We’ll soon be back to monks transcribing at this rate.

It could definitely work: There are a lot of parallels. A powerful enemy from the old wars, an aged wizard who’s playing the long game, projectiles assailing the heroes, the hurried retreat, the aftermath and mourning in safety.

A bit off topic, but these are great when frozen.

“Every ICE agent will be held to account”

Cowards will be cowards I say, but us simpletons don’t understand the high stakes and day to day pressures of a modern multinational corporate conglomerate. They have profit margins, investor boards, and mergers to consider. Heavens! What good is free speech if they don’t make more money this quarter than they made last quarter? Please, good people of the Fediverse, won’t somebody think of the shareholders?

‘Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle.’

Nemik teaching us to chip away at the pillars which hold up fascism.

In addition to cancelling, which is the MOST important thing:

What about uninstalling their apps?

App providers can see the number of installations on the different platforms (Apple, Roku, Android, etc). That count falling will further raise their disquiet. Leaving an app installed or continuing to use the service before the cancellation is processed could send an unintentional message that maybe this is all just temporary and we’ll come back in a couple of weeks after the news cycle plays out.

It’s an anagram of my real name, ‘lcdou 991y9’

Agreed, good tools can be used badly. Over the years I’ve written Java, C++, and PHP professionally, and I’ve seen excellent and horrible impls in each. Today, I mostly use Java and this thread is reminding me that I need to learn a new for-fun language.