Have you never seen shorthand for one thousand? Kilometers abbreviates to km.

Jesus. That feels a little dark for a normal meme community. At least, I can’t see them hitching a ride after that in anything outside an ambulance or a hearse.

*chuckles*

“I’m in danger.”

I came in here for this comment. When the choices are “criminal fighting the immensity of the ocean”, “guy named for all the cows and famous for shooting/being shot by other cow guys”, and literal nobility, it’s a solid deal. Of all three, one has the lowest chance of death, highest quality of life, and you pretty much got to do whatever you wanted depending on the era. The law that let you kill offending lower classes for twenty days of house arrest was only struck off the books in the mid 19th century.

I mean, if you view clowns as the opposite alignment of goths, in theory big tiddy clown gfs should be just as viable.

Two to hold down the giant bird that still vaguely remembers being a dinosaur, and one to get eviscerated by it’s angry feet when it kicks behind lol.

Pretty sure they just added a bunch of pixels to the side, the rest should still be untouched. Well, as untouched as it ever is.

I mean, a comment about prostitutes generally a fair distance away from new tech releases lol.

To authorize repelling a slowly gathering military coup? That’s an incredibly low bar to commit treason, since honestly, even at the highest levels military bureaucrats aren’t going to be much wealthier than 10 mil. Unlike Congress, there’s a much closer eye kept on the finances of military leaders because they’re paranoid about foreign nations bribing them. It’s physical national security, which is one of the few areas that money doesn’t hold absolute power.

Even if they stood to lose a few million, there are plenty of genuine patriots, as well as people smart enough to realize that overthrowing the government by force does not mean the law instigating it gets repealed, but that the entire legal structure of the United States is no longer functioning. That’s fifty different militias reporting to states, Naval, Army, and Marine branches with hundreds of billions of dollars in ordinance that’s explicitly empowered to not follow unethical or illegal orders. It’d be a disaster for the coup throwers unless they managed a movie villain level simultaneous takeover of the Pentagon.

I’m not saying a coup is impossible, but the idea of rich people successfully overthrowing the American government by “hiring an army” is so cursed to failure that I almost don’t know where to even start. Could they cause unprecedented chaos and potentially kill a large portion of the government? Possibly. Could they succeed? Absolutely not.

Also, this whole chain completely ignores the fact that Congress would never set the cap at 10 million. I doubt they’d set it at a hundred million. My bet would be one billion, where it wouldn’t actually affect any of them. Were they to actually pass a 10 million dollar cap, the world would be such a different place that we wouldn’t need to worry about a handful of grumpy generals inciting treason.

Sure, but that’s something for reddit users to do. There are 63k active Lemmy users monthly, and there are 430 million active Reddit users monthly. I dropped Reddit with the app death, but people are vastly overestimating the direct impact that Lemmy could possibly have on Reddit.

Reddit’s not gonna start dying until the population starts migrating in significant amounts to alternatives, which is probably going to be a little cataclysmic for Lemmy.

I’m pretty sure “we’re” not doing the r/place protest. Lemmy has 63k active users per month, per the most recent user stats. Reddit pre-protest had 52 million daily active users and 450 million monthly active users.

I’m sure Reddit’s metrics have probably taken a hit, but it’s going to be the future people leaving Reddit for alternatives that kill it, not Lemmings that have already jumped ship shunning it. One small subreddit could individually take over Lemmy.

I like Lemmy, but it’s pure hubris to think that we would even be noticed by Reddit, outside of being a place to siphon users away to.

What do you mean “now what?” lol. Assuming an American-centric or Euro-centric point of view, they would use their extremely expensive military armaments that can’t be purchased in large quantities by private organizations, and crush the rebellion. The government is the government because they have a monopoly on violence.

I mean, really. Their money is in banks subject to the oversight of the countries they’re trying to raise an army against. People may be relatively cheap, but they still need to be paid quite a bit to attempt to fight the military head on. Freeze their accounts and they’re screwed. Musk’s entire fortune isn’t even a single years worth of funding for the US military, and even if all the billionaires pooled their money it would take years to accumulate the excess hardware that is allowed to be sold and then train their PMCs on hardware. Years that they wouldn’t have if a bill was passed to cap wealth inequality.

We may yet reach the corporate dystopia where businesses can directly challenge governments, but we’re not quite there yet. At least not in the first world. Russia may have shot itself in its confusion, but that’s because the rich already are the government there.

I assume it’s 4.5k rupee, since Gurgaon is in India. No idea what that means in practice though lol.

Yeah, Reddit gets something like 52 million daily active users and 450 million monthly users. Lemmy has 500k total and 150k active.

Even if all of Lemmy went over and engaged with Reddit, it wouldn’t even be a blip compared to Reddit drawing a portion of their monthly users in. Especially when the discontent is over whether someone is contributing a fractional percent to the vagaries of engagement, and whether that meaningfully benefits Reddit, which is further predicated on this being a big brain move to collect engagement numbers and not Reddit flailing for anything to distract the community.

Might as well sneak a sign for Lemmy into there and use the unhappiness at Reddit to spread the news.

What if you wanted to go to heaven

But god said “your hands are full of penis.”

Well, I guess it’s good for Lemmy to get this out of the way now, so when it happens again in the future, everything will have already been worked out.

Plus, if you check out the link OP posted, they offer “Gorgeous call girls in Gurgaon in 4.5k with free home delivery” lol. How could they turn down the Amazon Prime of escort services 😂

Just the fact that it’s immune to corporate needing to impress their shareholders is the biggest encouragement. Having been skipping from one collapsing social media network to another for last decade and a half, it’ll be nice just having something safe from external pressures.

The internet scars us all in different ways.

Reddit’s normal traffic is 52 million users a day and 450 million a month. Lemmy has something like 150k active and 500k total users. Contributing to a thousandth of a percent of their activity to spread awareness of Lemmy isn’t going to even be visible unless literally everyone went.

I also stopped using Reddit, but I don’t begrudge people for poking their head back in. Though the Lemmy pixels got wiped out at some point.