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I guess one 'benefit' of living in clown world is that a whole, whooole lot of ludicrous nonsense scenarios that would normally be relegated to something like a joke HOI4 mod are now plausible enough that you can't say 'well that would never happen'.

Same.

I guess the 'lesson' would be:

If you can do a thought exercise about a or multiple personal relationships you have with adults, and you conclude that a blatant, repeated and normalized double standard exists where if you treated these persons they way they treat you, for just one day or one week, and you know they would become enraged, furious and indignant, that their world would collapse around them without you bearing emotional / physical / mental / financial / planning responsibilities or tasks for them...

Run. Leave. Block. Cut off all contact.

Such people cannot be changed, and your life will be better without them.

This is false if you have self righteous neighbors.

MAGA: Communism bad!

Also MAGA: Stalin-esque purge of military brass on day one.

Welcome to the mundane, realistic cyberpunk dystopia, hope you paid attention to more than the flashy surface level marketing.

Yeah, but it is especially common to, and very often very extreme, with Tumblr users.

I am totally fine with all the normies moving from Twitter to Bluesky.

From the arms of one corporation into the next, at least this one isn't as evil.

I am very much fine with the Fediverse being a slowly growing, more niche, and thus more selective social media / internet stuff landscape.

If people were actually interested in communicating in a way that is not reliant on or generating profit for a corporation, in a way that is fundamentally more egalitarian...

... They'd either figure it out, or not.

Saves me a whole lot of time when determining who actually cares about such things, vs who doesn't, but thinks they do.

You are apparently unaware of the literal tens of thousands of youtube/twitter/media people who basically did/do nothing other than promote Elon and everything he does.

Elon Musk Can Multitask Better Than You.

Elon's new Hyperloop will revolutionize transit in America!

Tesla's stock price will be $42,690 per share in 5 years, here's why.

...

Its about a million times more obnoxious than people pointing out that Gabe actually knows what he's talking about.

...

You can go outside and strike up a conversation with any random person, and they will almost certainly know who Elon is, and most people will still think he is some kind of genius real life Tony Stark.

You can go outside and strike up a random convo with any random person about Gabe, and chances are 98% of people will have no idea who you are talking about, unless you are at some kind of nerd/geek type outing like a video game convention, and even then, people under 20 - 25 are not likely to know who he is.

EDIT: Yeah, I am actually fairly confident that for you to make a statement like that, you probably, unironically, need to touch grass.

I fail to see any way you could have that opinion other than that basically all you do is argue on video game forums / discords / twitch / whatever, and that you just have almost 0 contact with real life human beings, or online spaces that do not revolve around video games.

In theory, yes / kind of.

In practice, no, not really.

It uses a different protocol (AT protocol) than the Fediverse ActivityPub protocol, which is what lemmy and mastadon and pixelfed are all built on, so it is not natively interoperable with ActivityPub based Fediverse.

To do that you have to use bridging software of some kind.

Also, as others have pointed out... even if you do make the approximate equivalent of your own instance, a PDS... all of these still go through 'Relays', which BlueSky controls.

So... it is technically federated in the sense that it allows for anyone to make their own instance/PDS... but ultimately it is actually totally centralized.

Instead of a web or weave of many to many connections of independent admins/maintainers, the structure much more resembles a top down hierarchy that is ultimately all controlled by a profit driven corporation.

If the Relays go down, everything goes down.

If BlueSky decides they don't appreciate your instance, they have unitary power to delist or block it, from everyone.

As compared with the Fediverse, where many different instances and communities can all pick and choose for themselves which other instances and communities they do and do not federate with, and where an outage particular to one community/instance only bricks that particular community/instance.

https://www.soundtransit.org/ride-with-us/stops-stations/international-district-chinatown-station?route_tab=more_info

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinatown%E2%80%93International_District,_Seattle

Yeah, Seattle (as in the city government) could not figure out the answer to that question, so they named it "International District / Chinatown".

... And then they also started going block by block with bilingual street signage, English and Chinese/Japanese/Vietnamese.

G-Police, 1997, PC.

I absolutely love and played the shit out of Deus Ex, but, technically, I played G Police first.

This will sound like a joke, or out of the Red Alert series, but the US does literally train dolphins and other sea mammals to patrol Naval bases, search for naval mines, attach torpedo homing beacons to enemy ships, aid in search/rescue and equipment recovery...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_marine_mammal

I do not know of a recorded instance of an actual man on man underwater fight... it would likely be absurdly classified by at least one, if not both sides.

Frogmen usually do things like sabotage of underwater assets like infrastructure (internet trunk lines, oil and gas pipelines) or plant or remove sonar beacons... or infiltrate into enemy territory to then later sabotage something just under the water line, or a bit inland.

The aggressor would not want to admit they were there, and the defender would almost certainly not want to admit their security perimeter had been breached, or would be unable to definitively assign blame unless they had very conclusive evidence, like a dead or captured frogman, or some kind of unnassailable, traceable materiel remnant.

Most aquatic guard units would be attacking an underwater commando team from the surface, using some kind of non human detection method to search for and locate underwater aggressors.

AFAIK nobody really maintains like a 24/7 underwater patrol of human divers to patrol sensitive areas. But I could be wrong.

I guess uh, email Jesse Ventura rofl, maybe he knows more?