Certainly, you have the right to not be prohibited from having children, but you aren't entitled to assistance for it. I don't think IVF should be prohibited either, but it isn't a right in the same sense as having a right to an attorney or the right to vote; it isn't even in the same category as the others. I can understand being entitled to food, housing, healthcare, and even the internet!, but entitlements to IVF make no sense.
Right. As if signing up for an account on lemmy.world makes all the difference. Would you rather I do that?
You're the one acting in bad faith here.
You really think IVF is a right? Somehow a lifestyle medical procedure is a right in your mind.
How do you expect anyone to care about this frivoulous nonsense when housing, the internet, food, and affordable healthcare all aren't rights? All you're doing is clawing for more privilege.
I don't care about IVF. Many red states mandate insurance provide it, and all it does is raise the insurance premiums. Lol, the Republicans accidentally did something good this time.
You first. You ever try going to a poor school district? There's a reason why public school districts have ratings. Easy to say, but nobody even slightly well off wants to go where testing scores and the rest of the school metrics are worse in every way.
Am I the only one who finds Colbert not funny at all? I can't believe it's not laughtrack.
One common trend in aging democracies is that it becomes increasingly exploitative of the remaining workforce as the retirement-aged become the largest voting bloc. This isn't a "shock", it's just a consequence of extracting value from a generation.
I don't know who the "they" you're referring to is, but I bet "they" actually don't even care enough to be "shocked". You just like to imagine that they are, because if anything, they would be laughing.
Back in 2020, Biden implied he would only run for one term
If they ever secure power my fate is basically sealed. I’ve accepted that. It’s not slippery slope to be clear eyed about reality.
Well, I'm not sure which out-group you're a part of to conclude this. I don't think things are that bleak. For most of the out-groups being targeted, a coalition exists in the urban areas where they'll at least be tolerated. A bastion of progressives or people with common identities to rally around. It's hard to imagine places like NYC, LA, etc. otherwise.
But this is why I hate politics. Everyone who organizes, screws around with power. I don't believe there's any "side" that will stand with me in a time of need, or any group to rally around. The only people who will stand for my interests is myself and the few people I can persuade. If you're this alone, the only thing you can really do is try not draw attention. Don't even bother voting.
Not really. You still don't know much.
Anyways, having the wrong opinion and looking stupid by "telling on myself" here barely affects me at all.
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No it's not? The fact that the energy supply can adjust to demand is a good thing rather than a problem. At least in the US. Looked into it, and it seems that there's an estimated to be over 300 billion barrels of recoverable oil that is mostly economically viable. Compare that to a current annual consumption of 7 billion barrels a year. There's enough to maintain current consumption for another 40 years. That is most of my remaining lifetime from domestic production alone.
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I tried my best to one-up GPT-4chan in terms of toxicity. With my meager programming skills, I managed to parse comment-response pairs from Reddit's API data archive. The most toxic subreddits all there on pushshift. Then I fine-tuned the model using a rented GPU, and it cost me 7 USD total.
I made an angry feminist bot- the funny thing about it is that you won't get banned for it on most forums because its so toxic without breaking any rules and it's hard to tell that it's a bot. DM me if you want to try it out.
Venmo is owned by PayPal. Probably has the same terrible TOS.
Most people access the Fediverse through one of the large instances: lemmy.world, kbin, or beehaw. New or small instances of Lemmy have no content by default, and can most easily get content by linking to larger Lemmy instances. This is done manually one "Community" at a time (I spent 15 minutes doing this yesterday). Meanwhile, on larger instances, content naturally aggregates as a result of the sheer number of users. Because people generally want a user experience similar to Reddit, I think it's inevitable that most user activity will be concentrated in one or two instances. It is probable that these instances follow in the footsteps of Reddit- the cycle repeats.
I actually think the Fediverse is in the beginning the process of fragmenting into siloed smaller, centralized instances. Beehaw, which is on the list of top instances, just blacklisted everyone from lemmy.world. Each of the three largest instances now are working to be a standalone replacement for Reddit and are in direct competition with each other. It is possible that this fragmentation and instability? of Lemmy instances will kill the viability of Federated Reddit altogether, but hopefully not.
These are my main takeaways from my three days on the Fediverse. I will stick around to see if the Fediverse can sustain itself after the end of the Reddit blackouts.
Yo, sup! I have some quick questions about Federation and Lemmy.
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How are the comments that I make on other instances stored? Are they stored on the monero.town instance, and only accessible to other instances when they connect to monero.town?
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If so, does that mean that the rules for this instance apply across all the lemmy instances I interact with (because all my comments end up getting hosted on this instance)?