Unless…we can come up with some sort of legislation…totally important and necessary legislation, of course!

The govt has always been able to garnish wages or sieze assets, yes, which is one of the intended upsides of a decentralized crypto currency (disregarding all of the downsides).

I feel like you’re reading their posts as boot licking, when actually they’re pretty clearly stating, “we follow the law, and the law says you can’t do this”.

I don’t know what you expect, an open statement of their intent to break the law? As though that’s going to go better for the school/students?

Did the article change out from under you? This title is now literally the opposite of the actual article’s title: “Trump halts doubling of tariffs on Canadian metals after Ontario suspends electricity price hikes”

Hah, they’re TrueNAS BSD jails, but yes, now I need to figure out how to rename the “Jails” tab in my UI to overlords.

Also, all the extra work my self-hosting endeavors generate is “creep”.

I use zerg units.

• NAS is named Nydus
• Homelab with a GPU is Hydralisk
• Jail instance that I can use for random cron jobs is Drone

In the sense that people who aren’t actually being watched by a higher power will legitimately believe they are because believing anything else can be hazardous to their health.

AFAIK everyone in the US learns about this as part of their middle school curriculum.

Historically/anthropologically, conforming to the beliefs of the society you live in is the most logical thing a human can do for their survival.

These were the first two to come to mind for me as well. I hate what they’ve become, especially wow, but they were both clearly extremely influential.

Yeah, Kmart vibes is accurate.

There was a time when Target had a middle class demo they…targeted. But that demo is too small now. They’re either going to need to shrink and market to the top 10%, competing with Whole Foods, or lower their standards and compete with Amazon. Oof, gotta love monopolies. Starting to think this boycott was Bezos’ idea.

Wait what? You want to know what people who didn’t watch the address thought of it?

Every time I’ve gone into a target in the last 5 years, they legit looked like they were closing down. Idk why people are boycotting them in particular when Walmart and Amazon are way worse.

Is “NO MASKS” here an intentional double entendre?

In the modern parlance, i believe that counts as an OEM but the more accurate term that no one uses is probably a VAR

Luckily we don’t need to guess or invent a history of the terms based on anecdotal experience, we have a real one.

As i understand it, the OEM business has razor thin margins as it is. This seems like an aggressively unsustainable business practice, to the point that it’s making me wonder what their game is…

Yeah, I don’t know of any. I don’t spend any time on the larger social media sites, so if it went mega viral I would probably be the last to find out hah.

But…I feel like we’re fast approaching (or past) the point where people will just start doing it out of necessity. It’ll happen, but less in the form of a movement, and more in the form of a Great Depression 2.0 😕.

I get wanting to see people do *anything *. I can’t disagree at all with that.

Something I hadn’t shared is that, the way I found out about this “blackout” was when my partner came home and said “make sure to get any supplies you need tonight, we’re doing an economic blackout tomorrow in protest”, to which my first response was “if we’re just buying everything today that we would buy tomorrow, what is the point?”

Meanwhile, today during the blackout, i assume everyone is getting on social platforms owned by these corporations to conspire about how they’re not going to patronize their services today…

It just wreaks of slacktivism to me, which could be seen as either “better than nothing” or “a psyop deliberately orchestrated BY the corporations to make social groups feel like they’re doing something, when they’re really just spinning their wheels/tiring themselves out”.

IMHO if we’re going to take group action, it’s vital that the desired outcome is clearly defined, and we don’t stop until that is accomplished. The strategy of “let’s shoot our shot, then go back to our lives, and cross our fingers that there’s some latent impact” should be widely regarded as what not to do. That’s why unions have strikes the way they do. You can picket all day, but in order to force change you have to draw a line and all agree to cross it (or not cross it, whatever the metaphor calls for, idk).

It seems like the issue here is, users want to be spoken to in colloquial language they understand, but any document a legal entity produces MUST be in unambiguous “legal” language.

So unless there’s a way to write a separate “unofficial FAQ” with what they want to say, they are limited to what they legally have to say.

And maybe that’s a good thing. Maybe now they need to create a formal document specifying in the best legalese exactly what they mean when they say they “will never sell your data”, because if there’s any ambiguity around it, then customers deserve for them to disambiguate. Unfortunately, it’s probably not going read as quick and catchy as an ambiguous statement.