My anxiety dictates that I go on Election Day to vote in person. I’ve seen too many examples of people’s mail-in ballots not being counted and mail-in has too many potential points of failure. When I can physically drop my ballot into the counting machine, I know it has been counted.

The original comment that garnered a one word response wasn’t mine. Thanks though.

Yep, you got it!

You’re right, it’s not an argument. But it’s a perfectly sufficient reply to a one-word question that doesn’t properly provide an argument of its own.

Ever hear of the prisoner’s dilemma?

The good news is that the main contingent of people upset about TikTok getting banned have willingly rotted away their attention spans (ironically, through TikTok) to do anything meaningful about it. The moment they realize being mad takes effort they’ll find something else to do.

I don’t want to get pedantic about this. There’s two reasons the “original” lemmy uses ml as its TLD:

1. It’s cheap
2. They can claim it stands for what we’ve been talking about.

Perhaps “tongue-in-cheek” was the wrong descriptor. More pointing out it has nothing to do with Mali, but sites haven’t been using TLDs properly for ages now.

The ml stands for “Marxism-Leninism” as a tongue-in-cheek joke rather than anything to do with Mali. Similar to how a lot of domains ending in .ly (i.e. bit.ly) has nothing to do with Libya.

This is a weird take. That ticker telling you about scores and schedules for a whole bunch of different sports has been on ESPN forever.

Kirkland Signature is Costco’s store brand.

Why?

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Ah yes, a single random data point having nothing to do with the original post. You’ve convinced me.

It’s a single short ad and works better than any plane Wi-Fi I’ve ever used. OP has one of the most entitled takes I’ve ever seen.

I was trying to point out the hypocrisy of branding your instance to be about privacy and security when tankie-glorified regimes don’t respect that at all, and they’re instead mildly pushing people in that direction. Why not use something from the EFF pages on those topics? Nice strawman, though.

Joined Lemmy.ml because it was supposed to be a security, privacy and FOSS focused community

Yep that’s the line the developers put up there to lure people in. It’s mildly disingenuous at best. Having to copy a line from a document titled “The Principles of Communism” just to sign up should’ve tipped you off that something was a bit weird.

Join an instance that has more lax federation standards and subscribe to the ml communities you care about, or get comfortable with defederation and people from other instances discarding your opinions. It’s a choice you need to make.

Oops, I’ve got a citation for you.

https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-prism-secure-ciphers

I know the response will be what you already said in a previous comment about companies saying “trust us bro” so I’ll take the L on this one.

This is such a Lemmy take, good god.

“Cloudflare has been around for over a decade and doesn’t do anything nefarious with my data and have never shown any intention of doing so… but, consider this for a moment… what if they DID?”

My friend ordered an omelette without the eggs before, and it worked. A server wouldn’t sell me a double shot of Jager because it was “too much alcohol” but had no problem selling me two single shots at once.

All depends on how accommodating your server is.

I’m sure you and the five other people who agree with you can have a riveting conversation about how wrong the millions of fans are.