Oh absolutely. I hear Vladimir Putin has an entire division dedicated to posting on Lemmy

Iran Strikes Send VIP Dubai Influencers ‘Back To Reality’

“OMG!” Israeli wellness influencer Hofit Golan exclaims repeatedly in a video that shows a building near her apartment in flames.

British content creator Will Bailey was updating his Instagram and TikTok followers by filming the trails of smoke left by missiles and interceptor rockets in Dubai’s skyline.

“That was metres away from us,” he says in a video filmed near the Fairmont hotel, which was hit by a strike on Saturday.

Other influencers were less composed, with France’s Maeva Ghennam who, waving her passport around, told viewers she “screamed hysterically” when she heard a strike.

Being profitable so you can continue to exist does not mean you are motivated by profit.

I mean… it definitely plays a large factor. The idea that these organizations aren’t profit-maximizing is very different than claiming they’re net negative or hobbyist endeavors.

This is the same argument as “you hate capitalism but you participate in it.”

“We live in a capitalist society and must play by its rules” is merely an observation of the status quo.

I would more compare it to the complaint about a number of socialist states - China, Vietnam, Cuba, Venezuela - that wildly outperform their expectations despite flying in the face of Chicago School orthodoxy. “Well, but they’re cheating!” is an allegation made regularly.

Western AI data scrapping companies love to get mad at Chinese AI data scrapping companies for scrapping their data, for instance. American MIC love to bemoan foreign investment in cheap, efficient deterrents. American biotech companies are firmly committed to keeping anything developed in Cuba out of the hands of the American public.

What if I told you all of these ventures were profitable?

Highly lucrative fraud.

So you know nobody is going to do anything about it

Me: “What an excellent project you’ve got going on here. I’d love to help.”

Admin 1: “This is an automated message. Please fill out this form and give us 10,000 details about yourself. Please provide evidence you’re a Type S, Mark 12, Fibonacci Certified, Code Arch-magus. We will get back to you in 6-8 weeks if we notice you, but let’s get real, probably never.”

Admin 2: “Hey, is that a reference to Tuscany in your bio? We don’t serve Italians around here. Fuck off, dipshit.”

Admin 3: “This project hasn’t been worked on in 18 months. I’m actually about to delete the whole codestack. But I hear there’s a guy who only speaks Armenian doing something similar. Try reaching out to him.”

American women learning from Lysistrata and initiating a national transitioning of gender.

I dont respect any abrahamic religion

~ Christopher Hitchens, explaining why we should invade Iraq

You’re going to get called a Chinese bot account for this

No. Go big or go home.

Please don’t tell Robespierre

make your own point

copying your thoughts

Brother. This is Orwell’s biography. It’s not a “point”. It’s how he lived his life.

I’ve seen your posting history. Being this horny is political.

Damn. Beginning to think race might be some kind of socio-economic construct used to mystify material conditions of the proletariat.

CCP incel

Can’t count the number of times I’ve seen “You’re a secret agent of an enemy government!” in a shit flinging fight between two assholes on Reddit Lemmy.

Read it again. Think harder.

He hated his time with the police force, hated the British empire, and called imperialism “an evil thing.”

Incredibly, the man once accused of communist tendencies and the creator of Big Brother, was by 1949 surreptitiously working for British intelligence. He drew up a list of names of crypto-communists for Britain’s Foreign Office Information Research Department, the spies who led the UK propaganda war.

Orwell’s contact was Celia Kirwan, a former flame who visited the author while he battled tuberculosis at a sanatorium in England. Orwell had proposed to her years earlier but they were simply friends at that point - friends in high places. During her visit, Celia and Orwell discussed the secretive projects the IRD was doing “in great confidence, and he was delighted to learn of them, and expressed his wholehearted and enthusiastic approval of our aims,” according to Britain’s National Archives and Foreign Office records.

Orwell listed the names of suspected communists who might betray Britain if they were hired to work as writers in the propaganda unit. In his now-famous letter dated April 6, 1949, Orwell writes: “I could also, if it is of value, give you a list of crypto-communists, fellow-travelers or inclined that way and should not be trusted as propagandists.”

Orwell wanted his list to be ‘strictly confidential’. It includes dozens of literary luminaries of the ‘40s including J. B. Priestley, the novelist and playwright, and Manchester Guardian industrial correspondent John Anderson, described by Orwell as: “Probably sympathizer only. Good reporter. Stupid.”

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Orwell collapsed with tuberculosis after writing the first draft of Nineteen Eighty-Four and typed the second version of his novel while recovering in bed. He collapsed again when he had finished and died on January 21, 1950. The CIA, US Army, and British spies began courting his young widow, his second wife Celia, almost immediately hoping to buy the firm rights to Animal Farm. The CIA closed the deal with a promise of cash and an introduction to Hollywood movie star Clarke Gable. The Brits settled for the rights to turn Animal Farm into a comic strip.

The scarf has higher requirements for precision and a more constant overhead than a one-off giant summon.

I mean, there’s a scarf.

And then there’s a scarf

You could make them go “oof” on the summon if you added a requirement that the lava properly flow along the ground and interact with all characters near the event.

I think the better question is “How many polygons do you want and what do you want them to do?”

Can’t not read that in his voice.