“Stalin” in this picture looks like a guy who’d be hosting a Spanish language variety show

How do we get boosted on Baidu now? Xi pls help us

The discussion we really need to have is whether or not it’s appropriate to bring your own beans to a pride parade and just eat them straight out the can without even heating them up.

Surely the crowd complaining about “cancel culture” will say something about this… right?

I'm half awake from a nap and typed "Yuri" into the search bar not thinking 😑

In 2021, the AI companion app Replika came under scrutiny after authorities in the U.K. saw a 19-year-old man planning to assassinate the Queen after he was encouraged by an AI girlfriend built on the app.

Critical support?

Having been here since basically the beginning, I feel like it’s only gotten better. Some good changes I’ve noticed:

1. Far more explicitly pro trans than it was initially
2. Generally seems like more of an effort is made to be welcoming
3. More activity and fun community events like movie nights
4. Struggle sessions are more or less a joke and angry struggle sessions seem much more rare

Some things I miss:

1. Posters like tervell, brookebaybee, UlyssesT, and others who aren’t as active or no longer around at all. If you’re out there reading this, come back and say hi!
2. President Parrot has also disappeared from the public eye following the last scandal that was in the news. I think it was the one where President Parrot was naked or something.
3. Also, this was kind of always an issue, but there are lots of smaller commas that could use more love.

Yeah this is just setting up Ukraine as the fall guy. I still think it was really the US and Norway, like Seymour Hersch said it was: https://seymourhersh.substack.com/p/how-america-took-out-the-nord-stream

Therefore, we are left with some options that may feel uncomfortable to us. For example, we may want to consider leaving the Fediverse for another software platform that does NOT include ActivityPub. To explain, Fediverse/ActivityPub are very positive concepts on the foundational level. However, the Beehaw project is struggling to include this because most of our moderation/content/ethos is being jeopardized from OTHER federated instances (i.e. it, mostly, is NOT coming from within our own Beehaw registered user base).

Sounds like they don't like federation and just want to isolate their own instance. Why couldn't they just defederate instead of going through the process of migrating to another platform? Is it really that difficult to do?

EDIT: Thinking about this a little more, it seems like the admins (or admin?) have a very specific idea of the kind of community they want, and are getting frustrated when everything isn't perfect to their vision, whether that's lemmy code or other instances they are federated with. Then they complain and contribute nothing towards making the fediverse better. I guess what I'm saying is that they really do seem to want a walled garden that's perfect to some idealized community that only exists in their heads, and I don't think communities really work like that.

Just going to throw out that the tankies at the... uhhh... US STATE DEPARTMENT have also said officially that there isn't evidence for genocide in Xinjiang: https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/02/19/china-uighurs-genocide-us-pompeo-blinken/

If anyone calls you a genocide denier, throw out this one and see out they respond.

Just to tack onto this, I got banned from /r/worldnews for a comment that pointed out Radio Free Asia is US government propaganda and has a history of direct links to the CIA. My post was perfectly civil and cited sources for all my claims, yet I was banned outright and no response from the mods when I messaged about it.

That post

Are they just being purposefully ignorant about what Cuba and Vietnam have been doing?