You think email is a human right? It’s a box to send password resets. If websites all used one time paaswords, I wouldn’t need my email. You don’t actually send messages to people over email, do you?

We have things like Signal and Matrix to facilitate actually communicating with people.

Last time I sent an email to someone it bounced. Imagine spending time writing a letter and the mailman returns it to you

Who said anything about essential services? It’s the nonessential services that I have a problem with

What is the search engine your government hosts? Or maybe they do email? Do tell

I’ve been to half a dozen countries after COVID.

That included a 16 hour stay in a Canadian hospital because they just don’t have enough doctors to get around to you if you’re not dying

I trust neither

The government, running a service that doesn’t suck? Call me when it happens

My monitor only runs its firmware

Programs clearly understand words from context. Try making it do translation tasks, it can properly translate “tear” to either 泪水 (tears from crying) or 撕破 (to rend) based on context

Just because meta sucks doesn’t let apple off the hook for anticompetitive behavior

I thought Men in Black were awesome in 3D. I don’t understand why more movies were not released in that format

Immigration hate causing backlash against H1Bs, abort, abort!

Yeah, I’m biased because I would be getting bombed in my apartment right now if we couldn’t immigrate

I work with h1bs, I’m in tech. There are incredibly sharp people who come on this visa

My dad came on a H1B and he was very well paid when he got his green card. I’d say that makes him an expert sys admin

And yet, rated as an above average president by historians. Trump is somewhere at the bottom of the pile

There are H1Bs of every level, even experts in their field. You clearly don’t work in tech and just regurgitate what you see others write

They don’t have enough money to even pay one year’s budget though. They are very rich, but we spend 6.3 trillions

There are 801 billionaires in the US with a wealth of 6.22 trillions - even if you take every single penny you come up short

https://inequality.org/article/updates-billionaire-pandemic/

90% was the top rate, in practice the rich during that time paid less tax than today because they had huge loopholes

Top 1% paid only 16.9% of their income in tax compared to 25.9% now (of the total amount, you can be in a higher bracket and your total percentage will always be lower than your bracket)

People voted for him because he was a war hero and said fuck the banks. As a result, when he was elected he paid off the national debt. I don’t mean he didn’t run a deficit, he paid off the entire balance.

If you think Trump is comparable, just look at the deficit he left us

Just because of this I switched most of my activity to BlueSky. It’s not really federated, but at least it’s not Twitter. I use Mastodon as well, but it’s basically the same audience as Lemmy.

I don’t have time to read, these games are not going to play themselves