Strangers making claims on the internet is all this place is. There’s no “proof” needed or available here.

Someone shits in your yard and you’re going to set a porta potty out by the curb? No you’re not.

Why the hell would Tennessee’s electrical grid be all woke, anyway? Are these people totally powerless before the might of the treehuggers? I cannot believe their shameless victim bleating.

Even then you are likely surrounded by hard vacuum for light years in every direction. “Among the stars” is pretty much any goddamn place.

Right but those thousands of Trump mentions were Epstein himself saying “why won’t Mr. Trump answer my invitations to the island?” and brainstorming with Elon Musk “how can we get Mr. Trump to come visit the island?” /s

Thank you Kamala for finally killing this whole 6 7 thing.

I mean… what do you actually suggest? We take a vote on Lemmy about who to execute?

Hey as long as I can get paid like a knowledge worker, I’d prefer to work with hands.

You didn’t argue it at all, you just asserted it, and now you’re just asserting the motivation.

You’re right that the economic utilitarian argument for immigration is not the only one. It’s just one that I would expect any rational conservative to actually care about if they understood it. Other arguments, like our moral obligation to provide asylum to folks fleeing terrible circumstances… I don’t expect them to care about that one.

This is far more of a story than the fact that they subpoenaed someone.

If you can argue that the action was baseless harassment, then do so. Frivolous lawsuits have their own penalties. But you can’t argue with the subpoena process on its face.

Do you understand what it means to be subpoenaed? Under the authority of a court, you can be ordered to produce documents or appear yourself, and this order must be delivered in person to be considered complete. There are penalties for not complying so they have to make absolutely sure you received the order.

This headline makes it sound like they’re stalking him. You could claim frivolous litigation if you want, but this has absolutely nothing to do with freedom.

he was being subpoenaed.

Oh. Please don’t reward this clickbait with your attention.

Conservadongs were ludicrously outraged over Ruby Ridge and Waco for fucking decades. Timothy McVeigh blew up that federal building over it and stared defiantly into the camera as the lethal injection took him at his execution. All because they thought federal agents overstepped and people died for it.

They’ll say ICE is different because illegal emigrants are breaking the law. But the day of the RR standoff, agents were there with a warrant to arrest Randy Weaver on federal charges!

Being in the AppStore gives you access to a lot of people. I don’t feel it’s at all relevant whether you happen to also have other exposure elsewhere. Apple charges you for the exposure you get from them, period. If you don’t want to pay for it, because you’re so successful on other channels, just don’t. Don’t have an iOS app. But for years we’ve had people who want an iOS app but also want to complain about sharing what they make from it. They still make too much to be willing to pull their app, but they complain anyway: because who doesn’t want higher margins.

To be honest every issue is becoming like this on Lemmy. Either you parrot the emotionally satisfying far left narrative or you are the enemy. Don’t dare criticize the left from within, or point out complexities in issues. I prefer the left leaning bent of this place to the alternative, but I’m tired of the lack of subtle thought and intellectual honesty. If this is a place for teenagers to cut their teeth on political sentiment, fine, but I suppose I’ll eventually cycle out because that’s not what I came for.

Your typical MAGAT would tell you that those might be the rules but they aren’t followed, or are defrauded. Fraud does exist, at least.

Oh is there some case where Apple is creating the content inside the app??? Do tell.

We can safely assume that alternative app stores would have less effect on iOS than they have on Android, where Google desperately wants others to step in and develop their ecosystem. And they aren’t very significant on Android at all. I tried distributing my app on Samsung Galaxy in addition to GPlay and despite its preferential positioning with the world’s largest phone maker, I got peanuts for installs. Not even a rounding error. I literally took the app down. Oh and then Xiaomi got banned from the SDK and they stole my APK for their third party app store and began sending me bug reports about how it was “broken” there. Ah yes the power and glory of alternative app stores… Apple are wise not to dump this cesspit into their ecosystem, which people love because all they want is one decent, unified default that works well.