Yours is a rather anomalous situation and likely shouldn’t be used to set policy for the whole.

If lemmy is a hub for those who want to to trade CSAM then it will be taken down by the government. This isn’t something that can be allowed onto the system.

If you can write an automated filter to block CSAM then Apple, Meta, Alphabet and others would happily shovel billions at you. Blocking CSAM is a constant and highly expensive job… and when they fuck up it’s a PR shit storm.

Yes. Because racist assholes and trolls.

Nope, dogecoin was a memecoin not a scam oriented shitcoin.

First off, CRT is a red herring. It’s an extremely niche framework for historical analysis and egalitarianism which is irrelevant outside academic contexts and only gained ground due to a racist asshole.

When it comes to DEI I think that your heart is in the right place - this is all about economic justice and if there were better ways to account for that it’d be an excellent thing to correct for (though, imo, the better correction would be to ensure all children had a genuinely equal chance at success). Unfortunately, because America has a long history of racism, race and poverty are strongly correlated.

The other half of DEI is that people tend to hire like. It’s a deep social flaw but we need to acknowledge it - white men will tend to hire white men, a company composed entirely of black women will tend to hire black women… we have studies. Most entrenched wealth is held by white men and so white men have an inherent advantage in employment.

The last thing I’d highlight is that a rising tide raises all ships - your assumption that immigration causes an expansion of poverty usually hasn’t been born out. In capitalism more people means more labor means more innovation means more wealth - there are some limits around resources but we’re not near any hard limits in that regard.

Doggy is a pretty damn cute name for the meme

;_; but I pronounce it that way - like the old Venetian head of state.

I’m still fucking bitter that the meme Elon latched onto was Doge. I fucking loved that meme and hate that it now has ties to fucking fascism.

A really fucking long ethernet cable.

If you study hard in school you can do anything.

I’ve moved and become Canadian… but I was born American and raised in it.

I love the shit out of quality marzipan.

Yes.

Please tell me what I’d lose if you turned off X, Facebook, Instagram, and Reddit.