And yet his first major song endorses gay marriage.

In defense of Jennie, it is valuable to have physical access to multiple documents at once. Even with a three monitor setup, I find having physical paper is helpful when dealing with multiple documents I have to read together to synthesize a new document.

Yes. Truth Social is a reskinned Mastodon that only federates with itself. I imagine there are other cases similar to that.

I’m subscribed to Nebula and like it.

The site isn’t meant to be a YouTube replacement. It is more of a collective of YouTube talent wanting to be on a platform that they collectively own together. There is a paywall because that is how they get funding for their activities.

I signed up for it because I want to contribute to people like them more to a finer degree than Patreon subscriptions of individual creators.

You dumb bastard. It’s not a schooner… it’s a Sailboat!

I’ve been seeing some comic book like work created with the help of AI. The writing was done by a human, but the images were created with AI.

I didn’t just provide one example, though. There are cycles of war and peace in Europe that got mapped out to the globe as European nations became the dominant powers. There are eras of wars where various great and lesser powers participate in more destructive wars because the international order has broken down and isn’t there to restrain belligerents. There are also times when costly wars don’t end with a lasting “peace”, but an armistice before fighting resumes.

We seem to be at a point where the post World War II international order is breaking down. When that happens historically, there is usually a big war and destruction on the order of magnitude of World Wars I and II.

Still less than the dead of World War II

It has still been a relatively peaceful time in human history post fall of the Soviet Union even when you include Iraqi and Afghani deaths as a proportion to the world’s population. Wars still happened in that relative time of peace, but those conflicts were relatively contained to not create a new great power war.

Great powers haven’t entered in open conflict on the scale of World War II, which was chosen as a bench mark.

I’m going to look at it more in terms of how long a European peace lasted.

The Napoleonic wars ended with the Concert of Europe, a peace that was able to last until World War I and depended on a balance of power that lasted for almost a century.

An equivalent system was set up after World War II with a peace anchored by the Allied Powers, decolonization, and the US-Soviet rivalry. That system has lasted for about 80 years and is showing significant strain.

I don’t know how long this system will last, but it doesn’t seem like it will last for much longer. Trump’s election seems to be hastening that end.

It is a combination of skill and emotion. If it isn’t technically impressive, it should still invoke emotions.

It depends on the form of employee ownership as to whether it works out for the employees.

In trucking, the industry uses the owner-operator model as a way to push costs onto employees and skirt labor laws. On paper, the truckers are their own bosses. In reality, they are effectively employees of logistics companies where the logistics companies can pay their employees less than minimum wage and push maintenance costs onto their employees.

In this case, ownership is used as a tool of oppression.

No. It makes relations with them difficult.

And the response from the public was apathy. There were third party candidates or even people voting “none of the above”. And it affects downballot initiatives and races.

Yeah, but people went back to Trump.

If you had enough organization to implement a general strike, Trump wouldn’t be president.

It is kind of descriptive…

Yeah. I think a lot of federated services are struggling with the idea that they need to build a system to handle the growth, not just treat it like a personal project.

Each country is different, but you are going to have to look at how you can immigrate to certain countries. Some countries let you apply for jobs beforehand, other countries only want you to get a job after you move.

Not going to a wedding after saying you would is effectively for this is effectively cutting him out of your life. If you are willing to cut him out of your life, don’t go to the wedding. It just sounds like a rash decision.