It’ll be the progressive that gets elected to preside over the decline. Once we’ve been bled dry and the other nation(s) take the world lead, like China.

Thing is, we got here because of the people pushing right wing nationalist attitudes. Russia is a big exporter of that kind of info via troll farms. China is probably second. While the US has been a growing shitshow for a while and it didn’t take too much effort, there was (and is) a ton of Russian interference deliberately destabilizing the West. The USIC and media have reported on it repeatedly, this isn’t some conspiracy. Everything from the initial Mueller investigation to the killing of Kirk has revealed outside influence pushing the US towards far right extremes via various media.

So yeah, trump is a big threat, but the countries that helped put him in place are every bit as dangerous. Putin is doing everything he can to break up NATO via distrust of the US, wrecking the US economy by pulling money into wars in Ukraine and Iran, and Putin’s pulling that shitheel fool trump deeper into strangling the world economy via oil costs which will further wreck the US economy by turning economic and political allies against us. Trump is such a sucker he’s being played like a two year old with an oreo cookie waved in front of him. Worse, trump and or his cronies think they’re clever by timing stock bets and making millions of their fuckery.

Technically she’s still American. Just South American.

How much damage did he do while in?

There are several industries that run on 24 hour time outside of the military. Ocean shipping, aviation, and medical care off the top of my head. Want to throw a real wrench in the works? Start figuring Zulu time, especially when time changes happen at different times of the year in different countries or US states that don’t change at all.

Anyway, 24 hour time is so much easier. No making mistakes forgetting to select AM/PM when setting an alarm or reminder, for instance. Even converting it to 12 hour time takes no thought at all of you use it for a while.

Look, I don’t get this need to cite exceptions to make oneself right. I can’t engage in pedantry or add endless footnotes to a general concept of what constitutes thievery or what every individual’s plan is for whatever they steal. It’s ridiculous to waste that time. You can steal a steak and sell it. You can steal a TV and watch it.

The spirit of the discussion is the direct intent of theft is either for an immediate need of a basic necessity of food, or the non-necessity of a luxury like a tv. Leave it at that concept.

Proper tradie with those. Just missing the reflective bands.

As some have already mentioned - coriolis forces. But why not build bigger so coriolis forces aren’t an issue? Because spinning up anything of sufficient diameter to even come close to 1G would need some kind of unobtainium to be strong enough to keep the spinning object intact. Say 5 tons of mass at 0 G is just mass, but now accelerate it and you need to figure out how to support 5 tons.

1 rpm for 1 G is going to need almost 1km radius. 2 rpm is ~400m.

You can see that the numbers, size, and engineering get pretty ridiculous to keep people from being sick when spun.

Corporations have no loyalty except to their own interests and the shareholders.

They don’t care who gets the oil. If the oil is produced by the US, Saudi Arabia, or Norway, none of those countries get any special access to oil produced by companies based there. The oil gets sold at global market price based on market forces, so if your oil can be purchased at a higher price by being exported, it’s going away. Your local prices go up for fuels or LNG even if you produce a ton of it yourself.

Because that’s the market we’ve established. Corpos don’t care, they’re making billions.

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When I was a kid our car had only lap belts, and even those were optional. In the early ‘70s they had the attitude of building street tanks and that mass = safety. Doesn’t matter that the humans inside got tossed around like a hackey sack or to get an aortic dissection when hitting the steering wheel. It wasn’t until the last year of the ‘60’s that a collapsible steering column started being more common. By the late ‘70s they were starting to engineer for actual safety of the occupant. It wasn’t great at all by today’s standards, things like airbags didn’t really show up until the ‘80s, much less all the side curtain ones that are more common today.

Anyway, a modern vehicle is way better safety-wise, the debate would have to be about the speed of collision and the mass of the old car. Even though modern cars are safer, g-forces can be severe and no telling how the old car would crumple.

The distinction you’re trying to make is stealing luxuries vs stealing necessities. Sure, we could argue basically “fuck megacorps” and that’s debatable to steal whatever, but this is about us.

If someone’s stealing the basic necessities like food, nobody saw shit.

If you’re stealing a TV, that just makes you a thief.

I tried this. The hotels attached the room and date on the lost item, so unless you’ve got those they aren’t going to give you anything if you can’t match them. Maybe some others don’t, so worth a try anyway?

Out of curiosity, what did this person say in particular that attracted attention vs the thousands of others criticizing ICE?

Looks like the Zeppelintribüne thing the soldiers blew up in WW2 Germany.

I think there‘s a bunch of different groups. There‘s Gen X that got taught not to share their personal info, the current generation is growing up being taught this as well, a lot of all gens gave sites everything because clueless or indifferent, and then the groups that deliberately shared info trying for internet fame.

There‘s plenty of Gen X that are clueless about privacy and computers.

Knowledge about avoiding tracking, obfuscating your identity, blocking ads, etc. requires constant effort ad knowledge. We‘re on lemmy, and that‘s a bit of an echo chamber because people here as a whole tend to be more knowledgeable about computers, and people here seem to forget that like 90% of the population are clueless about them.

Just like his bullshit he pulled in Samoa killing people with the Measles.

“Freedom”?

Freedom to get fucked by the wealthy, maybe.

He’s so clueless he’s just using National presidential info outlets to post his personal crap. He has absolutely no sense of propriety or structure.

Just like that asshole that joins a niche topic social media group and then starts posting their politics and boomer humor posts that have fuckall to do with the topic. It’s a gardening group and trump shows up and starts posting videos of bombs blowing up Palestinian neighborhoods.

What’s the move on this one? Fires start getting even worse and trump sweeps in with the military to “save” everyone from the disaster he helped escalate?

Just like canceling the Iran nuclear treaty and then starting a war to stop Iran from making nukes (among all the other excuses).