skisnow @ skisnow @lemmy.ca Posts 0Comments 38Joined 3 wk. ago
That was the opposite of nuance. It was pedantry that deliberately missed the point.
From 2013 to 2020 I didn't have bittorrent installed anywhere, and paid for Netflix, NowTV, and Crunchyroll. Then the enshittification kicked in, and now most of what I watch is from bittorrent.
Competence played a big part in Singapore's success. Lots of highly qualified people governing by pragmatism over ideology. Exact polar opposite of what we're seeing in the US.
I scraped my knuckles just looking at that
Basically the US was the worlds police until recently.
For the most part, only they saw it that way. The very fact that America refuses to recognize the ICC tells you everything you need to know about how good faith their "world policing" actually is.
What they've actually got a history of doing is describing foreign incursions to protect their own economic interests as "police actions" rather than formal declarations of war, in order to ignore various laws and international conventions. America has not been the good guy since 1945.
Yeah it's just so nakedly transparent how dishonest their posturing is about Europe not doing enough on defense.
Turns out what they actually meant was "our entire economic system is predicated on infinite unending YoY growth targets, and we've run of ways to grow, so now you all have to start spending more money on feeding this fucking beast we created".
Also this theme of "how dare you take advantage of us all these years" is exactly the kind of talk domestic abusers use.
Yeah I was gonna say, OP might be surprised just how much they're actually in the minority globally speaking.
I wouldn't say it's the most popular food in the world, but more people live in countries where it's commonly eaten than in countries who don't.
Darn. Problem with the Fediverse is you don’t know how things will render on other people’s clients.
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One of my friends is married to a Chinese woman only two years his junior, but because she, like most Asian women, looks a lot younger than her European contemporaries he still gets lots of dirty looks and untoward comments from judgy fucks who think it’s any of their fucking business.
Trump has now ordered NIST to reverse their recommendation on Rust.
It wasn't until all this kicked off that I learned just how many companies that I thought were European were in fact owned by American conglomerates.
Which makes MAGA's "the world is taking advantage of America" rhetoric all the more infuriatingly hypocritical. You spent decades using the strong dollar to go on a massive global shopping trip buying up every other country's companies, and are now crying foul that those companies you own are supplying their local markets instead of importing from the US?
She does seem to be mainly powered by spite.
Sod 'em.
Also, screw it, #79 should be Aurium.
You'd really be fucking Spandau Ballet over with that one.
The arrogance of assuming that anyone who didn't vote or who voted third party, just automatically owe your party their vote.
The entrenched two-party system has done more to cripple democracy in America than any other factor, and yet it's so pervasive that y'all whip each other into line trying to shame anyone who tries to break free of it.
Human civilization is built on co-operation and trade.
There's no winners here - Trump is punishing Americans and foreigners alike, and making the whole of humanity collectively worse for him being there, all because he can't let go of the idea that everything is a zero-sum game where the other guy losing means you won.
Or, here's a crazy idea, the US could start meeting the basic safety and animal welfare standards that the entirety of Europe long ago decided was the basic minimum required for something to be suitable for human consumption.
Boggles my mind how all these people desperately trying to whip everyone into supporting the two-party system, just assume that third-party voters and non-voters automatically owe their vote to their party. The sheer vanity and arrogance of it.
Yeah. Forcing himself on women was entirely consistent with his public persona, but shifting hard right just to seek cover makes it so much scummier.