Friend, don’t shoot the messenger. I am just paraphrasing what he said in the speech.

How can we justify staying in Venezuela?

Calling for immediate snap elections, then returning Maduro for trial in Venezuela? Okay. That’d be one thing.

But basically annexing the country?

He’s a hawk that’s going to take on Iran and cartels better than past presidents.

He’s American First, putting a stop all these immigrants and foreign wars.

He’s a staunch Christian who will protect Christian values and Israel.

He’s a man’s man, a ladies man, and will take on the Jew pedo conspiracy.

He’s a culture warrior. A president who will bring unity. Pro-business, a megacorp fighter. A small town advocate, and pro crypto, pro tech technocratic libertarian. A strongman who will purge despotic liberals

Basically, voters all got their own personalized version of Trump, and they still kinda get it in their news feeds. So they are getting what they voted for… through a small, warped selectively sliced vision of reality. And Trump’s “condo salesman” style plays into this social media typhoon really, really well.

Come to CachyOS!

It’s like everything I’ve ever wanted from an OS served on a silver platter.

It’s probably less for OEMs, right? Most people don’t install their own OS, much less pay full price for a license.

And yeah, consumer Windows could disappear and MS wouldn’t care, as long as office computers are still stuck with it. Which they are.

I watched the whole thing.

Yeah. For all of Trump’s Trumpiness, at least he’s direct. There’s no euphamism: he stated he’s running Venezuela, at least 3 times just in case it wasn’t clear. He wants the “right” kind of ruler to take over. He reiterated that US oil companies are coming in to rebuild their infrastructure, repeatedly. He cited the Monroe doctrine.

There’s no pretense.

I think this (frankly) refreshing bluntness is what makes the bits of disinformation so effective.

Dead link.

Go to the Arctic or Antarctic in their respective summers, and it’s always day. And you can time the flight between to stay in day.

Alternatively, rocket to the L1 Lagrange point between the Earth and Sun and just stay there. The orbit is metastable, so that’s practical.

Flying in a circle around the Earth in the vicinity of the Arctic or Antarctic circles (cutting through Norway, Finland such) would require flying at about the Concorde’s top speed.

Yeah, see, that’s an “old Windows” kind of problem! “Oh, the printer works fine as long as I don’t leave it plugged in too long.” Users learn to deal with that.

Outlook + the start menu changing overnight, and ceasing to work, and the younger tech scratching their head because they haven’t gotten the update? Or a “wait, it’s screenshotting my stuff?” That’s different. It’s completely out of the user’s control.

The difference is more dramatic now. Linux isn’t so finicky, largely thanks to hard work but also to Windows’ feature stagnation, meaning Linux isn’t a “few years behind” like before. Imagine the situation if, say, Microsoft hadn’t completely screwed up UWP.

Meanwhile, users subconsciously ignored a lot of junk with 95, Vista, 8, whatever. But that’s much harder to ignore in 11.

If Windows crosses a the threshold of “major OEMs start shipping Linux,” what happens to windowscentral?

Do they split the staff/site to a linuxcentral? Winecentral?

Isn’t there still some antisemitism in MAGA? And the ‘religious voter’ bloc is shrinking almost as fast as Israel’s reputation.

I feel like being this cozy with Netanyahu is going to backfire for Trump.

The real issue is devs not wanting to pay for hosting server side anticheat. I

Or allowing self hosted servers. With actual mods that just ban people who are being jerks, and basic anticheat tools shipped to them.

Whatever the issue and solution, the current state of the gaming market still makes mass linux gaming kind of impossible. Not from the anticheat games specifically as much as the OEM problem.

Not according recent polling.

You guys should be worrying about this shit, not dismissing it. Especially with most of Europe addicted to American social media.

Gaming is the best commercial inroad I’ve seen, and exploding.

But I think the “kernel anticheat” thing is going to be a hard wall until Valve works it out. Unfortunately, big OEMs don’t want to ship a “gaming PC” that can’t run Fortnite.

Russia’s officially released casualty figures are horrifying. There’s not a lot ambiguous about many economic impacts. The war’s pace speaks for itself, and so does the devastation.

Debate about “truth” is largely around the justification for the war.

But as that’s one tough sell, debate has largely devolved into a disinformation/gaslighting campaign. Hence the trolls.

So I wouldn’t call it “both sides”. There’s an invader trying to justify an invasion with rampant disinformation, and a defender desperate to clear that disinformation, meaning they sometimes turn to the same tool.

They literally develop Lemmy, so in this specific case I think it’s good to spread awareness.

Well, if the US gets tied up in Venezuela + a fickle leader + internal issues, the EU in Ukraine, Asian allies like Japan and Korea still figuring things out, then 2027-2030 does seem like the opportune time to invade.

Perhaps Kim Jong Un, Iran, and/or Israel will take the opportunity to try something, too.

Reddit’s UX is awful though, at least on the website. But I guess most people use the phone apps?