I feel like that’s something a lot of people are just not thinking about for some reason

There’s a simple explanation for the weird videos, and why the government didn’t want to talk about them. And it’s just it being experimental military technology

The president of the US also said that tariffs are paid by the seller

So, you know, not a high credibility

What’s there to be excited about? There’s no reason to believe aliens ever visited earth. Exist somewhere in the universe, sure. I’m very excited for any news from observations in space or the mars rover finding signs of life, but not on earth.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, and so far, all we’ve had are som shitty low resolution videos which very well might have been either video artifacts, atmospheric natural phenomena, or just experimental weapons.

Really, it’s about laypeople using technical terms that they don’t understand, and the industry actively encouraging it

It’s a mess and it sucks

But that’s literally what I’m arguing for though…?

Who would replace the monarch though?

At that point it’s literally just an appointed minister by another name. And I’d rather have the position taken by someone who doesn’t live in a literal castle

And yes, I know it’s a constitutional monarchy, I live here :)

Pretty sure because it’s a routine tradition, and is always expected to end in the favor of keeping the monarchy. So it’s not really too interesting unless you are a politician

While I agree that having an independent body from the main political organ makes sense, I feel like a monarchy isn’t a great symbol to have in the first place

And what’s going to stop future scandals from happening? Or consequences for them? If a future king does something bad, we can’t exactly fire them and replace them with someone else, as that’s not how a monarchy works. We only got one tool, and it’s to abolish the monarchy. It doesn’t feel like great checks and balances

Generally I am against inherent power. And a monarchy is the peak of that, as you simply are in a position of power by having a lucky birth. It is true that lucky births happen constantly and are everywhere, especially if you get born in norway, but it feels wrong to actively support it.

It just doesn’t really feel like a system that has a place today. Though I do also realize that there’s problems with having a president or the like as well. But generally I support more democracy, not less.

And also as a final note like, if this went hidden for so long until the files got released, I wonder what other stuff got hidden as well? I mean, we got pretty much directly lied to here back in 2019

I’m just uncomfortable with systems that enforce a hierarchy. I think we could do with less of that

You can bet that once the inevitable population-wide vote happens on whether to keep the monarchy, I will vote no. I already didn’t like having a monarchy from before, now doubly so.

It’s fucking insane to realize that the conspiracy theories of a shadowy pedofilic cabal attempting to guide the world towards them staying in power has some merit to it

But for the games without DRM you can just download them and run the executable. Bypassing Steam

Sure, if you stop using steam you can’t re-download or update the game, but if the game didn’t have DRM, you can just keep copying the existing executable

It’s not superstition, it’s just to reduce the moisture in the inside air, and maybe get smells out and stuff. Things can get a bit stale when the window is never opened

At least personally I don’t really see how the threadiverse is more toxic than reddit. Though it may be because my instance is simply good at blocking the toxicity away, and the instance their chose isn’t. Which could be something to work on I suppose, but moderation is always a big discussion in these situations, with some people not liking moderation but also, in reality, wanting it

As for niche content, that, unfortunately, is just a catch 22 situation. No simple solution other than to simply get more people to join

People who do that truly don’t actually want an alternative, huh?

They just want Reddit under new management

In EU new installments using refrigerants with GWP of over 150 will be straight up banned next year, at least for home usage

Because if a company gives up profits to be nice, another company will swoop in and get inherently rewarded by doing the profitable thing instead

Modern refrigerants don’t use R134

I question whether we are rapidly approaching the point where Linux is simply easier to use in a safe, secure, and practical way for the average user, because it doesn’t try to actively fuck you over like Microsoft does

It’s easier when you don’t need to jump through hoops to make a local account. It’s easier when you don’t need to turn off a dozen settings you might not know about regarding data collection or advertisements. It’s easier when you don’t have an antagonistic system that treats you like the product, not a user, not pushing you towards confusing things you don’t want

It would still be extremely valuable, though. You would absolutely still buy bread with it especially before you sold it all off

And an abundance of certain minerals means that more applications become possible from them. For example, silver is a better conductor than copper. If Superman hauled back a fuckton of silver then maybe we’d switch over to silver wires, increasing demand for silver still, reducing the price loss, as well as adding efficiencies to wiring

Yeah, I remember th same thing as a freshman, it was not any different lol