Signs and stuff I can kind of understand. Our world is chock full of things (ads) that try to get our attention at any point. At some point you develop an internal adblock and since 98% is irrelevant it is a reasonable drawback that the remaining 2% gets filtered out as well.

Barrier of entry is marginally lower. With mastodon you’ll have to make a decision on what instance you’re creating your account. With Bluesky there’s just Bluesky.

Obviously, Musk wants to be the shadow president of the USA but I don’t think it’ll play out as he hopes.

Nah, there’s a pretty huge list of “woke” video games and they include titles that have an optional 1 minute scene of homosexual romance.

Trump and Vance hold no actual power. Musk is now the shadow president of the USA.

There’s a third.

That’s been going on since 10 already at least.

I guess we now know who will really hold power in the oval office. Spoiler: it’s not Trump

I guess there will be many people thinking that, driving up demand->increasing prices before any tariffs even exist.

Life works differently for the haves than it does for the have-nots. This has been pretty much a constant in human societies…

Bad News…

“perhaps” “I think”

In short you’ve got no clue.

Systemd’s method is more powerful than Cron syntax.

In authoritarian environments, any compassion you show the declared enemy is a grave offense and needs to be punished severely.

I had to take three days off work to recover from this game.

Exactly, the moment things cost real money in the game, the design of the game changes to increase likelihood of spending. Guild Wars 2 e.g. sells increased inventory space…and it fills your inventory with so many crap items that you’ll constantly be managing your inventory without the extra space.

Germany for example. The AfD is gaining more and more support by using phrases like “This development that is happening right now, creation of mixed populations to destroy the national identity and thus give our autonomy to the EU - that is simply not bearable!”, “Such humans we should of course dispose of”, “When a [n-word] in my neighborhood coughs at me, I have to know if he is sick or is he not sick.” or “The reason why we are being flooded with culturally foreign people like Arabs, Sinti and Roma is the systematic destruction of civil society.” https://www.volksverpetzer.de/analyse/10-rechtsextreme-zitate-der-afd/

5 minutes of internet fame.

What do you want?

Germany here. We do donate to parties, but not individual politicians.