explodicle
@explodicle@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on We Should Immediately Nationalize SpaceX and Starlink 1 day ago:
It sounds like we don’t disagree that much, I just think other doubting nations is extremely likely.
- Comment on We Should Immediately Nationalize SpaceX and Starlink 1 day ago:
Fediverse is superior to state-owned.
Now that you mention it, we need an Amazon replacement too.
- Comment on We Should Immediately Nationalize SpaceX and Starlink 1 day ago:
lol you really threatened Lemmy with a good time
- Comment on We Should Immediately Nationalize SpaceX and Starlink 1 day ago:
Reusable rockets are cool
- Comment on We Should Immediately Nationalize SpaceX and Starlink 1 day ago:
I mean if we count bailouts as nationalization, then now we’ve got like some kinda national “socialism” where state and corporate power have fused.
- Comment on We Should Immediately Nationalize SpaceX and Starlink 1 day ago:
I think every larger nation deploying their own constellation would reduce people losing access due to political games.
If there’s only one network with the same topology as Starlink, then the USA, China, or Russia will end up making a bunch of rules on everyone else just like Elon does today. Look how the USA abuses centralized internet infrastructure already. Multiple overlapping systems would be wastefully redundant, but reduces the risk of censorship.
We can’t get along and can’t have nice things.
- Comment on "And my dick fucks your wife more than you do. What's your point?" 2 days ago:
😬
- Comment on Wikimedia Foundation's plans to introduce AI-generated summaries to Wikipedia 3 days ago:
If it’s really that bad we can always fork it.
- Comment on Guess I'm on the right track 😌 4 days ago:
You’re a prolific poster. It’s possible they just recognize your username and vote based on their opinion of you alone, without reading each post.
- Comment on lemm.ee is shutting down at the end of this month 4 days ago:
Please be aware that being an admin is unfortunately quite a thankless job - if you’re doing your job well, then most people won’t even realize you’re doing anything. OTOH, if you make mistakes, there will likely be many users calling you out in public. The main motivation for joining the admin team would need to be a desire to help build and maintain this instance as a great home for yourself and others.
Being an admin is a job and deserves pay. We don’t have an infinite supply of good people to deal with an infinite supply of AI-generated trolling. That means we need donations in the short term, and to consider paid memberships in the long term.
Ads won’t work at all because we’re all using open source clients and browsers with Ublock. And even if they did, we know where that leads.
Evil suggestion: lock minor features behind pay walls, like profile pictures or bolding their name in comments. There are more people who will pay to look cool than there are people who will inconspicuously donate.
- Comment on Meta shareholders overwhelmingly rejected a proposal to explore adding Bitcoin to the company's treasury, with less than 1% voting in favor of the measure 6 days ago:
But now they’re essentially just a bitcoin proxy, they even changed the logo to have a bitcoin on it.
Now that there’s lots of ETFs and stuff, why buy Microstrategy and not just bitcoin?
- Comment on Meta shareholders overwhelmingly rejected a proposal to explore adding Bitcoin to the company's treasury, with less than 1% voting in favor of the measure 1 week ago:
Why would they in the first place? It would be like a newspaper buying gold. If investors want to buy bitcoin they can just do that, mutual funds are already a thing.
- Comment on I feel attacked 1 week ago:
Walking isn’t even a hobby, it’s my default speed.
- Comment on Discord unveils Discord Orbs, a new in-app currency that users can earn by completing Quests, which reward participants who interact with ads 1 week ago:
Don’t forget to tip your instance admins!
- Comment on Discord unveils Discord Orbs, a new in-app currency that users can earn by completing Quests, which reward participants who interact with ads 1 week ago:
The lesson of Pay-To-Surf will keep being taught by reality until it gets taught in business school.
- Comment on I hope i don't get downvoted for this 1 week ago:
Hot take: pansexual people are better off than people with a specific genital fetish.
- Comment on I hope i don't get downvoted for this 1 week ago:
Toupee fallacy
- Comment on I hope i don't get downvoted for this 1 week ago:
- Comment on The European Commission says it is investigating Pornhub, Stripchat, XNXX, and XVideos for potential child safety Digital Services Act (DSA) violations “as a matter of priority” 1 week ago:
I can’t believe the EU would be so inconsiderate to Russians like that.
- Comment on ‘Alexa, what do you know about us?’ What I discovered when I asked Amazon to tell me everything my family’s smart speaker had heard 1 week ago:
Ok that sounds pretty good! What’s the model number?
- Comment on ‘Alexa, what do you know about us?’ What I discovered when I asked Amazon to tell me everything my family’s smart speaker had heard 1 week ago:
I absolutely tear through headphones. When they’re wired, the wire breaks where it meets the earpiece. When they’re wireless, the battery last like two hours. The USB port on my phone is long dead, and they don’t sell phones with the old headphone jack that didn’t break.
But I still refuse to be that guy playing music on the bus.
- Comment on The Telegraph has deleted this sob story 1 week ago:
Nah everyone should get infinity holidays. That just shouldn’t make you rich.
- Comment on What are the ethics behind purchasing a book from an author you don't agree with? 2 weeks ago:
“Pssst look at what that guy is reading!”
- Comment on Why 3D-Printing an Untraceable Ghost Gun Is Easier Than Ever (Podcast 18mins) 2 weeks ago:
I like to use quotes because they’re less likely to be misinterpreted than my own words saying the same thing.
“Property is theft!”
— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
“Experience demonstrates that there may be a wages of slavery only a little less galling and crushing in its effects than chattel slavery, and that this slavery of wages must go down with the other.”
— Frederick Douglass
- Comment on Judge finds police acted reasonably in shooting New Mexico man while at wrong address 2 weeks ago:
They didn’t need a gun to murder George Floyd.
- Comment on The Copilot Delusion 2 weeks ago:
You’re the only human Lemmy user.
- Comment on On trees... 2 weeks ago:
Microphones and headphones too.
- Comment on Black Mirror AI 2 weeks ago:
It is already!
- Comment on 1955 was as old in 1990 as 1990 is in 2025. 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Low quality cropping will officially launch on Lemmy in 2025 2 weeks ago:
Sounds like something we’ll have to pay extra for. Better not have a disability.
