There was plenty of strife in the 19th century too but the weapons available were not as destructive.

Imagine the US civil war if one side had invented nukes.

Imagine the Napoleonic wars if Napoleon had tanks.

Hebron, Lebanon, and Bozrah CT have entered the chat.

Jamaica, VT has entered the chat

Does their CEO even DO Ketamine? How many outlandish promises have they made recently? Have we even seen ONE "Roman" salute at a government function?

How are we even supposed to determine a valuation?

Broken clock and all... but I actually don't think Ross Ulbricht deserved to spend the rest of his life in prison. Hard time? Sure. Life without parole? Absolutely not. Actual murderers get less.

Also on Mastodon... a guy supposedly in Africa building a house. He just needs another couple hundo for soil to fill in the floor!

And one I just reported the other day... an account called Mastodon from a .jp instance spamming people saying there was an error with their account verification and they urgently needed to click this malicious link to fix it!

The fediverse is definitely not immune to scammers folks, do your part and report this stuff to instance admins.

And donate to your instance admins (or run your own instance) too because it's a pain in the ass to stay on top of the bots and scammers.

Wow, it's like a showcase of how bad AI images can be.

How does this even happen... I can't imagine what kind of person would be placing these images in the site and thinking "this is fine".

Is this like a highschool web design project or something... "Must have 5 images"?

The fascists are literally branding leftists as domestic terrorists and throwing them in the gulag... for things as innocuous as being opposed to the genocide in Gaza.

So yes, these people are heavily armed and out to get us. They will commit violence against us and get pardoned by their dear leader.

But I agree with most of the rest... It's crazy that in Texas you can shoot someone dead for stealing your TV and get away with it.

I envy you that you don't have an abundance of armed fascists in your country, and that your government hasn't been taken over by fascists... but unfortunately that's the reality that we're dealing with here in the states.

It's a good thought and you're not even wrong. I used to think the same way.

Then tens of millions of people voted for Trump not once, not twice, but THREE times.

Trump lost, fascists threatened civil war, J6 happened... Trump STILL got re-elected, and pretty much on day one he sent the message loud and clear that his violent fascist foot-soldiers can count on getting pardons if they commit violence in his name.

Now consider how many of those violent fascists have guns.

Still feel safe without guns?

/ss

Looks like Florida is still around 90 miles from Cuba.

I considered doing this, but then the Pixel phones started doing a much better job at just filtering out spam calls so it hasn't really been an issue.

Especially on mobile... It's crazy how many times I tried to do a food order or some checkout process and mobile Firefox just hits some error.