As always a bunch of greedy and murderous rich thugs are very effective at fucking everything up. An eternal story really.

I don’t see the usefulness of that one compared to just deleting your comment in that scenario. This one will just be abused by trolls posting outrageous claims and then preventing people from replying by flagging the mistake option.

I don’t think IT guy, or at least the equivalent people in my life, would be supportive to the point that they would actively involve themselves in a shooting war in support of Trump, which is what this hypothetical scenario would turn into.

He wouldn’t have to, the army and the police would do the shooting.

Won’t all of that just reinstall itself after the next update?

Regardless of how the AI bubble will behave, corporations are pushing hard to discourage private hardware ownership in favour of rented cloud-based services. It is very unlikely that availability will ever return to the situation it was prior to the current situation, they will attempt to force cloud services through artificial scarcity and high prices on hardware.

Trump has shown these oligarchs that they don’t have to pretend to not be arrogant oligarchs anymore. They can speak their minds without suffering any kind of repercussion or censure for their insane narcissistic greed.

I don’t think the reason for the setting of the movie was to be taken very serious. It could have been much more realistic in its scenario, but then people would have criticised it for being too “on the nose” or similar, like they did with Don’t look up.

That is the typical internet response whenever that movie is brought up in this context. But that response fails to take into consideration that they only did that after not having done that for hundreds of years until the point where the movie begins.

Not a good example, since that shows the happy ending where powerful countries are finally finishing off the fascist regime after years of war and millions of lives lost. That is the amount of effort and determination it took to rid Germany of its fascists.

No such prospects for the American fascist regime. On the contrary the most powerful countries in the world will happily support it, because it undermines Western dominance.

Don’t be ridiculous. Musk is part of the oligarchs controlling Trump.

Almost as if some rich foreign power has spent decades and billions of rubles to fertilise the ground for them.

Don’t underestimate the lLots and lots of Russia money involved.

Lots of Americans especially.

It is possible to play singleplayer. In fact I would suspect most Stellaris players are playing it as single player.

It was about incels spouting misogyny and all other imaginable forms of bigotry. It served as yet another fascism pipeline for a lot of kids.

You are confusing a lot of pol science terms, as well as using some which aren’t part of pol science at all.

All modern democracies are representative democracies, as in voters votes for representatives to represent them. Switzerland has elements of direct democracy, but on a foundation of representative democracy as well. Constitutional, presidential and liberal democracy are not an actual meaningful terms in political science.

Technically the US is a representative democracy, but I am pretty sure OPs is asking about the practice of the thing. And the practice is very different from the written word about how it was supposed to be, especially this recent presidential term.

This is America.

This is the internet.

Grateful Dead is definitely huge in Europe as well.

That is taking it a bit too far. Dolly Parton and Johnny Cash are definitely known, especially because they kinda crossed over into over genres than straight country, but 99% of other country artists aren’t.

I switched to it a couple of years ago, with the expectation that I had to resort to google in more complex search instances. But very soon I found out that ddg did the job, and my “alternative” google searches did not turn up anything better, quite the contrary in fact, and I haven’t been back since.