Not exactly. If I were to tell you that I believe in creationism and that the world is 6000 years old, but that it means what you think evolution and cosmology mean and that I'm just using different words, you probably still wouldn't want me teaching your kids in school about science.
Or, at least, I would hope not.
Yeah, but he's an idiot. He thinks tariffs are a great idea.
Back in my day, they were doing this on slide rules! π
Looks like we need to show it to Bisop Brennan!
Well, the good news for me personally is that since a year, I've been getting off of the American tech stack, hosting in Europe, with .eu domains, using aliases for emails on my own email server, locking down my stuff, and erasing what there is from iCloud, Google, etc... Completely. I wrote a long basic how-to a month ago to help others, and have been meaning to update it more. I've also been migrating my startup company's setup to do the same. It's all done now and I couldn't be happier with the results. I've also been encouraging others online and friends and family to do the same. I even have a few of them using my Nextcloud server nearly full time now.
So I am trying to help. π
Some of it is, I'm sure. But the reason I posted it was because it had a lot of detailed information which I hadn't seen before. It was literally my first post on Lemmy today, other than comments. I hope I didn't make a faux pas.
As if I'm supposed to take them at their word?
Not bloody likely.
No, though I did post specifically that I condone what he did. It wasn't that though. I'm dual national American and French. I grew up a lot in the USA, but I've been living in France for over ten years and I've chosen my side in this fight. To that end: I've been 100% serious about getting off of the American tech stack. I've left iCloud (Apple Music forthcoming) entirely, and been getting off of more and more non-EU/FOSS places. I've been blogging about it to help others. It's been rewarding. Lemmy was just another step to take. ππ
Around 1200, I start having a little trouble, but I can still read most of it fairly well. 1100 is when I start to lose a lot of it, struggling through. 1000 is what I remember from trying to write papers on this stuff in University wherein I'd use translated copies side by side.
Maybe I can go back further than some others because I'm so damned old. π€£
Yeah, I've been writing about this idiocy since almost thirty years. Fighting evil doesn't make you just as bad as evil. Using that "logic", we were wrong to bomb the hell out of the Nazis and shoot them in Europe. We were "bad" to do so? I don't think so. It's idiotic to think that. In fact, it's an utter betrayal of the enlightenment values amongst which we gained the idea of nuance under the law. It portrays a philosophy devoid of any actual thought, relying simply on mindless knee-jerk reactions.
So, Discord says they will not be using Persona. Count me skeptical as to their supposed new choice and methodology, given that they appear to have either been:
Neither option leaves me with the confidence needed to remain on any platform which recently announced this sort of "update" for our safety and "convenience".
I told my friends on Discord that I am not telling them how to proceed - they can keep using it if they want to - but I shall remove myself from there (and apparently Reddit as well soon?) post-haste. One reason I came to Lemmy last week was because I was tired of Reddit's US Ownership and, frankly, from everything I've heard...the guy in charge is a veritable Nazi anyway. As for Discord, for my friends I've set up my own Nextcloud instance and we can use Nextcloud Talk. For general groups, I'll have to look into Element with Matrix, I suppose.
I completely removed myself from Amazon since a few years and I couldn't be happier. Everyone should do this.