towerful

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[–] towerful@programming.dev 3 points 2 days ago (2 children)

So, we should be sending people to prison? Cause that's what happened to people involved in dieselgate. Along with the affected cars being recalled and the owners compensated.

[–] towerful@programming.dev 5 points 3 days ago (6 children)

From the wiki, and I'm simplifying:
VW was handed over to the German government after being offered free-of-charge to Ford in 1948 by the British government (who ran the factory up till then).
In 1946 the produced 1000 cars per month. In 1949, 2 cars were sold in the US.
In 1952, 12 VWs were sold in Canada.
In 1955 they produced over 1 million Beetles.

So 3 years on life support being ran by the British. Dunno how long being run by the German government before becoming GmbH.

[–] towerful@programming.dev 6 points 3 days ago (8 children)

Over what sort of timeframe?
Couple months? Couple years? Couple decades?

[–] towerful@programming.dev 10 points 3 days ago

That's the issue with suspending due process for illegal immigrants.
All you have to do is say someone is an illegal immigrant and they lose all rights to defend themselves and disprove the false claim.

[–] towerful@programming.dev 5 points 3 days ago

UK government websites are an excellent example of functional and complex websites done well. And a lot of it is open source as well.

[–] towerful@programming.dev 10 points 3 days ago (1 children)

And the news cycle can't keep up or spend appropriate amounts of time/outrage on the things that are criminal, abhorrent and hurting people.
Throw a bunch of stupid shit to the media, let them feast. Sneak around while they are busy and get the truely hurtful stuff into law (or just skip the law part, and do it).

[–] towerful@programming.dev 3 points 3 days ago

I love endeavour os & KDE plasma.
It just works, haven't had any issues

[–] towerful@programming.dev 9 points 3 days ago

Single issue voters heads explode

[–] towerful@programming.dev 6 points 3 days ago (2 children)

gif, pronounced like git

[–] towerful@programming.dev 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

The only place that will accept them is banks. And they have all the tools and training to spot forgeries

[–] towerful@programming.dev 4 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

"AOC + 3, dummies ALL" I take to mean "Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and 3 others, who are all dummies".

[–] towerful@programming.dev 10 points 4 days ago (1 children)

The thing about extremely rich people: it's never enough.
They have to be richer and more influential.

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