pinkdrunkenelephants

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[–] pinkdrunkenelephants@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I meant Lemmygrad, but the admin came to the thread and said "fuck you, I want to boost my numbers up, the tankies are staying" so it doesn't actually matter. 🤷

Yeah, I am pretty sure the All feed is intended to show content from a variety of instances, not to be dominated by a few shitty ones.

[–] pinkdrunkenelephants@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Probably best to not try to scrape the bottom of the barrel when defending authoritarians pushing lies and propaganda. Like, if you're going to go for a red herring, you could at least tone police me; that would at least be more plausible and less petty. Step your game up

[–] pinkdrunkenelephants@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago (5 children)

🤦 Wasted my time and effort on a garbage instance again.

[–] pinkdrunkenelephants@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago (4 children)

That's exactly what they've been doing. Their Tianamen Square propaganda showed up on my All feed which is how I know about it to begin with. We're all being inundated with their garbage and we did not come to this instance to be flooded with propaganda and garbage.

I'm arguing with their shitty alt accounts here because they tried to mass downvote the thread and astroturf and gang up on me, because they don't want efforts to defederate them to gain traction, but guess what? It didn't work. Because they're little bitches who thought they could scare me away, and it did not work, because I am an asshole. 😉

You're here blatantly fucking lying to our faces thinking you can discredit me and protect those hopeless retards, proving my point. Tankies don't belong here. If you love them so damn much, go sign up for Lemmygrad.

[–] pinkdrunkenelephants@lemm.ee 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

I actually haven't really debated them and this isn't the first time I've seen them invade an instance. I want them gone because they are spreading blatant propaganda and that should not be allowed on any instance worth its salt

Point in fact, I came here to lemm.ee specifically because it was defederated from them, but now I see the past few days that they've been let on again and are now invading threads with pro-CCP astroturfing and inundating the All feed with their propaganda and garbage like they always do. And that shouldn't be allowed.

[–] pinkdrunkenelephants@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

How do you foresee tankies poisoning the whole fediverse?

Because I've been watching what has been going on. Instances, big ones, that were previously hard-nosed about being defederated from them have mysteriously let them on their instances again, including this one. I signed up for this instance specifically BECAUSE it banned them, and then all of a sudden, for the past few days, my All feed is inundated with their crap.

That is shady, sus, and wrong. A lot of people came here specifically to get away from tankies and their garbage, and now we're expected to put up with it because the admins refuse to act and even let them back on? Explain to me how money, blackmail, intimidation, manipulation or abject retardation isn't involved in that?

Or how it won't happen to other instances once those cretins get a foothold in a big enough percentage of the fediverse?

It doesn’t even seem like they are trying to make a case, they are just bluntly stating misinformation. If we are going to remove all misinformation then we are going to need paid admins because even at the current scale its a full time job.

The admin already accepts donations so he has no excuse.

I see blatant misinformation everywhere on the fediverse already and only a tiny percentage is tankie related.

You can thank the alt-right dipshits at .world for that, and that's why I speak out now: unless admins' feet are held to the fire and they're held accountable for not protecting their users, it'll keep getting worse. The admins made an instance they want us to use and accept donations to keep it running. Therefore they have a responsibility toward us they're not meeting, and it results in dangerous shit like propaganda claiming the Tianamen Square massacre did not happen to run freely when it should not. That is crazy and you know it

[–] pinkdrunkenelephants@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

bad economic policies

Who cares about China anyway?

Yea the person claiming Biden has bad economic policies wants to ignore the second largest economy in the world… 😂

Well lookie motherfucking loo here boys, the proof is in the pudding.

You all are really butthurt that no one else wants you around that you gang up on anyone who complains, resorting to cheap personal attacks and tone policing, thinking you're going to pretend to be an onlooker when in reality you're just some dipshit tankie acting in bad faith hoping to astroturf.

THIS is why you scumbags don't belong here. THIS is why the admins need to take responsibility and defederate from your asses, so we can have meaningful conversations in good faith without them being inundated by your ilk so you can feel like you're in control of something.

Tankies DO NOT belong here and they need to be defederated from this instance before they do worse.

[–] pinkdrunkenelephants@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I am asking the admins to defederate from them but good job not even reading the thread and showing your priorities are all out of whack.

[–] pinkdrunkenelephants@lemm.ee 18 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Tankies claiming the Tianamen Square massacre didn't happen are pretty toxic

[–] pinkdrunkenelephants@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (8 children)

I shouldn't have to as that costs money. It's the admin's job to fix his server, not mine.

If he's a tankie or a supporter of them, he has a responsibility to us to be honest about that fact instead of allowing them to run roughshod and inundate the instance with propaganda. He KNOWS they don't belong here but he's ignoring the problem. That means he either is one of them, supports them or is being taken in by them. And that's a serious problem that will affect the whole federation, not just this one instance.

If tankies get away with doing that here, they'll do it to other admins, and poison the whole federation. It'll be impossible for new instances to flourish without kowtowing to them, and so it has to be stopped here and now with the bigger instances.

EDIT: Welp, clearly I’ll have to, and it will be expensive, but we sane folks have no choice. These piece of shit admins on several different instances have shown us that they clearly don’t care about their users (this is not the first instance I have seen that’s pulled this crap).

Let me see what I can do

[–] pinkdrunkenelephants@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Nah fam, I personally want tankies here and I don't care if they spread propaganda, astroturf and gang up on anyone they don't like and generally cause trouble and you complaining makes me feel afraid they'll be defederated again, go away and stop threatening my friends' attempts to control popular instances

-You

 

TO THE ADMINS: Read this thread and give me one good reason why federating with toxic, propaganda spreading tankie loons is a good idea.

No one wants those fucks, or the alt right dipshits for that matter, around, and they're spreading blatant lies, yet I see they are here. Does lemm.ee only care about boosting its numbers and is willing to sink to new lows to do it, I wonder? 🤔

 
 
 
 
 

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — After days of silence, NASA has heard from Voyager 2 in interstellar space billions of miles away.

Flight controllers accidentally sent a wrong command nearly two weeks ago that tilted the spacecraft’s antenna away from Earth and severed contact.

NASA’s Deep Space Network, giant radio antennas across the globe, picked up a “heartbeat signal,” meaning the 46-year-old craft is alive and operating, project manager Suzanne Dodd said in an email Tuesday.

The news “buoyed our spirits,” Dodd said. Flight controllers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California will now try to turn Voyager 2’s antenna back toward Earth.

If the command doesn’t work — and controllers doubt it will — they’ll have to wait until October for an automatic spacecraft reset. The antenna is only 2% off-kilter.

“That is a long time to wait, so we’ll try sending up commands several times” before then, Dodd said.

Voyager 2 rocketed into space in 1977, along with its identical twin Voyager 1, on a quest to explore the outer planets.

Still communicating and working fine, Voyager 1 is now 15 billion miles (24 billion kilometers) from Earth, making it the most distant spacecraft.

Voyager 2 trails its twin in interstellar space at more than 12 billion miles (19 billion kilometers) from Earth. At that distance, it takes more than 18 hours for a signal to travel one way.

 

For centuries, wolves have roamed the mountain ranges of Andalucía in southern Spain, but after years of decline the creature has been officially declared extinct in the region.

Since 2003, the regional government has carried out a census of the wolf (Canis lupus signatus) population in an effort to monitor the species and reduce conflict with the local population, farmers in particular.

However, in a report, the Andalucian government’s environment department says that “since 2020 there has been no sign of the wolf being present in Andalucía”, in spite of it being a protected species.

Up until at least 2010 it was estimated there were six to eight wolfpacks in the region, mostly in the Sierra Morena, comprising up to 56 individuals.

Despite the wolf being declared extinct only now, experts say there has not been any evidence of wolves in Andalucía since 2013, and probably no reproductive group since 2003.

“This is bad news and it confirms the negative trend for the few existing wolfpacks in southern Spain, which are threatened through being physically and genetically isolated from wolves in the rest of Spain, by loss of habitat, poaching and illegal hunting,” said Luis Suárez, the conservation coordinator for the World Wildlife Fund in Spain.

 

For centuries, wolves have roamed the mountain ranges of Andalucía in southern Spain, but after years of decline the creature has been officially declared extinct in the region.

Since 2003, the regional government has carried out a census of the wolf (Canis lupus signatus) population in an effort to monitor the species and reduce conflict with the local population, farmers in particular.

However, in a report, the Andalucian government’s environment department says that “since 2020 there has been no sign of the wolf being present in Andalucía”, in spite of it being a protected species.

Up until at least 2010 it was estimated there were six to eight wolfpacks in the region, mostly in the Sierra Morena, comprising up to 56 individuals.

Despite the wolf being declared extinct only now, experts say there has not been any evidence of wolves in Andalucía since 2013, and probably no reproductive group since 2003.

“This is bad news and it confirms the negative trend for the few existing wolfpacks in southern Spain, which are threatened through being physically and genetically isolated from wolves in the rest of Spain, by loss of habitat, poaching and illegal hunting,” said Luis Suárez, the conservation coordinator for the World Wildlife Fund in Spain.

 

Let's be real, that's probably what actually happened

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