I believe it’s going to be super fascinating because I don’t believe collapse is actually possible anymore. All indices - the stock market, the price of gold, crypto, the dollar - all of it - is, imo, set-and-supported by algorithms and dark pools.

If true, this weirdly leaves the “illuminati” to do what they please, as these markets will no longer offer any actual consequences for… anything at all, really.

Anybody notice that Trump doesn’t give the Scaramucci treatment to people in this go-around? He was hiring then firing left and right in his first term, but this time around - nothing.

Saying “I would have no way to know” is not the same thing as “I’m a moron and can’t look shit up.” You have to think you don’t know what something means before you’re going to go look it up.

I never looked up unalived, because I didn’t know it had some stupid context that would set somebody off and it’s meaning is plain. If you think that makes me an idiot, then I guess that’s just how it has to be. I think you should maybe relax a little.

♬♩ barely getting by ♩♫

Well, you’ve made an assumption and I get it now, but it’s wrong.

Aside from Lemmy and Reddit, and mostly Lemmy these days, I’m not on any social media at all. I’ve never been on TikTok. I quit Facebook a year after I joined it - horrified by what it was doing - in 2007. I’ve never been on Twitter, I’ve never been on Twitch or Instagram, I’ve never been on any site where I had to avoid a filter, ever. In my life. Before reddit it was something awful and before that usenet. I’m fucking old.

So I didn’t use the word because I am capitulating to capitalist censorship. I used the word here - and iirc I have used it in the past - as what I thought was simply a wry euphemism implying state-sponsored spycraft/murder. I consider the word assassination to be too “bottom-up” of a term - citizens assassinate presidents, not the other way around. Murder is too generic, murder is what criminals do or people do in crimes of passion. So I used “unalived” because I’m talking about a state actor doing something to a citizen.

I did not know that it carried any other meaning, nor that it came to prominence from circumventing censorship algorithms. I would have had no way to know.

Edit: I would never use some goofy shit like “seggs” for “sex” ffs, so I do see people here and on reddit who are in the habit of circumventing filters - but there’s nothing about “unalived” that screamed anything other than “wry euphemism” to me.

Why not? Why do you feel compelled to apply peer pressure to make sure other users’ language conforms to that which you approve? Who can say.

Edit: perhaps I’m just going about this all wrong. Let me ask you: are you trying to help me? Do you think my life would be improved if I used the word “assassinate” in this context instead of “unalived?” Or is it just that it grates on your nerves so much to see people use terms that are commonly used to get around filters that you feel obliged to correct me so I won’t do it in the future, materially improving your life? Because this issue seems to be really important to you and I’d like this conversation to end amicably. Maybe you can convince me why it’s in my best interest to not use this word and words like it.

No shit.

I’m literally saying the Russians had a reason to kill this woman and could have done so, but OK comrade.

I didn’t use the word because I was trying to bypass filters. I like the word.

Well they do have a motive to make it look natural, they’re still actively fishing for plausible deniability, they’re not going to go throwing people out of windows here. If she had a history of seizures, they without question knew it and could leverage it into unaliving her. The idea that she was resigned and no longer any kind of threat is naive, she could be in possession of a lot of damaging intel, given her activities.

I’m not saying this is definitively what happened, I’m just saying that dismissing it outright is probably too optimistic. Some consideration should be given to the fact that a) she was young, b) she went after Russian interests and c) she’s dead.

Even if they were to find something in the autopsy though, I doubt we will ever hear anything other than “natural causes” because America is fully a Russian vassal state.

Talk means nothing, look at what he does. All his actual actions benefit the Kremlin and serve to further it’s goals. Words do not inflict sanctions, and repeatedly saying shit while doing other shit just makes it seem like the Kremlin is looking for plausible deniability for their puppet. Wake me up when anything at all has been done that materially damages Russia or Russian interests, because that right there will be a fucking news story.

Algorithms are not universally good and helpful. They should be designed to boost engagement only in that they serve to find content you wouldn’t be able to see otherwise, not to boost engagement at all costs by feeding you things they think you will click on. It’s an important distinction.

Christel Schaldemose, a Danish politician who is a center-left member of the European Parliament, said the way the U.S. has been talking about the E.U. in general lately is “not helping.”

“Could we start talking to each other as allies and not enemies?” she said.

No, Christel, because we are fully a Russian vassal state now. Our corrupt, craven politicians were so consumed by their own uniquely Christian lust, greed and fear that Putin was able to fully and completely own them all.

I never understand it when this argument is made. It assumes that there aren’t entities out there making $0 on the common cold that would refuse to take the absolute fucking windfall that would be generated if such an immunization were to be brought to the market.

Like “oh, you know, we’d like to make this immunization and make billions of dollars ourselves but these OTHER guys are already making billions of dollars and we sure wouldn’t want to step on their toes.”

Exactly none of mine, I have never subscribed to any media service. I highly recommend it!

Discord is bad because its forums are not world-readable, therefore not indexable. It’s very useful to the rest of the world to have conversations be public. The youngest users here may not even remember but searching Google in the 2000s before Facebook went huge and when forums were all world-readable, it was a different experience altogether. You could find somebody who was talking about your niche issue/product - no matter what it was. It was kind of magical. No matter what thing happened to you, you could be pretty sure it had happened to someone else and they were talking about it somewhere and Google would see it and point it out to you.

Not anymore. Everything’s on Facebook now and Google can’t see it, nor can anyone else - except Facebook. All that legacy knowledge just tucked away in Facebook’s data vault and essentially useless to anybody but Facebook, which makes it less than useless.

100% agreed. Not even that high. Platforms that generate more than $1 million in revenue. Wipe out these engines of disinformation.

Yeah, I’m struggling to see the downside of this personally, which means there is no way in gods green hell it will happen.

Yeah, I get where you’re coming from, but there’s just no comparison on taste and price. Twice the amount of pizza for half the price and it’s genuinely 200% better tasting, imo. Definitely more hassle, but I’ll take the hassle for the tradeoff.

Thanks!

I make the dough fresh always, it’s not hard at all if you have a stand mixer - most of the time making it is spent letting it rest/rise. I make the sauce fresh also, but the San Marzano tomatoes I use come in 28oz cans and makes enough for about 4 pizzas, so I usually make 1 and then freeze the rest of the sauce in packets for my next 3.

I don’t have a pizza oven, this was made in my home oven at 550F on a pizza stone.