American MAGAs also don’t really want American greatness if it involves immigrants, minorities, or liberals having a good life there. Their love of America and goals for its greatness are VERY selective, all the way to founding values like freedom of speech, separation of powers, and separation of church and state.

It’s really just fascism. And fascism, for all its claims to be country-first, is an international reactionary effort.

On prem is cheaper by a wide margin for steady load, but cloud is good if you need burst processing.

Ellison’s wealth has surged after [Oracle], in which he owns a stake of 41%, reported better than expected financial results.

This is the most surprising information in this article. Oracle isn’t a company I’d expect a price surge at. They provide some commonly used software, but nothing that would have a sudden surge in value, and I’m someone who’s looked at cloud resources before, and they weren’t even in my list of places to check. A crowded market with limited potential for innovation just doesn’t seem like something that justifies a huge price surge.

Feels like the stock market isn’t a real place.

And they got into power because everyone was going “oh shit, we don’t want another Trump”, then just run full steam ahead into issues that will piss off their base. Someone who hasn’t been kept up to date could be excused for thinking the party restricted trans people and arresting peace protesters en masse was the more conservative party.

I wonder if it’s a one-off statement or they have plans for a response. Being on a government building kind of prompts this result, which may be part of the intention.

And they’re not even ruled by the conservative parties. This is the good outcome!

Why is the Secretary of State even the one making a statement? Was Hegseth too drunk?

Implied in this headline is that it wouldn’t be apology worthy if they killed a guilty prisoner by denying medical treatment.

Which, at a global scale, is important in your life when exactly? The only time I move at a global scale I’m flying, and then the projection makes it look like my pilot doesn’t know how to fly in a straight line.

When was the last time you used a global map for navigation?

It’s not even terribly good for that, as when traveling at global scales, most of us travel along great circle paths that end up looking wrong on the Mercator protection.

Not all. American Airlines employees won boarding pay this year.

https://www.paddleyourownkanoo.com/2025/03/25/american-airlines-flight-attendants-will-soon-become-the-first-unionized-worforce-to-earn-boarding-pay-six-months-after-contract-was-ratified/

We’re on a message board giving our opinions. You’re happy to definitively say what is and isn’t free speech then come back with a dumb response about how the court will decide whether a contradictory opinion is valid. I’m not talking to the UK courts. I’m stating a principle, which is already being violated by this anti-free speech government. Law does not determine correctness.

That’s a crime for the people who broke into a base, not a reason to ban an entire organization. Lots of activist organizations have had members do illegal things. If that’s all it takes for the government to ban them, that’s an easy bar to manufacture and/or selectively activate.

NYT loves using the passive voice to downplay killings by the powerful. Who can say how they died or who is responsible? Let’s not dwell on trivialities.

If you’re worried about how the Internet affects children, be a parent and restrict your own child. What you think kids should be able to access has nothing to do with my rights to engage in free speech online, including my right to engage anonymously without putting doxxing material in a database just waiting to be compromised. Parent your own children, don’t try to make government parent other people’s children.

Lol. The fuck are talking about?

The diplomatic decisions of a monarch are not reflective of even his subjects at the time, let alone create lasting culture, especially not when that monarch was literally overthrown and executed.

And trying to pull that on someone hundreds of years and multiple governments separated from the offending king when Trump is literally the elected president right now is just abject nonsense.

I’m just making fun of your dumb statement, not trying to address anything else.

The French monarchy refused to get involved until it benefited him. Which has fuck all to do with any modern Frenchman’s to opinions.

“Barely 100x more.”

I don’t remember it being bad before lemmygrad got defederated from most instances. Plain ml used to just be the demonstration instance while lemmygrad was the ideological one. But once they got blocked from a lot of the Lemmyverse more and more .ml accounts are being associated with weird tankie stuff.