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Imagine being so brazenly undemocratic that you'd try to overturn the will of the people themselves. 😩

I think it actually requires passing a federal bill, but I'm not honestly sure. Either way I'm with you, it should never have been made illegal and it certainly didn't still be federally illegal today...

Not really. If they're fulfilling their contractual obligations to their employer(s), then who the hell cares?

It's long past time that we stop treating employees like they're chattel of the company that they work for. You hire someone to do a job, which they either do to your satisfaction or not, but you don't own them and you shouldn't get to control the parameters of their life.

Hmm... On one hand I could go with fundamental logic and economics... But on the other hand some condescending guy on the fediverse said I'm wrong.

Say whatever makes you feel better about yourself but it's not exactly rocket science: if McDonalds charged $15 for a Big Mac, a significant number of people would get their burgers at a competing restaurant. If they charged $20 for a burger, nobody would ever go there.

Prices are not set arbitrarily by the deep state cabal or whatever nonsense you want to believe in.

There's no doubt that Russia are backing Hamas and doing so mainly to divert resources and attention away from Ukraine.

At the same time, the war in Ukraine is slowing down while the situation in Israel/Palestine has rapidly escalated.

I don't know about the active userbase so who knows. Personally I don't think the Twitter brand is as strong as it was a year and change ago.

Even without the change to X, is there anyone who feels that Twitter is anything more than a shell of its former self? It's not as simple as just bringing back the bird, in my opinion.

Honestly it's probably not... Estimates aside, who would even want to buy Twitter in its current incarnation?

Speaking of not having a nice thing...

Possession or consumption [of cannabis] can result in a maximum of 10 years in prison, with a possible fine of $20,000, as well as caning, under the Misuse of Drugs Act. Trafficking, import or export of more than 500 grams may result in the death penalty.

As we say her in the USA, let the punishment fit the crime. There's a Star Trek episode where Wesley gets sentenced to death for walking on the grass or something like that... Singapore is basically that.

I've been thinking a lot about this. I think a fedi-connected, self-hosted Bandcamp alternative would be huge for discoverability and helping fans keep tabs on new releases, tour dates, etc... As a musician it'd be great to be able to have fans be alerted right away when you post a new track or tour date, and as a fan it'd be awesome to be able to follow artists that you like from other fedi-compatible platforms.

I'm not a web dev myself so I don't really know for sure, but I think the biggest challenge is probably not even content delivery but keeping track of ownership/library. It's really nice that you can log into Bandcamp and access a library of all of the albums/songs that you've previously bought, and I'm not sure how something like that could be emulated in a federated way. It might be possible, I just don't know how!

Also it'd be nice to be able to stream your library, and when your library is distributed across multiple federated servers I don't know if that becomes more difficult to implement.

Still, I'm with you. I'd love to see a federated alternative to Bandcamp, even if it takes some years to reach maturity or feature parity.

I use Joplin and really like it. I sync it between my devices using nextcloud on my home server, but it seems like there are quite a few other options for syncing.