wampus

@wampus@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I mean......if you really think about it.....⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You’d have to gender swap all the non Fry characters into obsessed sex addicts wanting to jump Fry.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨IRS braces for $500bn drop in revenue as taxpayers skip filings in wake of DOGE cuts⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t disagree with you – I believe their line of reasoning was along the lines of getting all the operating funds needed for the ‘government’ from revenue generated from tariffs. One reason for aggressively slashing social support systems could be that they want to shift people’s dependency for those programs more directly to corporate interests such as Google and Apple – many tech companies have ‘interests’ in the medical field after all. The one area they would likely still want to maintain govt functions in, are military in nature – the theory is that they want what are essentially geo-distant corporate city states that are connected via the internet, and protected by orbital weaponry / nuclear arms. Setting up a few blocs of this nature, and having them constantly feign conflicts with each other, will help to keep people placated as well, in a sort of horribly Orwellian sense. That sort of concern isn’t really something for the ultra wealthy to be bothered by though, which’s one reason oligarchies are so dangerous.

  Still looks like the USA is sorta heading in that direction a bit, though obviously any of my musings are just guesses based on conspiracy theories I find plausible – so I doubt it’d play out that way any time soon or anything. If there were ‘real’ flags of that sort of thing being imminent, I imagine some people in the govt would be making even more noise to us commoners, hah.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨IRS braces for $500bn drop in revenue as taxpayers skip filings in wake of DOGE cuts⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  And loss of trust / stability of the government makes the tech industry’s push for corporate controlled ‘freedom cities’ much easier to get agreement on, allowing America’s rich oligarchs to quite literally establish their own baronies ;P

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨IRS braces for $500bn drop in revenue as taxpayers skip filings in wake of DOGE cuts⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I seem to recall hearing Trump officials/project2025 sorts say they wanted to do away with income tax, replace it with tariffs. So, I mean, the IRS falling apart and not being able to collect income tax is sorta… on the roadmap, isnt it? Like issuing this warning is prolly just gonna be taken as a goal milestone achieved on the plan… ??

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord going public. Plz help a future refugee.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks, appreciated.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord going public. Plz help a future refugee.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Silly question perhaps, but I haven’t tripped across it on the site for Revolt – is there a relatively straight forward server version for self-hosting, or is it just that the source is on github and you can compile it in theory if you feel like goin through that process… ?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Digg is about to be rebooted. Thoughts?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Reddit’s seeing membership outflows resulting from their more draconian policies. Reddit boss restarts a competitor platform so that he can try and recapture users by owning his own competition, while trying to pretend like there’s no conflict.

  idk. Seems pretty suspect to me. Lemmy seems ‘ok’ for news aggregation, and it has a more community / local vibe to it. For example, I can have more confidence that the feeds I see on Lemmy.ca are more controlled / accountable to Canadians, rather than the heavily Americanized subs that exist in Reddit. And I can pick and choose which other subs to see, with better understanding of the likely biases that I’ll encounter. This sort of end user transparency is really refreshing, especially given the burbling propaganda war being waged by the Americans at present against Canada.