As a polock… e x c u s e m e w h a t t h e f u c k

Someone’s got to do something about these fucking chicken shit publishers. I think it’s time for the industry to move on without them. Everything can be self published now. We have the technology.

Yeah man if I were in charge of the post office I’d definitely push for that AND the return of postal banking. Every post office in the United States would be your one stop service for this email so if there are authentication issues or anything you can actually go there and talk to a PERSON, IN-PERSON.

You would use this system specifically for official government correspondence, and also it’d be better for job seeking too - any situation where you need to be communicating as YOURSELF, fully verified.

I’d even throw in social media features. Forums, microblogging, live chat groups… however, everyone’s identity is clear and certain. No anonymity here. There is privacy insofar as what’s between you and the government stays between you and the government, but if you want anonymity and to express opinions without someone knowing who you are, that’s to be done elsewhere.

Instead of a social media website that lies to you and pretends dishonestly to give you privacy, this would have to be up front about the fact that it’s public property. A town square where you’re wearing a name tag. If you don’t want your neighbors knowing your rhetorical positions, post them elsewhere. Those other places, private services, and important and need to exist as counterbalance.

I’m sure many criminals would be stupid enough to use it for human trafficking and contraband smuggling shit though so that’ll help uncover and discipline rogue elements.

… but lemmy and masto do completely different things

masto’s a microblogging platform like twitter and lemmy is a link aggregator like reddit

honestly i kinda wish there were a rebuild of email that is compatible with the old system but was redesigned from the ground up to do the job better

“We need as many golden parachutes prepared as possible, people! This shit is going DOWN!”

What, you mean, after laying off all the creatives?

Who could have ever imagined such an unprecedented outcome except literally fucking everyone.

oh wow this show

it was super cute

ZING!

And dipshit elon literally argued in court that “twitter doesn’t exist anymore”

HMMM MAYBE SOMEBODY SHOULD INVENT IT

🤔

because its name is Mastodon, something that when people google it pulls up a band.

Also because it’s trying to be a hot fresh new thing but it’s literally named after an animal that’s extinct.

If it had a catchier and more unique name it probably would have caught on more.

we’re tired of being sold a shit sandwich that may someday become edible? wow who would have ever predicted this utterly unprecedented turn of events except absolutely fucking everybody.

Ubisoft will have to get used to people not owning their games.

Bravery means doing the right thing even when it’s dangerous.

not gonna lie, sting fucking SLAYED that role.

oop, guess they won’t be getting anything there by boat anymore! Well hey at least they can still bring supplies overland, right? because crimea is allegedly ‘part of russia’ it should have a direct land connection without having to cross through disputed territory, right? right?? RIGHT??? IF IT WERE ACTUALLY PART OF RUSSIA IT SHOULDN’T NEED BOAT SUPPLY LINES RIGHT?

oh, well actually, now that you mention it… maybe russia should GET THE FUCK OUT OF LAND THAT ISN’T THEIRS.

I fucking love the symbolism of Ukraine’s flag so much. Clear blue skies over golden fields!🌻

i do wonder just how much of their combat capacity they’ve dumped into invading ukraine. i’m sure they wanted the world to believe that the force they’re exerting on ukraine is but a fractional whisper of their “true power”, but so much about russia has exposed itself to be a paper tiger thus far that i actually wonder if they may even be overextended on just trying to invade ukraine and actually utterly defenseless in the practical sense everywhere else.

their defence may be rather … non-credible one might say :3

six hundred thousand dead orcs.

how many more must die before they stop throwing themselves into this meat grinder?

imagine being a russian soldier, receiving deployment orders for siberia, and then crying tears of joy and relief because thank GOD they’re not sending you to ukraine.

Richard Johnson

hexbear isn’t even malicious. hexbear is spicy at best. not nearly as bad as lemmygrad, which is outright repugnant in its overt hostility. hexbear users are at least CAPABLE of communicating, whereas in my experience lemmygrad users pull the animal farm squealer move and defecate on the floor before storming out.