People want cheap products in a general sense, they don’t like off shoring, it was hugely disruptive to jobs and the quality nose dives (at least for a time, sometimes permanently). They didn’t ask for or choose it, they’re the low information side of the system

Of course they’re upset at things being tariffed, they don’t want prices going up. They likely have some preference to buy things made locally, or by a country with a reputation

None of this is a choice made by consumers, it’s a generalized set of incentives and pressures created by the market

It’s like planned obsolescence… People hate it, it’s being sold to them

The first two are debt related, and the third is off shoring

People didn’t ask for any of that… It was sold to them for profit

Good job boing

Why do new languages come into creation?

Because someone with the understanding and education to write a new language decided the ones they know aren’t cutting it

Paintings are pigment expressed upon a medium. Code is thought expressed through a medium

People create new paints all the time

Yeah, and back them my hackles raised then trump would threaten elections

Go on, try to hit the caravan speech now… I sleep

Microsoft basically took it from Bethesda and cleared out a bunch of their core staff

The IP might not have been transferred, but Bethesda’s product ownership has been revoked. They didn’t even let outside teams touch their offshoot projects (like apps), and now the IP is probably going to be milked

Maybe obsidian will do something interesting with it before it inevitably is reduced to slop

In their defense, it was very boring. The white house hyped it up like he was going to drop a bomb, but it was just the same speech he always does

There’s no step 2. They think that displacement of immigrants will fix the medical system, raise wages, create free labor, and make their children speak to them again

Why? Because every problem can be attributed to “the enemy”, and so removal of “the enemy” will fix everything

It’s the core of fascism, if they somehow succeeded “the enemy” would transition from brown people to dissenters and then “fake” fascists or impure bloodlines or something

There must always be an enemy, because a fascist movement runs on hatred for “the enemy”… That’s the whole plan

Trump is a symptom, not the cause. Our democracy has been hacked and dismantled, if we want it back it must be rebuilt

She’s a way better writer than she is a person

She is a pretty shit writer though

Time left to live. There’s plenty of useful things that tell you more about a person, but shinigami eyes would let you save lives and know it, even if no one else does

And if it turns out the number can’t be changed through your actions, that would tell you a lot. If nothing else, you could say goodbye to loved ones and get incredibly rich by finding a CEO about to run out of time

Well, suspended except when it’s a criminal warrant. Which is how it always was

It’s good to repeat it: immigration is a civil matter. It’s a matter of paperwork. Do you know who goes after the murderers and rapists? The fucking police

Reconstruction was ended too early, in large part because of the Lincoln assassination, and the very questionable choice to appease the South by putting Andrew Johnson a heartbeat away from the presidency

We definitely should have been draconian in punishing the south, but our greatest mistake is civility politics. The leaders were all in the same social circles, and to this day that’s a recurring problem that plagues most democracies. They didn’t want real consequences for their buddies

So all in all, we didn’t strip enough power from the leadership and stopped punishment way earlier than even the overly light-handed plan in place

Well, not quite… See they’re trying to keep daylight savings time permanently instead of staying with normal time permanently

This has been attempted before, and it didn’t last through the winter. It’s apparently pretty brutal on people when the sun doesn’t rise until 9 or 10, and experts say it’s possibly the worst option for public health

Yeah but the context clues are a hell of a lot easier there. You’re holding an object, and if someone called it a chupa-chupa or a sucker most people would be able to put that together pretty easily

Now imagine you’re going through stretches and someone walks in and is like “oh, playing football are you”. You could be preparing to go outside and play football… But you’re just stretching

I think most people would be confused by that unexpected second meaning of a familiar word

I think it’s more of a “don’t hold onto hatred” kinda thing. They’re dead, so let it go for your own sake, as well as those grieving. It doesn’t help anyone

I don’t think it applies to public figures though… At least not if their family isn’t around. Hell, I think it’s just fine to celebrate the world becoming a better place

I don’t let hatred build up in myself, but I sure as hell have felt hope when I see some monsters have gone

Everyone liked that

Taxes are one mechanism, but they don’t work if you let corporations get too big/powerful. Then you get regulatory capture, no matter how many anti corruption measures you bake in

Capitalism needs constant pruning to incentivize competition and align companies with the common good… And even that never seems to last very long

Mastodon is like Twitter, friendica is like Facebook, loops is like tik tok, etc etc

In theory they could all federate, but again that’s not something new users need to know about (and there’s only a few such links anyways)

Based on how my conversations have gone, I’d just skip explaining the federation part entirely. Most people don’t care

I’d just say it’s like Reddit, but more friendly and less addictive. Sell that they’ll get all the important news and memes, but without the ads, bots, and garbage content shoved in their faces

I’d also pick a home server for them and help them set it up, lemmy.world is probably good as a default if they’re coming from mainstream socials

Truth is, most people really don’t care how it works. They just want it to work, and their first impression shouldn’t be choice overload or a data dump