Definitely later. Taiwan can sink half of China’s fleet and bomb many of their major cities with their current mix of weapon stockpiles.

If China invaded now they would suffer immensely.

When they’re rich they just let you do it.

It’s more important to get people off twitter. Mastodon just doesn’t have the right pull right now.

I would argue Trump has great business acumen for exactly the reasons you describe.

He’s a mobster who got rich off strong arming, manipulation, and fraud.

Stop assuming his incompetence at being an evil capitalist billionaire and maybe people will finally accept that he is a highly capable amoral danger to the world.

This story is accurate save for what it is omitting: There is a rising trend of genocidal speech amongst black South Africans towards Afrikaners.

People are calling for the wholesale slaughter of white people, down to the last baby, they are doing this to the cheers of thousands at rallies across the country.

Black politicians are calling for white blood in the halls of government.

Even if you believe turn about is fair play vis a vie genocide, one could easily make the case for giving refugee status to Afrikaners, even while acknowledging the issue is being used as racist virtue signaling.

An instance full of toxic tankies who spam and brigade as their hobby. Nobody liked them except some tankies on lemmy.ml.

No, but it is moral to disrupt Tesla’s supply chain.

I’m bidding. Fuck them.

“Suffer”

Tonsils deep would imply a prolapse.

The Eo about gender made everyone a female.

No, nobody’s saying to give up, but impeachment is a dead end. After Trump is Vance, after him, it’s Mike Johnson, and after him…

You would have to remove the majority of the Republican Party. They’re not going to impeach or recall themselves.

The next steps are boycotts and sabotage.

They’re narcissists. They only care about how they look.

Not subtle enough. Some conspiracy theorists think it’s about the Covid vaccine.

Every group that has been targeted by Trump and the incoming regime should be armed to the teeth at this point.

I was on a dating site many years ago. Never got messaged, rarely got responses.

Met someone in real life, set my profile to “in a relationship”. Got like 5 messages within a week.

Definitely a bit of vetting going on

MacOS owns the developer/sysadmin laptop market.

He doesn’t have to be an Einstein-level genius to be an effective oligarch. Turning twitter into what it is was a smart move for him.

Take him seriously as a threat.

Nothing that involves authoritative state of data can be decentralized. Ultimately something is a source of truth. Who decides what the torrent data is? Congratulations, your system is now centralized.

Decentralized systems are anarchist mastubatory fantasy, distributed systems are what runs the world.

This is a neckbeard dream, and it is why activity pub will never take off.

Grandma ain’t running her own instance, but she can swipe her card and get “grandmahotstuff.com” tied to her ATproto DID.

As long as the did is maintained by a neutral org like let’s encrypt, and icann remains functional, it’s a superior model, as those orgs are now tied to the functioning of the internet itself.