They’re still killing people daily in Gaza, and displacing people in the west bank, despite a nominal ceasefire.

That means he’ll stop supporting Israel with their genocide and other destabilising actions, right?

Yep, if history is any guide, Democrats, if they ever get back in power, will want to look forward, not back. They’ve done that with Nixon, Reagan, the GFC, torture, Trump’s whole ass coup, …

It just means that the exact same characters will just try again.

Yeah, can’t really joke about executions in the street.

Big issue with the state of politics, comedians are basically relegated to just reading the news because it’s already a satire.

Blatter doesn’t run FIFA any more. And was fine with Russia and Qatar having the world cup, so I’m guessing the principles arrived when he retired.

And the open source movement is such a blind spot to the ‘left’ as well, even though technology freedom is critical if you want to be able to organise any type of resistance in the digital space.

Lemmy users largely get it, obviously, but centre left people will happily let themselves get locked into the Apple/Google walled gardens even though you’re just giving that company a ridiculous amount of power over you.

If you set up parental controls on your parent’s devices I can guarantee they won’t find a way around it.

And if the French hadn’t helped the US in the revolutionary war, they’d all be speaking English and be under a despotic monarch now.

Oh wait…

I guess if Hitler was allowed to design a car, Musk didn’t want to be left behind.

He’s still pushing ‘intellectual property’ as part of his philanthropy. The creators of the Oxford vaccine wanted to open source it and give it away for free. Gates opposed that and he got his way (partly because of the influence of the Gates Foundation). The delays this caused probably killed millions of extra people in the Global South (not sure if anyone ever did the maths on this).

So weird to rely on a timer for stuff like that. The reliable way would be to measure air pressure if you want to account for delays and make sure you don’t accidentally trigger it on the ground.