agreed, I don’t feel I’m missing out on anything here, although obviously I don’t know because I don’t have an account on another instance

although if I joined the threadiverse now I would join an instance that also supports following microblogs, i.e. a piefed or mbin instance, probably will do that if I ever have a reason to abandon this account

You are giving examples in history and changing the dates to the first Trump presidency, which is somewhat confusing.

I was attempting to tell you when those things would have happened if Trump were doing the same things as Hitler. (It’s convenient they both became heads of government in January.)

Those things certainly didn’t happen because the GOP did not have a majority in the legislature.

what? It did. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/115th_United_States_Congress#Party_summary

40k what? Euros, US dollars, pesos, Czech koruna, Ukrainian hryvnia, rubles, Australian dollars, pound sterling?

In my country (in the eurozone), at most ATMs I see, the limit of what I can withdraw at once is € 400 (and I usually do withdraw that much so I do not have to withdraw very often). So € 40000 is enough for 100 people to withdraw their maximum between refillings. 100 people isn’t a lot, certainly not in busy locations.

Someone else posted a picture of USD 100000 in cash which gives you an idea of the volume.

Euros are approximately equal in value to US dollars for those who do not know this and have an idea what US dollars are worth.

I have used both in the past, but now use neither of them, have been exclusively a KDE Plasma user for several years by now and no longer feel like trying much different.

GNOME 2 was the first DE I ever used on GNU/Linux, so MATE has a nostalgic feel to me. I do not think Xfce is very radically different from it in its functionality, although the default configuration is somewhat different. This is really mostly a matter of personal taste.

Someone who has been president before, for four years, was elected president again.

I cannot think of anything less similar to a “point of no return”.

You may think of him or his policies what you want (I personally have a mostly negative opinion of him too!), but we have all had four years of opportunity to observe what he does when he is president.

If you are thinking that Trump is like Hitler, then please point me to anything similar to:

• a Capitol Fire Decree of 2017 that says several parts of the Bill of Rights are suspended until further notice
• an Enabling Act of 2017 that gives the president full power to make law including law that violates the constitution
• laws on the Coordination of the States with the Federation of 2017 or a Law on the Reconstruction of the Federation of 2018 giving the federal government full legislative and executive power over the states
• a Law Against the Formation of Parties of 2017 declaring that the Republican Party was the only political party in the US and anyone attempting to form another party would be imprisoned
• a Law on the Abolition of the Senate of 2018 doing exactly what the title implies
• a Law on Measures of State Self-Defense of 2018 retroactively legalizing dozens of extrajudicial killings of Trump’s political rivals

Oh, none of those things happened in the late 2010s? Then why exactly are you expecting them to happen in 2025 or 2026? What is different now?

they are the same thing, this is just a matter of when they are able to stand up to measure them while standing vs while lying, I think

I learned Latin in school for several years; I only learned to understand and translate it, not actively speak or write it, and have by now forgotten some of it.

I do not know any Ancient Greek at all, I might recognize some words from other languages.

A US Senator is part of the government.

Fortunately in the US I trust that their First Amendment has some teeth. If that were happening in most other countries, I’d be seriously worried that this senator might succeed with his evil plans.

but it was trash at loading html websites

as opposed to websites written in excel 2003 format or what

And when do you think he started to know what he was doing? 2017, 2018, 2019, never? If not in any of these years, then why would he know it in 2025?

It isn’t November 2016 anymore. Trump has been president before and whatever you think of his first term, you already know (roughly) what tends to happen when he is president (if you are too young, there is a near-infinite amount of news articles, social media discussions, wiki articles where you can look it up). I somewhat understood fears like this in late 2016 when a Trump administration was an unprecedented phenomenon, but now?

no, just like we didn’t (and still don’t) call what was happening a few years ago “the first COVID-19 pandemic”

Wasn’t that entire page, including sidebars and footer and such, only the letter “A” repeated in the mid-to-late 2000s? Wikis really are a declining medium.

Look at only communities you’re subscribed to, and unsubscribe from all where talking about the topics you don’t like is allowed.

I follow several news organizations, bloggers, activists there. For example you can get Linux news from https://techhub.social/@LinuxToday or posts from Richard Stallman’s blog at https://mastodon.xyz/@rms or the EFF is https://mastodon.social/@eff – of course those aren’t the only accounts I follow, just a sample of ones you might be interested in that have recently posted things.

You can also follow hashtags on Mastodon, that sometimes helps me find accounts to follow. Recently I have however been unfollowing more accounts than I’ve been newly following because my feed was getting spammed with too many things that I didn’t find very relevant.

ETA: you can also follow https://social.growyourown.services/@FediFollows if you are very desperate for random suggestions for things you could follow

Nothing will stop that, not even an explicit statement that something is intended as a joke.

In other news, water is wet

Because the world is full of contradictions

No. The articles are written by volunteers and will not be improved by your donation.

In theory, your donation does keep the servers running, but they have plenty of money to do that, and most of the money nowadays goes to paying way too many employees many of whom don’t do anything very useful or important.