I got this email a few days ago. I don’t even know who these people are and why they have my details. But I’ve had to change my Google account passwords anyway.
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.
That's just Americans. They can only think of 2 options; this or that. Democrat or Republican. Capitalism or Communism. Good or evil. Simple binary choices.
There are countries in Europe which are ruled by a coalition of 3 or 4 political parties. Very few Americans would be comfortable with something so complicated.
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.
Elon loves drama and attention. Responding to his idiotic tweets with outrage is exactly the kind of drama he craves.
No, it's a strategy to sell you an expensive cable. Apple always do this, create a problem and offer an expensive solution.
No. As the effects of climate change become worse, people will migrate to cooler places, which will only push up prices in those places. Poor people will be left to live in uninhabitable and uninsurable areas, while the rich will get to live in comfort.
Climate change is essentially a class struggle, like everything else in life. As long as the 1% don’t have to suffer, nothing will be done. To get the rich to do something about climate change, it will have to affect them directly.
Now all he needs to do is to connect his own management of Twitter to its failure.
The media, especially the tabloids, have been like vultures, picking apart her life, her mental health, her marriages, her kids, etc, since her death. There's no dignity in death when you're famous.
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.
I've been on Lemmy.world for about a month now and have hardly seen any porn at all. Not sure what these people are looking for that is getting them so much porn.
Journalists and politicians love Twitter for some reason. They're the only people keeping it alive right now.
Corporations will be tormented between wanting robots and AI to do all the work, and needing to employ real humans so they can earn enough to keep buying all those consumer goods that the corporations produce.
I didn't either, but history has plenty of examples of mercenary armies turning against their employers.
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.