any time I had a problem, and I threw a Molotov cocktail… Boom, right away, I had a different problem.

My thoughts exactly. You can’t expect to have a successful file sharing system if you have to get permission for everything you distribute, you guys!