Cornelius_Wangenheim @ Cornelius_Wangenheim @lemmy.world

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1.4 million is the last number the CDC published before they stopped tracking it.

A lot of them already did. By some calculations, enough of them died to COVID to swing the 2020 election.

Unfortunately, it'll probably continue to exist as a way to launder foreign bribes to Trump. Even if Trump soundly loses, he'll still be a useful propaganda mouthpiece.

It's what has literally happened to ships that violated the Russian and Iranian sanctions in the last couple years.

You're not doing a very good job of pretending to be a politician if that's your answer.

The company would be prosecuted and the ship seized the next time it docked at port. If the company was based in literally any other country, nothing would happen.

There is no blockade of Cuba. It's an embargo. There are no military ships blowing up anyone trying to trade with Cuba.

Pretend you're a politician. You have two groups of people that want opposite things. One of them is reliable, donates and volunteers to help your campaign. The other is feckless and seems to always find an excuse to oppose you. Which would you try to please?

You are wrong. Some random guy said that on Twitter and people ran with it. It was never officially stated by Microsoft.

Every OS has a limited life span of support. Linux is no different. Every distro I'm aware of does 5 years or less of support vs Microsoft's 10 years.

Following the law is for poors.

If it was just one guy and not a flood of them across multiple posts and social media, then I'd chalk it up to coincidence.

It's one thing for Internet leftists to be saying it. It's another altogether for Trump's own Chief of Staff and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs to say it.

The ones who keep trying to shove Israel non sequiturs into every comment section.

This is what people should be talking about instead of the stupid McD's photo op.

You're missing half the point of enshittification. I'm just going to quote Doctorow directly:

"Here is how platforms die: first, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die. I call this enshittification, and it is a seemingly inevitable consequence arising from the combination of the ease of changing how a platform allocates value, combined with the nature of a "two-sided market", where a platform sits between buyers and sellers, hold each hostage to the other, raking off an ever-larger share of the value that passes between them."

That's part of enshittification. Step 2 of enshittification is to entice in business buyers with low prices and changes that meet their needs. Step 3 is to cut costs and start price gouging to maximize profits.

The Russian trolls seem to be doing overtime now that the election is getting close.

In Texas, it's common knowledge that the best tacos and tortas are from gas stations.

The problem is you can't go back to that well repeatedly. We've played the first two games. The unknown is pretty well known at this point. It's like monster horror movies: none of the sequels are any good unless they pull an Alien/Aliens and switch genre to action.