It’s too early to say it, and I hope it never comes to pass, but I hope somebody made future contingency plans to transfer this to another country.

It reminds me of the spate of articles 8 years ago about this; how headlines made mountains out of molehill changes in stats.

The fact is, about of a third of Americans would be pleased with orange-face no matter what he did or who got hurt.

All these leopard-eating-faces articles are just modern day morality plays ( the performance of drama about how the wicked or sinners get their justice, or tearfully beg for forgiveness). People been enjoying this even before the printing press

Coal.

I think conditions have improved, but look worse because things have improved. I know that makes no sense.

Many jails have horrible things done to people. But due to the various reforms and court actions, many but not all places have more transparent reporting while having small improvement.

One arm hair in the hand is better than two in the bush

Don’t know. But if the tariffs are as bad as many think, I believe the black market in the USA will grow faster than the speakeasies and smuggling booze did a century ago. There will be huge demand to bring in cheaper goods that are legally sold at higher rates.

It’s a new and huge untapped market to provide support, even if most of the movement of goods will be done by organized crime later. A lot of what will happen is unknown.

Certainly there will be a new cat and mouse dynamics. Very rarely does a huge layer of graft poof into existence to fast in a country. Lots of dynamics navigating this new electronic frontier!

So anyway, here I was, drifting through the lemmy pages, when I realized there was a ton of money to be made by writing software for smugglers.

I have never really known a smuggler of physical goods, but I imagine I will try now

I think of all the oppressive governments, giving this medal must be a near universal thing that separates them from other governments.

There are dozens of us, I’m thinking when it gets really bad I’ll start a twelve step support group on how to deal with the fallout

Except they will probably not regulate natural dyes, or even force listing of the replacements. Some of the replacements will not be healthy.

So like usual, it looks good at first sight but will sicken and poison many children and adults instead.

food allergies too!

Having seen how the world treats Russian citizens, no.

But that is later, after things get worse. Fur now there are plenty of options for those who have money, or are brave, or talented or some combination. Everyone else here will suffer through it

It’s not ideal, and can be abused by the central service later by price increases or probably other things.

But it’s the best a corporate and evil platform can do to legitimize users.

Still waiting for the crazy shaman to be elected senator.

There is no way to rescue the USA from what will happen the next decades, there is no mechanism. And that is even if democrats make a majority win in both houses next year.

The USA will still decline and it will be a messy time filled with multiple failures by the thousands for the next generation or two.

That said, I see hope still, just not in federal government or many state governments, but in new ways for the common people to organize in communities .

But yea, many of the agitators locked up now will be filthy rich later

I tried compiling gentoo a bit later, upgraded from windows 95. Could never get to a login screen, I quit, and started using Linux later when it was easier to install

I prefer a different spelling?

It’s just a different brutality. Those who know their history will find it familiar, only it’s Americans who face it now.

It’s also not a surprise it happened. People 40 years back could have said that once people in the USA do it to other countries, sabotage the infrastructure, then they or their children could do it to Americans too. And so they did

Where they execute even more!

I also think this reflects the true number of the user base: less reports because of what you said, and also there are less people who see the material

Does it matter then? I think I will not care what he does later, unless he wiggles into real power

Well, its no fairy tale with a happy ending. Unless you are selling happy endings ? My way is more honest