And by they, you mean the right wind politicians in power.
The people who vote for them are constantly voting against their immediate interests.
If we had some sort of ranked choice, a lot of these one-issue voters might actually have a choice in their representation. Which would be good for all of us.
Twitter was already struggling with nearly unfettered access to every internet-connected user. (sans heavily censored countries)
If Musk cut off 25%-50% of users, the platform, which relies on eyeballs seeing advertisements, would certainly spiral into oblivion.
Way differently.
Soldered RAM is much much closer to the CPU, and so the time it takes for signals to propagate back and forth is significantly reduced..
Just pick a mid-sized instance and there's a 99% chance it's more stable than Lemmy.world right now.
Look at users who don't sound insane and see where they're posting from.
She's trying to be mayor, not the queen.
One mayor stands no chance against the system of DAs, lawyers, unions, and judges, that protect the police.
Between qualified immunity and "no specific obligation to protect", you'd be hard pressed to find any charges that stick.
If you believe your partisan opponents are the only enemies of freedom, then you're already in chains.
All a civil war will do is put a bigger boot on all our necks.
Nobody rational wants to see that happen.
Unless you enjoy the thought of American military might amped up to 11 and deployed on it's own citizens.
It also disables a lot of analytics, so you get a better experience than the paying customers, for free.
I switched to Mullvad after PIA got bought by that spyware company.
They're great.
I can find just about anything I want through public trackers or DDL sites, so I haven't bothered to look into them.
It really is a big move, since it likely cost them millions in early sales.
I probably would have bought it already if I couldn't find a crack, but now I can pirate and wait for a nice sale.
I'm sure I'm not the only one.