I more meant why

I guessed you meant that you see people rallying against genAI as foolish so you’re glad to not associate with people like that, but people making snarky comments can reference a whole lot of shit I don’t understand

And it seems odd to presume he would be since he didn’t return to Twitter presumably so Truth Social is differentiated by having access to his posts as a way to increase usage

What do you mean?

That’s a broken link for me. Here are two others:

https://thewest.com.au/politics/state-politics/state-of-emergency-declared-in-wa-after-fuel-suppliers-reject-roger-cooks-demand-for-information-c-22080606

A state of emergency is being declared in WA in a bid to pressure fuel companies to divert supplies where they’re needed, but Roger Cook says the target is suppliers and public consumption won’t be restricted — yet.

Parliament will be recalled on April 14 to table the orders, but they will come into effect at midnight on Thursday.

It’s the first time those powers have been used and comes after three out of six fuel companies snubbed the Premier’s request to reveal commercially sensitive information, so urgently needed supplies can be re-directed to the Goldfields and Wheatbelt.

“The Emergency Management Act has very broad powers to direct individual behaviour. What we are doing today is targeting specific emergency responses to understand our full supply chain much better.”

He’s previously said rationing will only become an option under stage four of the national plan, agreed by the Prime Minister and state and territory leaders this week.

“We remain at level two of the national fuel security plan, which is designed to keep Australia moving,” Mr Cook said.

WA state of emergency: Here’s what it means and the six powers now available to Government:

https://thewest.com.au/news/wa/wa-state-of-emergency-heres-what-it-means-and-the-six-powers-now-available-to-government-c-22082566

Both can be true?

At least I’d argue US cultural exports and social media is more dominant than, say, Germany’s.

But the US has had the right attacking democracy for longer than people are probably assuming too. I’m sure there is a better example than Newton Gingrich (anything goes, lying is fine, undermining the house) be he was 1995 and the Tea Party kind of grew from there and helped give the political space for Trumpism. McCarthyism is probably not too reasonable since there was a period in the middle but thats the mid-1950s and admittedly if you’re going back that far then its only a decade after fascism was in Europe

It’s flawed and I also think it needs an update, but while people mostly tried to enforce it it made 250 years

I do wonder a bit about the times the parties changed (ie. Whigs party disappearing; see xkcd/1127) since presumably that was a train wreck for the way the US is set up, but the country continued on

Worst case maybe someone else likes it so thanks for sharing. I’m getting a 403 though:

Sorry, it looks like you do not have permission to view this page

Even with the raw domain. Search engines are listing it though

Edit: Looks like it’s just geolocked

Ahaha. I’m not even bitching about that. I’m doing that pedantic thing that physics teachers do where they point out the number without the units isn’t correct

That said, if the US just used SI units…

I think this US government would be happy if the librarians striked so it wouldn’t be a lot of leverage

Only a handful of countries use Fahrenheit, but they’re still too arrogant to add the unit. I get not including Celsius because of the target audience, and dropping the unit in conversation but this isn’t that

The humour? Before I read your first message I already had the account blocked. What’s the point of arguing with me?

I double checked the indicator in finder and the command line before posting this and, both said download. As far as I can tell, my iPhone uploads the backup to iCloud, then my mac downloads it. I see no use in the mac downloading it once let alone for every Whatsapp backup the iPhone makes. After the download is complete, I can find the files in the Whatsapp iCloud directory

Letting users promote and demote domains helps individuals search results and gives them a lot of information for which sites are garbage too

Oh? Any chance you can point to something about these local governments hosting fediverse instances? I just did a quick search but didn’t see anything

Bot or not, the response was very unhinged and went from persuading to basically talking about brimstone and ashes. The effort in the poke was almost worth it

There’s a few details here that didn’t seem needed, but cousin’s wife? Was this an episode of Fresh Prince that I missed?

😂🤦‍♂️

Mate, looks like you can’t read my last paragraph and are repeating dogma

You rewrote my first paragraph by using four paragraphs but largely talked around the fact that the geographical region that we call Taiwan has a government that doesn’t fold into the PRC

Agreed that the way both governments claim to control both the mainland and Taiwan complicates things. If you want to simplify that complication take a flight from the mainland to Taiwan and if you actually go to the domestic airport and don’t pass through immigration and customs then let me know. It’s pretty direct messaging from both that they’re independent of each other. (Admittedly as I remember it, the Chinese side had a sign saying something like “International flights and Taiwan” when I was there and thats a pretty weak way to save face.)

Agreed though that your view is one way of interpreting these documents and generally agreed upon history. Strongly disagree that it’s the only interpretation or that there was anything you said that strongly prohibits (not some weak implication from a quirk of history) a faction in the PRC interpreting the geographical region of Taiwan as being too independent. That interpretation is clearly a risk to a lot of people

You’re also using circular logic: Everything you said holds because Taiwan hasn’t formally declared independence but everything you said prohibits Taiwan from declaring independence due to the risk of military force.

But lastly, I’m no longer going to be charitable: you’re defending threatening military force on a geographic region thats been functionally autonomous for 70 years if it has the audacity to formally declare itself independent and regardless of if there are political movements with momentum to do that its fucked up! There are so many bug tickets for services online from individuals that want to identify and being from Taiwan but they can’t because the PRC strong armed in ISO 3166-1. The world is fucked up and complicated so there are many disagreements but stop jamming your very one-sided view that aligns very heavily with the PRC down other people’s throats

To my understanding Taiwan has been governed by the Republic of China since 1949 and they’re independent of the People’s Republic of China (although the People’s Republic of China claims Taiwan). Since the Republic of China also claims mainland China this independence isn’t codified formally but the government is functioning autonomous and independent.

That seems like more than enough for the document to be used as a threat since your argument seems to precariously sit on one pedantic reading that is hasn’t “formally” happened yet and any group in the People’s Republic of China could at any time take the different reading that this already happened in 1949 and they were just being kind by not invading.

The first landing near the lunar south pole is now targeted for 2028. This timeline may sound delayed, but in reality, it has been deliberately reset to prioritize building reliable systems that can operate long into the future over speed.

As a professor of air and space law, I’ve been watching these developments closely. The United States is still in a race – particularly with China – but it is choosing to compete on its own terms. Rather than chasing the fastest possible landing, NASA is focused on building a system that can support repeated missions and a lasting human presence.

I’m presuming this professor of air and space law knows how to write without this much spin but it sounds like she wants in on those meetings where they all tell Trump how amazing he is