WoodScientist

How many historical saints and prophets must have suffered from one form of psychosis or another?

Regardless of how the act was done, it was undeniably an act of extreme sacrifice. He threw his life away to bring justice to an evil man who would never face justice any other way. Assuming he is the killer, Luigi did this even though he himself is from a well-off family and will never have trouble affording healthcare. Brian Thompson killed tens of thousands of innocent human beings. Because of Luigi, Brian Thompson will never kill again.

To give your life in the service of total strangers? To sacrifice yourself to save the innocent and punish the guilty? To become a literal martyr? That is the making of a saint.

See Plato's five regimes.

Definitely. Autocracies always end up being poorly run. Any system that concentrates all authority in a single ruler is going to have some pretty bad outcomes. Even if the dictator really was the smartest guy in the country, instead of merely the most ruthless, even geniuses make bad decisions from time to time. Autocrats quickly find themselves surrounded by yes men. This is how you end up with boneheaded ideas like Mao's backyard steel production or Stalin embracing Lysenkoism.

When the cost to try something is virtually zero, you don't have to try very hard. If only one in ten thousand people will fall for a scam, then millions of attempts will still get you thousands of successes.

I still lurk on reddit, mainly on the trans subreddits. But I could see those being banned from the site in a few years.

IDK. The guy definitely has saintly vibes about him.

My favorite version of "killing Hitler" is instead of murder, blackmail the school dean so Hitler gets admitted to art school. Goodbye genocidal tyrant, hello moderately successful landscape painter!

Things need to be paid for, but why does that mechanism need to be baked into the platform?

Imagine I'm the best, most engaging poster and commenter on Lemmy. Everyone loves my posts and comments, shares them, quotes them, and responds to them endlessly. (Maybe in this scenario everyone has brain damage for some reason, and this allowed me to become the top Lemmy user.)

If I'm in that position, what's stopping me from just putting a little blurb at the bottom of each comment saying, "this post is brought to you by Carls Jr." or whoever wants to sponsor my comments. If people for some reason loved my posts and comments enough, I could find sponsors and just put those sponsorships right in whatever comment or post I make. Lemmy doesn't need to be involved. They don't need to go out of their way to recommend my posts either. If they're good enough, then they can be spread naturally by people sharing and engaging with them.

It makes sense for platforms to provider revenue to creators, but only if the platform has substantial ad revenue. YouTube pays its creators, but it also brings in billions of ad revenue. I don't think most Lemmy servers even have ads.

And why do you take the word of a man who was infamously one of history's greatest liars?

That....is quite the sentence!

Same is true for most houses though.