Why?

A lot of the affected services seem to be partially functional right now. It looks like the AWS network that went offline is one managing real-time analytics data, mostly.

What about this one?

Both of those accounts individually have exponentially more activity than yours. What are you even talking about?

It’s not necessarily about competition, it’s about visibility. If I create something and I want to share it with people, that means I want people to see it. It doesn’t necessarily mean “I want people to see this more than other posts”, just “I’d rather not be posting into the void”.

For instance, I make YouTube Shorts for a game I play. I don’t post them on Lemmy anymore, because the Lemmy community for the game only has 60 subscribers, most of whom aren’t even active accounts anymore. The highest-upvoted thread in the community has 47 votes, the second-highest only has 9. This translates to effectively nobody on Lemmy seeing the videos I made, because this small, slow-paced community’s posts get drowned out by everything else.

It’s a signal-to-noise issue. There are some smaller communities I’d like to keep an eye on, but the posts from those communities get drowned out by the more active ones. I miss a lot of posts that I would have liked to have seen because of this.

Then Brian Thompson gets shot. Literally the next day United Health Care announced they would not follow through on their previously announced ceasure of anestesia coverage. They would remain covering it. Why? Because the board of suits asked “Am I next?”

This is not an accurate description at all. It was delayed in only select states, but they still followed through with that change for a vast majority of states. The only policy change brought by Thompson’s death was that UHC execs hired better security details.

I usually just sorta hold my hands out in front of me and gesture like I’m describing a fish I caught.

Whatever you do, you shouldn’t accidentally spill saltwater on it. That could destroy a very expensive piece of spying equipment, and would be a terrible, tragic accident that could interfere with the advance of nazism.

You should check out Embark Studios’ (ARC Raiders dev) other game, The Finals. Literally the most innovative FPS I’ve ever played, it completely reinvents the competitive shooter genre.

Good idea! How do I get past the boarded-up doors, though?

It feels pretty accurate to my own experiences. No matter what time I start work, I have to make sure I wake up no more than 90 minutes before it’s time to leave. For instance, my current shift starts at 5:30 P, so I wake up at 4:00 P. Otherwise, the longer I’m awake, the more time I have to convince myself of reasons to call out for the day.

First, why the fuck are ICE doing home searches now? Based on an ANONYMOUS TIP? With information that was over 2 years out of date? Where’s the fucking warrant?

Second, around my place, our pets are our family members. If you come into my home and shoot any of my family, you’d better damn well shoot me next, and quickly, because otherwise I’m going to fucking murder you where you stand.

• The House: Republican-controlled
• The Senate: Republican-controlled
• The Presidency: Republican-controlled
• SCOTUS: Republican-controlled

The democrats have literally no power with which to induce a shutdown. This is the work of republicans.

If they promoted it on another FOSS platform, nobody would see it.

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I really don’t want corporate private police running a city.

Don’t be silly! That’ll never happen. It’ll be a corporate private military running your city.

What a peaceful response.

Remember: ICE are not people.

So… it’s a custom wrapper for Bluesky?