Nope. The President is both king and prime minister.

A lot of major cities will have a lot of smaller general aviation airports next to each other.

A 2:1 ratio on Social Security age limits wouldn’t affect a lot of his base, so I can see Trump pushing it.

Masks are a sign that things aren’t the normal of 5 years ago.

I expect that the EU is going to have to claim defence competencies to continue the Union’s defense. There are way too many small countries in NATO that can’t contribute meaningfully to a military beyond some basic battalions and the EU needs something more robust than France and Poland.

It is worse.

Trump started with either incompetent yes men who didn’t know how to govern or competent yes men who tried controlling the damage that the President caused.

You now have a group of coordinated people who see Trump as willing to agree with whatever as long as he looks good enough.

What third party protest voters? Trump won a majority of votes.

People decided to stay home this election.

And I’m responding to that claim asking, based on his first term, do we really think holding his feet to the fire on this is going to work?

If he got re-elected, is that going to work?

Yeah. The tech industry is imploding as it switches from development to maintenance.

And this is a policy the actors’ union went on strike for.

A raw number across the whole federation would be useless. Different instances have their own cultures, making a unified number worthless. People could also goose their numbers by creating an instance that gives their account unlimited karma.

Instance karma could be useful, but it is a design decision not to show it. I suspect that will continue until there is a need to use karma for moderation, but I suspect that defederation would be the lower lying fruit for now.

Karma has become a part of a measure to determine if an account is a human non-troll.

The first step in ban evasion is to create a new account and continue doing what you’ve done before. By requiring an account to be a certain age along with a certain amount of karma, it makes sure the account is less likely to be a ban evader.

This movie has Tom Hanks. But there is now a trained AI model that can make a very old Tom Hanks look younger. That same model could probably make someone who looks and sounds similar to Tom Hanks look and sound exactly like Tom Hanks.

I thought they went on strike to make sure the next Tom Hanks movie actually has Tom Hanks.

The government has been dysfunctional for a while.

Isn’t that traditional of any Olympics?

Also, I’m sure Los Angeles is going to best these numbers given that they made it possible to make being homeless illegal.

I don’t think the form of Lemmy as a federated service will be able to scale.

What I expect is that, if Lemmy is successful, it will be as a platform for various Reddit alternatives, kind of like how Truth Social is Mastodon.

It is hard to run an Internet site when the government turns off your Internet.

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