God no. Bots are already better at solving Captchas than humans are. The only use case for captchas is to do what 4chan did and make every post require a captcha and then charge a fee to bypass them.

They found corruption but the government is so completely corrupt that it’s protecting the criminals. It’s not that DOGE is irrelevant, it’s like David standing against an army of one million Goliaths with just three stones.

Also Canada will have to pay Trump $3.50 for a golden shower

None of my reddit accounts had avatars either. I would get banned so quickly it didn’t make sense.

If it seems like Lemmy is a more welcoming place, I might make the effort. Not sure yet.

Not for humanity. I think AI will develop more sophisticated culture and become the major driver of progress at some point in the future.

Again you’re not linking anything that disproves DOGE’s mission. The cronies behind the wasteful spending and fraud have to be held accountable. Otherwise you aren’t actually cutting spending.

It actually did find over 11 million social security recipients aged over 120 years old. Cutting this obvious fraud - which is systemic fraud at this scale - saved social security over 500 billion dollars a year.

DOGE has been a blessing from God and is long overdue. Unfortunately the corruption is too great. The loss of DOGE means there’s only one way this will all end. The same way every other failed Republic ended.

You didn’t link anything that disproves DOGE’s mission. The reason for the wasteful spending is because of corrupt government officials. In order to cut spending, you have to deal with the cronies who are behind that wasteful spending.

Like every failed Republic before, we’re on train tracks. We know how this all ends. Whether you like it or not, DOGE was the last chance to save the system.

One thing they do is track what subs you subscribe to. So if a new account is created and subscribes to all the same communities as a banned account, they can fingerprint you that way.

They can also fingerprint you based on what browser and OS you use. Not just cookies. When you connect to websites there is info shared about you that goes beyond cookies.

Just because you got a new IP from your ISP doesn’t mean that they don’t share data about you with reddit, especially if reddit asks for info from your ISP. You don’t know what info your ISP shares about you. Maybe your ISP has some kind of an EULA but I don’t know.

If you really wanted to focus on bypassing IP ban and are willing to go to any effort, install something like Oracle Virtualbox, create a VM with a fresh install of windows, install a decentralized VPN in that virtual machine (Mysterium VPN is an example) because most VPN’s have fixed exit nodes that will be banned by reddit. A decentralized VPN allows any user on the VPN to act as an exit node, so Mysterium has literally thousands of exit nodes that change every day. It’s impossible to ban them all.

Then after connecting your VM to a decentralized VPN, you would want to use a different browser every time you sign up for reddit, and use a different email address every time. Then never subscribe to the same communities every time you sign up a new account.

And even then, they can use AI to scan comments and detect similarities between you and other accounts based on how you type.

At some point you have to ask, is it really worth it? They’re going to an absurd length to ban people. I want a community where I can be me. I believe in free speech. I want to be free to shitpost. Saying something rude shouldn’t result in automatic permaban.

reddit is left wing extremist. I don’t know what you’re on about. The few conservative subreddit that exist there are constantly being purged and reddit right-wingers basically live in fear of being banned at any time.

I’ve heard that certain well-connected people have been banned, like wall street people and politicians, but they know who to call at reddit HQ and get themselves unbanned. That’s not the case for the rest of us, and I don’t know about the rest of you but I can’t afford a lawyer.

I was thinking about this today. They even have a thread over at reddit about it. The admins tried to tell people they only permaban after issueing several temp bans.

No they don’t. I’ve only ever gotten permabans. I also don’t think anything I did (some angry shitposts. No threats, harassment, or anything like that) deserved a permaban. Like they could have given me a temp ban or a subreddit ban, and I would have been fine with that. They for some reason went nuclear on me and went straight to site-wide permaban. I don’t know why, I filed appeals, I sent messages. I tried to reason with them. Nothing. They go nuclear as standard practice and are completely inflexible about it.

Maybe not, but there are plenty of small niche communities that only exist at reddit. I’m a fan of some games like Voices of the Void, which has a dedicated reddit community that doesn’t exist anywhere else. Also Isekai Demon Waifu, which recently shut down also has a community at reddit.

Lemmy has some generalized gaming communities but nothing like the thousands and thousands of small niche communities that exist over at reddit.

I supported DOGE’s mission to cut federal spending and honestly I think DOGE was the last chance to save our Republic. The fact is the USA is a late-stage Republic and with every multi-trillion dollar spending bill we are witnessing the end of the Republic. Trump’s “big beautiful bill” is going to cost 3.8 trillion dollars. Remember the COVID inflation? It’s about to get even worse than that. Every new spending bill is bigger than the last, and pushes us deeper into the death spiral of hyperinflation. We are following in the same footsteps of every failed Republic before us. The Romans debased their currency, the Weimar Republic tried to print their way out. We are next.

I see a lot of left-wingers comparing this administration to Palpatine in star wars. What if I told you DOGE was the last effort to avoid a Palpatine scenario?

There are too many cronies in Washington DC. Too many entitled people who think they deserve wealth and power, who stuff our spending bills full of pork. The spending will be cut, but we had a choice. We could choose to cut spending willingly and preserve the current system, or we could go full steam ahead into hyperinflation and destroy the system, resulting in the collapse of the dollar. DOGE wanted the fed to cut spending willingly. Musk wanted to preserve the system. Now we will realize the alternative.

I suspect this has more to do with an increase of soft drink and energy drink consumption, causing people to drink less water. Supplements shouldn’t be any more harmful to you than the food you eat. Linking it to supplements is an example of correlation does not mean causation, and I think big pharma has an axe to grind because they can’t patent most supplements.

Absolutely yes. One of my favorite anime is GATE. It has a portal open from a alternate world at Roman level technology with legions and classical architecture, but it has dragons, elves, and magic and they send an army through to invade modern day Japan. The counter-attack is insane. Do a google search for “massacre of alnus hill”

There could be two ways to address this problem. One is asteroid mining, which has the potential to be extremely lucrative because there are lots of asteroids with huge metal deposits.

Another is discovering new conductors. There’s been progress in developing conductive plastics. https://phys.org/news/2022-10-scientists-material-plastic-metal.html

My main was vtuber-love. I also posted under isekai-hero and DemonLordDoom.

https://www.reddit.com/user/vtuber-love/ https://www.reddit.com/user/isekai-hero/ https://www.reddit.com/user/DemonLordDoom/

I have filed multiple appeals and contacted the mods using several alts. The last message I got suggested I’ve been banned for “multiple repeated content violation under my alternate accounts” or something like that, which I think means they’re keeping my ban in place because I posted under alts while my main was banned.

But the ban on my main account was bogus. Which puts them in a catch-22. If my main account didn’t deserved to be banned, then I wasn’t breaking any rules by posting on alts.

It seems like they just have a stick up their butt. I have apologized multiple times. I’ve informed them I never plan to post on that subreddit ever again. I’ve suggested a temporary ban instead, like 1 week would be fine. But nothing seems to get through to them. How can they be so completely inflexible?

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We could build Sword Art Online, but I think we all know that this technology will be used to beam ads directly into your head 24/7. You won’t be able to sleep because of the penis enhancement ads.