My phone’s name is “Samsung Smart Fridge™” because I think it’s hilarious if someone is looking at hotspots or network info and go “what the hell is a fridge doing here-”

FUCKING AQUAMAN?

The “protection” is the government not firing people for collective bargaining or collective actions. This is similar to when Reagan fired a bunch of ATC strikers and ever since then we’ve had a massive shortage of ATC personnel.

He used to mod a “jailbait” sub (as close to CSAM as you can publicly get away with) and caused the API issues and the response to the blackouts (removing mods or un-privating communities).

I’d be a moron too if I was put into a box with no bed to trade or slave away farming 24/7!

To be clear, this is Lemmy where we don’t feel the effects of your decisions.

I used to make these jokes as a teenager in church and I didn’t know how offensive and misguided I was. It might be worth having a conversation with them, nobody is one demensional and incapable of change. If she reacts well with not only her words but her actions (like she takes it down or publicly apologizes or wtv) then maybe you could trust her. If she doesn’t react well then you should probably re-evaluate what this relationship is for and if bigotry is worth it. It can be hard but you can find accepting friends online and in person, you just need to put in the effort.

Tldr; it’s a personal thing about whether they’re actually willing to respect you by changing their behavior or if you’re willing to deal with it bc this relationship is important enough.

Completely off topic, but why does “an European” sound wrong? Like I’ve always said “an American” but never “an United States citizen” and it just doesn’t sound right.

Because congress lets him with the IEEPA and the Tarrif Act.

Yes, he could. It would definitely violate a bunch of laws leading to impeachment by Congress (in theory).

https://natlawreview.com/article/can-president-impose-tariffs-without-congressional-approval

Why not have two genocidal maniacs on our currency at this point.

As someone else said, reproducible builds is a great mitigating factor for this secret changes. Firefox does have telemetry, but is very transparent and lets you turn it all off (as far as I can tell anyway). Don’t want ads? Easy. Don’t want Mozilla services? Simple.

I got a whole list of war crimes supported by US presidents and cabinet members if the ICC wants it.

https://news.va.gov/press-room/va-dismisses-more-than-1000-employees/

It will “save money” and totally won’t impact their ability to distribute resources.

Coup 101, keep your cops happy. This is why firing the nuclear cops was a bad idea and they tried reversing it immediately.

Same. My parents tell me to just stop reading the news so I’ll feel better. I can’t look away from the train crash that is our country, how can you guys?

Andrew Tate, a “manosphere” incel who trafficked women. He gained a large following by calling people cucks, incels, loser feminists, etc. while always being the alpha male with money and women. He’s currently stuck in Romania while human trafficking charges go through the legal system.

He has the opportunities for sanctions, so there’s that

Work isn’t great community, WFH + in person local activities is much better.

I could save them a lot of time and energy, here’s all the solutions to things they’re “studying”.

1. Highly processed foods and lack of varied diets.
2. Extremely high healthcare costs that make treatment/cures unreachable.
3. General distrust of medical professionals due to online guidance being actively harmful for most people.
4. Long commutes and general shift to online/office work has lead to greater rates of inactivity.
5. Lack of in person community leads to isolation and mental health issues.
6. High costs of living, being told your neighbors are your enemies, disinformation in the news making it hard to be informed or knowledgeable, and constant threats to people’s lives leading to mental health issues.
7. People taking ivermectin like it’s Elon musk doing ketamine.

If you know how markets will react ahead of time, you can make money. Additionally:

1. Take out massive loans and build/buy physical assets ASAP
2. Destroy economy by removing bank regulations, federal insurance on banks, let America default on loans
3. Bank goes defunct and can’t collect loan from you
4. ???
5. Profit

I haven’t heard of this. Surely Red is just finishing terraria first .-.