I’m also pretty certain that the stock would absolutely tank if he left.

He’s a fucking idiot, but the current valuation has zero basis in reality outside of his personality-cult. If that’s gone, all they are is a struggling mid-sized car company.

Cars in cities.

You don’t realize how insane they are until you spend time somewhere without them.

Just (like most places in Croatia) make sure not to go during peak season!

I think he’s just obsessed with controlling the arctic, since it’s going to be ice-free soon (and thus incredibly important for global shipping)

It’s why his 3 main “targets” are Canada, Greenland, and Panama (for the canal)

Yeah I have used opensuse for the past couple years (still do!) but while there is plenty to like, if I were to do a reinstall I would likely move back to Fedora.

Then again, I basically never use YaST, which I suppose is one of the main song points.

It’s literally not any different. Starlink is just a less-reliable broadband internet connection, it has nothing to do with WiFi

For me, I like that it isn’t overcomplicated and just works. It being basic is a big pro to me.

I can see what you’re saying, but at this point Elon is the most powerful person in the US, and certainly more powerful than any politician (even Trump).

I don’t think everyone realizes how unbelievably, dangerously rich Elon is. The dude is a moron, but he has enough money to buy out all of our politicians many many times over.

I only have to use this occasionally, but on my android I use the app “Talkatone” to make free calls to phones. They have paid plans to keep your number, but I tend to just use new ones whenever one expires.

It might not suit your needs, but it’s worked pretty reliably for me for the past 10 years or so.

Wanting less/more immigration are both perfectly valid positions.

Immigration can provide opportunities to a country but can also cause issues and it’s undemocratic and dangerous to demonize either position on the issue.

It depends how you forward images. I assume they are referring to how many/most services (like whatsapp/discord/telegram etc) don’t just send the original file, but do some compression to save data. Do this a bunch of times and you end up with a photo that starts to show noticeable artifacts/pixellation.

That’s my take at least

I think this is more agreeing than contradictory. If more immigration is desirable, then expand legal immigration.

As you say, a system built around exploiting illegal workers is bad for everyone.

On the one hand that’s true.

On the other hand it’s up the country to decide who gets those documents. Anyone without those shouldn’t come in.

If more immigration is desirable, then expand legal immigration.

They’ll probably strike down one or two of them just so they can claim “look, we’re still independent!!”

Of course the ones to get struck down have already been agreed upon

I know this is unpopular and goes against the ideals of the early internet, but the open internet (especially social networks) is hugely damaging at the moment.

This isn’t just “people having different opinions”, but rather full-scale cyber warfare that’s currently happening. It’s also only going to get worse…

Propaganda works, and it works quite well. Nobody is fully immune.

So unless you feel like having Musk/Russia/China dictate your life (through forcing their shit agenda), banning their attack vectors is really the only play.

It’s less about that and more about stopping an extremely powerful attack vector currently active in your own country.

Literally the biggest reason why the western world is in such a giant political crisis is the weaponization of social media.

Citizens united at the very least

In the short-term: yes.

In the mid- to long-term: obscene inequality (like we are seeing currently) inevitably leads to awful awful things…

He’s useful to the orange man… unfortunately that might be enough

I remember just after all this kicked off last October there was an interview with an ex hamas guy (who is now an anti-extremism researcher) about what their plan was with all of this.

He mentioned how their plan had always been to force a reaction from Israel and then use social media to build support among specifically both the Muslim diaspora and progressive non-muslims in Europe/NA.

The worse it gets in Gaza, the better it is for Hamas. Their support in Gaza goes up, and they gain additional support abroad, while Israel loses support. Win/win/win