john_t

Un-american here. Does Canada have the same direct sales ban as the US? Same dealer lobby in both countries?

He’s only doing it now because his name got out on the Epstein emails. The russians lost their kompromat on him.

We didn’t deserve the 90’s 🙁

There’s no algorithm to be played in the fediverse. The reward is too low for all the work of making a post visible, and it won’t carry to the next post, essentially starting all over again.

As a 90’s teen, I agree.

“Daddy has to sometimes use strong language.”

Mark Rutte about Trump, 2025

AI channel with a link for donations. Cool.

Why do the anglos always have exceptions for exceptions? The sheriff of this, the city of that, the tiny island that isn’t part of the country.

I, too, gis’ed in my pants at work.

It’s infuriating that the whole EU had to drop pants to Trump last year just so Germany could sell more cars to the US.

And this year we’re dropping the pants even more so Germany can sell more cars in South America.

Meanwhile companies in the smaller EU countries absolutely can’t compete with non-auto giants from the American continent.

It worked with putin, right?

Right…?

I had the same feeling reading the text. It’s filled with repetitive sentences in reused topics, like the basic texts from some years ago when AI bots produced bio web pages about famous people.

LMDE users unite!

He also believed a phone or a computer should cost months of an average salary.

And don’t forget about littering the world with planned obsolescence of millions of electronic equipments yearly.

All the harm he did to himself is just a drop in the ocean compared the the cult he created of people willing to pay literally anything for the crap he sold.

No one said rust was invulnerable.

Do you mean buying computers worth thousands of dollars doesn’t make you a computer expert? I’m shocked. Shocked!

I’ve managed to screw up every self-hosted service whenever I’ve made an update, edit a config file or just by looking at it. But my Prosody XMPP server? It’s rock solid. That thing never fails, for years and years.

I don’t remember my teachers allowing students to take TVs to the classroom when I was a kid. And classes could also be boring back then.

That’s like asking for a FLOSS Disney+ alternative.