Sometimes I day dream how cool free China would actually be

It’s a flaw of empires in general. They become this pervasive machine where ends always justify the means and there’s just too much power and slow rare of change. Just a bad system no matter how you look at it.

Yay CCP is slightly less cruel than a medieval monarch

Yet $TSLA stock just keeps going up. Remember when news like this would actually mean something in the stock market? America’s economy is like 🤏 this close to collapse because everything is fake and nothing matters.

Tech regulation is such a joke that I struggle to take any of it seriously anymore. Google was found monopoly and they didnt issue a punishment because “it was long time ago and now there are AI browsers”. Australia banning teenagers from social media instead of, you know, fixing social media for all people. It’s like punching air yet if you personally break ToS or IP law you are criminally charged.

Who is this a signal for though? They could silently add the AI features and rally their base on aspects people actually like. It’s almost like Firefox doesn’t want to succeed

But that’s literary the title of the post so it’s more of you moving the goal post. Sure not everyone can afford to move etc. etc. but americans are having an incredible privilege here compared to the rest of the world.

Missed opportunity to add a trackpoint.

of course lemmy.megaloser is here combing through my history of posts to defend authoritarians. Go away troll.

Not easy it what sense? In absolute sense it’s not easy for everyone - duuuh. But in relative sense Americans have an incredible privilege here and yall still whine.

Nope. I’m literally a digital nomad myself though mostly settled in Thailand these syas. Americans absolutely have an unmatched privileged here very few countries come even close to matching and can relocate relatively easily.

Americans have probably the easiest migration path in the world. Strong passport, very high wages and currency value, strong migration support and programs, remote friendly economy etc etc.

Nice.

bananas have more rights and people in Britain apparently

No that’s simply not true

I spray my garden with couple of cigarettes worth of tobacco water once in a while - works great as a natural insecticide!

I also used to live next to a tobacco plantation in Thailand once and the plant itself is quite incredible - basically untouchable by disease or insects so completly hands free and the fields are really cozy.

I’m not a lawyer but afaik the sanctioned ships are treated kinda like “legal piracy” as country can board it even in international waters if it knows it’s performing a sanctioned operation like transferring goods to a place it’s not allowed to or the ship is stateless or sneaky (no transponder etc).

At the end of the day these legalities are purely made up to satisfy treaties rather than ethics or rationality so it’s silly to try to look for rational meaning here.

Lol only on lemmy.megalosers you can find Hezbolah defenders. Go away troll.

That’s not how these types sanctions work though. It’s much more broad than “you can’t pass our waters” and it’s perfectly legal to board sanctioned ships in international waters.

AFAIK this is legal though I care much more about ethics than legalities as citizen of neither of these countries.

I feel like people are taking the bait here in siding with Iran and Hezbolah just to spite Trump. Both things can be bad and it’s kinda important to be woke to these games rather than blindly oppose everything.

People keep underestimating Trump and his stooges. Sure they are stupid but they do have a plan and they do scheme.