Hey I’ve got them beat I’ve never tried Linux!

(I need to though, I really do.)

Thank you for this. Everything above it was just people saying the stick would move slower than light, nothing about why!

Eh, I would class that under sickness.

I didn’t say Immortal. Death by violence is certainly possible.

Healing of all kinds. Ageing, sickness, and wounds.

I asked a man with boxing training to hit me in the face so I could try to be prepared in a fight. When I woke up he said he didn’t think I was going to not block or anything.

It’s actually in the legislation. The executive branch can literally just declare your corporation to be social media that’s controlled by a foreign adversary. And while there are some limits on who can be a social media corporation there are no limits on forcing the sale. They could literally drop a binder with 400 fully redacted pages as “evidence”. (That’s pages where it’s just blacked out text, nothing visible)

And just like that your Lemmy instance has to be sold or shut down. Your video game group forum. But even more, the independent ones like discord are extremely vulnerable. Discord is partially owned by a man born in Kharkiv Ukraine. All they have to do is assert that he has improper Russian connections and Discord is on the selling block for Meta, X, and Alphabet to fight over. It doesn’t matter if it’s not true.

They have demonstrated over the past year that they aren’t required to show evidence. It’s been a refrain of “trust me” from the executive and legislative branch. And public reporting hasn’t turned up anything supporting the accusations of Chinese government interference.

Oh yeah I forgot they claimed all the Gaza footage on the app was faked by the Chinese and Russians…

God they’re so transparent sometimes.

We can’t even get running apps to not post the exact running route of soldiers in conflict zones. And if adultery wasn’t an actual crime in the military then it wouldn’t matter so much. You go to your security officer and tell them, matter handled.

Part of the reason we’re so worried is because we demand so much of people with security clearances that they already regularly lie about their activities. Weed, sex workers, and black listed bars. All of which can get your clearance revoked, and none of which would interfere with the work of most people with clearances.

Trying to block out society isn’t going to work. We need to tackle that aspect from the other side.

Monopolization of social media is a bad thing. The two remaining largest social media companies have both publicly begun supporting far right narratives. (Meta and X)

So what it comes down to is really the possibility that the TikTok algorithm gets controlled. But that’s a distraction. SCOTUS already decided that corporations have first amendment rights. So even if TikTok is controlling it’s algorithm in that way, it has the right to do so. Either that or Hobby Lobby has to pay for birth control for it’s employees.

If you’re worried about national security then these billionaires publicly turning their platforms into international political machines would be a problem too. But they clearly aren’t a priority.

So what’s left other than racism and protectionism? The law is also absolutely unconstitutional because it mentions TikTok by name and that’s a big nono. The Constitution bans that and requires that all laws are enforced equally specifically because the ability to single out one entity with legislation is breathtakingly corrupt.

If you don’t like TikTok that’s fine. But you need to realize what this law is capable of. After banning TikTok by name they can also point the finger at any other social media company (and a couple other sectors) and simply declare them to be controlled by a foreign adversary. Even if it’s wholly owned by US Citizens.

They gave themselves the power to force a fire sale and you all cheered because they said TikTok.

1 percent. There’s too much they would need to do in four years to not have an election and elections are done by the states not the federal government. So there will definitely be an election. As far as getting re-elected it would take draconian measures for the exact same reason. He’d need 270 electoral votes worth of states to blatantly go against the Constitution.

The only way he remains in office past January 20th 2029 is by refusing to leave and surrounding himself with loyalists. Thus the 1 percent chance. It could work if a million things go exactly right.

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I’ve heard of people who are really into surfing going to Mexico. Most countries South of Central America fill the same function for people who just like doing outdoors stuff. We’re not talking about France or something.

At the root of it yes. I’m not trying to blame people who keep their nose to grind wheel for whatever reason, and there are legitimate reasons to do so. I’m just saying that when the system is this broken we should be throwing the box away. We don’t owe the elites shit. I legitimately looked into the price of living in camp grounds at one point before we were able to bring in more money. It’s a 2 week limit in each spot but the “rent” is far lower.

I know of some people who have radically redefined survive. From Van Life to learning a language and going to developing countries where it’s easier to earn money and have fun. I’m not saying that’s a good fit for you or that we should all be doing it but at some point putting 90 hours in just to keep the apartment and child care paid for is going to break. So something needs to happen to relieve that first or else you’re just going to die young and stressed.

I honestly don’t know where the blame lies for the financial situation but the age increase legislation was much more recent, like Obama years.

Stop existing to work. Instead create the memories now. Go have fun now. In the US the retirement age is going up to 70. One of the reasons is specifically because people are getting more good years, so of course the bar had to be moved. Enjoying retirement is a con.

I’ll be that guy. Up to ME it was pretty good and it just worked. Then it took up the every other version being good thing that we’re used to up to 10. It’s only really now that they’re trying to kill 10 and push us onto 11 that it’s really become a problem.

Because Israel set up an apartheid state. If they had set about building a representative democracy that included a constitutional right of return for Jews nobody would have had a problem. Instead they want to own all this land and oppress the people who live there.

Either that’s a legitimate goal or it isn’t. I don’t think it is.