There is no way to know whether changing the way you live would still kill on that death date. You wouldn’t know whether because of the changes you make, you die on that day. Also you wouldn’t know if not making a change kills you earlier.

It’s only a dumb question is you don’t think a little further. Go on, you can do it.

Why do humans find humans attractive?

It looks like I make 5 comments a day on average. Been here for a year, so that’s not happening 😅

Wow, I was wondering why I hadn’t blocked a single hexbear or lemmy.ml user here: my instance did it for me! I’ve had multiple accounts on multiple servers and consistently had to block hexbear users until finally blocking hexbear outright. It’s been a much better experience then.

Don’t know actually. mbin doesn’t support sorting comments by… points?

Those are some nice pictures! Are they all yours? Btw, I do wonder if it’s possible to comment on pictures there from here @jakelec@pxlmo.com

Just subbed. Maybe new pictures will pop up in my feed.

It’s as a reaction to the news about TikTok possibly being sold and people jumping to “Red Book”, the other Chinese platform. Maybe some people will read the TechCrunch article and consider Pixelfed.

As if the US was trying really hard before…

Trump is going to be the greatest thing that happened to the planet. It has been promised that he will plunge the US into another series of crisises, estrange the US’ closest geopolitical allies, and help the world wake up to the fact that the US is not #1. That the US is dangerous and shouldn’t be a template to copy. That new alliances have to be forged and the US monetary hegemony broken.

With any luck, it’ll rattle the lazy corpses in that country to finally do something to fix their broken system. Maybe people will realise that Bernie’s words weren’t just addle-brained mutterings from a communist-infested mind, but that he and many others speak the truth. Maybe enough people will want to rewrite the constitution and get rid of “winner takes all” vote counting, reduce the power of the president, add an age limit to governmental jobs, and so much more.

Things have to get worse before they get better for people to learn, because unless they aren’t affected, they have a hard time understanding.

2. Yes, I am saying that we would be better off by having this money put somewhere else.

I get the notion, however social networks do have an inordinate effect populations and how they think. Spending 5M€ on say, poor communities would help those poor communities (short or long term, dunno), but they could still be influenced by a shoddy social network (or multiple). Whether that sum effect is positive or not is debatable.

It’s very difficult to make a judgement on utility of such a (comparatively) small sum and its target.

To be honest, I’m much more concerned about how people spend their money when they go shopping: buying non fair-trade goods like chocolate, clothes, coffee, phones, and so on, where they spend sums orders of a magnitude larger than a paltry 5-10€/month on mastodon.

5M€ can get you quite a long way, and I’m wondering if we could have better use of those resources than by putting it on Mastodon.

What are you suggesting? That the money donated to Mastodon not be used on Mastodon?

The existing US-based non-profit entity, the 501©(3), will continue to function as a fundraising hub.

Wait, is the money transferred to the US then back to the EU? And will the US-based non-profit still continue to exist or will it be replaced by a truly European one?

Can’t have competition now, can we? That would lead to innovation. (and the gold-plated dinner table set missing on the new yacht)

Everyone has the right to make dumb decisions :)

9$/month to send toots? Really?

Few retired people I know can ignore the price tags off stuff…

Anybody who doesn’t have to work for the rest of their life because it’s voluntary + they don’t really have to look at the price tags of the things they want.

If the US implodes, will its resource usage finally drop? They are the most wasteful country on the planet.

I don’t get it. What does it do?