Yep. I’ve been travelling with my Muslim friend through the USA. We booked seperately. Our passports are different countries (his is uk, but Muslim name). He was randomly searched at every airport. I never was. It was pretty shocking how blatantly racist the us security apparatus was, first hand. At this point I was only 20 and had no concept of the kind of shit USA police do.
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Unless you foresee war on the horizon.
Yes, they famously wanted to be streaming HBO before HBO could become streaming. Instead HBO turned into Netflix. They just make tons of junk to see what fits. The problem is that although niche products will attract lots of different niches of customers, without high quality content, it's a costly subscription. Especially as they keep jacking up prices.
I disagree. Many people will be subscribed to many, but not all will. If they all have the same number of uobites and comments, then no superior group emerges.
If all are equal, then it will have no effect. If one community is more timely and more active, it should rise up as the main community.
I think cross posting and duplicate communities is a double edged sword. Personally, I up vote one and ignore the others, but it's effectively the same thing, magnified to down vote the others.
I think having a merge community feature or a grouped community feature, so all posts for that group show up together and all duplicates are marked as such, together.
Russia only had minor boycotts when they hosted. Qatar used slave labor and again had only minor boycotts. I don’t think the boycotts of the World Cup will be huge, however, every little helps.
Oh, sorry, you're right. Looks like Microsoft was interested at one point but didn't.
Slack can do most of that.its owned by Microsoft so if you were already comfortable with Skype it's not a huge departure. There is HIPAA compliance, but there is also Microsoft.
However it enshittifies over time and I'm planning to move away for my team.
Cool, done.
It's probably more to target his donors than the voters. Although with farmers, that is both. China found it quite effective last time he tried it.
It's not going to be hugely effective as you mentioned but likely still more effective than blanket in targeted tariffs.
Trump doesn't have a master plan. He's just a bully with power. It seems from his rhetoric pre election that he didn't even understand what tariffs actually are or how they work. The only way bullies stop is when they are stood up to.
Last time, there was a sense of waiting it out. Now that it's happening again it's more a sense that nobody wants to put up with his bullshit.
Canada is probably America's biggest ally and trading partner. He wants to annex them. It's ludicrous. He is big on nationalism to try and scare people. Well he's inspired nationalism worldwide to be unified against him.
If it was me, I'd be targeting Tesla and musk in particular as well.
They are trump supporters. Targeting red states puts political pressure on him to stop the tariff war.
What's forgotten, is that the USA did it for their own interests and became extremely wealthy in doing so.
Fast forward to now and assisting Ukraine is not just about preventing larger ambitions for Putin's Russia, but helping Ukraine become a valued partner to EU, USA and Ukraine s benefit.
Trump is simple in his logic and very transactional. He doesn't have a master plan and doesn't understand long term gain for both parties. His actions make him seem compromised by Russia but I don't know that it's knowing on his part or just that he makes an easy asset to control by surrounding him with other more directly controlled assets. It's odd, as he is so unreliable, that you would need a constant rotation of Russian agents. So, I wonder if the compromise is less transactional, but more a deeper psychological one. It's pretty clear he's got lots going on in terms of pathologies, but nobody is assessing him clinically in public.
As the USA burns all bridges, people are starting to wake up to not having America as a trusted ally. The consequences are significant and I imagine most countries will start to pivot away from the US, which will be damaging to the USA. Already Trump has blustered about those in bricks that pivot away from using the dollar. That will just be one aspect. I imagine us bases worldwide will be reduced or closed. China will step in to fill the gap for many. The EU will likely step up to do it for themselves. However, they will likely reduce USA trade and increase regulation on US software and hardware that will be viewed as a security risk, just like chinas is now.
The middle east stability is going to be the most unpredictable. In a post petrol world, will the USA continue to support Israel and Saudi Arabia? Trump seems to want to but he's also unpredictable and racist.
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No, that's what some of them want to do. Start over, unregulated and without the rule of law or protections of society, as it now stands. We shouldn't burn it down. They should face consequences for their attempts to regreas.