anthoniix

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DOJ no longer believes Trump should have immunity from E. Jean Carroll defamation lawsuit in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 years ago (5 children)

what was the original reasoning for them giving him immunity in the first place.

One of the most progressive members of the 117th Congress is ready to return and fight for an expanded Supreme Court in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

In my view, it's a stop gap measure. The real issue is the lifetime appointments. We just had one president choose 3 justices, who all get lifetime appointments. That is beyond insane, and if packing the courts right now will help alleviate that imbalance I think it should be advocated for. Of course in the long term we will want term limits, or maybe some sort of rotation system, but for now I think that's the most politically effective way forward.

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Is Hogwarts Legacy any good? (kbin.social)
 

With all the controversy around the game, I pretty much ignored anything to do with it at launch. Since the game is on sale right now I wanted to know, is it actually any good? If it is I'd like to play it.

Fairphone 4—the repairable, sustainable smartphone—is coming to the US in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

I'm conflicted because it doesn't have a headphone jack

Today is most likely some American's last day with all 10 fingers, and they don't know it in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

As I prepare to not sleep for the next two days.

askBeehaw: should copyright even exist at all? and if it should, how long *should* the ideal term of copyright be? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

Copyright should not exist. However, under our current economic system, capitalism, it should exist for a short period of time. Probably about 5-10 years.

Wagner leader calls for rebellion against Russian defense chief, Kremlin orders his arrest in c/[email protected]
Wagner leader calls for rebellion against Russian defense chief, Kremlin orders his arrest in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (6 children)

I honestly don't know if I believe any of this. It could be one big distraction, and I think the people in high positions of power are skeptical as well.

Discord is opening the monetization floodgates: get ready for microtransaction stores and paid 'exclusive memes' in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I mean I guess? Aside from the calling it's fine imo. UI was also easier for me to use

Discord is opening the monetization floodgates: get ready for microtransaction stores and paid 'exclusive memes' in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago (18 children)

I never understood why everyone moved to discord. Regardless of this, it actually just sucks and is hard to use. Discord really gives me hope that the fediverse will succeed, just because the UI sucks so fucking much.

[Texas] Gov. Greg Abbott vetoes bill that would give people with disabilities new option to vote by mail in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Bro's in a wheel chair and still vetoed it, damn

Was the lemmyverse/threadiverse aware that Mastodon has been convulsed for the past 2 days? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

If ActivityPub can't survive a Facebook venture, then it was never going to succeed in the first place.

Was the lemmyverse/threadiverse aware that Mastodon has been convulsed for the past 2 days? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago (10 children)

Honestly, a lot of people might disagree but, corporate involvement is essential to FOSS projects surviving. The biggest FOSS project on the planet, Linux, is literally propped up by the biggest corporations on the planet.

The only potential issue I see here is maybe Meta forks ActivityPub and it becomes a "Meta Project" or some other fuckery. Outside of that I don't see any major issues with it. If we want ActivityPub to become something greater, we're going to need corporations on board. We have strong protections in place right now with a lot of the stuff that's being used being under strong copyleft licenses, and decentralization by nature is going to allow us to opt out of a lot of the ads and tracking that takes place by being forced to use an official app.

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