Biden's Farewell Message
President Joe Biden's farewell message is reminiscent of Eisenhower's, in that both warned about a takeover of government by a small cabal of self-interested billionaires.
However, like most things Biden...and I love the guy...he's a little late with his message.
The astounding speed with which the billionaire tech bros and MAGA moron zealots have inserted themselves into the decision-making of the incoming administration is one big difference.
Another difference is that this newer group is into "breaking things," not making things -- except massive profits for themselves.
A third difference is that this group is taking a "whole of government" approach, not just focusing on one department's budget.
Finally, this bunch is introducing us to something worse than an oligarchy. They are bringing us a kakistocracy, rule by the incompetent.
We are in for a rough ride. You can be sure that America's rivals for world leadership will be happy to exploit these transactional idiots. Buckle up. Such a shame. We are becoming Russia, maybe just Hungary, but with the Three Stooges in charge. Sad.
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I am vaguely aware of something called Lemmy, which is similar to Reddit, including the inability to delete posts. Why, I don't know. Anyway, I read that it can interact with Friendica. But I'm confused regarding finding forums, joining them, and posting to them. Usually, I go to a website, enter friendica.world, am taken to my homepage, and then authorise the connection. But this seems different. Can anyone help me? Also, I primarily use Tweesecake, not the main site, so I have no idea what the bit about widgets means.
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Trying out a new #Fediverse app each day (Day 2)
Today's app is pixelfed.social, a fediverse alternative to Instagram
Pros: I have only been using pixelfed for a couple of days, but with a limit of 20 images and videos per post, it seems to do just about everything I would normally use Instagram for. Content discovery is decent with a Discover feed, but it obviously needs more users.
Cons: The site is a bit slow to load/reload and lacks the ability to "like" or comment on a post without clicking on it to open it into its own page. Oftentimes you must scroll to get to the "like" button and comments.
Overall Score: 5 out of 10, but there is a lot of potential there!
How do you filter all global posts to Friendica instances only?
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Harm Reduction bezüglich Cannabis
Aufgrund der #prohibition wurden mir manche Dinge nicht beigebracht und ich habe meine eigenen Erfahrungen gesammelt, welche ich hier jungen Menschen oder unreflektierten Konsumenten als gut gemeinte Tipps weitergeben möchte. Ist primär für Freizeitkonsumenten von #cannabis gedacht.
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How do I see Groups?
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The Lift
Doncaster is a large, and very ordinary British town. It's not at all exciting. But this little entertainment troupe managed to inject a little fun into the shopping streets back in 2017.
2017-05-13 - The Lift
I was in Doncaster on 13th May 2017 and on my way back to the station when I chanced upon this peculiar but amusing piece of street entertainment. Performed by a recently disbanded group called Wet Picnic, "The Lift" had three bellhops and this big lift prop... people would pick a floor and trigger a particular show. I shot 20 minutes of this as it was pretty funny and almost missed my train. Later I discovered someone had posted a snippet from this very performance on social media and have spliced in bits of that to give a rare "multi-angle" sequence near the end of this extract. Good fun... I really enjoyed watching this.
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The Broken Promise
everything altered.
Memories faded slowly,
leaving this trace
of sadness
in the twilight
where memories
flicker, waver,
and are restless.
Silencing thoughts.
Words unspoken,
then mumbled.
And this day too
will die alone,
grieving for
the broken promise.
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Hi Robert,
jetzt habe ich mich auch mal bei Friendica angemeldet. Mal schauen, wie das hier so ist. Bisher scheint es mir alles recht logisch aufgebaut zu sein und ist auch sehr performant.
Hello friendica
This is my first post on this platform. I joined the fediverse some years ago (mastodon and pixelfed) and now I'm here. I'm a Tallinn based photographer for portrait, landscape, architecture, documentary and travel.
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in reply to Georgiana Brummell • •@dandylover1 I've been on Lemmy until a few weeks ago. It does allow deleting posts, as I deleted mine. However, there are some caveats:
- There's no batch deletion mechanism like Mastodon has, so the user needs to manually delete every single post and comment.
- The interface won't hide the "post/comment space", it will just replace the previous contents with "deleted by creator" (I guess this is what you meant with "Lemmy doesn't allow deleting posts")
However, it's not like platforms such as Wikipedia and Stack Exchange (Stack Overflow) where content, once accepted and established, can't really get deleted.
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