Yes, but this is agreed in advance, not “I am late, let me call”

I had never been in court, but would assume that when you are called to appear into court, you are not given zoom link just in case. Right?

I suspect back then, when original quote was created, most, if not all, opium accessible to the public was natural and not a synthetic opiate. To translate it to opiate is likely incorrect then. That’s why I was a bit confused by correction “opiate”.

So, opium was fine?

What’s the difference? Serious question.

Religion is the opium for the masses. Nothing new here, really.

That’s technically correct.

I don’t know how to answer your question about the donkey, but the cross was erected.

What do you mean hardly relevant? It is very relevant to my joke.

Well, it is both, and neither of them is a person.

Try converting to a socialist. Socialism is a system, not a human being. No wonder it is difficult to do that.

Only those with other languages that I do not understand and that somehow still show on my feed.

You are missing the point that very often politics requires nuanced discussion, and it is not often you can get it here - people like simple and binary answers. And, if you point to the fact like on Wikipedia which goes against the echo chamber state, you will be reported by some for spreading “dubious information”. Do you really need that?

They specifically said “on here” though.

I do not see circles, I see one ellipse with horizontal large axis.

Maybe the question was avoiding discussing politics? It is not like Lemmy being good source of unbiased news…

And cars killed horses. Sometimes literally.

Which is actually not smartphone, but a general purpose computer with cell internet connection that can be used for many things, one of those is actually calling.

It is much more likely to find Trump in DC, than abroad. That was the motivation to my my question.

What about DC as opposed to a state?