Why wouldn’t I reply to you, while taking a shit? Do you think people with lives don’t poop or something?

How embarrassing for you 🫢

No, you’re right. The Lemmy unread inbox doesn’t exist, so there is no way I’d be reminded of what people told me 💀

God you’re just trying so hard 😔

Imagine thinking that telling someone they have a life and sleep sometimes is a burn 💀

This was not a defense of the USA you braindead idiot. I did not offer “feeling threatened” as an excuse for the USAs behaviour. The USA is threatened by the mere existence of successful countries that are not hypercapitalist (although tbf the tool used in this case is usually a coup, rather than bombs).

Not all countries consider the same things to be threats.

Ok there edgelord

Imagine having someone reply the exact same thing back to you and get more up votes.

How embarrassing for you.

You can make that exact same argument about dropping bombs.

When countries are threatened and dropping bombs relieves that threat instead of increases it, then they do. It’s just that right now violent escalation doesn’t benefit China, so it stays in the realm of sabre rattling

Imagine writing that completely unironically.

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Dude, idk.

I was just like “you seem to be telling the dude that he isn’t using tankie correctly, but that’s not how language works”

And then you replied that I’m wrong, and seemed to be making an appeal that the negative connotations had to do with the invalidity of the definition.

Our wires are so crossed at this point that a random car in 1960 Spain just got spontaneously hotwired.

Yup.

You say that like it’s mutually exclusive. Nobody gets to choose how other people use language. Definitions are whatever people agree that they are, even if you’re not one of the people who agrees with it.
You can dislike that definition of tankie all you want, the fact that they used it in this way and that you understood it means that it was used correctly.

The evolution of language may hurt people, but denying the reality of evolving language hurts nobody but yourself. The etymology and history is good to know (and the meme relies on it), but the new definition is still a correct alternate definition.

This is the reality of language.
Both definitions are now correct. The change isn’t a fight you can win.

I think a lot of people here aren’t looking at this in the right way:

They don’t have to accept accounts for student or let students interact. This can be an alternative system for disseminating announcements with optional mechanisms for feedback. All they need to do is federate and then any of their students subscribe.

I’ve been wishing that my my governments (at all levels) would do this so I can get notified of things like changes to bus schedules or closures of highways and shit.

Anyone anything else
TIFTFY

There are so few native desktop apps these days, it’s all on the web.
And the browser can glean a lot more about user interaction than just web traffic, like where you hover, what parts of the page you’re interacting with, etc.
That’s why I said that (combined with phone), Google probably knows more.

But it’s probably a pretty close competition

They also spy, because just a few billion isn’t enough

I feel like MS and Google should be switched. Web probably has more harvestable info. Plus phones.

There was never a fig leaf. They already didn’t need to devote any attention to political cover, the USA already made it clear that it wouldn’t tolerate holding Israel or any of the Israeli politicians accountable in international courts.

The difference between the two is purely in wording and absolutely immaterial. If anything, trump is being more honest about it.

Trump is terrible for other reasons, but they’re both equal in this matter

What will trump do to cause more Palestinian deaths?
What COULD he do?

Israel is already getting everything they wanted, and facing zero consequences or obstacles.

I don’t disagree with you wrt American deaths, but that’s not what this post is about

We will never consumer our way of of a problem capitalism created. And public transit is nearly always a better solution to spending on car infrastructure.

… but… If you’re gonna buy a new car anyway, they have the potential to cause less climate impact (although they’re still environmentally devastating in other ways). As power generation becomes cleaner, so too do the cars. ICE cars are already about as environmentally friendly as they’re gonna get, but EVs still have a lot of potential improvement (both in emissions and in things like material mining).

Although the tire microplastics is gonna get worse.