Bannon is an anger salesmen. Anger salesmen don't sell you somene else's anger, though -- they can't. Instead, they package up your own anger, and sell it back to you.
Bannon sees the the reaction people are habing to CEOs right now, slapping a big ol' bow on it, and selling it back to people.
The post office is antiquated and better off privarized. That's why, during the strike, businesses whined about the added expense of having to use private couriers, and why the government had forced employees back to work!
Wait...
No. That's not what they're saying at all.
The NDP is not in government. Trudeau did not form a coalition, he decided to form a single-party cabinet in a hung parliament. This is how this always plays out.If he wanted stability, he could have formed a coalition.
It's ok. They think they're intelligent, but also think that machibe learning models can't be biased. They have no self-awareness, and are incapable of understanding that they don't know what they're talking about.
WTF is he thinking?
"The Bloc will let me do some performative grand standing. I hope."
First you kidnap Theodore, and now you're beating him? You haven't even sent a ransom yet! Just tell us what you want! We just want Teddy back!
So, there are issues with something like inheriting comment threads in a segmented moderation space like Lemmy. Cross-posting a post from one community to another means crossing... let's call them "regulatory boundaries". Comments posted in Community 1, hosted on Website X may violate the rules of Community 2, hosted on Website Y. So, what would that mean in terms of rules enforcement?
As a moderator, you can delete the comments you've inherited, but it's a lot harder to keep up when you've just gotten 50 or 100 comments dumped on you all at once. It also breaks the syncronization you seem to be looking for.
You can decide that moderators at the receiving community can't moderate the discussion, but that's just ends up seeming somewhat parasitic, and a clear and open vector for abuse.
On top of the moderation issues, it also means giving users the ability to just... inject people into a community who aren't members, both without the consent of that community, and without the consent of the people being injected in. Like, what happens if I were to cross-post something into a troll community? Suddenly, I've just exposed dozens of people -- if not more -- to a harassment ring, with two clicks of a button.
Personally, I fail to see the upsides. This really just seems like yet another way to try and paper over the fact that we're all using different websites, and to ignore the websites that we're actually using in favour of make believing that we're in the centre of the panopticon.
Ok, but that means all of the buzz about the fediverse is negative.
And also all of the ghost accounts suggest that "negative" is a common experience here.
The prople who are happy are also happy to let the place languish, because they got what they want: A space to circle jerk about linux, to complain about Twitter and Ressit, and to "both sides bad". But maybe that isn't what's best for the internet. Maybe we should want something better?
Hashtags still only show you posts that are specifically addressed to users on your host site. They just act as a quick-search feature. You need some kind of "actor" to re-address things to people who aren't following the OP in order to get true propagation across the network. This is what guppe groups do, and what Lemmy communities do.
I semi-routinely get food for beggars. Gift cards, even. I don't carry cash, but if someone says they're trying to get enough money for food, I offer to just buy them what they need. They almost always say yes, and, especially in winter, you can tell it means a lot, at least in the moment.
On my first payday, post graduation, I did this for some kid who seemed clean by really skinny. He picked out frozen chicken nuggets, and seemed just so happy and grateful. That's stuck with me.
It's because it was actually a Walz thing, and she sidelined Walz for some reason.
The timer also discourages kinds of interactions or engagement with other players that may actually be welcomed, entertaining, and appreciated. It also takes a significant amount of the responsibility of being a referee off the GM's shoulders - you know, that thing that they're actually charged with doing - and turns it over to a clock that they can just use as a cudgle.
It's the classic toxic nerd shit of turning something that should be a social encounter into a souless mechanical system.