Comment Re: Economy is collapsing (Score 1) 25
Hahahahaha you think nationalists care about people other than themselves hahahhahahahahhahaha
Hahahahaha you think nationalists care about people other than themselves hahahhahahahahhahaha
You mean unlike a congressional parasite, or a PPP parasite, or a CEO parasite?
Use preview.
No, every day now.
More people fail every day.
Unsustainable means it fails eventually, not on a specific day.
"the proper solution is obviously to have a formal, controlled, actually viable work visa system for economic migrants"
Yes, we should definitely formalize and legalize our tampering with other countries to produce cheap labor we can abuse.
Wait, what?
You are a fucking idiot. The US military fought against fascism. Antifa is short for anti fascism. Fascism is anti American, and any true American is anti fascist.
Whilst I agree with the first, second and third sentences wholeheartedly, fascism is as American as selling glass beads to natives and stealing their land.
Up until the Pearl Harbour there was a sizable fascist movement in the US, organisations like the German-American Bund had tens of thousands of members right up until December of 1941 when the US declared war on Nazi Germany and pretty much banned them. Not that we were entirely innocent over this side of the pond with the BUF (British Union of Fascists) but we did see the writing on the wall sooner rather than later with membership falling off a cliff in the late 30s (notably with the BUF becoming openly racist, which is poisonous to the British character, so there was no need for an outright ban until after the war). I'm hoping that Europe can follow that example again before one of our nations falls into Fascism.
Make no mistake, there will be a significant number of Americans openly supporting Fascism, in particularly they will be vocal in saying things like "don't call it fascism" and calling people they don't like "left".
This is the most American thing I have seen this year.
Sadly it's infecting the rest of the world.
A lot of things that you get quoted will change price depending on location, time, browser/OS (user agent), IP, et al. I'm thinking specifically of flights, accommodation, insurance, and other things without a strictly advertised price which would mean they become subject to advertising laws and consumer rights.
And yet it's the Democratic leadership in the Congress forcing the issue on releasing all the documented evidence about the Epstein mess,
Cute, you act like Democrats were somehow prevented from releasing the Epstein documents under Biden, and insist that Trump isn't prevented from releasing them like Biden (apparently) was...
Why didn't Biden release the documents in 2021? 2022? 2023? Or 2024?
Because SCOTUS had sealed the files and blocked the release until just a few weeks ago.
So yes, they really were prevented from releasing the Epstein files.
Translation: No-one can compete with the Twitter (now X) market-share because of legacy users but we plan to cheat by re-using their former name, logo and trademark.
As always, the big question is: What can BlueBird offer that is different to Mastodon and BlueSky? What's their market USP? They have to obey the same censorship laws and (eventually) age-restriction laws. They'll be manipulated by the same bots and disinformation networks as Twitter, unless their subscriber's down-vote the propaganda. The only advantage, is a 'guaranteed' user base (via brand recognition) allows them to monetize their product quickly. Since X (formerly Twitter) has market share, they're depending on those legacy users to change to BlueBird for no real benefit.
For me, mentions of TheAppFormerlyKnownAsTwitter have pretty much disappeared. News sites no longer quote tweets, friends no longer mention them. The only time I hear about them is when they get another fine for breaking the law or Musk does something else incredibly stupid.
Social Media itself is dying, but TheAppFormerlyKnownAsTwitter is exemplifying why. Social media has now become beholden to rich people who are using it to try and drown out voices they don't like. Hence people are switching off. It's for that reason that new social media networks don't really have a chance. The things we used to use Social Media for, aren't really being served by social media (mainly it was used to communicate with friends, families or like-minded people, now it's being used to push someone elses agenda)
and you make a lame joke out of a copy paste editor error we all saw and ignored.
Don't be mad because you didn't see it.
Also, don't call them "editors"
perm from a donor who unknowingly carried a cancer-causing gene has been used to conceive nearly 200 babies across Europe
And their hair is amazing.
"No DRM" isn't about the legal purchaser.
It means that your book will end up on a thousand torrent / ebook sites by that afternoon.
And, yes, "This move may actually incentivize authors to apply DRM to their ebooks." is nonsense. They're introducing an option to turn it off... by default it's already on.
Of course we *COULD* do it.
But we're absolutely not even trying.
Biosphere 2 (failure) was the last significant attempt, and everything else is "growing cress on the ISS". Given that we've had humans constantly in orbit for decades, and been to the moon, you'd think we'd have SOMETHING working by now. But we don't.
And you missed off oxygen. Pretty important. And do you know how much green matter you need to generate net oxygen with humans around? We're talking lab-based forests of the stuff, something that it would take some time to get up and running reliably (e.g. Biosphere!). How many small logistics issues like that (e.g. generating oxygen rather than just taking it with us like we did on Apollo) are actually viably tested for long-term reliable usage on another planet sufficient to sustain any kind of research population, even? One vent accident and you're in trouble and you better hope you have the CO2 scrubbers (95% of Mars atmosphere) to regenerate it quickly enough.
Let's learn to walk before we announce that we're participating in a worldwide ultra-marathon every day for the next few years.
I'm not saying that they can't do it, it's that they can't legally do it.
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