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  • 📣 Apollo will close down on June 30th. Reddit’s recent decisions and actions have unfortunately made it impossible for Apollo to continue. Thank you so, so much for all the support over the years. ❤️

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  • Crypto is decentralized, though. It's an honest way of describing it. I think that more to blame are the specific crypto users who gave it a "bad name" with their shenanigans and equally the people who took that as an excuse to dump on crypto in general.

  • Windows 11's latest endearing mess contains rigorously enforced Britishisms

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  • Didn't they say that they were planning to no longer release new "versions" per se, but just keep on updating the existing operating system indefinitely? Perhaps they had the bad luck to start that strategy with one of the bad releases.

  • Finding an instance that blocks least and is least blocked

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  • but says his issue is with how Lemmygrad is not communist.

    Nope. I don't care whether they're communist or not, they're apologists for authoritarians. The communism thing is just an excuse they dress that up in.

  • Do People Actually Want to Wear a Headset All the Time?

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  • If the technology was to become widespread it would have to do better than "silly digital ski goggles" anyway. I wear glasses, I wouldn't mind slightly bulkier glasses if in exchange I can get a heads-up display telling me what the name of that person who's greeting me that I should totally know the name of but have forgotten right now.

  • Reddit to lay off about 5% of workforce

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  • Indeed. As much as the changes that have been made and will be made to Reddit over the years are appalling, it's not the fault of the workers in the trenches. They get their directions from on high.

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    Huge explosions breach the Kakhovka dam in southern Ukraine

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  • Not across the Dnjepr, I don't think anyone expected a major amphibious assault across the river. But it's more likely the counteroffensive will go deep in Zaporizhzhia, which would let them come around to the dam from "behind". If the Russian front collapses like it did at Kharkiv and Kherson the Ukrainian advance could be substantial.

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  • Seems ironic in a thread where someone's looking for minimally-blocked instances.

    But on the plus side, perhaps it illustrates the value of blocking.

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  • I'm not basing my statement off of any experience with Marxism-leninism. I'm basing it off of my experience with lemmygrad posters here on Lemmy. For example, this thread about the Tienanmen Square anniversary. I don't particularly care about the specific political ideologies on display.

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  • I'm not speaking about you specifically, I have no idea who you are. I'm talking about lemmygrad in general. Just like the person you were responding to was talking about. He asked "what did lemmygrad.ml do?" And I'm clarifying that.

    It's not that lemmygrad.ml is simply "communist."

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  • Be mindlessly propagandistic "communist." The countries they fawn over aren't even particularly communist, they're just authoritarian. Russia in particular is run by capitalist oligarchs.

    It's just tiresome and pointless engaging with them.

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    Huge explosions breach the Kakhovka dam in southern Ukraine

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  • A bunch of whataboutism that has no relevance to the subject at hand.

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    Huge explosions breach the Kakhovka dam in southern Ukraine

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  • It's not going to be a dam they control for very much longer.

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    Huge explosions breach the Kakhovka dam in southern Ukraine

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  • And also based on it making total sense for Russia to have done it, and no sense at all for anyone else to have done it.

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    Huge explosions breach the Kakhovka dam in southern Ukraine

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  • You really think Ukraine needs more justification for retaliation against Russia at this point?

  • China tightens access to Tiananmen Square while 32 are detained in Hong Kong

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  • One of the big instances, Lemmygrad, is basically dedicated to that crowd. If the influx of Reddit refugees doesn't counterbalance them then at some point I'll probably move to an instance that doesn't federate with them.

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    Huge explosions breach the Kakhovka dam in southern Ukraine

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  • And I could easily flip the question around to OP. Why would Ukraine blow up their own dam, flooding their own territory and potentially crippling their own nuclear power plant? And making a counteroffensive across the Dnipro river that much harder?

    It's not to deprive Crimea of water ahead of the counteroffensive, Crimea's reservoirs are full right now so they've got a year's worth in the tank. That's about the only possible benefit I can think of that Ukraine might have got out of this, and even if it were so it would be a trivial benefit compared to the costs. Crimea's water supply isn't going to make a difference to the actual fight that's about to happen there.

  • Reddit perma-banning account promoting Lemmy has Streisand effect

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  • And even if it were true, there are other instances. The only reason I'm on lemmy.ml myself is because the one that was recommended to me first was offline when I tried it, I could move somewhere else if this turns out to be true.

  • As US Considers Reoccupying Haiti, History Shows Occupation is the Root Problem

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  • Calling American occupation the root of Haiti's ills is IMO taking a short-sighted view of the problem. It really goes all the way back to colonial times before the US even existed, when Haiti got turned into a giant slave plantation by France.

    Which isn't to say the US isn't blameless in Haiti's current troubles, or to say that modern France is responsible, I'm just not liking that "root problem" description.

  • China tightens access to Tiananmen Square while 32 are detained in Hong Kong

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  • "There are only two positions in the world, mine and an extreme caricature of some awful opposite" is not a particularly useful place to get started on good faith argument.