He said the same thing at the end of another twit 2-3 weeks ago. Sounded just as out of place then. My initial assumption is that the dementia is getting worse, but who knows.

It appears that this is a new article with updated details on a news story that’s been evolving for a decade. So, it’s the same one you’ve heard about before, just with a bit of new information.

https://archive.ph/QfoN4

Mr Coomer filed federal lawsuits in 2022 against Mr Lindell and two of his companies, My Pillow, Inc and Lindell TV, saying their actions had caused his reputation to be “irreparably tarnished”.

He “now endures frequent credible death threats and the burden of being made the face of an imagined criminal conspiracy of unprecedented scope in American history”, his lawsuit said.

“In the sense that [Coomer has] been through a lot and he’s still going to be looking over his shoulder,” added the attorney, Charles Cain.

$2.3M is not nearly enough for that shit.

Yes, but how do we bypass them SCREAMING all of their headlines?

That I can agree with. But I think it’s just inevitable growing pains. Free and open instances will, over time, shut down because they’re obviously unsustainable, so they won’t be sustained.

As they do, people will be left searching for instances to move to, and more and more, they’ll find that free instances just aren’t an available.

Let’s get rid of open registration instances

How?

Nobody is stopping any of your bullet points from happening. Those are all options today. Any one of those groups can spin up an instance and nobody is going to stop them. Some already have

But isn’t the idea of forcing someone to (not) run their own server however they want antithetical to the whole concept of the fediverse?

You can defederate your personal server from open registration servers if you want. But you can’t “get rid of open registration instances.” That’s just stupid.

That’s a decision for each server admin to decide for themselves. This particular admin has apparently decided that $5000/mo is worth it to them to run a server without ever asking people to pitch in, which I find absolutely bizarre, but whatever.

They can go a long way towards reducing that cost themselves by… asking their users to pitch in. Some people will pitch in, and reduce their out of pocket expenses. Others will leave, further reducing their out of pocket expenses.

If they haven’t done the bare minimum that they can do to help themselves, then this isn’t a problem for the broader fediverse community to solve.

And if he will ask people to pay to use it, they will, rightfully so, switch to a different instance.

Ok? What on earth would be the motivation to let these people keep spending your money instead of letting them go spend someone else’s?

ETA: Especially if their reason for leaving is that you had the audacity to ask them to pitch in for the cost of the resources that they’re using. Oh, the humanity.

TST Health remains dedicated to providing abortion care wherever possible and is eager to expand our services further. This new clinic in Maine will be our third location, joining the “Samuel Alito’s Mom’s Satanic Abortion Clinic” in New Mexico and the “Right to Your Life Satanic Abortion Clinic” in Virginia. As with our other locations, patients at the “President’s Yuge Most Beautiful Tremendous Satanic Abortion Clinic” will receive all healthcare services for free and will only need to cover the $91 cost of the prescription.

OMG, I’m dying.

https://youtu.be/yltlJEdSAHw

Nice! Thanks!

ETA: No mention of drones coming out of a grain car. That’s the part I found particularly interesting.

I haven’t seen any news outlets mention this, yet. Seems like they should have by now.

He paid some Indian guys in fiver to hold up a sign that said something like “death to Jews” or something like that. He didn’t think they would actually do it

Doesn’t matter if he thought they would do it. Just coming up with the idea is enough to make it clear that he’s a tasteless piece of garbage, and that NOBODY should be parading him around as someone to emulate.

People make mistakes. Some people learn from their mistakes. Some people learn from other’s mistakes. Some mistakes are so egregious, reflecting such abysmally poor judgement, that they should never be lived down, even if for no other reason than to serve as a warning, so that others may learn.

That dip shit has made a lot of those mistakes. He shouldn’t be in the public eye anymore. He should be a productive member of society working as an assistant to the junior manager at an obscure toilet paper company.

and he of course he laughed when they sent back the video of them dancing and holding up the sign.

You left out the part where he then published it for all of his followers.

In between having the idea that no respectable human being should ever have, to the point that he clicked “Publish” to send the video out to everyone, he had soooooo many opportunities for self reflection and a realization that that was a really fucking bad idea. Yet, he did it anyway.

“The truth will set you free come back to bite you in the ass.”

Those are definitely not people that ever learned to drive a manual transmission.

Please allow me this opportunity to jump in and complain about the minority, but not insignificant number, of people that don’t seem to be aware that that is even an option (just taking your foot off of the gas/accelerator to slowly decelerate).

Every couple weeks or so I seem to find myself behind someone that’s always either accelerating, or braking, with the brake lights repeatedly flashing on momentarily for no apparent reason. It’s like they realize that they’re going just a little faster than they want, and definitely don’t want to accelerate any more, so the only thing they know to do is hit the brake, instead of just taking their foot off of the accelerator. So they’ve hit the brake and now they’re going too slow, so foot moves off the brake and back to the accelerator. Rinse, lather, repeat.

End rant. Thank you for this opportunity to vent.

That’s not pizza.

Here’s a dumb idea.

How much money did the Federal Reserve print as a percentage of how much money was already in circulation?

There’s your inflation rate.