Politics aside, I do find a great irony in the folks who are most likely to refer to stuff as sportsball and how dumb they sre simultaneously argue that they are fundamental human rights.

Into the politics… Just seems a lot of silliness on all sides. I play a couple coed rec league sports in a progressive city. Most times a trans woman is the strongest woman on the team. One who played with us was a dominant girl, stronger, faster, taller than most others, but when she decided she identified more as a he, he was pretty mediocre for a guy and there wasn’t really a role for him anymore. Is it a safety issue? I haven’t seen anything like that yet (but soccer, softball and volleyball aren’t super contact sports.) For high school girls who are depending on sports for a scholarship etc, yeah, I could see that sucking. Are maybe more rec leagues a viable compromise? Absolutely. Will anyone admit enough to allow said compromise? Not a chance in hell.

I really hope this whole “closer ties with the EU” business gets us access to Linux phones. I had the same issue with fairphone if memory serves.

Of all the amazing posts tonight, this might be my favourite. Ironically, seems to be about a stunt 10 years ago https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/oct/18/arabic-billboard-mocks-donald-trumps-fear-of-muslims

But I’d say it’s even better now, especially after that horrific campaign and Senator El-Sayed’s win.

OP didn’t mention the obligatory “who the whore now fuckwad?”

Just a couple more tricks, then we’re on our island babe.

Thanks!!!

Jesus, it’s like you’re me from a different timeline where I don’t have a midterm tomorrow. Or a different timezone I guess.

Just like that time he said he had a peace deal for both Gaza and a nuclear deal with Iran…

There are dozens of us! Dozens!

I generally prefer using as low res as I can, help w fediverse costs and I don’t know what other folks’ data situation is…

Oh for sure, the AI bubble is terrifying as I think I noted very early on in the thread. But, even excluding the last half dozen years (so as to ignore American’s absurd covid recovery and AI hype) American stock returns have significantly outperformed European ones.

Oh absolutely, I’m not saying that this won’t help, I’m just saying that there is a very real trade-off and it would be unwise to pretend there isn’t one.

Ehhhh, a little bit this is also a drastic oversimplification of how the stock market works.

American companies tend to have higher profit returns and growth potential. There aren’t many Microsoft, Alphabet, Meta, Nvidia’s etc in Europe. There are also huge hurdles to growth (navigating almost 30 different sets of regulations plus EU regulations, or however many languages) that American companies do not face.

The total value of the US stockmaket is 70+ trillion. 400 billion is something but not even a significant percentage.

Tricky one. I love the sovereignty but I also wonder how much that will cut into someone’s pension etc as American stocks have wildly outperformed most other stockmarkets. Admittedly, I’m also worried about a serious crash but…

Like I said, tricky one.

Rarely is the question asked: is our children learning?

I mean, life in general is pretty exhausting. You know how birds fly away when you walk too close? It’s not because they’re jerks, it’s because they’re scared if they don’t, they’ll die. Life in a state of nature is praying you don’t get hurt and thus get eaten and to constantly either be looking for food, trying not to get eaten and recovering. (Some animals, like whales have it a bit easier but still…)

Honestly, I thought Russia attacking NATO by 2030 was a little far fetched (a war against one smaller country is not going particularly well) but this legit raises my guess it’ll happen by some 10% or so?

Oh great idea, I’ll check with my local print shop. Thanks!

I remember when we thought things couldn’t get dumber than George W…