pivot_root @ pivot_root @lemmy.world

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Thank you for adding more detail.

Yeah, I'm running under the pessimistic assumption here that incorporating Canada into the United States would not be done fairly or reasonably if it happened. I suspect that they would get a pittance in terms of political representation, justified by the xenophobic and nationalistic guise that "all those Canadian immigrants shouldn't be influencing American politics." Probably using talking points like,

• They haven't been here the whole time.
• They don't understand our politics.
• They have a different (read: socialist) culture.
• They're the newest State(s)

I see your point, but as someone who prefers my home folder be my home folder, I prefer they put it under ~/.config regardless of what operating system is being used.

No. Hiding files is still just an attribute.

Actually, technically, it's two. Files marked as system files are treated as hidden as well...

They can influence the popular vote, but that legitimately means nothing as far as presidential elections are concerned. For example, if they give the entire country 2 electoral college votes as a state, it's voter base is effectively irrelevant to the outcome of any future election.

Should Canada be turned into a state and not just controlled as a puppet, they would more likely be given one vote per province, which is 13 votes. With a couple of their provinces being heavily conservative already, as far as shifting things left goes, that would be more like 10 votes. And for context, the state of Florida has 30.

It's not going to shift things left if Canada was annexed. Even if they were given voting rights (which is doubtful), their population is both a magnitude smaller, and Alberta exists.

There is always some sort of fucking child throwing a tantrum about some shit. Has it always been the case?

Petty much. The big difference this time is that there's a common enemy (Rust) instead of relatively isolated petty crap.

I think trusting Meta's (or Google's) E2EE at any point would have been a bad decision. Facebook thrived on collecting user data, and end-to-end encryption of private conversations spits in the face of that. If it's antithetical to their profits, there's incentive to bypass the intent but still technically be implementing it (on-device keyword scanning, maybe?).

Musk, who was being investigated by USAID for the funding given to Starlink to assist Ukraine, was trying to abuse his unelected position to dismantle them? Interesting.

Oh? He used Twitter to promote and signal boost conspiracies about USAID, too? How coincidental!

It's not like the rich fuck has a vendetta against anyone trying to hold him accountable. Definitely not trying to cover up his crimes or anything.

I'm "glad" to see Kaboom has some competition for once.

Stop giving Trump a heads up on his mistakes

Can't get rid of him if we keep preventing his fuck ups for him

I think you're overestimating how much he listens to or cares for what the public thinks. He surrounds himself with yes-men and people beaten into submission. As long as they're going to keep telling him that his policies are making America great, he'll keep doing both whatever dumb shit he thinks of and executing the plans Putin and the Project 2025 authors give him.

Epic Games is also a private company... and they're the posterchild for "fuck the consumer, we want a monopoly."

It might have something to do with Epic being partly owned by Tencent and Disney, but it more likely comes down to the philosophies of their CEOs. Gabe came from a corporate shithole and runs with the diametrically-opposed view that good service = loyal customers = profit. Sweeney, not so much.

It's pretty obvious sarcasm with the "shhhh" part.

Nothing. Destroying it just wastes more of their time comparatively.

And it probably destroys Elmo's precious data as a bonus. Something this haphazard efficiently installed wouldn't have a well-tested backup procedure, let alone a backup policy to begin with.

If you're going to get fired anyway, you might as well throw it off the roof. A bit more effective of a delay than the 30 seconds it would take for someone to plug the power cable back in.

"They broke the law," tweeted the motherfucker who never respected it in the first place...

Hey, what do we call Nazi apologists?

You're asking someone who manages to get downvoted on conservative communities to answer that. I'm not sure what answer you would get other than "the good guys."

Now they can start to hate DEI any queer, disabled, or non-white-male worker in their normal life!!! Yay!!!

FTFY

who the fuck bankrupts a casino?

If you ask one of his diehard cultists, the answer is a genius businessman. Bankruptcy is just sticking it to the elites and bankers by not having to pay loans, not an indicator of total incompetence /s

One can only hope they also included Twitter.