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  • Your simplification of the issues to steer this into your preferred narrative and conclusion is also asinine. The EU power broker's hands weren't getting their share of the bribes and are punishing orgs that didnt realize that the corruption they take part in is everywhere. Corruption in EU countries is old world corruption and is just part of the system bottom to top. Nobody has clean hands.

  • Don't worry, SCOTUS demonstrated they are willing to leap over states' jurisdiction by imposing federal power on state primaries used by private political parties, primaries that appoint state based electors to select their candidates for a coming federal election at a private national party meeting, by forcing Trump back onto Colorado's primary. So I expect them to fast track this too.

    Authoritarianism centralizing control of power seems to be falling into place as the default state of our political environment, even regardless of government frameworks, political party and local/state/national differences. We are all in trouble folks.

  • AI or not, this looks unnervingly accurate enough to be one of my uncles in the 80s, including the open chest denim vest sewn onto a tshirt. The 80s was wild, kids.

  • Soundbites over substance is the name of the corporate PR game.

  • Wendys hasn't been "better" than McD's for at least 15 years. 80s and 90s Wendys was next level. 00s was the decline, 10s were the bottom out years and they've never recovered.

  • /clings desperately to my precious Note 9

  • Have you had any flu like symptoms since 2020?

    Were you vaccinated and boostered?

    Lots of people like to pretend they didn't get it while not actually knowing.

  • His own second in command threw his evil bitch ass down an access shaft to his death while a united opposition got together and blew up his doomsday moon sized space collosus.

    You can root for losers all you want.

  • So my 16 year account with 90k legit comment karma wasnt good enough to be invited?

    Now I dont get to early participate in the fomo panic IPO being forced by investors?

    I could've made or lost tens of dollars.

  • I can appreciate the logic and the fervor behind your positions.

    I will argue a step further zooming out that Basic Human Rights are inherent without politics at all. Knowledge comes before politics.

    If anything, politics demotes rights from inherent to defined and limited. Which, simply put, sucks.

    Politics is a game, don't ever forget that. We are all in the game and have to keep playing as long as everyone else keeps playing. It's all bullshit layered on top of bullshit, rules laid out by someone that came before with rules added by someone after that, and later again someone else to make up more rules.

    Some of the bullshit works great and helps overcome life's struggles and adversities. Some bullshit brings us all down together and is ruinous to us as a species. Some bullshit even tends to be ruinous to the entire ecology of life on our tiny blue dot in the universe.

    Just be careful to not get too caught up in the bullshit.

    Don't get me wrong, I've voted in every election since I was old enough to vote and I do have a certain feeling of responsibility towards civic duty for the sake of a civilized society (and more-so now, for my children, which does help reinforce that ideal). I also try to engage with the news of world and am generally self aware enough to be thoughtful, rational, and capable of compromise.

    I don't vote for politics, I vote for ideals.

    Cheers.

  • Everything is about perspectives and everything has nuance that must be taken into account. Yes, that can be really fucking annoying and sometimes works against our hopeful outcomes and does cause our good soundbite moments to be tarnished. There is not a singular universal argument in favor or against every single possible concept we create as a thinking society. To some extent, everything as we conceptualize it is malleable.

    Your whole argument looks wholesale more about rejecting politics to embrace idealism. Which is a good thing in my estimation, and seems better situated to have outcomes more inline with what you, and we all, may be looking for out of life in general. Basic human rights aren't political, they're an ideal that goes beyond the limitations of politics.

    So in that way, the following works exactly the same towards your preferential outcomes:

    Reject politics. Embrace Idealism. Solidarity forever.

  • Wordpress.com sites are trash.

    Wordpress as a CMS otherwise is fine.

    Yes, you need to use Oxygen Builder, Divi, or Elementor to WYSIWYG effectively.

    Yes you need to have daily backups and a security tool like Wordfence or WPMUDev's Defender.

    But it works, its easy to build and migrate, it integrates with everything you want it to, and the content creation and management is super simple for an end user to manage. You can also get support for it from everywhere and anywhere at this point.

    Reality: Everything sucks and you have to adapt and adjust to bullshit on any and every CMS you work with.

  • Worrying so much about privacy from your email service and not running your own goddamn email server seems a bit disconnected from the reality of using any cloud services hosted by anyone else at all.

  • GPL and BSD and MIT and Apache licenses have entered the room.

  • Looks like an excellent setup for a new Dimension 20 season.

  • This is asserting we have no rights outside of what the federal or state constitutions allow, which is a bad precedent to attempt to set. The Bill of Rights Amendments do not provide us with rights, they instead protect us from government limitations of certain rights that are inherent. People seem do not understand the juxtaposition of granted rights vs protected rights in these contexts when diacussing these kinds of cases.

    Does the Hawaii state constitution specifically deny the right to keep and bear arms outside of military service?

  • Oh man, we never should've installed this AI in a Wendys drive thru.

  • GPT is GUID Partition Table, some of us are old and know old things.

    /waves old man cane at the sky cursing the changing world