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Lays chips in Canada redesigned their packaging last year to add a sizable “Made in Canada” logo on it. They knew people would care enough about it that they didn’t just put a sticker.

I mean, they’re not totally wrong, Trump seems to be negotiating with the Iranians in his daydreams.

German and Austrian governments and militaries are currently exploring ways to reduce their reliance on US tech. Most recently I heard Germany is making the Open Document Format the mandatory format for official government communications.

The Happy Birthday song is 3/4 time actually and Happy is on beat 3, at least the one I know of.

Gaza/Palestine would still be screwed, but would a Harris-Walz administration threaten Canada, attack Venezuela and capture Maduro, engage in piracy and extrajudicial killing in the Caribbean, attack Iran and cause the Hormuz Strait to close, put a tax (tariff) on virtually everything Americans buy? Would they encourage universities to arrest students for not being Israel cucks, would they make regulatory mergers contingent on fealty to them? Would they cancel land leases and try to cancel partially built offshore wind farms, and dump taxpayer money on companies to burn coal unnecessarily and to build oil and gas infrastructure? Would they continue the massive wealth transfer enabled by Republicans’ 2017 tax cuts or allow them to expire? Would immigration forces be used to kidnap random people on the street, and as a President Harris’ personal goon squad? Would they elect to blow up the relationship with virtually every allied country, such that they become hesitant when they actually need help?

This is just what I can think of off the top of my head. Not all evils are created equal. Trump, MAGA and Republicans are special breeds.

So many things went wrong. The ATC will be the administration’s scapegoat, but the issue is chronic underfunding and overworking of the staff. This controller was dealing with all this at 3am, by themselves managing both ground and air frequencies at a massive international airport…

ATCs need to go on strike again or something. Let’s see ICE bums try to manage airport traffic.

A duck walked up to the lemon cake stand. And he said to the man, running the stand…

Biggest for me is no promoted garbage. Second is that I can have more indepth conversations than on Reddit. Your replies can get seen if you post on “Hot” even if they’re not cheesy one-liners. Quality of discussion is far better than my last few years of using Reddit full time (until 2023).

Once in a while I glance at the Reddit website and there’s just so much short form video on the front page that it’s so annoying to know what’s going on.

Of course the more popular discussion topics (USA, tech, politics) are largely going to be the same as Reddit.

One advantage of this model is that moderation is more tailored to the instance topics of interest, without losing too much of the wider sphere. So .world can handle most of the popular general topics, but mander can handle moderation of topics from a more scientific lens, .dbzer0 can handle the intricacies around copyright law, .blahaj zone vehemently protects users right to call themselves whatever they wish, so on and so forth. With Reddit, if the site admins don’t like something you do, you get shut down no matter whether the community there accepts it or not. Here, if that happens and is unpopular, people can leave and go to another domain without leaving the federated network. Another is that servers hosted in countries outside the USA (feddit.de, lemmy.ca etc.) don’t necessarily have to follow USA law, while Reddit does.

Quit the Lawyer, Hit the Facebook, Gym Up

If the process doesn’t include any phone home stuff, and is just a one-time cool off period to prevent scammers, this is acceptable to me. That should be enough to get potential victims to self-question, ask more knowledgeable people of what’s going on to avoid being unknowingly hacked, without being naggy every time for users that want to do what they want.

Making a software “foolproof” will probably invent a bigger better fool, hoping for some sort of free crypto app jumping through these hoops, but this should weed out most of the basic scams.