You think lemmy.world is tankie central?

The ADL’s opinion is worth nothing, as a rule.

Not likely if they want something electric, there isn’t much of a used market yet

Simple farmers, people of the land, the common clay of the new west…you know, morons.

More seriously:

rube (noun): a country bumpkin

bumpkin (noun): an unsophisticated or socially awkward person from the countryside

‘rube’ also has the connotation of someone being taken advantage of or otherwise fooled

It’s pretty teen drama, but mostly because the mods are acting like dramatic teenagers.

I was impressed with how seemlessly the switch to c/oneninetysix went, Lemmy’s still small enough that my feed was just suddenly full of the new sub instead of the old one

Since like ten seconds after the AI bubble started

Oh yeah, monthly active users is definitely the better metric, I just wanted to point out that in this case, it falls in the same place either way.

I wonder what the best metric would be for measuring how distributed Lemmy is. Maybe the ratio between total active monthly users vs the top 5 or 10 instances?

sh.itjust.works is at #4 by total posts as well, since hexbear was counted twice in the OP.

It’s both amusing and unsurprising that lemmynsfw is second though

I don’t know if this one is more money laundering or bribery or both, but it’s clearly something in that ballpark, yeah.

That would be what XMR is for

Cryptocurrency is inevitably either instantly converted to money once someone gets it, or it’s held onto under the assumption it’ll be worth more later.

Money has value because it gets you “stuff”. Cryptocurrency has value because it gets you money.

With one notable exception…when it is actually used as a medium of exchange, to buy drugs on the internet. (Which the vast majority of crypto is not used for, especially shitcoins like Trump’s scam.)

Sorry, but I cannot abide the Dutch

That wouldn’t work with gold, as there would be no way to tell the difference; with diamonds, natural ones have flaws that aren’t present in artificial ones

What are you talking about?

Funny how Jews are white when it’s convenient, and not white when that’s convenient.

Convenient for the speaker, I mean; generally the opposite of convenient for the Jewish person in question

I wonder how many of those are bots or paid trolls

You’re not going to absorb enough to be dangerous using it to clean something like this, and if you’re drinking the stuff, well…at least the methanol warns you before it kills you

Set and setting matter a lot, as does intent going into things with the drug. Ketamine can offer perspective and help you become a better person, that doesn’t mean it always does.

When Elon Musk does drugs, do you think he goes into it looking for enlightenment, or looking to party?

we have rules. And then we don’t use them

That’s the most succinct explanation I’ve seen of what’s wrong with English

I have a funny feeling that if that one happens, it stops being anybody’s problem