Why weren’t any of us invited? Fucking selfish, bro.

If you stick it out here for long enough, three things will change.

1. You’ll begin to really like it here. It’s different but it grows on you, and it’s growing with its users.
2. Your addiction to these noticeboard-type socials will dramatically reduce. There’s something about Lemmy that’s less addictive in a good way.
3. You’ll eventually go back to Reddit and see it with new eyes, realising just how quickly it’s dying.

Are you a Linux user?

Hey everyone, shut up! This guy is a Linux user and he’s here to tell us about using Linux.

Piece of shit doesn’t contact piece of shit about piece of shit, shot by piece of shit.

Next.

I was referring to the Bronze Age, urbanisation, and civilisation, genius.

Why is this so far down?

Bump.

Endlessly eat, shit, fuck, fight, and consume for 5,000 years without any regard for anything but ourselves.

Well, in essence, propaganda is advertising. And advertising leans on satisfying perceived need.

So if I’m selling you shoes it’s to satisfy your physiological, social, or self-fulfilment order need. Shoes are functional, make you cool, or make a statement.

Propaganda is fulfilling some need to be effective - probably fear based in the social, safety, or belongingness orders, and carried via viral channels like word of mouth or social (viral).

I haven’t really thought about it too much but it’s just a communication or a reinforced message; it’s just advertising. Think about it that way.

And with regard to Russia, they are all ‘fear the West’ and ‘national pride’ driven, compounded over 3-4 generations. It would be such an easy spin.

Shit, my guy or gal.

That’s put my mind massively at ease. Thank you for putting the time in.

And yes, behavioural/clinical is exactly the path I’d go down.

I’m not. I’m aware of how selfish it is but something in my system of belief that I have (undefined? spiritual? no idea?) says that when I’m dead, I should be ALL dead.

Like, if there’s any kind of afterlife, will leaving a functioning part me behind hold up the transition? This even sounds fucked up to me because I’m 100% not religious at all.

I would just prefer all of me to be dead or all of me to be alive. Not fractions of both at the same time.

Stupid question: what the shit do you do with your 15 years of communication history if your email provider falls off a cliff?

He’s still worth $200B.

Spending $44B? $88B? $100B. Doesn’t matter. The dude never, ever has to think about money again. If he lives to 85 and doesn’t earn another cent between now and then, he can splash 6 billion dollars a year every year until he dies.

To give you some understanding of that kind of money, he could roughly buy two Lamborghini Diablos every single day for the rest of his life.

I’m pretty sure Madame Tussauds claim to fame is its anatomically correct dimensions of its statues.

I’m exactly 6’1”, measured barefoot against a wall. I’ve been the same height forever.

I stood next to a Madame Tussauds wax replica of Trump in Amsterdam and I was easily 2 inches taller than it. I was wearing Connies. It was in lifted healed boots.

There is no way Trump is 6’3” as he claims. None. On his best day, barefoot, the dude is scraping 6 feet but I’d bet my last dollar he’s closer to 5’11”.

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a) discussions aren’t a crime.

b) what are studios going to do to the hundreds of millions of daily pirates? Write stern letters?

c) they tried identifying us and sending us stern letters in 2001 and we all laughed, then kept pirating anyway.

You dummies. You know he says this shit intentionally, yeah?

1. He knows his fan base won’t care and probably agree. They’re locked in.
2. He knows the media with cover his outrageous statements, so that means…
3. He gets another front page/headline/viral bump to get another small piece of the swing voters.

He is an absolute master PR-man, and no one has ever respected that fact to their own detriment.

Disclaimer: I hate the dickhead.

I said I’d leave Reddit on July 12 and July 12 is when I left. Sure, I miss it, but it was an unhealthy, 4 hour per day/8 year addiction that’s been broken.

Now I scroll Lemmy for maybe 30 mins a day.

How did you party back then?

EDIT: you all missed a perfect setup. None of you are cool.

I dunno man. The Wiki link provided says LinkedIn is heaps less than Twitter, but this dude’s bubbles say the opposite.

Not arguing. Just confused.