Large chunks of the EU are hurtling rightwards too, unfortunately.

As a Canadian I urge the same for Canada.

Soon to be the Eastern Gulf of Mexico.

As long as AI is owned by billionaires, I’d rule out the first option.

You just lie about the second part and have a government full of sycophants and a corrupt Supreme Court that declares that everything you do is by definition legal.

This doesn’t bode well for the “it’s OK, the military would never obey Trump’s crazy orders” argument. They’re already preemptively disappearing nonpeople from their ranks.

Trump was always at least as enthusiastic for the genocide as Biden.

Trump Says He Would Let Netanyahu Finish the Job in Gaza, Says ‘Biden Is So Bad for Israel’

https://archive.is/3B6xq

This becomes extremely clear when opposing Israel’s genocide of Palestinians is called antisemitic but repeatedly performing Nazi salutes in front of a far-right rally is not, and is even defended. The ADL, it seems, don’t care about protecting Jews, just about protecting fascist Israel.

Edit: why was I downvoted for this?

Because it very clearly does affect trans women? So either you’re not paying attention or you’re denying trans women their womanhood. Either way, downvote.

He says he can still persecute trans people though, so his supporters will be pleased that he’s prioritizing hurting vulnerable minorities.

Even if you’re right, why bring this up in every single thread? What’s it contributing?

Fascists think they can force the world into their boxes through violence and cruelty. We must never stop resisting.

You have a lot of allies who feel similarly about being forced to be cruel to people we love and care about. Let’s live through these terrible times with our humanity intact.

How does that force him? He demands unreasonable things. He’s an unreasonable man. Pointing this out won’t make any difference.

I dunno. I’ve been programming on and off since the 1980s and professionally since the early 2000s. It still always takes me forever to build anything worthwhile and even longer to maintain it. Most software these days is complicated enough that it requires many people to build and maintain. I’m not sure that “everyone should be equipped to program what they need” was realistic even back in the 1980s, let alone with today’s complexity.

Most users don’t want to be sucked down a bottomless time hole just getting their computer to do a thing it won’t do, and understandably prefer to have someone else suffer this for them, then use what was built.

So I don’t know about the goal of everyone being able to program. I still think it’s a worthwhile goal that people should have full control over their machines so that they can install and uninstall what they want, configure devices to work the best way for them, and turn off the features that don’t serve the user at all. And I think open source software is great for bringing technically inclined people together to collaborate on what’s actually useful to people.

Sorry to be a pedant about little things, but while you’re fixing typos, it’s “aid” not “aide”. I just mention it because it really changes the sense of “holding aid hostage.”

Why is the water consumed? Can it not be cooled and recirculated?

Short video formats on all platforms make me very quickly feel like I’m going crazy. Just one voice after another, trying to cram whatever they have to say into your ears, or one joke taken out of context, or one simplistic moral, or absurdist humor that wouldn’t hold up for longer than a few seconds. My partner watches endless “reels” on Facebook, and that hurried talking they all do, with all those cuts to make sure there’s no gap between words, makes me fell very weird and agitated. It’s like everyone has the same voice. And then it keeps looping. I waste far too much time on Lemmy but the short video stuff seems like another level of brain melt.

There has been an update:

Israel has received names of the hostages set to to be released on the first day of the ceasefire agreement, Israel’s channel 12 station is reporting.

Right now he’s using a computer with Windows on it and he couldn’t remember the details of where he got Linux from. He said he never managed to get it working. So no useful info, I’m afraid.