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More traditionally it refers to someone with a limp.

You hurt their fee fees with that one.

When he was a teenager it would have been Slackware. Not even Knoppix was released yet.

And he didn't use Linux as a teenager. You hallucinate things worse than ChatGPT.

I'm the ffmpeg guy. It's the pandoc of binary media, except it actually does do everything.

Hmmm. I need to write an PR for converting mardown to jpeg.

Does that invalidate what he said? Isn't that just the genetic fallacy?

True. But the US has a tendency to make exceptions for Israel. So the fact that he stuck to his math and didn't get Israel a special exception is a small win for US Israel relations. (aka making them more normal).

Basically it's exceptional that we didn't make an exception. That's kind of sad. But because it's exceptional it's worth noting.

That's called chutzpah. People who take that strategy in life should be ignored.

This is why we should end all federal policing. It's not in the constitution. You were never meant to interact with your federal government. The federal government was for regulating the states, interstate commerce, and common defense.

I wonder if Canadians can read and learn that their own tariffs are causing the same problems for them.

Which is pretty true. But it's funny because Canada has tougher tariffs on the US meaning their people pay more for things there for exactly the same reason. Canada charges a 300% tariff on dairy.

So yeah. Tariffs are bad. Let's get rid of them entirely.

So instead you'd like protectionism for corporate moguls because at least it isn't free market?

Found the communist so dedicated to communism that in turn he hates the free market so much that he'd prefer government backed inequality. Anything that points out that its wrong should be questioned as suspect as wrong think. It's funny how useful the anti-wrong think crowd end up being to corporations.

What makes you think he supports Trump? What a strange comment.

Jokes on them. I'm going to use AI to estimate the value of content, and now I'll get the kind of content I want, though fake, that they will have to generate.

How am I not aware of that being a thing. I looked it up to confirm my stupidity but I ended up finding what I thought I would find. Syrup to add to coffee. I have never heard of anyone selling a concentrated coffee syrup.

Ok. That's valid.

In theory that kid was alive because his parents were fucking morons.

But they have a little less than 60% of the total US gold reserves.

Do you want the government to give you some gold?

Found the animal.

But think about it. Even small companies will self-censor in fear that the government will act against them. Every company exists in hope of being big enough that they could have a target on their back. Yes lemmy operates at a scale that it can be considered a personal project and will likely stay at that scale. But that's not the majority of social media. Maybe it was a bit of a joke on my part to say Lemmy would be targeted. But I don't think it's ridiculous that American business owners should think woah the government will intentionally wreck me and try to sell me off to their friends if there is some 100% legal and reasonable conversation on my platform they don't like.

Either there are principles to protect you or there aren't. The fact that we have a politician openly saying we attack companies to buy them cheap or ask for half should be pretty fucking scary to anyone who owns a business.

The Eastern European countries for a long time were said to lack economic development precisely because of corruption. This is exactly the kind of interaction with government that caused that. The idea that it doesn't matter because they are big and I am not doesn't work. In the long run small businesses will be more vulnerable if the principle doesn't stand that the government can't attack you and sell you off to their friends. If that principle is gone then it's gone.

And Donald Trump saying "We destroyed your business so we should get half of it" is a very scary precedent. You know that's what the Israeli settlements do. The will burn the olive groves of neighboring land owners and then say, your land is worthless, sell it to us for a quarter of it's original value. You are now in ruin you will need the cash. They will often do it in the night, but I saw video evidence once of an altercation where they were openly burning a farmer's field in the day time right in front of him. But there was an IDF soldier ready to shoot the farmer if he tried to defend his fields physically. An entire family's future going up in smoke because someone else wants a deal on buying land not by producing anything of value themselves but by destroying things.

In a lot of ways TikTok is an American company. To operate here it has to be structured and registered in the US. It just has foreign investment. If they can do it to TikTok (single out a company) they can do it to American companies. They just have to find some secondary reason to dislike you. Is Lemmy next if we say Free Palestine on here? All so that Israel can have their Labensraum.