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This is fantastic. I’ve been a $5 Kagi user for a few months and have been really enjoying it. The only issue has been that sometimes when I’m working on a project I need to blow through a ton of similar queries to find what I’m looking for; I’ve been forced to switch back to google for those. Now I’ve upgraded and am going full Kagi.

Is there a way to access the feeds remotely if you have the cams on a network without internet access?

We spend 3.5% of our GDP on defense and that’s actually far more than most countries. We have the 6th highest GPD to military spending ratio in the world. The countries who spend more of their GDP are relativity tiny. They amount to 11% of the total global spending on defense vs the USA’s 39%.

The second largest GDP is China- they spend 1.6% of their GDP on defense. Third is Japan @ 1.1%… You get the idea.

Regarding the 2% NATO obligation- most members don’t make it so it doesn’t seem to be a real obligation.

The singer does seem to be trying to distance himself from the conservative implications:

https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/25/entertainment/oliver-anthony-song-response/index.html

“The one thing that has bothered me is seeing people wrap politics up into this,” Anthony said. “It’s aggravating seeing people on conservative news try to identify with me, like I’m one of them. It’s aggravating seeing certain musicians and politicians act like we’re buddies and act like we’re fighting the same struggle here, like that we’re trying to present the same message.”

But the line about:

Well, God, if you’re five-foot-three and you’re three-hundred pounds
Taxes ought not to pay for your bags of Fudge Rounds

seems a bit hateful unless that’s supposed to be a metaphor for “fat cats”. The CNN article thinks it’s a metaphor:

“though it has also courted controversy for its lyrics referring to politicians as “obese,” welfare recipients “milking” the system,”

But the antisemitic connotations seem like a stretch to me. To assuming that criticism of capitalists is automatically antisemitic seems pretty antisemitic to me in it’s own right.

You’d have to follow current events to understand the difference. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/trump-plans-to-massively-expand-executive-power-if-elected-report-says

They are an oligopoly. Funny video about it with nsfw language: https://youtu.be/0ilMx7k7mso

Do folks get an alert when you block them?

1. They didn’t publish the article they just alerted police that the woman was driving with a suspended license.

Why though? I see intermittent availability, battery drain and security being issues and I don’t see any up-sides.

It is surprising they’d stop working after only occasional use. The rollers on my scanner are good for 30k scans.

40 billion to foreign aid

It’s disingenuous to frame the best defense budget ROI we’ve seen in decades as “fueling our debt economy”.

Bad precedent is a slope

I’m not sure you’re very up do date on current events of the last century if you think this is setting a precedent.

$660mm, not k.

Wait no more! https://www.cnbc.com/2023/05/14/biden-administration-has-canceled-66-billion-in-student-debt.html

I’m frankly shocked conservatives are doing everything they can to prevent it!

Is that so different than how the fediverse currently works? Subscribed content is already being federated across instances I’m just asking it to be organized together. When your instance federates with a community on another instance it doesn’t get the entire “5-year” backlog sent to it; only new posts and old content that someone interacts with is sent.

I think there are limits to the scalability of the fediverse, in general, I just don’t see how organizing the data differently is breaking anything. Only the most limited servers are going to be impacted from receiving content from three /c/butterflies instead of one. Most people are probably subscribed to the duplicate communities already; I certainly am.

require all participating communities to store ALL of the data.

Wait, what? No, not at all. There is no reason for them to redundantly store all the data.

Imagine the same concept but the data is just being aggregated. The purpose is that content gets more exposure and engagement not to create an archive.

All I’m saying is that if /c/butterflies exists on multiple instances they should be able to “aggregate” themselves as if they were one instance. We don’t have enough users to isolate small communities; they have no shot here.

If large federated communities want to exclude others… those others can just form their own federated group. We’re still in a much better position than if we had one large community on a single instance or a speckling of tiny ones across the fediverse that aren’t large enough to drive engagement.

In the current model small communities are forced to choose a server. When that server goes down we lose an entire community. Two examples off the top of my head are Firefox and Android. We can’t count on legends to save us every time. And why go through that chaos when we have the underlying systems to avoid it?

Ah nice. Lemmy does better in that regard. I know kbin isn’t pruning anything yet.

You are literally describing reddit. Allowing mods to federate communities together would be novel.

The beauty of the fediverse is that when one volunteer-run server goes down (as happens all the time) there is little disruption if your feed is filling with other instance’s content. You can’t count on these volunteer-run servers to have 99.9% uptime like reddit, they can disappear over night.

Same idea for communities. If lemmy.world disappears tomorrow there are dozens of communities that disappear with it; fragmented across the fediverse. If mods of those communities were federated with complementary communities on other instances then there is no disruption.

I don’t think that communities should automatically federate, it should be agreed to by the mods. But with the current population we can’t afford to keep identical communities isolated. Many will die a slow death when together it could have been thriving.

How long have you been running it? My personal kbin instance filled its 100gb disk, with media, after only a few weeks.

Oh, I thought you were talking about EndeavourOS.