I would frankly be shocked to discover that instances like lemmy.ml aren’t either mostly populated by bot-farm workers and state actors or by people who’ve been taken in by their rhetoric. They don’t seem very representative of real people who aren’t terminally online with an extremely niche perspective.

Apart from these issues, though, there’s just a huge degree of arrogance and cruelty involved in proposing mass killing as a solution for any ecological issue.

As much as I feel the distaste for killing any living beings, this seems like a naive position to take. Should this be applied to lionfish? Spotted lanternflies? Water chestnuts? Kudzu? Culling invasive species is part of minimizing the destructive impact of human ecological interference, and is generally a pretty soundly established protective practice. I can’t claim to know how appropriate it is for this particular owl population, but this is a pretty sweeping statement to make that seems to fly in the face of reality.

Many people don’t like trans and won’t support it, left or right.

This is such a strange way to refer to this. Do you mean trans rights? Trans people? “Trans” as a collective “it” doesn’t make sense.

Frankly, you stating that you’re “not saying it’s right or wrong” seems to me to reveal your personal bias, especially when combined with this extremely bizarre wording. I don’t think it’s reflective of how most people see us. Generalized transphobia is a minority opinion. Solidarity in the face of oppression isn’t.

Dividing us isn’t going to work.

In my experience discord literally feels like I’m in the room with someone. I use it constantly and it’s been great for me. Phones on the other hand are kinda garbage. The signal is consistently unreliable. Sometimes I literally get calls where one of us can’t hear the other. Sometimes several calls in a row. Occasionally calls just don’t even go through.

Gimme push to talk.

It depends on whether the server you’re on is boosted, also. But even a standard voice server is better quality than a phone. Phones may technically be able to play audio with a higher bitrate, but that’s limited by both cell service and speaker quality.

More reliable too, honestly. Plus the video streaming is indispensable. Honestly, discord voice chat is a big part of the reason I haven’t made a serious attempt to use Matrix for much if anything. The lack of push to talk is a deal breaker. Also like, none of my friends are there.

I would never engage in marketing… except for my own indie projects.

How does the math work for that?

Yeah, I learned that the bot farms will never quit.

The covert Trumpism supporters have been busy lately. Every thread about anyone pushing back, they’re out here dragging the energy down. Every time someone in authority starts pointing toward a constitutional crisis, they’re here to chime in with ‘the constitution is already dead’. Every time a judge makes a ruling against the Trump administration they’re happy to trot out ‘it means nothing’. Every time a Democrat actually pushes against this administration they’re here to say ‘you’re doing nothing’.

Incredibly suspect.

Being relatively a relatively unknown outlet that forces extra steps on anyone who wants to read their articles probably sets the bar pretty low. Especially when a lot of people will just share archive links.

Heyyy, it’s chanology style anonymous. Nice.

I’m pretty sure people thought Trump would be good at economics literally just because of the Apprentice. Manny more people in the US watch reality TV than have any real understanding of politics. Look at all the Trump voters who literally seemed to have no idea he would do any of the things he very loudly said he was going to do. They just remember him being the boss guy who was supposedly good at business from that one show they watched about business.

In what world does it take two people to “make” a piece of malformed AI schlock?

So he’s going to do the same thing he did to his fanboys to the government? Oh good. Can we impeach this guy yet?

Lot of spam about a browser developed by someone who sees using anything other than masculine pronouns in documentation as excessively political.

Definitely won’t be using ladybird then. If someone hates trans folks and just women in general enough that they literally see using inclusive language to refer to theoretical users as politics I don’t see any reason to do anything to elevate their work.

I caught some of the stream of this last night, sans audio. It’s crazy how plainly Vance and Johnson wear their evil on their faces. Vance has some pretty visible moments of shame, but you can see how well Johnson hides his from himself with that smug grin. They’re both dying inside, to be sure, but you can really see the psychological somersaults Johnson is doing on display.

I don’t know how people can look at them and not see it immediately before they even open their mouths.

Can you elaborate on that?