It’s not a devs vs admins, this was a failure on both sides. This is early days for the Fediverse, I’d imagine this will shake out over time as unreliable instances are abandoned and we get more devs and they learn to or get what the resources needed for better testing.

He has the same stupid haircut I had when I was 7. About the same maturity level as well.

Imagine being screwed over by the U.S. for decades and now their puppet is genociding your brothers. Not everyone is ok with sitting and waiting their turn to be destroyed. I back the people, never the governments.

Sometimes that’s better than having to learn other people’s interpretations of the same wheel over and over again.

I mean, it didn’t work before, it’s gotta work this time right!?

I had a good wank too

https://apnews.com/article/chinese-government-justice-department-new-york-police-transnational-repression-05624126f8e6cb00cf9ae3cb01767fa1

China is hostage state that nurtures Stockholm Syndrome in it’s population (similar to DPRK and others). You can only “leave” if it’s deemed useful and safe for China (i.e. you have Stockholm Syndrome strongly enough). And those that leave are still under control, i.e. their (edited) behavior can be coerced by using carrot and stick methods on their family and loved ones.

Yep, this word is used intentionally by Xi and he knows he means “conquer the nation developed by the people that escaped his predecessors”.

A big part of why I chose my Mazda is so I didn’t have touchscreen everything.

“Leader of world’s largest known pedophile group says it’s ok to bless the gays so long as they don’t pretend like it’s a wedding”

Based on my usage and understanding of the word being a lay person.

I’m an engineer myself, sometimes there are words that you have to be cognizant of the differences in meaning to other engineers vs lay people or even engineers in other fields. Some words are heavily overloaded, and “autopilot” is kinda one of them (others being “domain”, “node”, “artificial intelligence”, etc.).

Ah ok. I would’ve agreed with you not too long ago.

I’ve since become convinced that any concentration of power will attract exactly the type that should not wield it and therefore a society that wants to maximize things like freedom and minimize things like needless suffering should strive to build a society where power is not needed. I realize this would take time and could not come from violent revolution, but instead cultural change over a generation or two. In the meantime, democracy, imperfect as it is, with checks and balances can help keep things stable enough for cultural change to occur in this world.

What is power used for except to coerce people to do your bidding instead of their own? I want to clarify that capability for self-defense/community- defense I don’t consider power.

Which is a good reason for people that want bicycle infra to vote and run for office!

Except it mostly doesn’t work. For every corrupt official going to prison you have 10 getting away with it.

I think many don’t use the alternatives because there are significant challenges vs using a car you’re already paying for.

I’d love to bicycle but it’s just not safe.

It doesn’t matter, Tesla cars are marketed to the public which isn’t expected to know these things. To probably 90% of people “autopilot” means “drive automatically”.

But the issues are caused by the bad guys.

Democracy tends toward corruption as any concentration of power will.