Tenderizer78

Different policies, same people.

Yes

Charging people to be unbanned would not be a smart move.

They’re just incompetent, there’s no conspiracy.

I’m trying to think of countries America is most likely to end up like, but America’s military power complicates basically any comparison. But I’m thinking there are so many parallels to Nazi germany. A core difference is the access to information we have. First and foremost historical precedent, but also social media (even though it’s also part of the reason we’re in this mess).

If Trump can’t achieve a critical mass of compliance, a military coup is the most likely salvation. Specifically Trump calling the military on mass peaceful protests and in response the military saying “we’d rather coup the president”. Violent resistance would close this avenue off, as it would galvanise the military behind the president.

There’s also the question of whether ICE will be sufficiently militarized by the time this happens, and whether it would even occur to Trump to call in ICE to suppress protests. Nobody but the worst of the worst will join ICE, if their personnel and equipment can overwhelm even the local police (ACAB, but like, not ACAMAGA) then it would take gross incompetence for Trump to lose power.

That is domestically. The question now stands:

• Will they actually invade Canada or Greenland (nobody’ll pay attention to Panama)?
• Would the rest of the world resist?
• Would they succeed?
• Would it result in nuclear war?

Keep in mind I am not an expert. Also this is all putting aside Trump’s narcissism. Trump wants to be seen as a good person and a genius and I’m not sure he’d go as far as to massacre crowds of protesters specifically. If nothing else such violence would look like a failure on his part. Whoever succeeds Trump, a Republican obviously, would need to be Stephen Miller levels of bad.

That’s why Trump’s building his own private military in ICE.

There are other meats?

Search engines, I guess. No I won’t elaborate, mostly because I have no confidence.

It’s definitely the former.

Nowadays I mostly, unexpectedly, draw the line at whether the product is good. I haven’t really trained my mental ethics muscle because frankly most of the unethical stuff just isn’t high quality.

Often I use ethics not as a “line” but as a proxy for the quality of something. In a world where we’re bombarded with too many choices boycotting is more of an advantage than disadvantage.

In the rare instance when something is good and unethical, like meat, it becomes a case-by-case thing. In the case of meat I stay away from pork (because that’s the most inhumane) and obviously I don’t touch any American meat.

EDIT: The topic here was work. Which is a tough one because we’re basically not given a choice on jobs. I would never do a job that actively makes the world a worse place, but I would work for a for-profit corporation … except my quality argument still carries over here. For-profit corporations are horrible places to work.

Unfortunately I’d need to be an American citizen to be president of the United States.

• Phones won’t start including a Linux desktop.
• Browser apps will be a thing of the past, you’ll need to install either a mobile or desktop app to use YouTube or Netflix or whatever.
• Sites like YouTube will also probably remove the subscriptions feed (which only like 1-2% of people use).
• Vendor lock-in efforts will be more forceful.
• I think more people will start touching grass.

And putting AI aside is a bit weird since it’s the big news story so:

• Companies will replace workers with AI, and as a result essential services will be worse (but more profitable).
• Generative AI will outside of the above be used as a (low-reliability but low-effort) search engine, for memes, and in animation.

Oh, I see, I thought you could only pick one on that drop-down menu. Which when combined with the warning that deselecting “unspecified” would hide basically all posts, makes the menu seem useless.

Likes:

• Small size, which makes it better. Quality over quantity.
• That it’s not American.
• Abundance of highly technical Linux/Security/Privacy discussion (I assume, could be technobabble for all I know).

Dislikes:

• No mute button. I want to see what the pro-Russia people post in the Privacy, Degoogle, and Linux communities, but I don’t want to hear their replies when it comes to politics. Actually, maybe there should be a “block only within this community” button.
• Replies don’t ever load. I have to open the comment in an incognito the see the replies to said comment.
• Can’t select a language for my posts on this instance. And in the Australia instance I have to scroll down through 100 languages to select English. I should be able to select the languages I know in my profile and only choose from them for my post.
• Still need a Reddit account for r/manga and r/liminalspace. Probably always will.