There are whole-ass companies selling laptops with Linux preinstalled now. They work. Even with Bluetooth.

The dollar is representative of the work you contributed to the economy

If that’s true, nobody on Social Security Disability would be getting money.

So basically, the more people who believe in the value of some thing, the more that thing holds actual value?

Yes. That’s how value works.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_value

The paradox of value (also known as the diamond–water paradox) is the contradiction that, although water is on the whole more useful, in terms of survival, than diamonds, diamonds command a higher price in the market.

Real money is backed by a country’s respective economy

True.

its an IOU from the government

False.

An IOU from the government is a bond.

If someone says something that a lot of people want to be true with no evidence… it ain’t true.

So they’re helping Trump win. No actual difference.

Sanders couldn’t even win the primary. Look at how poorly he did in 2020, too.

Most people would never vote for Sanders. He lost the primary and his supporters never shut up about how it was “rigged and stollen” from their God-Emperor.

But nope they ran with her they wanted to lose.

The “GIVE US BERNIE OR WE’LL GIVE YOU TRUMP” people helped Trump win, not Clinton voters.

Online pissbabies never realize they’re a minority even within their own party.

Unironically, they hate us for our freedoms.

We have the freedom to read and say what we want, and they can’t stand to hear their beliefs challenged.

We have the freedom to have sex and not get sick or pregnant, and they can’t stand their purity religion being disobeyed.

We have the freedom to be who we are, and they can’t stand to see their simplistic notions of sex and gender disproven.

We have the freedom to not be religious, and they can’t stand to see irreligious people living happy lives.

We have the freedom to ignore them, and they can’t stand not being the center of attention.

Does 15 week ban mean no abortion after 15 weeks? That sounds reasonable.

It isn’t, though: It’s forcing birth on someone who doesn’t want it, and probably forcing a child into a bad home.

Even the descendants of slaves are living in a country slavery helped build.

Nothing they do will ever mean anything, because nothing can redeem the past.

Isn’t the Army still issuing M1903s? With warehouses like that, they’ll never fully modernize!

That’s a whole mess of differing theologies, some of which (many of which) have been declared heretical.

The general term for this branch of theology is Christology and lots of stuff has been written about it.

And HTTPS does that. It’s encrypted.

Well, I suppose Fascists will always hate fat people.

I’m aware of how you think it should work (Usenet, basically) but how does moderation actually work on Lemmy? Can someone be banned from a sublemmy on one instance and not banned from it on another?

I don’t want to share an instance with the nutballs on the tankie instance or the nutballs on the fascist instance.

The media is interested in a horse race. Horse races sell ads. Therefore, they need to make Biden seem unpopular with mainstream Democrats (so there’s somehow Controversy over whether an incumbent President should run) and they do that by painting him as being purely a Not-Trump. Because the alternative is that Biden runs in 2024 without any drama and defeats Trump like he did in 2020, and foregone conclusions don’t sell advertising space, even if they’re good for the country.

Plus, of course, you have grifters like the people pulling RFK Jr’s strings and Cornel West and whoever else, who need to seem relevant in order to get “low-information voters” (idiots) to donate to their campaigns which are Definitely Not book tours in disguise.

Chromium browsers don’t allow extensions (uBlock Origin being the best) to block ads as effectively due to their implementation of Manifest V3. The Firefox implementation doesn’t share that limitation.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/12/chrome-users-beware-manifest-v3-deceitful-and-threatening

https://www.theverge.com/2023/1/17/23559234/firefox-manifest-v3-content-ad-blocker

https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2022/05/18/manifest-v3-in-firefox-recap-next-steps/