The bigger the size of the import, the larger the impact, the more diffcult to tarriff or block.

Yeah, this is quite the opposite to cynical. Progressives cannot deliver material good for people unless they gain and maintain power.

This guy is such a pro political operator… In one action of exposing this lie he increases the trust in his gov, his own trustworthiness and he puts a lot of fuel in the Medicare-for-All fight which his comrades are fighting in his state and around the country.

A China-linked islamoleftist trans terrorist based in California used his open source CCP-made AI agent to take down the all-American freedom AI. Time to ban open source AI as it’s communist terrorism.

That’ll be expensive so I don’t think it’ll be happening. They’ll be OK with collecting data from the 95% of their customers who don’t know how to block the TV from having internet access.

Thanks for the explanation. That’s informative and unfortunate.

1. That’s my bet for the reasons I outlined. It’s not a bet in vacuum. I think it’s strong enough to consider it “certain,” colloquially speaking. Is it certain in mathematical terms? No, as you said - nothing is certain.
2. That’s not inconsitent with my bet. We can get into why but probablt don’t need to.
3. No idea what that’s about, not using PieFed. They limit what? Why do they do that? I read your explanation.

E: BTW I’m not unaware of the ability of for-profits to siphon people away from existing corporate platforms into new corporate or corporate-adjacent platforms, for example. E.g. Twitter -> Bluesky. I think that would be insufficient in the long run to halt the fediverse growth because every time this cycle occurs, some people fall off into the fediverse and that’s usually the more aware people. They tend to create more content.

That’s crazy. The Canadian ones are monstrous compared to what we used to grow in our European backyard thirty years ago.

and consistent quality

Kinda wild that most store-bought chicken doesn’t taste good at all. At least it’s not making us sick. 😄

I don’t diss supply mgmt. Just personal taste opinion. I think supply mgmt is very important for us and its benefits are obvious.

Certainly. Don’t know how large and when, but a significant (relative to our size) bunch of people would likely show up. That plus people who dabble in both would increase their activity here. The threadiverse is more or less guaranteed to grow and form a solid contrubutor base. We don’t seek to increase profits YoY so our services are only going to get better over time. For-profit socials have to grow profits over time, so they are going to get worse. Increase in service quality for for-profit platforms is a temporary stage of their development. The threadiverse will be around in 5-10 years time, in some shape or form and it’ll be larger and better than it is today. This is why I keep pushing the vote buttons and type words every day. Deliberately spending more time than I’d like. 😄

NB: A lot of US-made product uses some Chinese inputs, so the aforementioned implosion won’t even be of just Chinese-made consumer widgets but also US-made ones.

Ah so they didn’t really give a shit what part of the Palestinians may want to emigrate under the current violent conditions. It’s ethnic cleansing all the way down.

What did they say? They deleted it.

And the other half?

has me the most worried about the whole thing is the drop in any kind of thinking skills among the general population.

Sounds like the general population would need to use more AI.

There’s exceptions for sure. I should have said it’s a tendency.

Exactly right. Dare I say the very right for working people to vote was won by organized labour, so even popular democracy is downstream from labour power. That’s the only real power we have against corporations.

Corporations do not stand up to the government. Remember this. Drop any expectation that the coporate world would save you from a bad government.

Next time aim higher. In the org chart.

Good to know. I will make sure not to update as mine isn’t doing it yet.