Good! Stay out! We don't want you. AmeriKKKa is closed tell all your friends not to come, too. We suck and hate freedom.

Your freedom of speech to shit on AMeriKKKa was brought to you by the Constitution in and the First Amendment. In Australia people can't even speak out against Jews without being arrested. Good example you set.

You can always tell boomers because they are obsessed with asset value.

Who cares if your battery gets swapped out? Whenever you get low on charge you swap and it's a neverending cycle. They already have this in China, an advanced country, for electric scooters. The batteries are all the same and when you get low you can recharge or stop at a swap station and put your current one in and get another fully charged one out.

Why aren't you cheering? The Trumptards are getting what they voted for, good and hard. Oh, how we will all laugh the next time a hurricane blows down the McMansions of these racist science-hating rebels

. We can even have FEMA mark any house with a Trump yard sign off-limits and refuse to give federal disaster assistance, like they did under Biden.

trumptards don't believe in welfare, remember?

so we can unfuck all the things he's fucked.

But the reality is, Trump is a symptom, not a disease. He was elected by the people. Those who voted Trump once were either Nazi sympathizers or fools. Those who voted Trump the second time around were definitely Nazi sympathizers, or definitely fools.

Impeaching Trump won't do anything. The next Nazi in line is JD Vance and he's ten times worse because, unlike Trump, he's not an idiot with a case of fronto-temporal dementia.

And even if Vance and the rest of the Nazi goons are out, the people will vote another fascist in the next time around because the people has proven twice now that they're fucking fascists or fucking morons.

In short, America is fucked because Americans are hopeless.

Fed up customers fleeing in droves.

Nobody likes Microsoft. Nobody has ever really liked Microsoft. But everybody puts up with Microsoft's low quality products and abuse because Microsoft is a monopoly that's hard to escape - particularly in corporate settings, and for gaming.

But they've really cranked up the abuse to 11 recently, with Windows becoming a terrible advertisement platform, requiring new hardware when people's old machines were still serviceable, the constant privacy invasion, relentless push for online accounts, for their cloud offerings, and now their godforsaken AI shit that literally nobody likes nor want. Not to mention upcoming price hikes for the privilege of getting all that enshittification thrown at your face...

Microsoft has gone too far for a lot of people, and people react by going to Apple or Linux. And quite frankly, personally, I desperately want Microsoft to continue shooting themselves in both feet like they're doing so they make themselves irrelevant as quickly and as thoroughly as possible, and we're finally, at long last, rid of them at last. 50 years we've been waiting! That's like half a century dude...

China isn't developing, it's AHEAD of the West. They have nearly zero crime, the streets are safe and clean, highspeed rail over the entire country, education and family are highly valued, teachers and fathers get respect in public, and most importantly NO WARS.

Their political system is highly criticized but there never, ever could be a Trump there. No PACs, politics isn't run by billionaire donations, no foreign aid and no bending the knee to foreign countries and bombing other foreign countries for their interests.

Morons are permanently locked out of the system at the leadership and grassroots levels.

Ever wanted a government by rationalist atheists? China is your country. Xi Jinping is a chemical engineer.

The most important billionaire, Jack Ma, was shut up in prison when he tried to use his wealth to fuck with politics.

Imagine an America that had the courage to do the same to Elon Musk, the Sacklers, Miriam Adelson, David Rubelstein, Bill Ackman and all the rest of the far right.

We'd be a different, and better country.

about as much as having a former WWF executive with a single-digit IQ serving as Education Secy.

I'm sure glad I have a real education in the 80's.

Do you know you have TDS? You are having an argument with voices in your head.

Literally nobody is saying any of this.

I'd almost feel sorry for you people, you're obviously suffering from mental health problems. But then I remember you told us men can get pregnant and mutilated children's genitals.

There is no punishment we Americans can give you worse than the one you already have.

Cute, but I think reality would like a few words:

Planning permission. Especially so in Europe, maybe not such a problem with Trump, apart from the fact he *hates* anything "green".
Geology. Not all ground is suitable for building a heavy structure like a dam, or retaining the water it would hold back, reducing the number of glaciers this could apply to somewhat, and a proper survey can take a lot of time. You definitely do not want to build a dam on unsuitable ground.
Geography. You'd need to be able to get construction materials to the dam, and multiple glaciers may run off into the same valley, reducing the number of potential locations for hydro even further. Also, in the kinds of places where you find a lot of glaciers (mountainous regions, duh!), the valleys tend to be heavily used for things like habitation and agriculture, which would need relocating first.
The clock is ticking. Once the glaciers are gone, your dams are only going to be dealing with runoff from precipitation. Which isn't what it used to be where the glaciers are or the glaciers wouldn't be shrinking in the first place.

So, even with a viable location, you've got to get planning permission, relocate anything in the way, build the dam & turbines, connect it to the grid, and generate as much electricity as you can before... Oh, wait, wasn't there a glacier up there when we started?

Which would mean its casing is currently being (or already has been) abraded by the bedrock and all the bits and pieces of gravel and larger detritus that typically lies at the bottom of a glacier and get churned around as the glacier slowly flows downslope. From there, it'll be seeping into the glacial runoff water and, as TFS notes, eventually make its way into the River Ganges.

Of course, if you've actually seen (or smelled) the Ganges once it gets deeper into India, combined with what other purposes the locals use it for, including raw sewage and cremation residue disposal, you'll be well aware that it's far from the most pristine water in the world to start with. Adding a little Pu-239 over a number of years into that soup probably isn't going to make all that much of a difference in the larger scheme of things.

We don't WANT China to win. They ethnically cleansed Tibet, oppressed Hong Kong and committed genocide on the Uighurs. Not to forget the Tienanmen Square Massacre in 1989.

This is Cold War 2.0, and the sooner we relegate them to the ash heap of history, the better.

Coal miners had ample opportunity to change. Training programs, good stamps, government benefits of all kinds. Instead they blamed immigrants, chanted DEY TOOK OUR JERBS and voted for an obvious conman and fascist. Now you're out of a job? How's it feel, retards?

All I ever hear is bitching and moaning after Ukraine blew up the Nordstream pipeline about how energy availability is out of control and causing German companies to close or relocate to America.

But now that we get the real story: the green push has worked well. Germany is on the other side now and permanently off Russian gas. Not another eurodollar for them.

Ukraine is kicking their butts and refuses to give up a single hectare of land no matter how much Trump and Putin gang up on Zelensky the hero and try to force him to surrender.

Slashdot is a US site. You have freedom of speech here. You can say Trump is a piece of shit.

It's the same in Europe. You can go online and say Trump is a piece of shit, too!

I thought the US was under a tourism boycott already. Remember those German prostitutes who got deported from Hawaii to Japan?

America is closed. Don't come. Tourism economies suck. You don't tip, either, which is why you get spit in your food and poor service.

Tell all your friends America is closed, too. Stay home. We built a Disneyland in Paris for this exact reason.

Isn't that the point with things like this? Since I don't have any Facebook/X/etc. accounts, that, and all the other similar online forum sites, is *exactly* what they would get were I ever to visit the US (which is not likely given they seem to be competing with social media to see who can rape the most of my personal data). I also have a wildcarded email domain with different addresses for different companies and a whole bunch of mailing lists that have been around for decades, so they can have a copy of my aliases table too. If whichever poor bastards get to look at it don't need therapy after trawling through all the AC-posted crap and inane flamewars in all that, then I'll be amazed. And as for finding anything I've overlooked and proving it was deliberate concealment... Yeah. Good luck with that!

I would need to see if if you can submit a GDPR request to a federal agency but, if so, then following up with one of those asking for a copy of everything they have on file after getting back home (assuming they approved my visit in the first place after yanking their chain with the above) could be entertaining too. Probably ensure an instant blackball on any future visits, but still - ROFLMFAO! In fact, come to think of it, I might just plan a short trip somewhere in the US just for the Lulz if this ever comes to pass.