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I don’t think there is any way in hell the US is going to be welcome back on the world stage as a partner to any of their former allies again unless among many other things they put themselves under the ICCs jurisdiction.

“A May 2025 presentation by its safety staff estimated that the company’s platforms were involved in a third of all successful scams in the U.S.“

Meta projected 10% of its 2024 revenue would come from ads for scams and banned goods, documents seen by Reuters show. And the social media giant internally estimates that its platforms show users 15 billion scam ads a day. Among its responses to suspected rogue marketers: charging them a premium for ads – and issuing reports on ’Scammiest Scammers.’

More about accepting that they are never going to vote for you to begin with and that you’re very literally wasting both your time and killing the support you do have in trying to reach them. They are entirely unrecruitable.

How many genuinely ex-MAGA people do you know? I think for most people that number is at absolute best a very low single digit number.

There are a whole bunch of people out there who are entirely disenfranchised who just can’t be bothered to vote however who could be inspired to do so and this thread is very literally about someone who went with that strategy and won.

I’m simply making the argument that you should spend your time there instead and keep your integrity in the process. People actually want something to believe in and a concept of fairness, affordability, justice and anti-corruption is an incredibly wide tent already. Stick with that.

Actual security / privacy person here. The iOS ecosystem is much much much worse than people currently think of it as. This is primarily due to adware SDKs and in-app browsers that Apple has done absolutely nothing to address.

Only in a quarter to quarter sense. I’ll never give them another cent. I’ve watched large numbers of people go from fans to haters in the last five years especially. I also think at just a fundamental technical level their moat is quickly disappearing.

Just to be clear we are currently in a thread talking about someone who won against all odds and stupid amounts of money by not sticking to the supposed “centrist script”.

Also we aren’t talking about your personal preferences here in terms of quality of life but about hard data. The numbers aren’t even close. The one you listed as your personal favorite comes last in those categories.

I’m not trying to be rude but it sure seems like you’ve taken your preference of living in a rural area vs living in a city and then tried to build an argument around that.

Yes, that was the sad joke unfortunately. The hospital was genuinely world renowned but what good does that do you if you can’t afford to use it. You die… hence the difference in survival rates.

What on earth are you talking about? I’m asking why you’re scared of losing magic internet points and need to hide behind throwaway accounts and you’re here talking about the inner fortitude of the American character.

For what it’s worth, not that you asked but this year in particular has really only cemented my view of the general US citizen as a very scared individual who is terrified to stand up for anything.

What you’re doing right now is actually great example of that under what could only be described as the lowest stakes scenario possible.

You could probably learn something from the “cheese eating surrender monkey” French who you’re all to happy to compare yourselves against but at least they are willing to fight for what they have.

The majority of Americans live pay check to pay check back in the real world. It’s the only country I’ve seen outside of a war zone where people are regularly trying to crowdfund money for basic things like food, education, justice or medical care. The story you’re telling yourself is entirely divorced from reality.

I remember the parent of an ex of mine who was from NY tell me how lucky they were to have such incredible insurance and medical coverage when his wife got cancer because he only had to pay the first $100k/yr out of pocket and then the rest was “free”. It was repeatedly stressed to me what a rare thing this was and most people would be in such a worse position.

Anyways, long story short… They hit that limit by February and then spent the rest of the year getting denied by their insurance company until the day she died. But at least she was treated at “the best cancer hospital in the world”.

Real land of the free and home of the brave stuff here with a throwaway account to offer such gripping commentary.

Just talk like a normal adult with your normal account and accept that maybe some people think your opinion is bad and you lose an internet point.

Counterpoint: The country really needs to learn how to have a grown up conversation and not allow the dumbest people in the room with the least generous interpretation of everything possible who were never going to vote for you anyways to constantly set the agenda.

Sensible voices are a rare thing in this climate and it’s incredibly easy to stand out as one if you stop playing by a set of rules that were intentionally designed to make you fail in the first place.

Honestly I think the American exceptionalism shit is a cancer on the society and I find it incredibly hard to distinguish from the "Deutschland über alles" nonsense that the Germans went through. It’s just a fundamentally flawed way of looking at the world. It’s like a story a small child might believe but it really doesn’t stand up to even the most gentle of scrutiny.

Only because American discourse and thinking is so utterly poisoned by the absolute bullshit that is “American exceptionalism”.

In terms of almost any possible quality of life metric you can think of Europe is ahead of the US.

That combined with just a breathtaking level of ignorance of what Europe is actually like in any meaningful sense. You saw this a lot in this NYC election where they were trying to paint Mamdani as an actual communist because well over half of the country has no idea what “democratic socialism” means let alone communism.

I think there’s some real value in WANs that are independent of both the internet and existing telco infrastructure but I don’t think I would put a specific transport at the centre of its design. I think you would be much better off with something like bundle protocol v7 and delay tolerant networking as the actual centrepiece and have something like LoRa as one of many transport link options.

Maybe we are talking about a different threat model here but LoRa as the centrepiece falls apart really quickly the moment someone somewhere decides they don’t want your WAN to exist anymore.

I don’t think you have any rights whatsoever to tell other people what they are allowed to discuss. I understand if you personally want nothing to do with the conversation that’s your right and that’s what the hide button is for. You should use it if you genuinely feel that way but I am having a real hard time to take that claim at face value.

Which let’s be honest is what you wanted to do all along. This was never at any point about you personally wanting to not read something but about you making sure that nobody else could. Congratulations, you’re exactly the kind of person I had assumed you were.

They had no navy, no army and no airforce to defend it. I think the criticism is entirely valid.

There is literally a hide button right there if that’s your actual wish… somehow you clicked on the one to read the comments and then accidentally clicked on the button to reply multiple times to it.

It’s the difference between getting an education and learning a trade… so yes.

People WERE happy to do the Wikipedia model but you won’t find anyone who is willing to do it now purely to make someone else rich and you’re kidding yourself if you think otherwise..

It’s literally impossible to reconcile the fact that the same groups (I.e heritage foundation) that backed trump are trying to collapse the European Union (as a matter of fact on the record) with the idea that the US intel community can be trusted.

European intel services should be laser focused on undermining that part of US political power at every possible opportunity because it’s entirely incompatible with the goals of the European Union or any kind of rules based international order.

As seen with the many examples of this that have come before it I.e stack exchange and reddit answers etc… nobody is in anyway even remotely motivated to put in the time and effort to offer their expertise to have someone else steal it for their own greedy profit seeking reasons.

You’re asking people to willingly sign up to be robbed and receive no compensation or credit in return.

If Meta manages to die in the coming AI apocalypse it will make me extremely happy. They are an absolute cancer on society.

A lot has changed since this was published, you can’t trust these numbers at all.

a bunch of major projects have conclusively shown that moving to memory safe languages without any doubt whatsoever results in more secure software.

Isn’t this the specific reason things like the raspberry pi were developed to solve?

Not a Rust or even a systems language guy but it’s not “for some reason”. The reason is actually incredibly clear and about removing the single largest surface area of security problems in the entire history of Linux.

I think that’s been true for quite some time now

Don’t get mad about it but a lot of people want to work with Flutter because they think is better for any number of reasons. The data is what it is.

It’s also just nicer to work with in addition to having all of the multi platform stuff taken care of you for free.