MapleEngineer
@MapleEngineer@lemmy.world
- Comment on Why were all the mods removed from this community today, leaving it un-modded? 19 hours ago:
Which is why I call out the lib lies and misinformation that I see on here.
Attempting to substitute right wing lies and misinformation, or more often than not Russian propaganda, for the truth is not “call(ing) out lib lies and misinformation”. That’s a fundamental logical mistake that the right makes.
That’s how the Fediverse works.
Yes, it is.
- Comment on Why were all the mods removed from this community today, leaving it un-modded? 21 hours ago:
You can get a VPS for under $20 per month.
The Fediverse was setup so that a single group of people, or a single billionaire fascist, couldn’t control the conversation. You can’t get together with a group of half a dozen extremists and strategically block anyone whose ideology you don’t like to prevent them from participating in the conversation. Blocking on Lemmy takes you out of the conversation, not the person you block.
If what you want is an ideologically pure conversation where the truth is shouted down try Facebook, Xitter, Truth Social, Telegraph, or any of the other fascist loving social media platforms. If you want to create a hermetically sealed ideologically pure echo completely truth proof echo bunker you want Reddit. On Lemmy lies and misinformation will be challenged and you will get conversation with people who have different ideas than you. That’s how the Fediverse works.
- Comment on Why were all the mods removed from this community today, leaving it un-modded? 1 day ago:
You can make a community private by setting up your own server and making it invite only. That’s the joy of the fediverse.
And I’m already on Reddit.
We know.
- Comment on Why were all the mods removed from this community today, leaving it un-modded? 1 day ago:
But someone who posts an conservative article in a conservative community is under no obligation to have to discuss it. Many like it, post it, and move on.
Yes, that is the definition of an echo bunker.
And from what I see on Lemmy, that perfectly describes Lemmy as a whole.
Parts of it, yes. It depends on the server and the community.
Also, as far as I know, there is no way to make a community private. I WISH there was though. Or if there is, please tell me how to do it.
That’s easy. Go back to Reddit.
- Comment on Why were all the mods removed from this community today, leaving it un-modded? 1 day ago:
I’m not so delicate that I can’t encounter ideas that I don’t agree with. I see it because it comes up in “all”. I post good faith comments and expect a good faith response, you know a conversation. I get misinform, lies and insults, then all of my good faith comments are removed. If it’s an echo bunker of misinformation and lies that doesn’t welcome opposing opinions then just be honest about it and make the community private,unless of course it’s just bad faith trolling.
- Comment on Why were all the mods removed from this community today, leaving it un-modded? 1 day ago:
I also said they were delicate. They spread misinformation, refuse to engage in good faith discussion, and remove comments they don’t agree with. They are trolls.
- Comment on Why were all the mods removed from this community today, leaving it un-modded? 1 day ago:
The mids were all delicate trolls. Maybe the admins had had enough of their bullshit?
- Comment on Tesla pulls out all the stops as Cybertruck sales grind to a halt 2 weeks ago:
Has Elon Musk tried not being a fascist plutocrat?
- Comment on Trump revokes temporary protected status for 600,000 Venezuelans 3 weeks ago:
How is this going to lower the price of eggs?
- Comment on Lockdown Fanatic Leana Wen Pushing Bird Flu Jabs Before Trump Takes Office 1 month ago:
- Comment on Nationwide boss: Women working at home could risk missing out 1 month ago:
She suggested that while flexible working can be useful for those with caring responsibilities, it is important for workers to see leaders in action.
What a delusional idiot.
- Comment on Why can't someone create a public alternative to health insurance in the USA? 2 months ago:
No one gets rich from public healthful.
That’s why.
- Comment on Biden’s Paranoid Pardons and Leftist Morality 2 months ago:
Convicted felon, adjudicated rapist, serial fraudster, accused serial rapist, serial sexual harasser, pathological liar, and lifelong con man.
- Comment on Trump picks Texan Brooke Rollins to lead Agriculture Department 2 months ago:
I don’t know anything about her. How is she the worst possible candidate for this role?
- Comment on Ted Cruz wants to overhaul $42B broadband program, nix low-cost requirement 2 months ago:
Politically engaged voters voted from Harris. They were paying attention. They knew. The politically unremarkable belief that the Republicans are going to pretext the US from the commies, socialists, and fascists, send the immigrants back, out threw coloured people and gays in their place, protect the children from the drag queens and the democrats who are rounding them up in boxcar and hunting them from horseback, and lower the price of everything. In short they believed the Russian propaganda soundbites they got from Fox and OANN and other Russia’s mouthpieces and incel and white supremacist podcasts.
- Comment on DeSantis, Dark Brandon, And CNN Hit Kamala With Laser Eyes Over Hurricane 'Phone Call' Stunt 4 months ago:
That is some delusional bullshit.
- Comment on Can’t upgrade your PC to Windows 11? Buy a new one, is Microsoft’s laughable solution 4 months ago:
I’ll just keep running Windows 10.
- Comment on I hope you don't have any plans this evening. 5 months ago:
Like my wife, every day for 17 years, “That tree is going to fall down.”
Tree falls down.
“I told you so.”
- Comment on I hope you don't have any plans this evening. 5 months ago:
9-18-249-19-249-20-249-21-249-22-24I mean…if they keep this up they will be right eventually…right?
- Comment on “Fascists”: Elon Musk responds to proposed fines for disinformation on X 5 months ago:
Whether you agree or not does not change whether it’s misinformation. I’m old enough to remember when, “Conservative speech” didn’t mean lies, misinformation, racism and hate speech, and anti-American Russian propaganda.
- Comment on stop 5 months ago:
I thought they were leaving and going to one of the tankie instances now that their banning of anyone who questions their misinformation to preserve the pure thought of their echo bunker has been exposed.
- Comment on Gina Rinehart’s personal message to NGA about her portrait revealed in FOI documents 5 months ago:
I never would have known about this were it not for her request.
- Comment on The Ignorance of the Left on Price Control | Thomas Sowell 5 months ago:
20% of $1.2 trillion is $240 billion dollars. That is a grotesque amount of profit to make by holding people’s health hostage.
- Comment on The Ignorance of the Left on Price Control | Thomas Sowell 5 months ago:
And…
- Comment on The Ignorance of the Left on Price Control | Thomas Sowell 5 months ago:
Ok…I wasn’t sure that the point about the cost to manufacture drugs was what you actually meant to say.
Pharmaceutical companies make massive profits. What that means is that after all of the money they spend on all of the things you’re referring to they still make massive profit. I’m not suggesting that they shouldn’t make profit but that that profit should not be unlimited. The American healthcare system if grotesque. It is unique in the highly developed world in that grotesqueness. They wouldn’t sell Epipens in Canada for 20% of what they sell them for in the US if they weren’t making a profit on them. And, to be clear, Epipens contain epinephrine the wholesale cost of which is $5/mg and an Epipen delivers 0.3 mg which means that the drug in the Epipen costs around $1.50 wholesale. Is the little plastic pen with the spring in it worth $600? I don’t think so. I don’t even think that it’s worth the $150 you pay in Canada. You can have a pharmacist load a syringe for you for $15.
- Comment on The Ignorance of the Left on Price Control | Thomas Sowell 5 months ago:
I’m not sure that you said what you intended to say. Do you want to revisit it before I respond?
- Comment on The Ignorance of the Left on Price Control | Thomas Sowell 5 months ago:
Yes. Companies that invest in drugs development deserve to make a profit. Patents protect their investment for a limited amount of time. They should not be able to make unlimited amounts of profit forever. What the drug price controls in Canada do is prevent a company from making a cosmetic change, like adding another stripe to the capsule of Losec, calling is Prilosec, and jacking up the price or increasing by 10 fold the price of an Epipen because you made a minor change to the delivery system. If there isn’t a proportionate increase in benefit to the patient you can’t raise the price in Canada.
- Comment on The Ignorance of the Left on Price Control | Thomas Sowell 5 months ago:
$16 billion per year.
That’s not the point, though, of course. The point is that US pharmaceutical companies sell their drugs into Canada at 1/4 to 1/10 the price because they still make profit and having $100 in your pocket instead of $1,000 is better than having $0 in your pocket.
- Comment on The Ignorance of the Left on Price Control | Thomas Sowell 5 months ago:
Canada has price control of drugs. Drug manufacturing can’t increase the price of a drug unless there is a proportionate increase in benefit to the patient. That’s why epipens are 1/5 the price in Canada that they are in the US.
The argument that drug companies will do doing research and coming up with new drugs if they can’t make unlimited profit is ridiculous. They are greedy fucks and will take the lower profit to keep lining their pockets. Canada proves that.
That you can’t have price control and profits is a lie.
- Comment on “It’s Not OK Any More”: The United Kingdom Cracks Down on Free Speech 5 months ago:
As in the US “free speech” is a white supremacist code word for hate speech.