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  • Ah yes, since the one thing that markets truly love is stability, and moving production from one country to another requires long-term planning, this will surely help with that.

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  • And any qualified workers you do have could randomly disappear to El Salvador at any moment.

  • Alaskans and Hawaiians are incapable of forming bonds of friendship.

  • The US has the terminal disease of hubris, not Trump. Trump is just insane. But the US elected him as their leader and the electorate as a whole can't plead insanity here.

  • No way would they put up anything that suggested someone could be trains.

  • But didn't Trump tell them not to retaliate? I'm pretty sure Trump told them not to retaliate. I don't understand.

  • "Awesome" is relative, see Overton window.

    But yeah, this leaps straight on top of rule #3 and ravishes it senseless. Probably doesn't belong on this community.

  • Is it necromancy if the subject is still alive?

  • By which country's standards?

  • If you've reached the point where you're hoping the NSA will rein in the abuses of the civilian government, it doesn't really matter who wins. America is lost.

  • I don't consider it something to be "fixed." I like that the Fediverse is fully decentralized, with no authority over who gets "in" and who doesn't. Once you've got some kind of authority that can decide who's allowed on which instances, with some kind of global registry of individual users that can exclude you if the wrong people don't like you, we're basically back to being Reddit with some fancy extra steps.

    Sure, it risks allowing assholes to continue getting new accounts. But we already have a Reddit, I'd rather try something new even if that comes with downsides.

  • The problem is that Trump doesn't understand what "tariffs" are, and thinks that a trade imbalance is somehow a tariff. Trying to comply would be like Mattingly trying to trim his sideburns.

  • Reddit is able to do global IP bans. The Fediverse is not able to do that because there's no "global".

  • "Asshole" is a broad term. It includes racists, abrasive personalities, anger-management problems, and so forth. Ie, people who have a tendency to get banned from other places. It's not just trolls.

    Being banned from Reddit is a unitary action. They can't get back into Reddit, they're just gone. Whereas in the Fediverse you can just go to a different instance and sign up afresh each time you get banned. This is part of the Fediverse's design. And so I am concerned that the Fediverse will accumulate the worst users.

  • One thing that has been concerning me lately is that the Fediverse is being treated as a refuge for people who get banned on Reddit or other social media. Sure, sometimes those bans are based on arbitrary power tripping nonsense. But people actually do get banned for being assholes, and so I've got some worry that this is distilling the population of the Fediverse in an unfortunate direction.

  • Rule 3: Don't request or link to specific pirated titles, including DMs

    That's why he's asking why he's not allowed to ask.