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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The cellular-bananular phone changed my life. I still sing it to this day

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Modern astrophysics exists because a house fell on a teenage orphan.

Who as a result got adopted by a prince.

He got access to a royal lab for glassmaking.

Then he tried fixing color aberration in his microscope lenses.

Then he noticed the rainbow had holes in it. Huh.

Then he died. Glassmaking and tuberculosis are fast friends.

Then Bunsen invented his burner, which made spectra that matched the rainbow holes. Huh.

Now we know what stars and planetary atmospheres are made of!

[–] [email protected] 61 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (5 children)

Especially with Project 2025 (day one after the election of the next GOP candidate). The executive branch will no longer be controllable by the other two branches. Also, Schedule F will allow all "policy-related" government workers to be rescheduled as fireable employees, allowing the Prez to install loyalists throughout the entire government. It's definitely time to freak the fuck out.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 months ago

And for trying to pull the group along, as futile as it may be.

[–] [email protected] 112 points 2 months ago (5 children)

I respect it. We need more of this.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

srsly what the fuck

[–] [email protected] 29 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I think they might mean independently 🤷‍♂️ Otherwise, the answer to your question would be "The United States."

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

all of them

[–] [email protected] 49 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Truth Social should be next

[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago (1 children)

This is a brilliant piece

[–] [email protected] 23 points 7 months ago (2 children)
 

I love how this joke migrated from Reddit to Lemmy, and you can see it bouncing around, getting all federated

 
 

Jerboaaalllrughty then.

 

We really shouldn't take this Meta thing lightly.

They could offer the slickest interface and keep people locked to their friends. That interface can use protocols that make it difficult/impossible for non-Threads instances to play ball (ooh this cool new feature is only available through the Threads app; Oh, mybasement.world.ml.xyz can't read that content). There are many ways to Embrace, Extend, and Extinguish, we've seen Meta do it before (e.g. XMPP), and I'm sure we haven't even thought of some ways Threads could EEE.

I think defederation from Meta's instances is probably our only option to protect what we have.

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