Rioting Pacifist

I get that it feels good to give Americans a taste of their own survailance border, but this is bad, building a survailance network “at the border” will inevitably expand inwards.

I don’t think your fingerprint is in your passport.

I think $8 is premium lite which is just no ads.

YouTube costs $8/month to not show ads.

It’s hard to tell, because companies that make their money from ad revenue also spend a lot making their apps more addictive in order to sell you more ads.

You can tell that they are making less than whatever their premium costs though, so for example YouTube makes less than $8/month selling ads.

If people aren’t trying to sell you shit, and don’t have to make their website more addictive it’s relatively cheap to run, for example Wikipedia that has a pretty dynamic read/write load, get 11 billion unique devices a year on just the English site https://pageviews.wmcloud.org/siteviews/?platform=all-sites&source=unique-devices&start=2025-04&end=2026-03&sites=en.wikipedia.org which is about half of the page views: https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2026/01/13/wikipedia-at-25-what-the-data-tells-us/ but spends ~$180m/year across all languages, so it costs about 1c a year/unique device if I’m doing my math right.

Obviously some service like YouTube will cost more because it uses more bandwidth and Gmail will cost more because each user is served individual emails and spam filtering has always been CPU intensive, but the hardware costs are fairly minimal anyway (most of the cost is on staff), so if it wasn’t for the ads Google would have less staff and hosting their services would be much cheaper, maybe not 1c/year but almost certainly less than $1

Obviously Lemmy instances are currently much smaller than reddit, but I’d bet by unique user count Lemmy instances are likely running far more effectively than reddit and likely in the sub dollar category.

On the flip side if you want to make something a subscription only service you need to spend a bunch of money processing payments and subscriptions, probably more than the actual hosting costs.

Edit:

Lemmy.world spend ~$2K to serve 14k users a month, which is about 14c/user/month or $1.70/year

https://lemmy.world/post/45439860/23152012

That doesn’t work in reality, as evidenced here, it’s far more likely people compromise their security for convenience than the other way around.

Also sometimes opsec requires in get messages from certain chats quickly. Knowing where ICE are in a timely manner is important.

I reckon the Pope could kick Vance’s ass TBh

It would be nice if Signal let you do this per conversation.

It’s sort of a victim of its own success, I use it for both things that do and don’t require opsec

The UK has every right to deny Ye entry, the issue is that the law is so vague that it’s implemention is up to the home office and largely used to pander to the (foreign/non-dom owned) press, the UK has effective abdicated control of its borders to the media.

Ironically this also weakens democracy in favor of an all powerful executive.

He is literally a Nazi

Is he?

Does he organize nationalists or promote white supremacy or does he just say stupid shit?

Because if it’s the latter this will be weaponized against anyone left of center far more effective than this.

Wether it’s Ye or Kneecap, having visa laws/the right to perform applied to individuals on a whim to pander to the media, is bad and reduces the rights of everyone.

Ironically this weakens democracy in favor of an all powerful executive.

There’s no queer police coming to dictate who isn’t valid.

Fuck/don’t fuck whoever you want, you’ll always be valid.

#NoQueerCopsAtPride

That would be a mechanism for doing it, I’m just pointing out that, according to most economic theories (which I think are wrong) money requires Treasury notes to exist, otherwise you’re printing money which most economists claim will cause inflation.

The chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus) is a domesticated form of the red junglefowl (Gallus gallus), originally native to Southeast Asia. It was first domesticated around 8,000 years ago and is one of the most common and widespread domesticated animals in the world. Chickens are primarily kept for their meat and eggs, though they are also kept as pets.[1]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken

The red junglefowl (Gallus gallus), also known as the Indian red junglefowl (and formerly the bankiva or bankiva-fowl), is a species of tropical, galliform bird in the phasianid family, found across much of Southeast and parts of South Asia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_junglefowl

A species (pl. species) is the basic unit of classification and a taxonomic rank of an organism, as well as a unit of biodiversity. It can be defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate sexes or mating types can produce fertile offspring, typically by sexual reproduction.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Species

Not really there is a well defined line that defines what is/isn’t a chicken, that’s really the only thing needed for this question.

The issue is the term proto-chicken isn’t well defined.

But for it to be considered a different species it would have to not be able to reproduce with a modern chicken (which doesn’t mean it can’t reproduce with early chickens).

Nope.

There will be an exact egg that contains the first chicken (defined as an animal that can fuck other chickens and produce offspring IIRC), that came before the first chicken because the chicken was in the egg.

This is in fact a stupid question, click discussion!

If you write off Treasury notes we have to either accept that MMT is real and that we can print money when needed.

Or we’d need to destroy an equal amount of money to the treasury note.

Or if MMT isn’t accurate (unlikely) then we’d see inflation as the government would effectively be unsecuring it’s debts.

I dunno I think the problem is the billionaires hoarding the money not the government trying to claw some of the money back, but that’s just me.