I mean, “compares as bad” is comparable, right? :p

Isn’t it dangerous now that PDFs can run javascript? (Who had that idiotic idea, anyway?)

Are those even legit anymore? Any idiot judge (or DOGE script kiddie pretending to be one) can sign one.

Yet the mob not only punishes for the former, but does it so instance-wide, needlessly tarnishing the reputation of normal users of the instance while the admins moderated that problem on their own.

Punishing people by transitivity only gets communities so far.

So, the usual “on the Fediverse you shalln’t be anything less than immaculately perfect” crap?

“impeachment without removal” is just performative showoff. Without removal, they’d continue to do as-do, and they’d even feel more emboldened (if that was still possible).

Oh no! Please someone listen to the millionaires!

(/s btw)

ICE agents don’t know nor care to know how to read, let alone how to ask for a passport.

If you are approached suspiciously by men in black, have your gun at the ready.

Wow! Imagine all the grandstanding that people will do with “records of what happened” while hoping that people vote differently next time!

Whattt? Is Trump saying that the US of A, the “greatest” country in the world, can’t engage in its secondmost favourite activity which is literally suing people?

Not picking favourites, but the Biden administration, not even the Clinton administration, had this “skill issue”.

The same way? A Pretendo for the Switch.

Fair point, considering the ramifications on Zelensky’s counter-deal.

over Ukraine obstruction

so no word on Israel from Europe yet, huh?

If the islands are to be anchored in place most or all of the time, I think it would not be too unsafe to simply run wiring alongside whichever non-rigid or rope-like anchorings are available. That is, material and distances permitting.

The wiring wouldn’t even have to necessarily reach down to the ground / up to the islands. Just high enough to an intermediary point where electricity can be discharged relatively safely away from the anchoring or connecting stations. And defo outside the range of airport-like platforms, but I’d assume in a civ where those islands are a long-term fixture there would be already regulations in place to restrict operation of flying machines directly underneath these islands.

If so, since we’re talking about islands to be inhabited / urbanized here, I’m seeing two cases:

In the case of the island approaching the ground, would a practical way to deal with this be planting a lightning inverse-rod at the bottom of the island? So that electricity can more easily discharged to the ground while the island is approaching the ground, before any actual contact event?

In the case of people or objects from the island approaching the ground or vice-versa, I’m actually wondering how to even palliate this. Space (even airspace) is 3D and I don’t think it’s really feasible to place an “electro decompression cabin” all around the island.

Despite the failures (or needs-of-improvement) of the current federation model, it is absolutely safe against that. Federation is copies, not links.

That copypasta never gets old!

Oh no I multiclassed it alongside Politics and Literature, which taught me there’s this thing called Context. Which teaches a supposed stream service of a country that is requiring government ID to access media or even web services in general, from a country that historically spreads its legs for the US and does lots of colonialism otherwise, might not be the most palatable thing. Even more when the rest of the US is pointing out they’re gonna help fund VLC.

Walk and chew gum yes, anyone can do. From what I’ve seen of democrats, however, it seems they’re limited to walk-and-talk, or talk-and-talk.

Hmmm but wait, Britain (or the UK) is not part of the EU.

Besides, they are as anti-privacy and anti-safety as the US, being their good bitch.