It's not just Bikinis. It's all swim wear, saunas in Europe, baths in Japan. It's just socially acceptable and expected in the right context, and that expectation plays a huge role in comfort. The context seems to flip a switch in people's brain.

Maybe keep your shitty politics out of your shitty product next time, and then you won't face political consequences.

The rich and powerful control the narrative. They use that narrative to craft stories to keep people's anger and extremism directed inwards.

This isn't some great mystery. It's just the reality of what tyranny actually looks like.

Arrogance: a tale in two acts.

Hold MAGA accountable. Every. Single. Day.

The insulation was supposedly improperly installed. There, saved you a click.

Genuine question. How would a transition to socialism work in practice?

Eating the billionaires and "nationalizing" publicly traded companies is the easy part. Saying "you can still possess your car" is also easy. The hard, and ultimately unpopular, part is everything else in between. Summer cottage? Family farm? What happens to pensions/retirement savings, land ownership, inheritance, small businesses, the apartment your are renting out to pay for your own rent...

Yeah, I know, these things tend to be out of reach for younger folks these days, precisely because of hyper wealth concentration. So with billionaires and mega corps out of the picture, the question still stands.

Epic sax guy and ska is a very strange juxtaposition.

You might get up votes if you accompanied a controversial opinion with a reasoned argument. However, making only broad, unsubstantiated statements is a waste of bandwidth and everyone's time.

Can't tell who this is making fun of. I guess the answer is: everyone.

At the end of the day, software developers need to eat. If they get to eat because their compensation model is driven by donations either before or after you use the app, who cares?

(Fair enough FOSS is free as in freedom, not just as in free beer, but I think that is moot to a lot of people, as long as the market space isn't crushed by anti-competitive buisness practices)

The bigger issue at hand here is negotiating fair API uses for instances and their admins, who also need to eat, and make the apps possible too.

For now I don't think it makes sense to federate large media like videos. The storage costs are just too high to replicate this data all over the place.

The better model I think is to link to content providers with more traditional approach to providing videos. Lemmy is a link aggregator after all, not a media platform.

TBH, I think this was the downfall of Reddit. Reddit had kind of devolved into a cesspit of reactionary videos. Can't say I miss those, sure it was entertaining, but it forms habits of doom scrolling and at the end of the day, I don't want it if it takes shitty business models to support such a service.

Lemmy should stay focused on what made Reddit famous: being the front page of the internet, and honest, raw commenting system to hear from the people.