oh, yea that makes sense. thanks

That feels like it blurs the lines of what federation should entail

There's nothing stopping you from modifying your server software to change the behaviour. For instance you could implement a feature where instead of just removing the posts of banned users from other instances, you could put them into a moderation queue to be approved/rejected by an instance admin or the community moderator.

It’s because an instance ban is a major action usually reserved for bots or pedophiles spreading bad things. If every single admin had to remove that user and their posts it would allow bots to spread things like wildfire and for CSAM to stay up for an indefinite amount of time.

It’s much better and safer for the entire fediverse that instance bans propagate deletions.

I could see this happening again. Admin takes work. If you trust another instance admin, you might replicate their ban actions automatically. Done in the name of efficiency, but has the potential for abuse and mistakes.

You first need to provide us proof that you do indeed own a cowboy hat.

I have no idea, and it's entirely possible there's some sort of weird coincidence, in which case if someone can prove me otherwise, I will eat my cowboy hat.

How can that happen? I thought each instance was governed and... stored(don't understand lemmy) by its own admin.

Cross Instance manipulation seems antithetical to the decentralized nature of Lemmy.

How does their instance reach over and change another instance?

!twnw@fedia.io

We should tax their wealth away.

The trick to chopping wood is to ignore the lumbers' shit-talking, I guess.

The poor don’t lift weight. It’s beneath them. Or so they are told whenever they try to lift the blade.

Yeah I haven't tried this stuff and half of the reason is that I saw it in the gas station and thought 'oh weird a green chocolate?' and then saw "Dubai" and said "Oh, nevermind. Fuck that."

There is a recency bias. Now people's most recent association with dubai is chocco

In some ways, the UAE is kinda the real-life example of a stereotypical bad Middle Eastern country. And it just so happens to be because it's working for the United States, not against

Atp Israel being involved in weird stuff is just an irl recurring gag

probably an attempt to "saudiwash" the regime of thier corruption and crimes.

Inb4 some citizen(s) install a guillotine in front of his house. 🤷🏼‍♂️

I thought it was Israeli pistachio farmers?

illionaire financial influencer Mark Tilbury has offered a brilliant new strategy for accumulating wealth: Buy Grand Theft Auto 6, stay inside and stop wasting money on the increasingly extravagant luxury of having a fucking life.

Tilbury recently calculated that playing the game instead of going out could save consumers $5,000. His arithmetic assumes people are regularly spending $100 on evenings out, suggesting his closest encounter with working-class financial hardship was accidentally tipping a valet less than $20.

The revelation represents a major breakthrough in millionaire economics, a field dedicated to finding increasingly elaborate ways to avoid acknowledging why anyone is poor.

For decades, wealthy financial gurus have advised workers to stop buying coffee, cancel streaming subscriptions and prepare meals at home. Tilbury has finally taken the philosophy to its logical conclusion:
Stop going outside altogether.

It’s difficult to overstate the genius involved. Rather than demanding higher wages, affordable housing or an economy where full-time employment actually covers the cost of existence, the poor can simply retreat into their apartments and simulate the freedom they can no longer afford in real life.

Why buy a car when you can steal one in Los Santos? Why visit the beach when your television has one? Why spend $40 having dinner with friends when you can sit alone in the dark accumulating imaginary wealth while your actual landlord accumulates yours?

And if you’re still struggling, have you checked between the couch cushions? That’s where Tilbury and several other millionaires apparently found their first million.

This is the particular obscenity of rich people giving financial advice. They describe poverty as a series of irresponsible purchases rather than an economic condition. Every dollar a worker spends enjoying themselves becomes evidence of personal failure. Every dollar a billionaire extracts from that worker becomes evidence of superior intelligence.

A person earning $35,000 a year must account for every sandwich, every movie ticket and every unnecessary journey outside the home. A man worth millions can tell that person to buy a video game and call himself a financial educator.
Tilbury isn’t offering a path out of poverty. He’s offering instructions for making poverty less visible.

Stay home. Don’t travel. Don’t socialize. Don’t occupy the restaurants, beaches and entertainment districts that wealthy people would prefer to enjoy without you. Keep working, keep paying rent and kindly stop expecting civilization to include you.

And when you’ve finally saved that $5,000, congratulations. Your landlord has raised the rent, your groceries cost more, and the millionaire who told you to stay home has earned another advertising check explaining how you can save $10,000 by not eating.

That's also better than Dubai chocolate.

I haven't even had it yet. I'm pretty sure every example I've seen of it personally is just chocolate with pistachio and some generic wafer in it rather than actual kataifi.

I live in bumfuck, nowhere, Denmark, and my local tiny grocer hard it. It's everywhere.

What in God's name are you talking about?

Knafehlate for short?

fuck Dubai, I hope it all sinks into the desert. actual shithole.

This is why I skipped the unemployment line and went right to hooking. They said turn a hobby into a career. 🤷‍♂️