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Does a government automatically become fascist

Yes

I see now why Trump has his eye on Greenland

Every week I’m delighted to see this post appear. This is the sign for me that the weekend is about to start 🥳

I frankly can’t believe the UK half-assed this stuff and went “whatever, let private providers use whatever voodoo they can come up with to make age verification happen”.

Do you not have corruption in Finland?

Belgium’s user verification app was built by a consortium of local banks and ISPs, most of which have politicians or ex-politicians on their boards.

Any solutions for trackball mice?

but work to prevent [superintelligence] from being developed anywhere in the world

seems like an imperialist mission, or does he plan to upgrade the power of the UN?

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Seems closer to a Mullvad

Done, thanks!

Society accuses Bill Gates of knowingly downplaying kiddy-fiddling because too much jail time is at stake.

Would have made more sense.

I would if I had some close by. I always enjoyed them, much more so abroad than in my country, as here it’s mostly just some tables jumbled together in a small room. But if it has the luxury of the ones I encountered abroad with a full drinks and snacks line-up, comfy chairs and lots of room, I’d be in there A LOT.

Not far yet, writing on the wall but not yet full-on. Sheryl is starting to show her ugly side… :)

stood idly by

funny way of saying ‘actively participated’

Buy digitally and store, yes agreed. But then I wonder, how long will that last until the major platforms remove the option to download? Then what’ll I do?

Imagine how much thinner it’d be without those pesky explanations.

Fight Club, yes!!

How do you rate Blood Meridian against The Road? The Road is easily in my top 5, but could not get into other McCarthy books. I might give Blood Meridian a try.

Favorites in fiction I keep turning back to: old Murakami (anything before 1Q84), and Kafka.

Currently reading Careless People. Not too impressed (yet?)

It does indeed! He’s ranting about a capital tax too, where he just means ‘the cost of tokens’. He’s flailing wildly.

3:44 - [our customers] want to know they own the means of production.

Does he even know what that means…