What do you think about engagement baiting?

Well, OP is not the target audience but is the people working from home. Maybe OP is wealthy though.

OP could do it with two or three cheap KVMs if they could live with flipping three switches instead of one. Some cheap China KVMs have pedals for switching input and could probably be wired together with a microcontroller for a fraction of the cost but some soldering and programming to get it working.

About fucking time.

Russia did 150% not expect a war on their homeland but an annexation with some turbulence in the provinces, much like American warfare. When Ukraine started hitting targets in Russia it came as a complete shock to the Russian population that in turn began to sway support for the war.

The Middle East is at war with Israel that is the exception to most things sensible. War and expansion is the lifeblood of Israel or it will collapse. Then again, Israel too attempts to keep their plentiful warring in other nations and have got long relied on the iron dome and what manages to hit us excellent propaganda for the theocratic totalitarian government of theirs.

Idk about most of Africa. There are certainly African nations warring against each other but plenty are old internal tribal conflicts that have never been settled since they were machined during the colonization by Europe, not to mention the broken if not failed states that are in constant power struggle by war lords.

As I said, there are always exceptions, and I don’t think any of the above are representative for the absolute majority of countries that have experienced war and conflict in Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas.

My main gripe with mainstream Reddit now is the engagement baiting that people are falling for all the time. “What are you thoughts on [Controversial Topic]?” If there is a new exodus from Reddit coming, I really really really wish all the baiting to be left behind and moderators to remove it on the Fediverse.

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I have no insights there but I mean, yeah, it is a enormous apparatus so a large part of the American economy relies on it. I doubt the entire economy would crash but the distribution of work and wealth would change dramatically. And those affected negatively would obviously not like it to be slightly less super wealthy elite.

Because I think in America war is something distant that happens on TV like entertainment, sports and politics and people that haven’t lost family don’t understand the scale of real suffering happening.

Countries that have experienced war at home generally try to avoid it at any cost, with select exceptions as always.

USA will keep being a warmongering nation as long there are no wars that hit American soil and civilians.

I miss the days of surfing the web like in the 90s. I sometimes try to do it again but don’t get anywhere.

I know that in the past there have been cult deprogramming communities that were run by some cult-like christian organizations that preyed on those that were at their most vulnerable. Real bottom feeder scum behaviour.

If there is a Best Of The Fediverse this should be right up there

Dude, you are the one obfuscating.

Qobuz and Deezer are French, Tidal was originally Norwegian, Spotify was originally Swedish and record companies are from all over the world.

If record companies make exclusive deals with platforms for some releases and pull distribution for others, then blaming the streaming services excluded is just plain fucking stupid.

That’s not up to the streaming service but the record company.

Personally I switched from Tidal to Qobuz this year and I like it much better.

Qobuz, Tidal, Deezer.

For entertainment purposes only: Check out The Beast and make your own connections to Epstein/Trump/MAGA.

Yes.

I get banned left and right for making fun of nazis and reminding people that every day is punch a nazi day.

The nazis are such fragile snowflakes they can’t take some banter and the mods are so afraid that someone is offended that they take the side of weeping self identifying nazis that are backing murder en masse, which is apparently all okay because it’s just opinions.