Might be just someone wanting to highlight an architecture issue that allows someone to spam everyone.

It’s a thing everywhere. Donald Trump has a degree and he sure as fuck doesn’t know anything about anything.

Thank you for articulating why exactly I felt this way about the post. I couldn’t quite get to that point myself.

It is showing that there’s a lot of work to be done to deal with the spam issue. It’s basically relying on every individual instance admin to moderate their stuff and defederate from other instances that drop the ball. If Lemmy gets big enough for spammers to really try to attack it, the admins will quickly get overwhelmed.

Yeah, I still don’t know if the whole Russian spy thing is serious or not. He’s definitely doing everything to deconstruct the US empire, but it was already on its way down regardless anyway, and it can all basically be explained by incompetence or greed too.

Sweden as well.

And it shows that European countries need to stop buying American weapons.

I guess it depends on the chain. If it’s an international chain profits would most likely go overseas. Best to just buy whatever you can from local small businesses, no point in swapping American multinational corporations with European ones.

They all have local bottling plants, including Coca Cola.

The government has unlimited money, they can easily do that. An employee that was fired unfairly doesn’t.

He probably read some conspiracy theory about it and wants to have some goon inspect it. Just like the whole Fort Knox thing.

I thought I was adding to the conversation by mentioning free trade agreements, but ok.

The opposition needs to be more forceful about this kind of stuff. They’re always seemingly accepting the frame that you need to make cuts to fix the deficit (or even the frame that deficits altogether are bad), but never talking about how the wealthy aren’t contributing to the revenue part of things.

Biden made a good step by hiring a bunch of IRS personnel, but they barely talk about that, even now that Musk is firing these people in the name of ‘efficiency’, even though every dollar you put in the IRS gives you more than $2 in return.

Yeah, the perfect opportunity to try to impress Trump and Vance.

He pays some guy to do it, which is even sadder.

Yeah, Musk is just not micro managing enough. If he was on board he’d be able to fix any issues that come up in real time.

Sabotage, or the fact that the best rocket scientists probably don’t want to work for a Nazi on ketamine?

Civilisation forces you to make choices when building military units as well. You either invest some initial production in a factory or other production multipliers, or you queue up the units immediately but they’ll take longer to build.

It’s existential for Norway in a lot of ways. They border Russia and if Russia is allowed to get away with grabbing a chunk of Ukraine, they could be next.

Or tariffs on countries with terrible labour policies. It’s always annoyed me that labour is never involved in free trade negotiations and the stuff that makes it in are requirements for standardisation or intellectual property, but never anything about labour standards.

Of course, that’s by design, because all of those things are neoliberal constructs and the whole point of those is to break labour power, but it’s disappointing you never even see anyone pay lip service to anything like that.