I have always seen him as an absolute unapologetic grifter in it for the love of the game.

Asmongold fan by typo is a cursed reality of our time.

So the thing about Evangelion…

Isn’t the whole thing with expats is that they explicitly keep their US citizenship? Most the self described expats I know are overseas military that married a local so my perspective may be skewed here.

And vilerat was killed in Benghazi. We can chase these turtles down.

https://pulitzercenter.org/resource/how-we-investigated-epidemic-ai-generated-child-sexual-abuse-material-internet

https://www.engadget.com/ai/california-is-investigating-grok-over-ai-generated-csam-and-nonconsensual-deepfakes-202029635.html

There’s a whole media cycle on it from the last few months.

You may have missed how there’s a massive CSAM problem with AI because the models are all trained on CSAM. “Plausible” is a bit behind the times.

That subject is usually just the convenient outlet for being hateful. And hate’s a hell of a fuel.

Now combine this ordeal with getting them to properly sign the damn thing.

That’s entirely possible, as it’s closer to being the very public conflicts of like a dozen people. You could have blocked one user and inadvertantly insulated yourself from almost all of it.

It really was muddled through while Iraq was being drummed up, too. I remember working a protest in 2003 and there being this talk about DHS implementing fascism. At the time I felt the impending war was more important topic, not quite realizing how interconnected it all was.

That looks like two posts from one user.

The piefed dev also posts about tankies on MWoG.

https://piefed.social/c/meanwhileongrad/p/1723607/tankies-celebrating-financial-problems-at-the-un

So I feel like there’s bad faith enough to go around, (like with anything where ‘tankie’ comes up). The user posting on .ml there was just outright deleted off Piefed by the dev. There’s clearly an ongoing thing with those right now.

At a certain point of wealth inequality under capitalism it becomes more efficient to make everyone else poorer than to acquire more wealth.

It wouldn’t be as much of a problem if the tribes weren’t forced to work through the federal government in state issues. The state and tribes can agree on a project but the fed can just shrug and delay a project for a year before they’ll sign off.

Sounds like a flood control for community creation would be appropriate.

It used to be in the early days instances would vet users at signup. Is there no mechanism for an instance admin to do the same for the creation of a community? They just can’t be vetted before creation?

That got built and implemented before that problem was realized and removed? Damn.

Even so, if the system is tracking votes as reputation, how were the anonymous votes actually tracked? That hash either hid the user or it didn’t.

It seems the chief complaint people have about Lemmy going to Piefed are how admins operate their instances. Not sure any of this will change that, or even help.

Not to mention all these are just a game for trolls and spammers to tool around with. Like: Up/downvotes were built before vote manipulation became a problem.

This stuff is the difference between building a bridge and governing who crosses it.

Which would appropriate for a client-side user-level filter instead of a server-side instance-admin hard-coded setting.

Looks like Piefed really is Lemmy with SpezTools.