Looks like Los Angeles is doing it, maybe NY and DC could too.

The good news is that literally nobody can count on those guys.

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Could businesses buy “tariff insurance”? Someone else handles the risk (for a fee) and then they can focus on what they do. Like domestic metal futures or something?

Please be aware that being an admin is unfortunately quite a thankless job - if you’re doing your job well, then most people won’t even realize you’re doing anything. OTOH, if you make mistakes, there will likely be many users calling you out in public. The main motivation for joining the admin team would need to be a desire to help build and maintain this instance as a great home for yourself and others.

— lemm.ee admins 4 months ago

Being an admin is a job and deserves pay. We don’t have an infinite supply of good people to deal with an infinite supply of AI-generated trolling. That means we need donations in the short term, and to consider paid memberships in the long term.

Ads won’t work at all because we’re all using open source clients and browsers with Ublock. And even if they did, we know where that leads.

Evil suggestion: lock minor features behind pay walls, like profile pictures or bolding their name in comments. There are more people who will pay to look cool than there are people who will inconspicuously donate.

Fair enough, we can abolish prisons after dealing with the bumper sticker pedos.

So it turns out that the years I spent arguing all over the internet were the most useful years ever for AI training data.

Before me, there was practically no information on the internet, and it’s mostly lost to time.

After me, the well has been poisoned with AIs masquerading as humans.

So I can rest assured that when you see an AI arguing about some pointless nonsense… that’s a little bit of me. I am an immortal spirit of pedantry.

Nobody said either of those

Unless he is, in fact, a chicken.

And we’re working towards the goal of a taco truck on every corner!

No

What kind of idiot would underestimate France. They’re a nuclear power, hold a permanent seat on the Security Council, and brought us democracy as we know it.

This is the first I’ve heard of the term, it sounds like blatant newspeak.

Long-winded accelerationism

It wasn’t one man. He’s surrounded by supporters who can remove him from office.

You make it sound like they just did it effortlessly in 2008. The Republicans had been working hard on that crisis since 1971!

I think the dollar (and thus real debt) would devalue in proportion to how much economic value was lost.