I’m just trying to follow your use of the word fanboy bud, take a chill pill

if approving a ban reversal for tiktok is ‘fanboying’ trump, then approving of biden for not being an out and about nazi seems like an equally obtuse of the word ‘fanboying’

There’s a hell of a lot of obfuscation happening in your word choices

Was this communist ‘fanboying’ a neoliberal capitalist? That doesn’t sound right…

pot, kettle

IDK, I know a lot of neo-nazis who’d say ‘fuck trump’ in response to him being willing to work with Israel

Any time I see a lib complaining about being banned on .ml it’s almost always because they earned it by saying something xenophobic or reactionary

for attacking Trump

attacking him for what, I wonder

We’re being real loose with the term ‘fanboy’ now, huh

Is the reason you advocate avoiding VPN dependencies simply due to downtime if the tailscale service fails? Or is there a particular security vulnerability associated with using VPN subnets?

Fair enough, but if you’re trying to avoid data collection then open-sourced projects are preferable

Preaching to the choir here but LibreOffice has been excellent since my MSOffice license expired. Unless you’re working in an enterprise setting with MS-specific macros or online collaboration, there’s no reason to be paying for basic document editing software in 2025.

There are also self-hosted and open-sourced collaborative editing suites available that I haven’t tried yet, but there are plenty of options

Was something supposed to happen?

There has been no official announcement that such a change is coming, but Reddit commenters speculated that possibly the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) was requiring a change to stop American TikTokers from using the app to influence Chinese citizens.

Ah, that trustworthy and unbiased group of China experts that are Redditors

Two sentences before this they were explaining quite clearly why chinese users might actually be bothered by the flood of american users and why they might want the ability to filter by IP region, but because some redditors speculated that the SeeSeePee doesn’t want the Americans to spread their freedom-loving germs to their country then that must be why they’d do it, if that rumor were to be proven true

Others have mentioned already - the issue here isn’t porn sites being banned, but states mandating age verification and the privacy concerns related to that verification.

I’m not sure I even care about an age limit being enforced for pornography, but doing so will necessitate de-anonymizing internet traffic (further) and make private browsing less feasible. There are other laws being proposed that would require personal identity verification on social media sites, too, and that would be the death of lemmy and any other anonymous shitposting sites that are left.

As a former Illinoisian, I’m sorry you live in Illinois.

Love, a Minnesotan.

I’m not suggesting they would or would want to take all of Ukraine, just that Ukraine isn’t likely to gain any ground or stop further Russian advance without outside aid.

I don’t really think I am, but fair enough.

Ukraine might have more advanced infrastructure than Afghanistan, but having that infrastructure within reach of Russian missiles and airstrikes means that they’d have to defend it or else lose the means to sustain a continued resistance. Again, I don’t think people appreciate just how much trouble Ukraine would be in if the west pulled support before a ceasefire deal is struck - Ukrainian forces aren’t guerilla fighters. If Russia didn’t already have the upper hand now, they certainly would once Ukraine was left to maintain their resistance alone - and then it would really only be a question of how long Russian citizens will put up with their wartime economy (and how many soldiers NK is willing to lose).

The one we’re talking about.

The taliban had the support of Pakistan, as well as Iran and Russia - that’s the only way that kind of war could last for 20 years. That’s essentially where we are now with western backing, but if the west pulls support… Ukraine can last only so long on will-power alone. The same could be said for Russia, but as far as I can tell there isn’t an active risk of their allies pulling support yet.

edit: far be it for me to point out that’s why there’s been so much circling of wagons to keep the US involved and so much panic about trump pulling us out

Huh? This conflict basically already is the Afghanistan war.

Yea I don’t disagree. It’s just an incredible claim and it’s surprising that it’s apparently not being scrutinized much in the reporting.

People really want to take this as granted, and that’s kinda the point of manufactured consent.

I don’t even have a horse in this race, but it’s kinda crazy how badly people seem to want to believe this one crazy detail of an already unbelievable conflict

• a: they’re paraphrasing zelenski there, and,

• b:

The BBC has not independently verified the claims.

They’re all reporting on the same tweet, it’s not surprising that none of them have been able to verify it

Someone should run for president in 2028 on pardoning Luigi