crossdl

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[–] crossdl@leminal.space 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Yeah, it's definitely melodramatic. I just enjoyed how it laid out the actions of Trump that got us here, as well as describing the expanded role of the Executive.

[–] crossdl@leminal.space 1 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah, it's definitely melodramatic. I just liked the succinct description of the whole timeline.

[–] crossdl@leminal.space 5 points 3 weeks ago

Told another user to take Trump's advice and drink bleach. He's allowed to say it but apparently not me.

Whatever. Reddit has always been a barely redeemable corpo platform. I'm hoping Digg comes back ActivityPub compliant like Threads and puts the final nail in that shithole's corpse box.

[–] crossdl@leminal.space 7 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Enemy of my enemy is a way to one less enemy.

 

"But over time, the executive branch grew exceedingly powerful. Two world wars emphasized the president’s commander in chief role and removed constraints on its power. By the second half of the 20th century, the republic was routinely fighting wars without its legislative branch, Congress, declaring war, as the Constitution required. With Congress often paralyzed by political conflict, presidents increasingly governed by edicts."

[–] crossdl@leminal.space 2 points 1 month ago

Yeah, fears of him going the Chris Farley route. No judgement or anything, I just hope he's taking care of himself.

He looks badass in that suit though.

[–] crossdl@leminal.space 7 points 1 month ago

Spicy. Hard truth no one wants to acknowledge. You don't beat cancer by ignoring it until it's metastasized everywhere then try to make deals with it for your life.

Modern conservativism is a moral and economic cancer. It breeds to harm people. We need to disenfranchise those cancerous people one way or another. Federate them into their own states to run into the ground or put them there ourselves.

 

Get ready for a game...changer.

[–] crossdl@leminal.space 3 points 1 month ago

You make a good point.

[–] crossdl@leminal.space 3 points 1 month ago

I'm convinced Bungie is still chasing the specter of eSports PvP. So, they're "adapting" their PvE square peg to fit in a PvEvP round hole.

This has flop written all over it. Why can Marathon get contextual ping but Destiny doesn't? How do you make a loot chase where you might loose all your loot in a round?

[–] crossdl@leminal.space 1 points 1 month ago

I hadn't heard about that. Do you have a particular source of reference? I'd be curious to read what you did.

[–] crossdl@leminal.space 43 points 1 month ago (9 children)

Americans no longer have the resolve to be world police, if it was right to do so in the first place. Unfortunately, that vacuum looks like it will be filled by a modern nation conducting ethnic cleansing within their borders and maybe using prisoners for organs.

[–] crossdl@leminal.space 2 points 1 month ago

Hell yeah, comrade!

[–] crossdl@leminal.space 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Or, if you decide you MUST use corporate social media, put it behind a secure web browser and isolate your use to only social media.

I can't be sure it works 100%. I can just hope Brave and Google have competing interests for me.

But best to stop patronizing those platforms as best you can.

What if anything do you do to try to mitigate it?

 

The first, and also the most futuristic techno-utopian one, is the colonisation of Mars. Elon Musk founded Space X in 2002 (Peter Thiel was the first outside investor) with the idea of re-founding humanity. It’s all there: the call to save humanity by turning it into a multi-planetary species, the desire to start from scratch without the legal constraints of Earth, and the will to break with the established order. As you can read, half-hidden, on the terms and conditions page of the Starlink service owned by Space X:

The parties recognize Mars as a free planet and that no Earth-based government has authority or sovereignty over Martian activities.

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