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hey this was posted in the middle of the night my time so didn't see it but sending supportive vibes

If it makes you feel any better the US was like that about even gay people let alone trans as little as like 20 something years ago, and as bad as things are rn its still generally, socially, a lot better than that. It can improve in your lifetime, and it can improve by finding a different social circle, even if it may be very difficult to safely do so :/

holy shit lol are these AI

yeah, I'm not buying the whole nuclear bullshit story,. Getting USD into the economy is probably useful for them on a wide enough level though, for getting around sanctions or whatever. If anything the guy at my work is probably doing the same "scam" (not really a scam just circumventing immigration and labor law a little to make a US salary while being from elsewhere...) just from a different country of origin, not DPRK. Of course if a good opportunity arises I suppose having ins in US companies computer systems provides some espionage opportunities but for the most part it'd be pointless.

Its just a high tech version of workers from mexico coming to the US to work and sending money home tbh.

manipulating global markets all at once would be a new one tbf. New in scale not in kind though. And it is likely to crash economies and endanger the lives of millions if he fucks around long enough

Although I think the thesis of this guy's previous article on the subject - that trump is using tariffs (and then relief from them) to extract pledges of loyalty from private industry, feels pretty weak/unfounded (unsurprising since it was sourced from a dem politician.) It'd be interesting if it were happening but I see no evidence of it, and the fact that it goes unmentioned in this follow up article makes me think this guy is just writing whatever will get the most clicks

Posting Mao and Reagan back to back

https://xcancel.com/SpoxCHN_MaoNing/status/1910211617201213447#m

eh, actually I think that's a fair reaction. PPB and insults would have been too far, but "are you new here" isn't all that harsh. Though for a lib it might help to explain why undoing privatization is a good thing, I suppose, and why things were so bad under yeltsin

Curious if you could elaborate on what he's said or done that's inconsistent with nationalism?

My initial reaction was "well of course he is, not an ultra-nationalist, but definitely a nationalist" but I'm having trouble finding concrete reasons or examples that "click" in my brain to explain one way or the other

I was going to say it's pretty ironic that a privacy focused provider would be based in the UK what with their laws lately, but apparently email providers are exempted from the bill I was thinking of (no general carveout though, they name emails, SMS and MMS specifically. If you want to create a new protocol that does the same thing as email, or as SMS, its regulated as social media for some reason...)

Either way self hosting takes care of that problem. Neat!

liberals also love to conflate the individual leader with the country and its entire state apparatus. critical support for the actions of russia combatting nato encroachment doesn't mean that we think putin personally is a great guy. I mean shit any competent leader in his shoes would have been pushed pretty strongly towards action by the material circumstances and the ongoing actions of the US in and via ukraine. But honestly he's irrelevant and we aren't making a moral judgement

show some pretty serious crimes (hit and run, assault...)

both misdemeanors, not necessarily as bad as they sound. someone (perhaps an angry neighbor who doesn't like that you're parked on their street living in your car) reporting that you hit them on their bike would cover both of those charges for example. But agreed that its very doxxy.

yeah this is fair. Even giving her preferred name is probably against the rules

well the screenshots show some other charges, and I don't think sleeping in your car on its own is explicitly illegal in portland. But really none of that changes the bail equation :( fucking pigs haul people in and throw away the key for the absolute worst reasons all the time, usually no good reason at all like drug paraphernalia or resisting their harassment in any way.

I hope someone can get her out soon. At least they don't have bail bondsmen there. Some random scumbag deciding whether people get out of jail or not just by evaluating the cut of your jib for the person doing the bailing out is the dumbest of all possible systems.