It’s only a debate in the US, where obscurantism and magical thinking are rife. Most other developed countries have moved on and done a pretty thorough job of purging religious nonsense out of the curriculums, or at least contain the nonsense to keep it out of young minds who deserve better.
Don’t the poor Romanians have enough of one gaudy building block? Does Trump really have to inflict another one on them?
The incompetent former Youtuber and the former shyster trollop duke it out over crazy conspiracy theories, while America weeps.
Israel isn’t smart: if you want to disappear people in concentration camps and get away with it, you send them to countries that provice Concentration Camps as a Service (CCaaS) - El Salvado or Lybia for example.
So? The Trump regime ignores the courts. Haven’t you noticed?
However, the market is now growing rapidly and is replacing traditional sweets, especially among younger people. “Indian chocolate is considered an insider tip at the moment,” says Julia Moser, “The cocoa beans there have a very distinctive fruitiness with a nutty note.”
Indian chocolate would sell well in the US: Americans love anything nutty.
I think what they were all aiming for was to be left alone by the US as much as possible.
*To dodge Trump’s tariffs and wrath, five African presidents played the role of loyal colonial subject, and left their dignity behind.
They didn’t. They indulged the difficult child for the good of their respective countries, but nobody other than Trump believes for one second they have anything but contempt for the child.
In short: they did what was best for their countries since the only price was a little pathetic theater at the White House. Their dignity and reputation is quite safe.
The real question is: why is the US involved in any of this - or indeed any war anywhere, beyond applying international sanctions against rogue countries along with other nations at the behest of the UN.
Fuck the US’s self-assigned role as the world’s police. Just like the real police, it’s doing more harm than good.
The best thing Trump’s bill could do to Georgia is cause that stupid bitch Marjorie Taylor Green to lose the next election. Just for that it’ll have been worth it.
Small instances probably aren’t for you
I’m sorry but… no.
Look, I’m a child of the 70’s, I know what shite internet feels like and I’m a patient man. Hell, half of the reason why I stick to SDF is exactly because I’m patient (the other half being because SDF defederates almost no other instances and I appreciate that).
But I’m running a BBS with 32 lines and quite a few users (yes, old-stylee, with modems) and also a few Echolink repeaters for hams, and I provide better service and better uptime than SDF most of the time. And it’s just me, myself and I with little time to spare after work.
I’m glad you’re satisfied with SDF. My bar is a bit higher than yours apparently, yet goodness knows I’m not demanding…
The millionaires I’m talking about are the millionaires from the eighties who partied with Epstein and all knew who he was and what he was doing. Hell, his fucking private jet was nicknamed the Lolita Express…
A million in the eighties was a lot of money. It got you 4k of snow tops.
Does this public-private partnership truly benefit the public?
It never does: whenever public services are delegated to private companies on the promise that they’ll run them better for cheaper, it holds true for 2 or 3 years, and then the service degrades and becomes more expensive because the shareholders are greedy and they know they’ve captured the market.
Case in point: private highways in France that cost you a fortune, railway services in the UK that are always late or cancelled, healthcare in Finland which is even worse than the UK’s despite being a Scandinavian country, and of course almost everything in the US.
Yeah, I really feel for those poor innocent millionaires who associated with a known pedo totally in good faith.
People who voted for this shit, knowing full well who Trump was and what he did, lost the right to open their trap about the consequences the minute they cast their ballots.
Fuck you funny man.
I made a donation once, with the idea of making one every year, because I believe in paying for the things I use, and particularly small-time, old-style services like SDF.
But the plain and sad reality is, most of the things I DON’T pay for work much better than SDF services.
So yes, it truly was money poorly spent. It wasn’t much money and it didn’t make a dent in my quality of life in any way, but that’s just what it was - money poorly spent.
My one donation will remain a single donation until SDF services improve to the point when I can convince myself that the occasional slowness and downtime are reasonable for a small gig like SDF. Sadly, it’s not even up to that standard, and has never been in the 2 years since I’ve joined: it’s more slowness and downtime than it is working normally.
SDF had been nothing short of terrible for me for the 2 years I’ve been using it. It’s easily in the top spot for worst money I’ve ever spent on anything. And I’m not talking about just Lemmy…
The only reason I’m still here is inertia. But I have a shadow account on Sopuli and I’m getting awfully close to switching for good.
It’s different this time around.
The previous attempts were about freeing themselves from an abusive unprincipled data-hungry big data monopoly,
This attempt is about freeing themselves from an abusive unprincipled data-hungry big data monopoly operating in a fascist country and in cahoots with the regime.
I reckon it’s serious this time.
Consisting his poor command of English, he must be impressed by anybody who uses it correctly.
It’s not dead: it’s gone from latent fascism to acute fascism. It’s very sick, and it will die, but not without hurting the whole world in its noisy death throes.