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Most nations in Europe and the EU didn’t manage much more than that so it’s really no reason for the Germans to distrust UK when they’re doing the same thing… and the reason is that European security is still strongly dependent on the USA, unfortunately.
“Saving europe from the nazis” is far too much credit for the USA… but they did play a significant role, just weren’t the only one putting in work to do it. Unfortunately the Soviets also took the eastern half for their efforts…
I don’t know what you’re referring to with “selling weapons to the nazis” though, the aid in weapons to Britain and USSR was significant before USA entered the war and there was a ban on selling weapons to anyone before that happened.
Same with praising fascism, in general the Nazis tried to demonize the US government and focused on the jewish members of it in particular. There were certainly some American fascists of course if that’s what you’re referring to but they didn’t represent the US as a country…
US splitting Korea is a bit like saying the US split Europe or Germany. It wasn’t the plan at the time but the USSR wasn’t going to let go of what they had occupied without it becoming ideologically aligned with them. The government that US supported carrying out purges is inexcusable of course but on the other hand but an even more brutal regime is now still in power in the North.
That said, post-WW2 USA certainly did it’s share of evil shit during the cold war. It’s just that the other side of that was still generally worse and USA got somewhat better over time. Now all that seems to be out the window.
Because for a time with all its faults it was the best option. The world becoming multipolar with most strong players not being committed to rule of law or democracy will have some pretty significant consequences…
well the thing is that sharing this sort of ideology doesn’t really mean your goals are really aligned on most issues at all since “America First” is necessarily “Sweden Last”. It’s of course especially dumb to push for this sort of worldview everywhere if you’re from a small country that really needs the world to cooperate…
how low has it historically fluctuated to with more normal presidents?
right, by all accounts fentanyl is not something these boats are likely to be trafficking at all.
decentralization doesn’t have a particularly specific meaning. Federation absolutely qualifies for having a certain degree of it. You can be more or less decentralized ranging from completely monolithic to fully p2p. Then there are related properties like the ability to migrate or anonymity.
well that may be true for general news but if you’re looking for a more specific topic it won’t necessarily hold.
thanks, that’s interesting to see… I wouldn’t say that what we mean by Loops now has been around for that long but it does show he has been thinking about shortform video for a while and used the same name as the experimental feature had.
where are you getting the idea that Loops is five years old? Seems more like less than two years. From what I can tell it was publicly announced March 2024 (not yet available at that point): https://wedistribute.org/2024/03/loops-by-pixelfed/
In October 2024 it was starting to accept limited signups. The git repo has commits dating back to December 2024.
Federation for it is definitely still a WIP but I don’t see much reason to doubt that it will be a fediverse platform.
It’s not just a label but it guarantees practically nothing because it only means they are allowed to consider things other than shareholder profit. It doesn’t in any way ensure that they do and a PBC is mostly treated just the same as a for-profit company.
Obviously it isn’t just the team that owns Bluesky at this point since they have had multiple rounds where they’ve raised venture capital. That is an old bit of information that I think they still have up on the site despite it being both vague and obviously false.
They’re not. In practice PBC status doesn’t really limit them very much at all and is nothing like nonprofit.
yeah I’m aware… doesn’t really refute anything I said. If he holds a share then he can do what any investor can do and how much he can do depends on how big his share of the company is.
can always come up with rationalizations but the fact remains there are other platforms that will not “cost optimize” it away.
Nothing might be going too far. He left the board since it wasn’t good PR for them but Bluesky is not transparent about its ownership and Dorsey could well still have a stake in it.
no that was in fact the Bluesky CEO. See: https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/05/waffles-eat-bluesky/
This was a treat for a fan and someone who played the originals when they were new. Well-made high resolution update to graphics, wonderful new versions of the music by Klepacki & The Tiberian Sons and so many extras. Loved seeing all the takes of the live action videos.
I do think a lot of that goes on with phones already but I will say there are certain situations where the person recording can’t do it so well with a phone. Such as when they’re actively interacting with whoever they want to video.
I don’t think Glass ultimately failed because of that. It was a limited device that made the wearer look like a member of the borg.
Where in particular do you see weapons factories mentioned in that? Some businesses continuing to operate in Nazi Germany, sure. Fairly far from the initial claim though.
Time magazine man of the year has never been about making an endorsement. He wasn’t portrayed as an answer to communism in the article but as a threat: https://marcuse.faculty.history.ucsb.edu/projects/hitler/sources/30s/391time/391timemanyear.htm
Yeah… that’s not at all accurate. There were no real elections. A hand-picked leader who was loyal to Moscow by the Soviets. Communist as a requirement. Wasn’t great from the start and especially in the long run North Korea really has in fact proven to be the worse option…