cecilkorik

The internet remembers forever. Literally. The more you want something gone, the more tenaciously the internet will preserve it and treasure it and amplify it.

You can absolutely create a new fake profile. You can create lots, an endless amount of them. That's trivial. AIs are doing that all the time, some people legitimately believe most of the internet nowadays is just bots with fake profiles arguing with other bots with equally fake profiles. And it's plausible they could be at least a little more right than most people would imagine. See the dead internet theory

But trying to have something removed from the internet is like asking your family to stop telling that embarrassing story at every gathering. All it does is let everyone know there's an embarrassing story, and intrigues everybody to find out what it is. And they won't stop until they do. See also the Streisand Effect.

So far, this seems to be exactly what I'm looking for. Thanks so much!

I don’t want to have to dig through 100 communities all spread out to find things.

So don't. Hang out on Lemmy.world. You'll be fine here. It's as centralized as you can get. All you're really asking for is to deny others the ability to choose or run their own instance and still be able to talk to you, like I'm doing right now.

So many bridges in Western Russia in need of collapse. I'm ready for the Kerch Bridge On Fire song again, let's go!

Will there be any tariffs on bees that illegally cross the border, or will we have to deport them to El Salvador?

Federation alone would give a lot of utility. The whole point is not to be a walled garden of discrete silos. If I can post on Lemmy from Mastodon, why shouldn't I be able to post a comment on a model?

If a government raises taxes for something so that working class people cannot buy it, that government becomes richer by exploiting the working class.

Governments don't become "rich", and if they do, that either signals unchecked corruption, or a government that is investing wisely in the nation's present and future, depending on where the money is going. This may seem contradictory, but the reality is, you need a much deeper and broader understanding of your government's finances and economic plan before the accusations you're making will hold any weight. This is not something that can be reasoned about in the abstract and addressed with news-bite talking points. It a hugely complex situation and people spend lifetimes studying this.

A government that is genuinely exploiting the working class should be replaced by the working class with a government that supports and protects the working class. If you do not have the power to choose your government, then you need to figure that out how to organize the working class and acquire that power first, otherwise you're wasting your time trying to change a government you have no control over, and that's not going to work and it's never going to support and protect you.

CO2 makes up a miniscule amount of our atmosphere.

This is accurate.

In the past there have been ice ages while the atmospheric CO2 level was 10 times higher than it is now.

This is misleading disinformation

The notion that eating insects will save the world seems a little dubious.

This is accurate.

This still seems like a wild conspiracy theory to me, and yet, I wish them luck because I don't see what significant harm could come out of it and maybe they're right, and even if they're not the search ought to be interesting. Sort of like Oak Island. Search on, you crazy sleuths, and let me know if you find something.

It's okay, the royals don't always remember what they own and what they don't either.

Fair point, but those were different empires, older ones. Obviously we did take them too and you're right, that's what the British Museum is for! The British Empire, though, we made that ourselves. With violence.

Yes, this is undeniably true. Then we decided to be better. What even is the point of this "criticism"?

Do you think it was an accident that the British Empire ruled the world? Do you think the British just found an empire lying on the side of the road and dusted it off and said "Oh that's nice, we'll take that". Britain was a warmonger, and they beat the shit out of the entire world. Straight up fucking merciless, the Brits. Would you like that time to come again? Keep pressing your luck and maybe we'll have to arrange it.

Europe only stopped colonizing and oppressing the entire world because they got bored of it. You didn't win, you didn't beat them. They are just lazy. Now you have made them get up off their ass. And they don't like that. You are fucking with the wrong group of psychopaths and murderers, bro.

Parenthesis, exponents, multiplication, division, addition, subtraction.

should actually be

Parenthesis, exponents, (multiplication and division), (addition and subtraction).

Addition and subtraction are given the same priority, and are done in the same step, from left to right.

It's not a great system of notation, it could be made far clearer (and parenthesis allow you to make it as clear as you like), but it's essentially the universal standard now and it's what we're stuck with.