As a fellow “liberal”, all I can say is that I’m glad to not count myself among all the trots in my workplace. Rest assured, it could be worse!

Straight to the gulags!

You’re right. It also gives me hope.

What we once had, we can build again!

The further I get in this book, the more my heart breaks from the loss of what was built.

“…and what would you like for Christmas?”

“A dictatorship of the proletariat!”

“Hmm…best I can do is a pony. Next!”

The death and destruction they reap is not real to them because they conveniently never have to see it or have reality put their beliefs to question.

Lol, you just assumed they care about material reality or other humans!

“The poor and non-whites must continue to die as carbon credits that I may use to offset the result of my unrestrained and unsustainable privilege. They are not people to me.”

Awesome, ty! I won’t promise I’ll pick it up just yet, but if I do, I will definitely send you any of my conversions. Have been listening to your EPUB using text-to-speech while reading along and it’s much easier to stay engaged. Enjoying the book so far!

How about 14 seconds?

Intellectual property laws are theft of human potential. Instead of focusing on actual progress, everyone is focused on how to get around patents. Incentivize innovation, not the opposite.

Where else are we going to spend the hard-earned Xi-bucks we get for arguing with libs?

Great, I have this but haven’t really used it yet. Will look into how to do these conversions, thanks!

Very cool project! How do you go about making (I assume) a PDF into an EPUB?

“Are you denying the Uyghur genocide?!”

Yes.

Literally just a psyop targeted at ruining Lemmy and propagating ppb.

I think you misunderstood their comment? They’re saying the high number of active users coming from Reddit was too much for the computers to handle at the time, not that the Redditors themselves were scaring people away. The speed and downtime of the .ml instance at the time is what they are saying drove people to .world.

I remember world was a bit better at the time, but both instances were frequently struggling with performance after the third-party app ban.

If you don’t want to be called Nazis, then stop putting up with all the fascists in your instance. Pretending the problem doesn’t exist is definitely the mature stance to take when someone points out that your instance is harboring fascists.

The barrier of an application is enough to scare off most non-serious users. I used to favor open registration, but after making an account and participating on an instance with open registration vs closed, I found the closed registration shuts down a lot of bad actors and makes the instance a more pleasant community.

I’m not even advocating for rejecting any of the applications, just having questions to answer before joining seems to significantly cut down on the trolls.

No disadvantages? Idk, there is the whole disadvantage of .world being defederated from lemmygrad. :)