History definitely shows us that there are eight of things that can happen that would basically destroy the global civilization that we have. It's happened before, and if it were to unhappen then things would happen like all of Northern Europe basically having to find a new home because their existing homes are under mile thick glaciers.
I ain't say nothing, but I'm not sure that lipstick lesbian would wear those socks. They just don't seem very fashionable.
I'm writing a book on FreeBASIC, I still advocate that it's one of the most human programming languages.
Those solar panels are made of the finest of Chinesium. According to the manufacturer, this is going to be the largest solar farm of its kind in north america, but of course substantially smaller than any of the solar farms in China.
The weather is not the climate. Unless we have a warm year, then that's definitely the climate and we need to rush out and buy the new environmentalism 7000 (made in China)
They might have betrayed their values on plagiarism, but they absolutely upheld their values on ESG!
And then blame people at home for trying to not die of the cold over the winter for having the audacity to want to heat their homes and eat food.
You can even see pretty words spoken by Hitler on the topic. Everyone has pretty words in speeches, but when the chips are down what are people's actions?
Not to sound like a leftist here, but every enemy is a potential ally. That's just how ideology works. The Roman empire was christianitys greatest enemy at the dawn of the religion and by the end the empire was the center of the Christian world. The acme of skill is it fight an enemy already defeated and win without fighting after all.
The right is gaining artists, intellectuals, entertainers, and they're essential to this.
The battle can be won, and like Sun Tzu says, a bushel of provisions from the enemy's fields are the same as five sent from your capitol.
The right is gaining artists, intellectuals, entertainers, and they're essential to this.
The battle can be won, and like Sun Tzu says, a bushel of provisions from the enemy's fields are the same as five sent from your capitol.
If the weather I've gotten this year is an indication of what the evils of global warming hold, I'm buying a 1965 Oldsmobile and just going to let it sit idle all the time.
There was a jazz jackrabbit game licensed for the game boy advance, and the strangest thing about it is that it basically looked and played nothing like jazz jackrabbit. I don't know why they would bother making something completely unlike it.
The whole point of fediblock is censorship by mob. Someone affixes a scarlet letter on an instance and everyone nods and goes "oh yah they're bad someone somewhere said so" and blocks them.
The threads thing tbh is the same mentality. A mob swirling about in a tempest in a teacup because meta's failed Twitter clone will join a fediverse that summarily either ignores them or spams them with stuff corpos definitely won't like. I see post after post after post, "defederate defederate defederate" often from people who have only been on the fediverse a month or two, they're just doing what's hip. People on sites like lemmy that'll probably not even properly federate are chanting like it's the most meaningful decision of their lives.
At the end of the day it's individual users decision who to block personally and individual admins decision who to block, and the great part of decentralization is that they can make that decision. But if you're just doing what someone else tells you to do you might as well be back on big tech. Think for yourself, make your own decisions, and at least you can stand by those decisions as manifestations of your own will instead of acting like a tool for someone else.
The threads thing tbh is the same mentality. A mob swirling about in a tempest in a teacup because meta's failed Twitter clone will join a fediverse that summarily either ignores them or spams them with stuff corpos definitely won't like. I see post after post after post, "defederate defederate defederate" often from people who have only been on the fediverse a month or two, they're just doing what's hip. People on sites like lemmy that'll probably not even properly federate are chanting like it's the most meaningful decision of their lives.
At the end of the day it's individual users decision who to block personally and individual admins decision who to block, and the great part of decentralization is that they can make that decision. But if you're just doing what someone else tells you to do you might as well be back on big tech. Think for yourself, make your own decisions, and at least you can stand by those decisions as manifestations of your own will instead of acting like a tool for someone else.
I always laugh at people who mindlessly follow orders and they don't even know whose orders they're following or why.
I'm on the fediblock list. So if someone blocks me because I'm on that list, who ratted me out? Whose orders are the fediblock troupe following, and what do those orders say?
Why, that would be me. I tagged the person maintaining the fediblock list a bunch of times telling them they're Nazi gestapo and they should add me to their censorship list lest they be called double plus ungood by me.
So essentially anyone who blocks my instance solely because I'm on that list is saying "oh, good catch! I AM a Nazi Gestapo and I'd hate to be called doubleplus ungood!"
I'm on the fediblock list. So if someone blocks me because I'm on that list, who ratted me out? Whose orders are the fediblock troupe following, and what do those orders say?
Why, that would be me. I tagged the person maintaining the fediblock list a bunch of times telling them they're Nazi gestapo and they should add me to their censorship list lest they be called double plus ungood by me.
So essentially anyone who blocks my instance solely because I'm on that list is saying "oh, good catch! I AM a Nazi Gestapo and I'd hate to be called doubleplus ungood!"
A lot of Americans seem to be under the impression that nobody else on earth has to pay for anything -- that every country other than the United States has omnipresent governments that pay for everything ever and whenever someone has to pay a big expense it's only because they're stuck in America.
That's definitely not true. It might actually surprise some US citizens who have never lived anywhere else, but even in some places you might not expect you have to pay for things just like in the US.
In many countries around the world, there is no universal healthcare or it acts differently than something like the Canadian or UK system. A Chinese friend of mine told me many stories of people who had to make tough choices between paying hospital bills for a loved one or buying food. Many countries with "better healthcare than the US" still have health insurance you have to pay into to get service.
In many countries around the world, there are still homeless people and the destitute. Homelessness is at record levels in the US, but tent cities are popping up in my home country of soviet canuckistan. In 2022, 21.6% of the EU population, or some 95.3 million people, were at risk of poverty or social exclusion (according to EU stats). There is also homelessness across the EU to the tune of a million people per night, with numbers being particularly high in France, Germany, and Ireland.
In most countries, homeowners are still on the hook for large expenses. If your water line or sewer line breaks and it's on your property, you're going to have to pay for that in many countries around the world, on every continent.
So while there are definitely things that are better in other countries, don't assume the grass is always 100% greener on the other side of the fence. Life doesn't hit easy mode just because you land in some special country elsewhere.
That's definitely not true. It might actually surprise some US citizens who have never lived anywhere else, but even in some places you might not expect you have to pay for things just like in the US.
In many countries around the world, there is no universal healthcare or it acts differently than something like the Canadian or UK system. A Chinese friend of mine told me many stories of people who had to make tough choices between paying hospital bills for a loved one or buying food. Many countries with "better healthcare than the US" still have health insurance you have to pay into to get service.
In many countries around the world, there are still homeless people and the destitute. Homelessness is at record levels in the US, but tent cities are popping up in my home country of soviet canuckistan. In 2022, 21.6% of the EU population, or some 95.3 million people, were at risk of poverty or social exclusion (according to EU stats). There is also homelessness across the EU to the tune of a million people per night, with numbers being particularly high in France, Germany, and Ireland.
In most countries, homeowners are still on the hook for large expenses. If your water line or sewer line breaks and it's on your property, you're going to have to pay for that in many countries around the world, on every continent.
So while there are definitely things that are better in other countries, don't assume the grass is always 100% greener on the other side of the fence. Life doesn't hit easy mode just because you land in some special country elsewhere.