I really only use matrix/element I just was just shocked they’re paying 6 mil a year for phone verification and they aren’t completely underwater

Or was it that poor Cuba never had a chance to stand on their own because of the evil Americans blockading the island and forcing them to stand on their own?

You’re so close here, but yet so far lmao

Maybe to an extent but I would say a lot of other people are “brainwashed” in a different way, you drop a Canadian super pro China guy into Beijing and they would not stand out as much as if you dropped some super pro US guy there, your conceptiοn of “brainwashing” lies entirely based on being in a vast majority English language site with vast majority North American and European users, there’s a lot more people in the world than only westerners and or english speakers and a lot of them have opinions you wouldn’t agree with and they aren’t any more or less brainwashed than you, you would only see them as more brainwashed because they take heterodox opions in your corner of the internet

I don’t like all the defederation drama even though in many cases they started it, I prefer the reddit approach where I can interact with pretty much everyone, my instance is only defedded with the borderline illegal gross burggit stuff and the openly racist one and I think that’s preferrable to leave the user to block individuals or communities they don’t like other than the heinous stuff, I would rather have my posts reach most people on the site rather than smaller subsections personally.

I wanted people from instances banned from popular instances like world ie grad, hexbear to be able to give their take on it, but I guess the mods couldn’t handle trying to reach the widest audience, won’t be posting similar things there again, especially given the moderation, removed from two comms with the information “rule 1” when one of the comms doesn’t even have a “rule 1”, doesn’t even have the common curtiousy to give their actual reason for taking them down or dm me about it, really immature and petty from my pov

Fixed it, the main one was always the right one don’t know where the mix up happened for the other one, thx

Yes, I believe it’s more likely someone will “hear” a given god in a 1000s year old place half the world away (if American) in a place that’s the key location of your religion, I think you’re being needlessly obtuse

It’s real in the sense that if you think god or whoever else is talking to you directly or you are literally Jesus or something you’re more likely to do some crazy shit like break some Roman statues because they killed Jesus, not real in the sense that it will get you out of a sentence for the shit you did, but getting some psychosis visiting a sacred religious site is not ridiculous at all

I think it’s an error on their part then because if you click the article the headline still says 62, but over a 1 person error I won’t change the title for the post it is close enough

I guess the rationale is that in Jerusalem you assume the voices in your head calling for you to do things you shouldn’t is actually god

I wouldn’t really classify this as news, but the whole thing is kind of funny, kinda reaping what you sowed by working at the grayzone though

“American values” or conservative American values or what have you being betrayed, so the statue of liberty is shedding a tear

https://www.investopedia.com/financial-edge/1212/average-net-worth-of-the-1.aspx

As of 2019, the top 1% of household net worth in the U.S. starts at $11,099,166.

It depends what you mean by public records, if you’re a private investigator or really good at digging through records you can find things, but it’s not like it’s easy and even then it’s only the stuff that needs to be reported by law which is not a lot, the only reason I mentioned Delaware is it’s famous for being a destinination for LLCs which people use to hide their money

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/apr/06/panama-papers-us-tax-havens-delaware

“You don’t really have to go to Panama or other tax havens. They are not the only ones making it possible for corrupt officials and other criminals to launder their money. You can do it in every state in the US,” explained Shah.

“In every state in the US, you can incorporate an LLC – [a limited liability company] – or another legal entity and you don’t have to disclose who the beneficiary on it is. In fact, Delaware is so synonymous with anonymous companies and ghost corporations that it was named in Transparency International’s Unmask the Corrupt campaign as one of the most symbolic cases of corruption.”

read more here if you’re curious

I think you would be surprised at how much of it is in LLCs in Delware or trusts in South Dakota, there are plenty of tax loopholes domestically as well, most people under hundred-millionaire status are not doing panama papers type stuff

veteran status is though in a lot of cases so I would not be surprised if there was movement to take it in that direction

You can just see it some areas, run down houses in need of renovation or at least a paint job with brand new shining pick ups in the driveways, it’s fair game if you actually tow things or plough snow, but other than that just pissing away money for a fancy new car that for the most part do like 15mpg