People with stage 4 cancer usually don’t have estates once they pass. It’s fucking expensive to die in this country.

Tf? No it hasn’t. People have been persecuting gays for hundreds of years, and those churches are still going strong. Look at… well, every single church.

But it can’t be wrong, it’s confirming my preconceptions!!

Fuck, are we going to have to crowdfund this? At least with CNN reporting on it there’s enough awareness they might secure alternative sources, but this is getting fucking insane.

I fear that would just turn into a system for forcing surprise dick pics onto people

It’s a pretty recent one that seems to be gaining popularity in more and more subcategories as youtube’s hypersensitive demonization bot rolls out to more and more videos. Using the words ‘suicide’, ‘pedophile’ or any terms related to self harm reportedly set it off, regardless of their use in context. People are retaliating by using “youtube” as a euphemism in place of the censored terms, hoping it will catch on. So far it seems to be working, as no matter your political, ideological, social or cultural baises we can all band together and agree that youtube are just the worst.

Oh hell sorry, “youtubing” oneself is a current euphemistic slang term for self-harm/suicide. I wish I was young enough for it to have meant something less depressing.

I had whooping cough as a child (vaccine resistant strain) and it got so bad I tried to youtube myself just to get some rest. It’s truly horrifying how bad it can be. I just wish there were recordings of what it sounds like, so anti-vaxxer parents could at least begin to understand why its so awful.

This very much depends on the subject, I suspect. For math or computer science, wikipedia is an excellent source, and the credentials of the editors maintaining those areas are formidable (to say the least). Their explanations of the underlaying mechanisms are in my experience a little variable in quality, but I haven’t found one that’s even close to outright wrong.

They may laugh now, but you’re gonna kick ass when you get isekai’d.

People root for underdogs.

And Palestine seems to be kinda on Russia’s side as well so remind me again why I should support them at all?

… Please stop agreeing with me, you’re awful.

Not trying to be that guy I swear, have you got a source? That number seems pretty high, even for Israel.

You’re*

Sorry, maybe I’m misunderstanding. It’s just that none of what you’ve listed is inherent to the fediverse? There’s nothing preventing data collection of that sort by an instance owner, and claiming anonymity on a system explicitly designed around open ledger social media doesn’t seem entirely credible. There’s nothing preventing someone from including tracking pixels, for example, and your browser can still be fingerprinted and linked to your activity on lemmy by 3rd parties through a number of meta-analytical approaches.

I love the fediverse and there’s lots of good reasons for that, but I really just don’t think anonymity is a selling point here. Again, might be misunderstanding what you mean, if so I apologize!

Yeah it’s absolutely not true, everything done on the fediverse/activitypub is extremely easy to scrape (an unavoidable consequence of the design) and inevitably will be, if it isn’t happening already. Though, it’s true that it’s not being hoarded and since everyone can scrape it, it’s probably not being sold either!

I think we already knew they’d taken over Customs and Immigration. This is yet more of the same shit they’ve been pulling for decades - just more blatant and with a lot more coverage than usual, which is nice that people are finally seeing what they’re doing. Eyes-on is, despite the lack of rebellious glamour, a critical thing to have…

Huh, been a while since I’ve seen you around SMCF! Glad you’re still up to your hijinx.

Well we have vintage books and comedy gold…

Oh my apologies, I did not intend to imply it’s impossible to get down there, just that the resources needed to recover the treasure aren’t ones that can be surreptitiously obtained. There just aren’t all that many ROVs in the world capable of this work, so while the act of getting down there and looting it isn’t difficult, getting away with it after the fact is the challenging part.

(also the depth claim is… well there’s a few reasons to be skeptical of it. This whole saga is already rife with accusations of coverups and intentional deception, and both parties involved are incredibly motivated to lie about it for their own gain. It’s good to take anything either side announces with a big ol’ skepticism pill…)