This is an incredibly naive/underinformed take dude. $1 million is like the absolute bare minimum a single person at retirement age needs to continue putting a roof over their head and food on their table.

I can kinda understand getting upset at someone owning two homes, but considering a million dollars “megawealth” is just out of touch with reality.

Do you think there’s zero risk of shots being fired if a bunch of police show up on a Marine base and start slapping cuffs on soldiers?

1. Cops don’t stand much of a chance against actual US Marines.
2. Most cops are probably all for this show of force, it’s kinda right up the pigs’ alley. So I doubt they’d be super enthusiastic about arresting those Marines, especially in a circumstance where it’s not super clear what law they’ve broken (I doubt most cops know anything about military law or laws governing the military, since they likely haven’t taken any civics classes since flunking out of high school).
3. Heaven forbid cops go in there, things get violent, and Trump uses that as an excuse to retaliate or invoke the Insurrection Act. He’s already on a hair trigger, something like that would almost certainly send him and his base over the edge.
4. They did take action to keep their citizens safe, by closing down the roads near the base and diverting traffic away from potential danger.

Look, I’d love nothing more than for a bunch of bad ass good guys to go in there and slap cuffs on anyone involved in this little “celebration”. Unfortunately we live in reality and not an MCU movie though, so they had to do the next best thing.

Uooueggh

lmao what the fuck does this word sound like?

So what do you want Newsome do to? Send California police officers to storm a Marine base?

It’s not that we don’t have free healthcare

No, it’s exactly that. We do not have free health care. I have what is considered “good” insurance (which I pay a monthly premium for), and I always have to pay some fee or copay whenever I see a doctor for anything other than a well visit. I pay hundreds of dollars a year out of pocket for glasses and contacts, devices I require to safely do things like operate a car, even though that stuff is supposedly “covered” by insurance. Heaven forbid I need any dental work beyond a cleaning, as that would cost me probably hundreds as well. So no. No, we don’t have free healthcare, and it’s honestly baffling that any American that isn’t an oligarch would suggest that we do.

It’s been explained elsewhere in the thread, feel free to read some of the other replies

One’s a first amendment violation

Yes. Context is different, but by definition it is not.

Are you for real? Like, do you actually believe this? To be clear, it looks like you’re equating the federal government violating first amendment rights to the court of public opinion cancelling someone. Is that really what you’re trying to do here, or am I missing something?

Also I’d actually advise against using the term “retroactive thought crime” at all in this case, because there’s no reason to invent new words for something we already have really fucking good words for, which, again, is “first amendment rights violation”.

My dude, there’s a monumental difference between the “retroactive thought crime” committed by someone who gets cancelled over a past instance of being racist, homophobic, transphobic, a sexual abuser, or whatever other heinous/bigoted act, and the “retroactive thought crime” committed by someone who puts a pride flag on their desk.

They gotta eat something there on Little St. James

Right, ActivityPub would really just be the discovery mechanism, obviously you wouldn’t want the actual music to be mirrored to other instances.

If you use a centralized discovery server, you’re right back to where you are with Spotify - at the mercy of whoever controls the discovery server, and shit out of luck if the discovery server goes down. Federation is only confusing for normies because the clients for popular fediverse apps don’t do a good job of making that part clear (or hiding it away).

For the same reasons Lemmy is federated:

1. Resilience - if one server goes down, only that one artist’s music becomes unavailable
2. Control - if the artist owns the server, they can control it/moderate it as they see fit

You can’t really count on either of those things if you’re putting your music up on Spotify, Tidal, etc.

Edit: there would be nothing stopping several artists from handing together and hosting all their music from a single server/instance, if they wanted to. That’s the point though, there’s choice

I wonder if something could be built based on fediverse technology. Artists could host their own instance of some music library software, and have granular control over how it’s monetized - pay per stream, buy a digital copy of a specific song/album, have monthly fees for different tiers of access, you could maybe even sell merch or concert tickets on it - kind of like Patreon, except the instance owner has full control over what’s offered and how it’s monetized. And then in the client for this new thing, you could have a list of all the instances and choose which ones you want to give money to, and if it spoke ActivityPub, you could integrate some sort of feed into Lemmy/Mastodon/etc clients.

Honestly I have more respect for sex workers than monarchs. Sex workers actually work hard and provide a valuable service, monarchs simply exist. The comparison falls flat for me

Hey can someone tell me what the fuck “transgender ideology” means? Because to me that phrase makes absolutely zero sense

During COVID, one of the fun treats I’d get myself to keep my spirits up was a $15 margarita from a local Mexican place that delivered. Totally worth it though because it came in a quart-sized deli container (which I’d use to store the leftovers in after drinking all 32 ounces of that margarita in one sitting).

Since COVID ended, I drink way less and I’ve lost like 10 or 15 lbs just from that, and I look back on those margaritas with a mixture of fondness, fear, and a tiny bit of disgust.

What do you think it means?

How is it whataboutism? It’s literally happening. It’s reality.

Off the top of my head, I can think of two solutions - one obvious one, and one you probably won’t like.

1. Use due process to find and prosecute the people who are here illegally.

2. Get rid of the laws that make it illegal for people to stay here.

The system as it was before Trump was certainly favorable to the concentration camp solution we’re using now, so yeah, I think going back to that would be a good start. After that, we can continue improving to one of the other solutions I suggested (or maybe even a third one I didn’t pull out of my ass).