We've caught on to how this works now. I anticipate about two more iterations of tedious, drawn out flip-flopping and misinformation during the remaining steps before we are either finally let in or the whole thing fizzles out.

These guys are literally the last people in the world I would trust to regulate themselves responsibily.

Yes yes yes.

I mean, I have as much of a problem with Musk and his insane antics as the next guy, but is TikTok really an improvement in that regard?

Are we at the point where we have to select "the lesser fascist" when contemplating who should have control of our social media?

Yeah, I agree that's probably how this is going to play out; Ukraine cedes some territory to Russia and is allowed to join NATO, hopefully safeguarding it against further Russian imperialism in the future.

In the meantime, we should of course keep supporting Ukraine as much as we can to give them as strong of a position in these potential future negotiations as possible.

Yeah dude, it's the brand that's the problem, you've figured it out.

After this, everyone will love it.

And as expected, the destructive consolidation of the industry moves forward again, cheered on by consumers celebrating the short term bump to the value of their subscription service.

Seems pretty plausible that the compute required for the "good" version was too high for them to sustainably run it for the normies.

You can't fool us Erdogan, we've seen this move before.

By tomorrow he'll have new demands. He'll demand Sweden form a space agency and plant the Turkish flag on the moon or something like that, mark my words.

If you want to make this even more monstrous you can try brewing into a cocktail shaker over ice and shaking the crap out of it so you'll get a good couple of inches of froth on top when you add it to the orange juice.

A couple of things.

• Our defence has historically been coordinated to a high degree with Finland, and with only one of us in NATO it makes this coordination more difficult. So, in some ways, we are worse off than before the process started.
• As it is now, Sweden is generally not worried about a land invasion. The danger is how exposed we are from the baltic.
• A large part of why we want in is for continued solidarity and support of Finland. It is much better for Finland if we are in than if we are not.

I agree with you.

Instances can defederate from meta at any point they choose, should it become necessary in the future. Until then, it is a huge boon to the more decentralized parts of the fediverse to get content from where all the "normies" are, as well as giving more visibility to non-meta instances and giving said normies a road to the less data-hungry parts of the network.