Marie Antoinette sounds like a paragon of compassion right about now

Don’t forget Tesla lying about many things and saying it’s “free speech” to lie to customers, and being very obstructionist when releasing safety data

And pressure individuals like ICC judges by blocking them from US payment networks

And remember he doesn’t have to be an official asset, merely being someone useful to them effectively does the same thing - with deniability for the Russians

Maybe the broligarchy currently in charge will finally disabuse people of the notion of white male superiority. Maybe…

I will only travel with work devices from now on. Big tech is complicit in electing Trump, they can deal with my devices being seized by immigration

It is a sort of empire - Immerwahr called it a Pointilist one

https://www.historynet.com/the-invisible-empire-why-some-americans-dont-count/

Good point. Though I wonder how much is due to Hitler being chancellor and Goering the minister president of Prussia.

There are a few restaurants I have been to in the US that actually pay living wages and say tipping is optional. When the service is really good and you insist you want to tip they are generally over the moon.

Schumer’s seat is only up in 2028 but if enough of his allies - preferably in safe seats - get primaried in 26 and the new progressives hold them in the general election (and hopefully win some back from GOP) I expect he will be forced out of leadership for the next Congress

It has to have enough shift to progressives or else he will take credit and stay on. He will also be ousted if Democrats lose again but in that scenario MAGA will continue unchecked for 2 more years at least

I’m based in the US and I refuse to buy most of the chicken on sale either. Heritage chicken only please

Only two thirds of the senate

https://www.senate.gov/about/powers-procedures/impeachment.htm

And to start the impeachment trial you just need a normal majority in the House

“Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?” comes to mind

Depending on the intricacies of tax treaties you probably won’t pay much US tax after moving to a high taxation country. Relinquishing US citizenship when you are wealthy means paying the capital gains exit tax on your worldwide assets though so if you can afford good accountants, keeping both is probably easier

It also appears that the first post has to tag the community, so tagging on a reply does not work. Good enough though.

Here you are:

https://archive.is/amobN

Courtesy of this Mastodon toot

https://mastodon.social/@kcarruthers/110754690602535860

I tried Proton years ago and didn’t find it that useful (I can manage my own PGP keys, thank you).

Started switching to Fastmail seriously this month, after having had mail delivery problems with mailbox.org because of DNSSEC issues (they use a deprecated SHA1 signature still) - I have used migadu.com for a different domain for a few years as well but the webmail is a bit sluggish and the spam filter too aggressive, I might end up consolidating on Fastmail for now

Sure it’s Five Eyes so a slight regression from mailbox and migadu, but if it works well enough I might be able to get my family to move off of Gmail so a net win

I mostly agree with the list, but given Spotify platforms Joe Rogan and pays artists less than Apple Music, for music streaming I went the other way.

Looking forward to Bandwagon catching on, and help recording artists cut the middle men out

We need more data, but ultra-marathons could be such events

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-49284389

What sucks is on the way down, between Trump’s tariff and preference for ICEs and foreign markets retaliating, he’ll take down the other US EV players. The ones run by what seems like genuinely nice people like Rivian and Lucid.

In the greater scheme of things it wouldn’t matter so much, but quite a shame.