Getting rid of dictators typically takes decades once they’ve built up their power base. I doubt Trump has that kind of mileage in him, given how old he is. But the damage has been done now. Trump has proven that the famous “checks and balances” of the US system just don’t work.

As for the US’s reputation in the world, it’ll take a long time to recover (if at all). One Trump Presidency was a blip; an experiment. A second Trump Presidency is like America saying “fuck you” to the rest of the world, especially its allies like the UK and the EU. Americans will be hated everywhere else as much as Russians are hated now.

It’s only February of the first year of Trump’s second term. Who knows what might happen in the next 4 years; but honestly, I think the US is done as a superpower and a reliable friend to the West. Every empire dies, and I don’t think I’ve ever read in history books about an empire dying quietly in its sleep; it’s always a turbulent process that historians can usually pinpoint to a specific precipitating event afterwards.

Microsoft seem determined to make us hate using Windows 11, which was all that hard to begin with. If Macs weren’t so expensive, and Linux such a pain in the ass, I’d happily switch.

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Rich daddy = bootstraps.

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No, it’s a strategy to sell you an expensive cable. Apple always do this, create a problem and offer an expensive solution.

Now all he needs to do is to connect his own management of Twitter to its failure.

I find it disturbing that there are people out there who spend much of their time thinking about new ways to get people to see adverts. Surely it falls under the “bullshit jobs” category that David Graeber once wrote about.

Journalists and politicians love Twitter for some reason. They’re the only people keeping it alive right now.

I’m starting to think Spez is depressed. He probably had visions of being a Billionaire tech bro by now like Zuckerberg and Musk. His only thought these days seems to be how to monetize Reddit, regardless of how he destroys it.

I wish hackers would invest their time in clearing credit card debt, deleting hospital fees, or something else that actually serves the public good, instead of hacking ordinary people just trying to get by.

If I owned a browser company, I would just pull my browser from France. Much easier than having to make a separate version just for one country.

Voat started out well enough, but after lots of hate communities on Reddit were purged under Ellen Pao’s stint as CEO (under the orders of Spez and Ohanian), Voat was inundated with a mass exodus of angry redditors. Because of this, Voat ended up becoming a right wing echo chamber. Like I said, it was actually a nice alternative when it started out, but rapidly went downhill once the great purge of Reddit took place. Voat ended up closing its doors a few years back due to lack of funds.

I sincerely hope Lemmy is more successful than Voat, but without the Nazi’s and Trump nuts that festered on Voat.

The only outcome we can be sure of at this point is that the company responsible for this mess is going to have to answer a lot of questions.

Could the sub be stuck? Maybe they tried to get into the Titanic through a hole or something and got stuck.