Trump and Vance are bullies. The kind of damage this will do to the PR of the USA is incalculable.

Will there be anymore goodwill for the USA?

Yeah, but propelling them out of the solar system just sounds like the kind of fake-ending that ends up with the super villain coming back stronger in a decade. Have we learnt nothing from science fiction? You have to destroy your foes whilst you can.

Or, chronic diseases which have been effectively cured aren't considered chronic diseases anymore?

At what point does this become securities fraud? Stock price manipulation by using obscene concentrations of wealth to prop up sibling companies?

Oh do fuck off Google.

Is this what an out of control madman looks like?

"The closer the collapse of the Empire, the crazier its laws are."

Marcus Tullius Cicero Someone

I think the way you're supposed to do it now is to post one of the JD Vance memes into c/196 and try DMing the first person who comments. Rinse and repeat until the desired outcome is achieved.

I don't know about anyone else, but I got into computers at a young age because it gave me a sense of control over something. I didn't understand everything, but I could do a lot of trial and error, read things and experiment, build cool things, and I shared a sense of community with some random internet strangers based on that knowledge.

In a world where we are so powerless in so many other ways, why did we insist on bringing that power dynamic into the new bright tech sphere? Why did we have to do that? (N.B. this is rhetorical questioning).

Kiwix - they have downloads of various educational resources including subsets of Wikipedia which can be taken on a USB-stick to far off remote places that don't have reliable internet access.

You can find the available downloads at library.kiwix.org

There something quite ableist about all of this.

As if everyone can pull themselves up by their bootstraps without the support of a community around them.

It's possible that other people survived the initial crash, but it was the ability of this guy to quickly regain consciousness and walk away that meant that he managed to avoid post-crash fires (which others may not have been able to escape). So it might make sense that he only survived because he was able to walk away quickly after the crash.

Gentoo. No. Compiling all of the things was not for me.

How does that freedom taste?

You are probably one of the wealthiest 10%.

TBF the Nazis were pretty instrumental in the development of rockets.

Surprisingly wholesome for 196.

Sometimes the rules need to be ignored to treat people with a little dignity.

Joke's on you, my mother was completely unforgiving.

Is it really a law if it's unenforceable?