Can’t he just do what America is known and loved for? … Denying entire countries their basic human rights, sovereignty, and democracy?

I legit think the state/oligarchy will kill him silently. Taking it to trial and giving this guy a voice could make things so much worse for them. They’re afraid of creating a robin hood, and class solidarity; of giving the working class a hero and cause to rally around.

They’re so close to creating a robot army that can suppress the masses. They just have to bide their time until revolution is impossible.

I don’t feel this way about dudes kissing or PDA, but if I accidentally click the wrong link or scroll past a thumbnail with some explicit gay porn, I feel the exact same visceral disgust.

That’s how I OG confirmed I’m not gay back in the day. Trying to watch gay porn and having my dick shrivel like a frightened turtle; wanting nothing to do with it.

It’s kinda peaceful, knowing that I’ll just end and nothing will matter anymore for the rest of eternity.

The prospect of living for eternity is so much scarier; basically nightmare fuel.

Yet none of them really paywall you for using an adblocker.

Actually come to think of it, porn sites are the only place I allow ads (obv blocking the pop ups and other dark pattern fuckery)… probablys because I learned to ignore them entirely as a teen before ad blockers existed.

So you can doom scroll faster… duh!

The millions of free porn sites would beg to differ…

You’re my favorite customer.

I doubt that would be terribly relevant. The lions share of the surplus energy should be predictable based on recent grid data + 24 hour weather forecasts.

Based on nothing but wikipedia the primary methods for desalination are distillation (boiling) and membrane; neither of which sound like ramp up time would matter.

Fuck bitcoin. It should be allocated to desalinisation so less water is pulled from the rivers of the driest continent on Earth. The ecology around waterways is already in the shitter, and global warming is going to 10x that clusterfuck.

Seriously… If he’s spending ~3k a year on gas and even half of that is cooking, an induction stove would pay for itself within a few years.

Same for the water heater. The fossil fuel industry didn’t spend decades promoting gas because it was the most efficient option.

Hate to tell ya, but corporations have been running the US government for most of its existence.

The scariest part about Trump is that the plutocracy no longer need to even hide the vacuous corruption. So many people are so mentally ill they’ll literally defend satan to your face, while feeding you an alternate version of reality, citing some dead shit crackpot with 1k YouTube views as “evidence”, while calling you crazy. Having dealt with these people, their OS is simply corrupted. They don’t know what logic or reality is anymore, and most of them never will… If they can ignore all evidence thus far, they’re more likely to murder you than they are to self reflect.

Nah. All companies should be required to provide updates for a minimum — say 5 years — and whenever they choose to EOL, they must open source everything related to the products feature-set. If you can’t do that, then you don’t deserve to compete, or waste humanities finite resources with your dead-end greedy planet-killing civilisation-ending narcissism.

Planned obsolescence needs to be exterminated with extreme prejudice.

Maybe we shouldn’t trust any media owned, operated, or financed by wealthy sociopaths?

Sondhi Limthongkul[a] (born 7 November 1947) is a Thai media proprietor, conspiracy theorist, pro-Beijing anti-democracy reactionary activist, demagogue, and leader of the People’s Alliance for Democracy (PAD).

The owners devoted his life to overthrowing democracy and returning to Monarch-ruled authoritarian dictatorship.

Concepts like “fair”, “balanced”, and “democracy” can not exist under Capitalism, because money is speech and power, and the small elite who control thousands/millions more capital than average control everything thousands/millions times more than average.

This is why capitalism requires aggressive regulation. Corporations will always choose walled gardens and proprietary protocols. There can never be any guarantee that any org — whether FOSS or for-profit — won’t enshittify a product in even moderate timescales; there are a hundred reasons why.

Therefore, they should never be given that option. If you build a product, you either build everything to be interoperable with an open source, lossless spec, or you don’t get to waste humanities finite resources with your narcissism. If you can’t compete on a level playing field — without holding users ransom and creating artificial barriers to their attrition — then you don’t deserve to compete at all. If you stop supporting/updating hardware, you open source all code required for the anyone else to take over, for the entire feature-set of that product. If you fail to meet the very basic requirement of “don’t be a fuckwit”, your company gets seized and your source code/protocols/patents become public property (FOSS).

This will never happen though, because we live in capitalist plutocracies masquerading as democracy… Sure, you can vote for whoever you want, but 90% of the names on any ballot are a curated, pre-vetted, pre-financed, list of corporate whores.

Luckily you can buy several USB-A to USB-C adapters for ~$1 each, instead of demanding manufacturers persist an outdated spec — that’s been superseded for a decade — and creating significantly more e-waste and headaches for everyone in the long run.

If this is not done, everywhere is going to become a techno fascist dictatorship within the next 2 decades. The data amassed by surveillance capitalism is sold to anyone who’ll pay, including aspiring dictators, authoritarian nation states, criminals, and terrorists. It’s used for everything from scams to — as most of us have seen over the last decade — conducting psychological warfare, spreading disinformation, and inducing mental illness. Mass data collection benefits the most psychopathic, sociopathic, immoral, and unethical criminals, the most … The data economy has only existed for ~15 years, and it’s already being used to destabilise society and overthrow democracy.

They need to go much much further though; banning the sale and sharing of all personalised data, mandatory fines for every data point leaked, and the more personal/unnecessary it is to the business, the greater the fines should be. Amassing and retaining personal data needs to be so risky and expensive that only information vital to very specific and core business functions is collected, and the IT landscape rearchitected for everything else to be E2E encrypted.

Known psychopath, still psychopath. Unsurprising.

It sounds like you need to move on and forget the people who don’t care about you. Anyone that does care will maintain contact, and if that’s nobody then at least you get to start anew.

About 4 times in my life, I’ve made major changes and cut multiple people out of my life after deciding they were no longer good people &/or friends, and each aftermath was better than the years of trying to maintain “the good ol times”. One of those times left me completely alone… I mean literally zero friends for like a year. 5 years later I had a better group of friends than I’d ever had previously. That experience let me know I’d be fine on my own. I’m also fortunate to be an introvert and never really suffered depression or similar. The key to success is not dwelling on the loss and moving on with your life. YMMV.

Luckily I’ve never had to cut family off, but I’ve spent more time with the people I’ve cut off than a lot of family, so I wouldn’t think twice if I thought family were a negative influence in my life.