Talking about America or any country as a single organism with just one train of thought is unproductive.
LesserAbe
Yeah. I don't like these guys, but for our own credibility we should be factual. TPU has had many questionable opinions about public health, including covid. But they weren't founded specifically related to covid, or as I understand it even with a particular focus on health/life sciences.
Article about the founder dying: https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/29/turning-point-usa-founder-dies-coronavirus-complications-387077
Is that an upper class student radish hanging out with a subsistence farmer radish?
Like the European Union?
Barney is famously purple
I was at my neighbor's house and we were just poking around to see what there was to do online. We found a file (what we would now call a supercut but we didn't have that word then) with a hundred instances of Homer Simpson saying "D'oh".
We downloaded it, which took twenty minutes or something like that, and my recollection is when we went to play it there was no software on the computer that could. That doesn't seem like it could be true, maybe I'm mixing memories up. It wouldn't have been an mp3 file because it was too early for that, and I'd expect windows to at least be able to play .wav. maybe it was some weird format. So we had to do another search and found a freeware program called Goldwave which we downloaded and were able to listen then. I still used Goldwave for years and even paid for it.
I don't think it's supposed to literally be Goku and friends
Garfield did talk about dieting a lot. Sort of like the trope about quicksand, dieting seemed to occupy a much larger mental space in the Garfiverse than in my own lived experience.
I'm talking specifically about armed conflict. You're right we absolutely can't go on the way things are. I don't think it's a foregone conclusion that we have to have a shooting war.
It's sort of like throwing up. You feel sick, you try to do everything you can not to, but at a certain moment you know it's going to happen and there's no avoiding it.
The problem is you don't know ahead of time which times you're going to actually throw up. Sometimes if you lay down or drink some water or whatever you feel better.
If the instance is in the same country, a government can much more effectively exercise leverage against some guy running a server than a publicly traded corporation with lawyers on retainer.
If it's not the same country maybe easier just to ignore.
The best case in terms of privacy is just not collecting data. Something like mullvad vpn where they don't keep the sort of records that governments ask for.
Unfortunately anti spam measures often involve collecting identifying information (like email addresses).