• spit_evil_olive_tips@beehaw.org
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    5 days ago

    tapping the “there are no good billionaires” sign

    remember when Jeff Bezos bought the Washington Post, slapped “Democracy dies in darkness” on the masthead, and a bunch of MSNBC-brained liberals thought it was going to be the newspaper that led the resistance against Trump?

    I just woke up from a years-long coma. could someone tell me how that worked out?

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      6 days ago

      He shoudn’t send DanSupp a cheque directly, but help him setup a non-profit or foundation for Pixelfed, then give that foundation a cheque.

      Dan is doing a good job developing Pixelfed, but it looks like a one-man show, and that’s a bottleneck for the project.

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      6 days ago

      Honestly I think that reels in general are toxic to mental health. I say we just move on.

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        Unfortunately that’s not going to happen. They’re something people have become accustomed and addicted to. There’s no going back now. The only hope for combating them is to come up with something at least as compelling, but hopefully less harmful. Like vaping is to smoking. What that is though, I have no idea.

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          5 days ago

          I say we just get everyone on hard drugs. Only kidding, don’t worry. But I’d definitely like some hard drugs for me.