Man i was hoping this “slap” was of the more literal variant

Yeah their plans have been on and off for years now. Just ignore anything they say.

Is the .tv TLD gonna disappear when Tuvalu completely goes under?

I hope Mamdani has a high quality security detail or he wont live long.

Western ones are also shitty tho. AMD and nvidia constantly changing up their naming schemes. Adding random X and T letters.

Bought an orange pi recently and had a similiarily confusing experience with naming schemes.

I assume every modern electric motor like this has a built in control and monitoring circuit, but yeah idk what else could be rare earths.

Man i would not wanna be on that bridge. They didnt set up any buffer zones on the sides of the bridge in case of panic. If there is one then people are gonna get crushed or have to jump into the water.

Thank you for extending this chain of tomfoolery :) I was thinking that Mint would make a good setup for a continuation.

Those are the best hangout spots tho.

Its bad yes, but its just laughable to equate a literal genocide with hundreds of thousands of deaths, to people stuck in a cell for a few days, where one ended up dying. Its an insult to the Palestinian people.

You have a decent chance

Thats what i meant by that. The number of times it has happened with ICE is nothing by comparison to the IDF.

Mint is an operating system based on Debian, while Ubuntu describes a set of closely related Bantu African-origin value systems that emphasize the interconnectedness of individuals with their surrounding societal and physical worlds.

You have a decent chance to survive somewhat unscathed if abducted by ICE. If you get abducted by the IDF you are basically guaranteed to be tortured, raped, killed or all of the above.

The US is in a bad place, but i don’t think you truly understand how bad things are in Gaza.

The justification is intimidation.

They knew what was coming with Trump and prepared in advance.

Nah its just part of the MLM scheme that is “AI”. Its useful because they said it would be useful. Its worth the investment because it cost a lot of money. Once you realize that all these companies care about is revenue and “growth” then it all clicks. It doesnt have to work or be profitable, it just needs to look good to investers.

They will even go as far as firing loads of workers and saying publicly that they “replaced them with AI” while in reality those workers were just doing something that the company was willing to sacrifice. They just replaced something with nothing to make it look like their magic AI can actually do things.

Cory Doctorow put it better than i ever could: https://pluralistic.net/2025/05/07/rah-rah-rasputin/
The whole post is good but i will just quote this section.

The “boy genius” story is an example of Silicon Valley’s storied “reality distortion field,” pioneered by Steve Jobs. Like Jobs, Zuck is a Texas marksman, who fires a shotgun into the side of a barn and then draws a target around the holes. Jobs is remembered for his successes, and forgiven his (many, many) flops, and so is Zuck. The fact that pivot to video was well understood to have been a catastrophic scam didn’t stop people from believing Zuck when he announced “metaverse.”

Zuck lost more than $70b on metaverse, but, being a boy genius Texas marksman, he is still able to inspire confidence from credulous investors. Zuck’s AI initiatives generated huge interest in Meta’s stock, with investors betting that Zuck would find ways to keep Meta’s growth going, despite the fact that AI has the worst unit economics of any tech venture in living memory. AI is a business that gets more expensive as time goes on, and where the market’s willingness to pay goes down over time. This makes the old dotcom economics of “losing money on every sale, but making it up in volume” look positively rosy.

≠ not able to.

Therefore, no monopoly.

Thats not how that works. When the largest established player in an industry sector pays off or buys all the competition then thats a monopoly. Thats what Google has been doing for years and thats why they are getting sued.

Ofc playstore will come preinstalled on android phones

But they have also pushed other android phone manufacturers not to create their own app stores. Another anticompetitive thing that shows up in lawsuits.

Anyways its weird that you think you have a better idea of what constitutes a monopoly, when they are, at this moment, in the process of being sued for being exactly that.

Which one?

Im on calyx so i know that you can get rid of google stuff, but almost all traditionally sold android phones come with google stuff preinstalled and installing fdroid, or even flashing a custom rom is not something most normal people will ever do.

Publishing on Play Store is also a massive pain tho so its just that they have a monopoly, but they are also abusing it to make life hard for anyone that wants to do anything with their app that google doesnt like.