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I would imagine any privacy measures cartels take are seen as overhead more than anything else

Do people with a Rolex pay subscriptions for their disgustingly expensive watches?

Idk I view it a little closer than that. Rather than an arts program v sports program I see it as an art program that wants to buy paint and I’m saying maybe it would be a better idea to buy easles, canvases, pencils, paper, and pastels instead

I’m not suggesting the organizers of this fundraiser.missappropriate the money. I’m saying that this fundraiser seems pretty pointless and the money would be better spent elsewhere

I see two goals in that paragraph:

Fundraiser for Kamala

Encourage Kamala to make a mastodon account and promote on it over other social media

People have already donated hundreds of millions of dollars to her via more official channels. This is a grassroots fundraiser targeted specifically at mastodon users (and now the fediverse at large because of this post) with the stated incentive of trying to encourage Kamala to use mastodon over other platforms. You could chalk the mastodon but up as secondary but there isn’t even a third thing in that paragraph for the mastodon portion to be less important than. Given the amount of press the Harris campaign has already received, it seems like this fundraiser’s primary purpose is to promote mastodon via contributing to the campaign and tacitly asking Kamala to sign up.

If mastodon users wanted to donate to the campaign, they have probably been exposed to several other avenues to do that before they would have even seen this. So what’s the point of doing a special “fediverse only” fundraiser? Apparently it’s to encourage her to create an account. It’s pandering and I don’t see a point in shilling a super special fediverse fundraiser for a candidate who’s already drowning in small donation money when that money could be used to promote the fediverse in a much more meaningful way

If the point of the fundraiser is to convince her to join mastodon, wouldn’t 450k send just as strong of a message as 500k? Do what you want with your money, but why? Why are we dumping hundreds of grand towards a politician (who’s just raised over 300mil in two weeks) on the off chance they will decide to make a mastodon account? The fundraiser even says “encourage her to create a distinct presence on mastodon”. The language is so noncommittal it seems like even the people who organized this don’t expect anything to happen after they dump a cool half mil into a campaign that’s already wildly successful.

Imo if the point of this fundraiser is to promote and grow mastodon/the fediverse then why isn’t the money put towards ads, funding instances, developing the fediverse, or a million other things. That amount of money could go a very long way for the fediverse if it were put towards something other than a plea to Kamala Harris to pretty please maybe think about possibly signing up for mastodon

I’m farting around on a T480 for school and light retro gaming. Works great! Super easy to upgrade too

I really like startpage, but I’m pretty sure it’s just Google with some tweaks

Holy moly!

We’ve been completely reduced to revenue streams for those that already have unimaginable wealth and it’s killing us. The transparent abuse and exploitation is so beyond parody it wraps around to sounding like a joke. Then you realize it isn’t a joke and get more depressed

Brush your teeth

Done and done, thank you for the warm reception.

I run arch mint btw

Good to know, I’ll be careful not to indulge too much! Though I did it proper with a Thinkpad as well so I may overdose anyway haha

I’ve only been using Linux for a few days. Am I allowed to have a superiority complex yet?

Outside of the odd troll here and there, fascism isn’t a huge problem (at least on lemmy). Exploding heads died in like a week and you haven’t really seen any popular resurgence of far right politics here since. Can’t speak for the rest of the fediverse but lemmy seems to have carved out a semi-comfy niche for itself

Meh. Tankies>fascists

By all means, feel free to drop as many as you’d like! Though those three seem like more than enough to get me started. I really appreciate it!

As I said, I’m not very familiar with vocal techniques but I feel compelled to point you towards Lingua Ignota. She’s the most metal-not-metal act I’ve ever heard with an incredible voice. I know she was trained in opera when she was young and it definitely shows but she’s one of the most emotive and captivating singers I’ve ever heard. Content warning, her songs are self described “domestic abuse murder ballads” so if that’s too heavy I completely understand lol but I think you’d enjoy her voice at the very least.

On the topic of screams and cleans, I first heard the term in reference to foxtails. They said her transitions into cleans are incredible, so I guess they are? Lol, you might enjoy them. Emo/hardcore, la dispute vibes if you’re familiar with them

For sure! Looking forward to the links

That wasn’t too long or technical at all, it was exactly what I’ve been trying to find out for months now! Thank you. I’m all about crazy vocals and skilled singers. Got any suggestions on where I could learn more on stuff you wrote about or just general technical junk about music/singing? I’ve always been fascinated by it