Disgusting traitor. We need to put a stop to foreign interference like this, they are unevenly backed by the billionaire/Epstein class, weaponize social media to flood the zone, and are puppets for the US’ nefarious agenda to dismantle the EU and have Europe become a vassal state to American and Russian interests. There is no slippery slope in outright denying the far-right fascist scum from getting a platform, and we shouldn’t have to hold an ethics commitee to muse on whether our freedom of speech doesn’t quite hold up to the standards of the country that erases mentions of DEI, homosexuality, and women from their government sites, muscles late night show hosts out of a job, and routinely berates journalists who fail to smack their botox-laden lips on their asshole.

Ok for Reddit, but I like Metallica’s better.

What happened, EA? Did five minutes already pass before you gave everyone something to hate about your greedy, corporate, pulseless guts?

I swear, nobody can have any hobbies nowadays without execs enshittifying everything.

Granted. A better analogy, perhaps, would be to realize our bandages are already off, and to focus on dressing our own wound with the other adults in the room. Rather than begging and conceding to Trump’s demands, which we know will never be met with the US keeping their end of the bargain, at this point.

Your move, Rutte. Gonna cup the balls while you gargle the knob, this time? Or are you gonna grow a spine and rip the band-aid?

Our European bum might be hairier than what they’re used to, but I hope they enjoy it, nonetheless, so generously served up by our leaders /s

Oh no! -anyway…

How’s this for an exit plan from the war:

It’s the tardigrade’s violin now.

I used a hardened version of Fennec, but have switched to Iron Fox, through the Accrescent store. Both are privacy-centric Firefox forks for Android. I think they’re your best bet.

Too late, they’re my ducks now and we’re gonna do drugs together.

Time to fuck up the internet for everyone, huh? Must be a week day.

The country that suffered the second most damaging Russian psy-op in the western sphere - with the guy who spearheaded the movement polling significantly, mind you - is warning us Ireland is a backdoor for Russian spies. Huh. Guess they’re experienced enough.

Look, I’d love for Peertube to rival Youtube (and it’s a growing platform, who knows what will happen in the future), but like you said, there are very few content creators and mainstream personalities there. Try looking up a song, a clip from a popular TV show, a game walkthrough, a stand up from your favorite comedian, a silly meme, whatever, and if you find anything on Peertube, that’s impressive, but on Youtube you’ll have dozens upon dozens of examples. The difference in scale over popular content makes any usability comparison right now just wishful thinking. This has been by far YT’s (and maybe on a larger scale Google’s) strength: everything/everyone is already there, so why go anywhere else, where not nearly the amount of people will be watching and bringing in money based on those views.

Still, I’m hopeful people will accept alternative platforms more and more, with how shitty the YT experience has been on the official client and I enjoy discovering new channels I can follow on Peertube, but as of now, I don’t think most people could ditch one for the other, realistically.

There’s simply not even close to the amount of content amassed on YT, and on Peertube’s case (and perhaps on the Fediverse itself), having to navigate through instances makes onboarding not as seamless as the alternative. On the other hand, I think YT’s monetization scheme makes it a more attractive platform at the moment, which further contributes to the extent of its user base.

Can the world NOT be evil, for like a minute?

Wish we weren’t stuck with YT, but Peertube and others are not nearly anp viable option yet. Hurray for other clients, though.

Yes! That’s what actually got me into Star Wars fanedits and fanedits in general, he made the whole prequel trilogy into a unified experience. Saw one based on his editing notes and liked it, but through the years I’ve come to enjoy other takes from the movies, as well.

I’ll name one for those three categories:

• Albums: A Perfect Circle’s Eat the Elephant, in 2018
• TV shows: Obi-wan Kenobi, in 2022
• Movies: Malignant, in 2021

Man, Phantom Menace being the worst Star Wars movie when it came out is like George W. Bush being the dumbest US president: those were simpler times, somehow.

I’ll say the prequels aged better than I’d remembered them, though. And they get a lot better with the existing fanedits, especially HAL9000’s take on Episode I, which trims a lot of the dumb humour, dials down the Jar Jar antics significantly and tightens the plot a nice bit, to make it more of a classic Star Wars adventure.