Well you don’t want to blame anyone unfairly, gotta mind your p’s and q’s and come in with an airtight case bc you only get one shot when you go for the king (or something, that’s usually the line I’m given as to why the gears of justice grind so slowly or whatever)

Oh boy, think Elon will change his name next time he gets married? Elon Domingo? Elon Smith? Elon Trump? 😛 He can make it into a complete glow-up entering his free-wheeling 50’s era 💅

I feel this comment in my bones. Have a nice weekend! ✨

My guess: they’ll use this as their latest example of the “violent left” without evidence, as is tradition

That’s because it wasn’t a vaccine!

It was the LiBeRaL mInD vIrUs!!!1!! 😯

Which goes to show how much of their society’s communication relies on corporate solutions instead of local ones. Similar bans in Russia recently have devastated ‘usual’ lines of communication for people there.

It’s just copium from Cuomo.

Cuopium

I don’t see how that would change anything, though I’m all ears to find out why it could. I swear there’s nothing stopping these fucks from doing exactly what they want at this point.

This article is worth reading, imo. There’s more going on here than the introduction of the “Max” ‘super-app’. I wasn’t aware of this but Russia has also been subjecting its population to a “digital detox” where Internet blackouts are becoming increasingly common. In some areas the Internet is down most of the time, in others service has returned but is extremely poor compared to before the blackout. Mobile Internet blackouts have been performed claiming without evidence that it’s to disrupt drones coming from Ukraine.

In some areas this Max ‘super-app’ (which handles banking, communication, and more–and is a direct line for government surveillance) is the only option to do banking or communicate with anybody by phone. This practice is sweeping the country after declaring Meta a terrorist organization, and swiftly eliminating any Meta apps from Russian access including Instagram, Facebook, and the most popular app for communication in Russia: WhatsApp.

This is fucked on another level and i think we should be paying attention because this is presumably where Trump gets his inspiration and/or his marching orders, so i have a suspicion we’ll see something similar wash up on our shores soon enough.

I’ve been thinking about this for a while now–a mass, extended Internet disruption would not only screw up communication on a grand scale here, but business would also be tremendously impacted. It’s the next ‘privilege’ for us to have taken away and replaced with an enshittified surrogate, forcing large swaths of people to sign over even more of their autonomy to big brother in exchange to have all the things the Internet has now made possible. Want to be able to easily get navigation on gps? Talk to your friends or family? Pay bills using your bank account? Imagine there was only 1 app that will allow you to do that from now on. I can only imagine how shitty the user experience is on “Max” but i suppose in time i won’t need to–I’ll have a front row seat to try it out here in the comfort of my home one of these days, seeing the direction things appear to be heading in. I mean shit, we’re probably already nearly there and i just don’t realize it yet 🫠

What’s the end game here? Disease the country, sweep away the bodies and begin Xanadu?

Thank you for taking the time to pass the lore on to the next generation in this manner. Your loyalty and hard work will be repaid (by a possible encounter with a Mew in the afterlife, keep your pokeballs handy)

Damn, that makes me appreciate the convenience of bottles. I can’t imagine you can simply place a bag of soda on the typical surface without risking a mess (though i suppose there’s probably tech or methods for dealing with it of course)… Def learned something interesting today!

Are there places selling it that way?

What’s that thing on the left side of the 2024 Niño? It looks almost like a broom i guess… Is that a beverage?!?

This really has been the trump admin in a nutshell: the worst possible candidate for any given post seems to be sought out specifically, through rigorous trials and deliberations to narrow down to the absolutely least qualified individual. But they go even further somehow–being unqualified is important but actually being vehemently opposed to the very thing is really what distills the official that gets appointed. Hate parks? Wonderful, you can run the parks department (into the ground). Hate healthy people and medicine even moreso? Congrats, you’re now Secretary of Health. It’s almost impressive how they find these people.

But but but maybe it was just a preemptive strike?!? 😬

Not the president we want, the president we deserve (also, you can’t gain access to the country if this pic of him is on your phone)

Watch national guard troops get installed there now

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