“kneejerk”. Or “circlejerk”. Never heard of “kneecirclejerk”.

_{Not the person you are arguing with}

Too many black people in Mississippi. Even if they are religious. Highest amount of African Americans percentage wise in the US.

Did they use jet fuel to melt the steel beams?

They’ve been featuring projects on their page that they display their donations on, projects that did not know or outright refused, without their consent or understanding.

https://lemmy.ml/post/37910334

https://lemmy.zip/post/51673470

So wait, we hate FUTO but love Immich?

That’s exactly how it plays out. No first contact until 2063. Except there’s been a really ugly nuclear war already by that time.

Are there plenty of dumb as door nails graduates with millions of followers on social media though? Because this is what this legislation is supposed to target. Basically if Trump was in “Chyna”, he’d be in jail already for spewing nonsense non-stop on stuff that he knows nothing about, because he’s not actually educated on it.

I’m glad I only ever applied that shit on my feet while wafting the baby powder scent into my face.

It’s not like that currently. Ben & Jerry’s is very dense. At least in Canada.

The US is a low bar sadly. I’m comparing it to Canada, Germany or Hungary primarily, as those are the countries that I have lived in.

I don’t think Ireland has free preschool. Or rather, not enough coverage of it. One of my friends was really struggling with this, as they were not able to resume their career until their kid turned 2 and they’ve found an early childhood education centre.

It’s also devoid of any sort of comprehensive rail or other transit systems outside of Dublin. It’s very car centric, meaning your children will depend on you to ferry them around between locations until they can drive a car by themselves.

Canada is very similar in most of these aspects. Except for Québec maybe.

Yeah, after having two of my friends move to separate places, neither which is Dublin, I’m fairly convinced that Ireland is just simply not that good of a country. They have good social services for artists, but the country as a whole is just not very family friendly, and keeps up with that tradition. Which is why their population never recovered from their historic peak.

How does one person do anything?

I think we should stop voting in ratchet liberals. And we need NDP to run on a platform of election reform.

I had to recite the Oath of Allegiance to the Monarch of Canada, King Charles III, when taking on citizenship.

There has been a widespread misconception that China operates a nationwide and unitary social credit “score” based on individuals’ behavior, leading to punishments if the score is too low. Media reports in the West have sometimes exaggerated or inaccurately described this concept.

According to a February 2022 report by the Mercator Institute for China Studies (MERICS), a social credit “score” is a myth as there is “no score that dictates citizen’s place in society”.

https://merics.org/en/comment/chinas-social-credit-score-untangling-myth-reality

You must feel pretty stupid right now.

This thread has set me on the path of getting two of my nerds over onto simplex or XMPP. Maybe matrix.

I finished reading both articles and they are very heavy on conjecture. It does raise an eyebrow though, but still.

Yes, in an ideal world we would be using SimpleX, XMPP, or similar. However it was already hard enough getting ten non-tech contacts to switch to Signal. The barrier to entry is higher on other platforms or protocols.

Huh? What crypto scam?

They rely on AWS due to favourable contract in hosting it, and also proving the proof of concept that they can be hosted securely on a hostile provider, without the provider having any clues at all in what data is being sent between the parties.

That’s the most wicked shit.