I see this upcoming election will be the final one. Nice work.

Oh cool, thanks. I have friends in Texas and they make it sound like it could never happen.

Snowballs chance unfortunately. I understand getting a Democrat to win in Texas is effectively impossible.

How do we know this post isn’t fake? Perhaps it’s all part of the ruse.

It’s been said to death but at heart, I’ve always felt that when it comes to piracy, it’s a service issue, not a cost issue.

Except for you Adobe. That’s a cost issue.

We do have privacy laws today (USA user), but they are so weak that near my office I regularly see ads advising businesses to treat it as a liability problem and instead buy insurance as a faster and cheaper alternative to good practices.

And it works! This approach should not be feasible to address the costs of violating user privacy. It reiterates to me that we are far too lax.

As you mentioned, that in and of itself isn’t a bad thing. Sometimes it’s good not to have people who are really casual users in your community. They can take their time coming over as long as the people who are here are having a good time.

I’m experiencing a bizarre glimpse of humanity in the Internet, before the bots have been written and move in, the experience of communicating with actual people without the influence of karma, business, or astroturf just yet.

They will come, but Lemmy sets the new terms of engagement.

We, the users, the community are the lifeblood. It’s people that had the good times, and people that made them.