towerful

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[–] towerful@programming.dev 12 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Upgrading to miniwaves

[–] towerful@programming.dev 24 points 1 week ago

That's not really "trying to out bully".
That's contingency planning around an unstable government.
Trump has fucked around with Canadian trade negotiations. Why should the EU hang their hopes on what would likely be a similar treatment.
Just smile and nod at the US, and do your own thing

[–] towerful@programming.dev 27 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

THEY SAID:

I THINK WE NEED TO TYPE LOUDER

[–] towerful@programming.dev 3 points 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week ago (8 children)

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

[–] towerful@programming.dev 10 points 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week ago

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

[–] towerful@programming.dev 9 points 1 week ago

Single issue voters heads explode

[–] towerful@programming.dev 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

gif, pronounced like git

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