dermanus, dermanus@lemmy.ca

I think you missed a zero.

“He tells it like it is! "

In my experience, no. But by all means try. Maybe you can plant a seed of doubt that grows.

Be Socratic though. Fewer facts, more questions.

I was born in 1984.

In elementary school, there was one computer in the library where you could visit an online encyclopedia. By the time I finished we had dialup at home (56 kbps).

In high school they had to block Napster on the school computers because we were all pirates. I got high speed (1 Mbps) at home around grade 11.

Religiosity has been in decline in the US, hopefully the ultra performative sect that’s influencing him makes it happen even faster.

I don’t think facts would have helped you. This isn’t something they reasoned their way into. You’re not going to reason them out.

Meanwhile, in Canada we’re getting generic ozempic. So kinda going the other way on that. Although it wasnt anything our government did, they just forgot to file paperwork.

“My life was in danger! My heart can’t handle chasing him!”

My fault for being helpful before I suppose.

Many years ago I worked tech support for a software company. I had one caller who could not conceive that our software couldn’t print to two printers at once. She didn’t want to print to one then the other. She just kept repeating “this is the 21st century” whenever I tried to explain.

Eventually I told her it was a question for her IT and she went away.

It’s entirely consistent with his own world view. When things go well, it’s because he’s a genius visionary leading America. When they don’t, it’s was some other guy.

Stingrays have been around for ages, I have to imagine there are more sophisticated versions. We know ICE is using apps developed by Palantir. Usually “fear mongering” only applies to unreasonable fears.

If I were going to one of these, I’d leave my phone at home, or keep it in a Faraday bag.

Yes, but you can also be long in futures or options. They can be more profitable but are higher risk. Assuming that you aren’t in the room for market shifting events anyway, then the bets are much more certain.

What’s confusing? You have the most short sighted, transactional president ever and he took a bribe. Or someone convinced him they gave him a bribe.

“Standups” by video call where everyone is sitting. That sounds like corporate thinking.

Just this week I had someone try and book a half hour call with me to get the url for a repository.

The leadership of the country waging the war are saying completely opposing things, to be fair.

The war is over, it’s not a war, no troops, but we’re moving troops. We don’t need allies, send allies, allies are cowards, all sorts of things.

Iran will rescue the sailors and then point out how useless the US is to its allies.

I won three times. I offer courses on my technique. I’ve never had anyone complain about it.

Some brown guy talking about loving your neighbour and caring for the less fortunate? It’s downright unamerican!

The Bible warns against exactly this sort of thing too, but that’s not the part of the book they like.