Well, yes, but also.

I’d recommend wiping your phone before going. And some of our busiest airports have gotten more dangerous lately.

Other than that, you’ll be fine.

I thought this was going to be about Hillary.

Wait… was it?

There’s a lot of propaganda and propagandists on Lemmy. It’s unclear if he’s an originator of it, or if he’s just swallowed it whole.

I disagree. He’s clearly concerned about the blowback now.

Their messaging and staging is desperately, pathetically screaming “not a gulag! Not a gulag! He’s having a nice time here!”

I’m disappointed that Lemmy feels the need to downvote such a mild differing opinion that doesn’t even conflict with your own.

All these things can be true. Diagnosis, treatment, and recognition are all much better; we agree there.

I really do think autism and cancer have gotten much more common. And it’s very likely something is causing it.

Not vaccines. Vaccines are fine.

Could be plastic. Could be pfas (forever chemicals). Could be lots of things, or a combination. But there’s most likely an environmental cause rather than genetic or just an increase in diagnosis. (Though the increase in diagnosis and recognition is also real.)

Apparently not. A group of intelligent people would never pick Trump.

That smoke filled room of Republicans talked about the Overton Window 30 years ago. They decided that they could move that window just by pretending to be much farther right than they really were. The thing about pretending is that if you do it for long enough it’s not pretending anymore. Thirty years later they realized they’ve lost control of what they started. A quarter of the elected officials are now true believers, another half are under Russian blackmail. And anyone who speaks up (Liz- Dick Cheney, a list of others) loses their seat.

I do believe that underneath it all, he does want to make America a great nation.

I gave W that credit. I don’t believe it’s true for Trump, outside of the fully narcissistic version.

It appears his first priority is pleasing Putin. His second is getting a small number of people to applaud him. He doesn’t give a single fuck about America or Americans as a whole.

Sometimes I’ll copy paste the error message back to them. Apparently it works better when it’s in a text message.

Yeah, I don’t expect it to scale well. Certainly not as well as Rust.

No, they’re not.

how the developers handle certain types of content

Doesn’t matter if you stay away from .ml.

the behavior of its creator

Kind of valid, but open source and open license negates a lot of that.

how the sotware itself handles users’ privacy.

You think anything else on the Fediverse is better? When you post something publicly, it’s public. Doesn’t really matter what the software does. If you don’t have End to End encryption, it’s not private.

This is generally not how one goes about disclosure.

Just as likely he’s now sending a pittance to other people in order to say he wasn’t targeting a group. You can send out a LOT of hundred dollar bills before you approach a billion.

The Vice President must be eligible to be president. Obama is not eligible for the VP position.

Specifically which influencers are directly working for Putin is new information.

If it hits one in two hundred viewers, that moves the needle. It doesn’t take much.

Former President Donald Trump said that Israel needs to “finish what they started”.

Donald Trump has said that Israel should “hit the nuclear first and worry about the rest later” in response to an Iranian missile attack on Tuesday.

I’m hoping it was ridiculous enough that a few Fox News viewers will recognize exactly how hard Fox is putting their thumb on the scale.

It gets better. It takes her a minute to realize exactly how much of a partisan hack he’s trying to be.