My parents have a small bussiness here, and like, we can’t just thanos snap and move everything.

Remember that many jews said the same thing in Germany before the war, until they realized it really was time to get out of Dodge and they couldn’t.

Curious, what country did you go to

I lived in many countries. The one I went to when I left the US was the UK. But it was in Europe back then. I would never move there now.

Because AFIAK, there only a few ways

You missed mine 🙂 I had dual citizenship. I simply gave one up. I had to pay the extortion racket but other than that, that’s all I had to do.

Also, if you’re trans or not male or female (some people are born with extra X and Y chromosomes, which flies in the face of the administration’s idiotic male / female classification), you’ve basically become a non-person in the US. As such, I’m fairly sure you could make a convincing case for asylum in many European countries.

How to spot a fascist:

This is what they will drive:

Someone who owns an older Tesla model is probably someone who regrets their purcharse today. But someone who shows up in a 2025 Tesla knew exactly who they gave their money to.

Make of that what you will. Me, I reckon it’s worth learning your Teslas because people truly are what they drive in this particular instance. There’s no doubt about these particular year / models.

If I was still an American (I gave up my citizenship after Dubya shat the USA Patriot Act) and part of an at-risk group - and there are many - I would seriously consider emigrating at this point.

Don’t do like the jews who stayed in Germany after 1933 thinking it can’t get any worse: it will get worse and you don’t want to be stuck in the US when it’s too late to leave.

I trust the French government more than I trust Google.

I don’t.

You can self-host it: https://github.com/suitenumerique/docs

Nice!

I wasn’t aware. Thank you for the precision.

I would be more comfortable if this Google Docs alternative wasn’t hosted on a French government server.

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The morale of the store is, read the release notes to see what’s changing.

You do that, I do that, but most people just click Update. And that’s if whatever wants to update itself lets you even opt out: Windows for example will nag you into submission at best, and more likely simply apply the update without asking your permission, and while you’re in the middle of important work if it wants to.

Same here. But I avoid saying it too often because I always get jumped by a bunch of forced-upgrade lemmings who insult me and tell me I’m a dumbass because I expose myself to immediate and terrible danger from evil hackers in the next 30 seconds. Which of course isn’t true, but most people have been so drilled into blindly updating anything anytime an update is available without even checking what they’re installing that they’ll aggressively confront you if you don’t.

Always remember that Trump was voted in. He’s not the problem, he’s a symptom. That’s what’s truly scary.

The instance I use (SDF) has stopped fetching Youtube video titles and thumbnails weeks ago. I just add them manually now.
The SDF instance runs 0.19.8.

Most people have money in the SP500 through their 401(k), sadly.

As long as Trump obeyed the judges - or at least didn’t disobey them - he was still south of the dictatorship line. Now he’s crossed the line. Because the judicial was the last rampart before tyranny, and all previous dictatorships became official when they started ignoring the law.

Yes of course, an article is subjective to a large degree. What I meant was that the site tries to itemize all the issues so as to minimize the subjectivity.

The reason I sympathize with Madam is the same reason I sympathize with most migrants: they’re not doing it to hurt the country they migrate to, they’re trying to have a shot at a better life. I totally get what you’re saying but that doesn’t make her a bad person.

Sir however is a dumbass: he did the very thing the guy he voted for said he would crack down on and now he’s bitching and moaning… Well ya know, faces, leopards and all that.

I’ve stopped buying the American exceptionalism myth.

https://www.hhs.gov/

It’s not sentimental: it attempts to measure the percentage of each of the 14 characteristics of fascism the United States meets, then combines them into a single “fascism completion” score.

Depends on where you live.

Where I live, people bring their cart back whether there’s a coin in it or not. But the one thing you can count on is that few people carry coins around anymore. Therefore the locks are more of an inconvenience to everybody than a genuine help for the stores to keep their parking lots tidy.

In fact, the store are totally aware of this: I live way up north, and when it gets really cold, the stores unlock all the carts themselves and keep them loose so people don’t have to take their gloves off and manipulate freezing cold metallic disks, so they can grab a cart and get inside as fast as possible.