Their time in isolation from when reddit banned chapo did them no favors. When it was banned it was a flavor of radicalism that was tolerable.

They’ve devolved into something much worse, in the style of the red guard in China killing avowed communists for not being communist enough, and thinking it’s a good thing. They’re just screaming into the void making all leftists look unreasonable and bad, and wondering why no one can stand them.

I’ve yet to have an interaction with someone from hexbear post reddit exodus where I thought to myself, “you know I bet they’re pretty chill in real life.”

I mean, yes, but grass roots and I’m not paid lol

It really is surprisingly effective. So few people actually contact their legislators.

I set up a harassment campaign and got a few hundred people to contact a state legislator whose committee was holding up legalizing weed in my state and a few months later it was legalized. Agitate. Make a difference. Protesting doesn’t do shit, get all the people there to call their representatives and senate members - especially for state and local stuff, and you might actually get something changed. Or even better, send a letter.

I have a sub to dashlane that came with ten additional subs and despite trying to literally give them away to family and friends and you’d think I was trying to pull teeth.

One of the rare times I pirated a show and it was so good I subscribed and watched it again in the hopes they would make more of it.

Lmao are you out here saying we should essentially smear people for thought crimes?

That was my point, in essence. Crypto fails as currency because the people in that market don’t want it to be less volatile, making it bad for typical currency uses.

While yes, the relative values of currency fluctuate over time and in relation to one another, it’s orders of magnitude less and driven by far more predictable and based on actual real world factors. Instead of Fomo, whims, market whales, and indecipherable white papers.

You see, no one actually wants a digital currency. There have been several (nano was my favorite) that functioned especially well as a currency, because it used very little compute power to perform or verify transactions.

But a currency is stable. Which means you don’t magically make money by holding or trading it. So it doesn’t get attention, and therefore doesn’t get widely adopted.

Everyone likes Bitcoin because it’s speculative digital gold.

“We need to recapture the Apple market share!”

“Got it boss, we’ll make it stupid.”

They tried to give him a government iPhone and he refused. He kept using his insecure device instead.

Call it D2F

Pull absolutely all support and funding, permanent ban on weapons transfers, deactivate their F35s. International financial sanctions.

The federalist papers very much show they were aware of that threat.

I don’t know that I’d call them idealistic. They were landed nobles who didn’t want to pay the increased taxes levied on them. Which in turn were to pay for the war their government had fought on their behalf to protect them from the native people whose land they had stolen. By exterminating those native people.

Hey, it’s on a table in my office and it currently isn’t running shit because that hobby has been de-prioritized until the yard and shed have been dealt with!

A civil court conviction seems like enough for me

I actually have a SATA cable and power plug discreetly tucked in a spot in my PC case and have just taken the side off and plugged in a drive on occasion. It’s normal purpose is troubleshooting other hard drives, but it works for that too

My wife has an iPad and one of the things I hate the most is that you can’t install adblock extensions into Firefox on it like you can on Android. Which is a thing that has made using the browser on the phone wayyyy more enjoyable.