They are walking billboards.

Joining the EU? Would that have even been possible?

I mean, I think it would’ve been awesome to be able travel to Russia without a VISA and just start working there…

ASML Holding, a Dutch company that supplies photolithography systems for the semiconductor industry

You’re one search away from the truth, my friend

Yes, that’s the only option. It’s always occupation or no occupation. No other options exist. /s

Hmmm Ground News says it has only been reported by the right so far

“The world has abandoned us,” she added. “They left us to the Taliban, and whatever happens to us now is a result of Western government policies.”

Hear hear.

Not a biologist, but I’m convinced it’s possible.

With induced pluripotent stemcells (stemcells made from nearly any cell of the body which can grow into anything too), we’ll find a way to make an egg from a man using any cells he provides. Then all you need is the other male partner’s sperm and a donor womb. Btw, the womb won’t have to be within a woman - artificial wombs are being researched.

Someone already posted the 3 parent technique. So it is at least already partially possible.

Since males have the XY chromosomes, they should be able to (theoretically) have female (XX) and male (XY) offspring. With advanced microbiology and artificial wombs, there’s no doubt in my mind that we’ll reach that point before the end of the century.

It’s the same as in every business: those making decisions think that the decision making is the hardest and most important part of the equation. Not only that, they believe that it is their right and that they worked very hard to get where they are.

There are two reasons they have to believe that:

1. if they didn’t, they’d feel that they didn’t deserve it
2. it also explains (to them at least) why there is inequality

The common argument that is brought up against change now is capital flight: “if businesses and rich people were taxed too much, they’d leave the country”. There is a great fear that they will leave and take all the good jobs with them. The counter argument to that is: they aren’t the only ones with brains to get a business going. Rich people aren’t smarter than non-rich people, businesses that leave did employ people from whence they left and they also probably sold to the people in that area or country.

Now, of course the speed of departure, the political reaction, and the location are important.

Speed: instant departure can have a serious impact as the jobless might not be able to find other employment quickly. A graduated departure allows that however and also makes it possible for people to focus on other jobs/specialisations in the first place.

Political reaction: depending on where you are, providing recertification and training courses, having good welfare programs, and most importantly having an exit tax can help soften the blow of departure

Location: A big employer leaving a small town can be devastating. A small employer leaving a city, less so. A big employer leaving a city can burden the city, but the other factors are important.

I never really considered there’d be useful content on there.

I don’t really get why people scroll through short-form video, but at least there’s an opensource alternative in the works… Will be interesting to see if they allow non-loops users to contribute bandwidth because hosting all of those videos will be expensive af.

I want to see the fediverse grow to enter the mainstream. For forum stuff specifically, that means as big or bigger than reddit. The more people discover and work on this federated form thing, the better. There will be better moderation tools, better filtering, better website experience and design, hopefully more developers enjoying opensource, etc.

And most of all, I want to see how this network will cope with not just a few thousand people talking but millions, maybe billions. If it can survive becoming mainstream, stay opensource, and ad-free, that I think we’ll be a step closer to a better internet.

I encourage you to watch the interview I posted. TL;DW the Dems should achieve their goals (which are better than those of the Reps) by playing like the Reps. Again, that’s the short version of the video which doesn’t do it justice, so if you want to argue it, I encourage you again to watch the video.

Let them be joined by left-aligned hogs.

Hopefully learn to play by the same rules as the Republicans and stop being such fucking pussies. Republicans cheat, lie, steal, and pretend to be morally superior while the Democrats try to abide by rules which aren’t in the rulebook. I found this interview quite good where it’s brought up.

Democrats, go play dirty otherwise you’ll keep fucking losing.

How so? Creating an account is like any other sign up? Everyone has an @username@server like email. There’s nor much else to care about in order to use it.

What makes mastodon techie?

Wants me to fight back

Thank you. I didn’t know that.

There are still costs attached to maintaining the network that provides electricity, so it can’t really be free unless it’s nationalised and paid for by taxes (which still isn’t free).

I just block anybody posting news about USAmerican politics and any community/magazine focused on it. It weeds out USAmericans and their sympathisers.