And they should make Mastadon accounts or instances instead, especially if they’re affiliated with the government.

It’s insane to me that public utilities and officials use a private, third-party thing like X for official communications when they could be controlling their own servers.

Not native historians lol

Oh good point.

What’s the equivalent for the movie and TV streaming?

I’ve been looking for a mutual aid organization to join and looking into what it takes to get a gun in my state. Bleak, I know lol

Nice. I could totally see it. Andrew Tate stoic shit.

I’m kind of curious about this take. What do you mean?

I agree. It also kind of ruins how special and awe-inspiring that lightsaber seemed in the OT. It was like a sacred relic Obi-Wan had taken care of all these years. And then Darth Vader had one! Wow! It also showed his devotion to this “ancient religion” that the generals made fun of him for.

They didn’t sprout from nothing. Even from the beginning, they were being interfered with by capitalist and anti-revolutionary forces who started out with all the money and resources, like the white army or the black hundreds, not to mention being neighbors with reactionary imperialist countries, like Germany, and coming from authoritarian countries, like Tsarist Russia, where those ruling elements (old regime nobles, business interests, rich landowners, generals, etc) still existed and were in power or at least a place to sabotage the effort.

People are blind to the current propaganda, too. Just look at how many articles demonize China every day, which has never bombed a country, while ignoring other authoritarian countries and their imperialism that bomb countries every day (like Saudi Arabia or Turkey). Meanwhile, we need to turn to sources like Al Jazeera to find out what’s happening in Israel with our own government money. Just look at how freaked out the country got to Bernie Sanders and how the capitalist class (including the media) closed ranks to stop him. Look at how the US treats Cuba and Biden still signed a law against them. Until Russia’s war, the most sanctioned countries were all communist (Cuba, North Korea, Venezuela) while other authoritarian countries got a pass. But nobody notices. The propaganda has never stopped.

Why, what’d I say? 😳

Has anyone seen any particularly good deals for NAS’s, storage or memory, mini computers, things like that, for this Black Friday / Cyber Monday season?

I’ve got the simplest setup (mini PC with a 4TB USB SSD attached) and was thinking of upgrading to a proper multi-bay NAS, but those things and multiple TB hard drives are going expensive.

It is kind of weird thay it hasn’t been done yet, but in that thread they posted it sounded like it’s totally possible at the moment.

Hm… Maybe if I open the app more often I’ll get to that point?

Their overwhelming market share is probably the main problem.

Saaame. I’m jut on Mastadon now to boost ti’s numbers and support the fediverse.

Haha that’s one way. Seems like it would make it harder to land the next job, though.

I so need to do this. Been at the same job for almost 10 years and it feels like everyone else I started with has surpassed me for this reason in terms of salary and position. But i hate applying for jobs in tech so much, having to do the leetcode study bullshit as if I’m still in school and all that. It’s so exhausting and annoying. Maybe it’s the ADHD, but it’s hard to bring myself to sit down and do it.

But also, I could really use more money, it’s been impossible to save for a house where I live, and I’d love to be able to have one someday. I know it’s not too late, I still have so many years before I retire, but I’m still jealous of you guys that could sit down and more easily do the interview dance every 2-3 years.

Shout out to !housing_bubble_2@lemmy.world

True. There’s some good advice in this thread for features people might not be familiar with.