higgsboson

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

Most websites used to have way fewer ads and we blocked them anyway because of the ads with malware and them being annoying when they did show up.

So then people without ad blockers are shown even more ads. So then more people start to use more and more aggressive adblockers to deal with i truaivw ads, so corpos display more ads…and so on and so on.

My point is that we have tried your suggestion. The Internet in 1998 was very different.

No time, alas. I dont get paid to sleep. Off work now tho and heading to dreamland.

Different countries have different providers, use different radio frequencies, etc and thus have different hardware and so on. Phones made for a particular market might not function well (or at all) in another market. This has historically been a barrier to cross-border adoption, though it has gotten a bit better in recent years.

lol. Touché. In my defense, I have not slept in days.

I suspect mapping tourists to the USA would require moving that decimal several places to the right left

Okay, we are talking past each other and I am done with you. Bye forever.

The drug war is and has always been primarily a class war.

The US has honored both the spirit and letter of this commitment and to date has provided over half of aid Ukraine has received, with it largely uninterrupted even under Trump. At worst, the US is an unreliable partner to Ukraine who should do more. Since the War began, Ukraine has been the US’s largest foreign aid recipient. In absolute terms, the US is still the largest single donor (iirc it was nearly matched by the EU, so maybe is matched by now.)

No reasonable person could claim the country who provided half of Ukrainian aid isn’t helping.

Horseshit. GTFO with this vatniki talking point.

The phrase “security guarantees” was specifically excluded. The phrase “security assurance” was a distinction made by the US State Dept lawyers for this exact reason; it makes clear the US is not a guarantor. This has been well known since the signing so no misunderstanding here is reasonable. That is just your distortion of the facts.

Go read the full text of the Budapest Memorandum and then come back and provide a specific citation. I’ll be here waiting.

Yes, I’m aware. FYI, the phrase is a common slogan in Ukrainian, since 2014.

Crimea is Ukraine.

The threatened 100% semiconductor tariff is for companies not doing any production within the US. So it would mostly serve to cement the market position of large players such as TSMC, Intel, TI, et al.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-threatens-100-tariff-foreign-made-semiconductors-unless-companies-build-in-us/

Indeed.

I mean… lots of people on fediverse unironically refer to outsiders as “normies.” This is what we in the industry refer to as “a clue.”

Been there. I use a magnet broom. ~$20 at harbor freight.

I am pretending no such thing, as I am not who you were arguing with, you churlish jackass. Now begone, Ive blocked you and your nonsense.

Here not even a helmet is required. You’re free to make road pizza all you like. I assume motorcycle insurance is astronomical.

Dont be a dolt. People with cars like that take them on closed tracks and indeed may go all the way to top speed.

I’ll see your two people and raise you to the whole family, Vietnam-style.

Okay, but… wtf does it do?