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Cake day: July 9th, 2024

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  • I’ve just watched the first third of this (original source linked by squirrel) video.

    tl;dw This is a great idea: Cory Doctorow explains how

    1. all the countries the US trades with were forced, in their trade agreements with the US under threat of losing the US market, to pass their own digital copyright anti-circumvention laws so that US big tech companies can seek rent and collect the personal data of citizens of those countries with impunity, and

    2. Now that trump has imposed all these tariffs on them and violated the agreements anyway, there is no longer any reason for them to to keep those laws on the books, laws which only hurt their own people and help US tech companies. He explains retaliatory tariffs only hurt their own people, that the best response is for other countries to stop protecting US oligarch and repeal those laws, which will help their own entrepreneurs and citizens, and withhold billions in rent to the US oligarchs.

    And that’s just the first third of the video, but I stopped to post this before watching the rest. edit update: yeah the whole video is worth watching.












  • Hm, I’m kind of in between. I do this fairly often, not wanting to go out right when someone else is there. But I don’t know why, since as far as I can tell it doesn’t make me feel anxious to run into someone like in the cartoon.

    It doesn’t bother me at all to cross paths with someone and I’m fine with saying Hi or just nodding to acknowledge their presence. Rarely does anyone actually try to start a conversation or anything. If they do say anything it’s probably just a one-liner and move on. And it’s easy to tell if someone doesn’t want to nod or say Hi as you pass because they stare at the ground the whole time, and I’m fine with that too, but I don’t do that.

    But now I’m wondering, so why do I tend to wait until they’re gone? Is it really social anxiety? I don’t think so? I’m a loner but I have no problem or anxiety talking to people either. 🤔


  • In the first term I thought well at least he doesn’t want to start wars or invade someone like the previous R’s who always had to do it to look macho and increase their popularity (which worked).

    But now that it’s no holds barred, Mangolini is not hiding how much he wants to be like his hero Putin. So on top of all the other dictator stuff he wants to acquire more territory and/or invade somewhere. Greenland hasn’t worked out so far, so he’s looking around and sees Panama, thinking yeah that would be easy. I’m expecting him to do something somewhere this term, for sure.