Isn’t the USPS required to fund employee benefits/pension 75 years ahead of time, meaning they’re funding employees who haven’t been born yet?

Looked it up. Yes, but no, but still also yes.

Crazy that we’re watching the death of an empire in real time. Would be kinda interesting if it weren’t for the needless human suffering and that whole existential threat to civilisation thing.

This is hardly new, they’ve been the “bad guys” for decades. They’re just masks off these days. Raw-doggin a genocide. Or whatever the fucking kids say these days.

Which one? Literally every American president since the advent of international criminal law counts as a war criminal. I get you mean Biden, but American imperialism is one of the things wrong with the world.

The L is bothering me. BootEgger just sounds stupid. A real conundrum that…

I get the same treatment looking for a tall bicycle here.

What do you mean you don’t want to look like this guy below?!

God…check your privilege bud!

Hard /s there if it wasn’t obvious.

Welcome to Lemmy, happy to see more folk coming in.

One point of…not correction, additional commentary?

jobs for working folks have been shipped abroad to countries where slave labour is legal.

Slave labour is still legal in the US. Their prison population might technically be paid, but the pay is so ridiculously miniscule and (as far as I’m aware) they’re only allowed to spend it within the system. That said, they’re not manufacturing phones or TVs or fly zappers or the millions of other things that are made in countries that are often intentionally kept poor.

In that desperation, they chose poorly. Added to that is the fact that they have a very limited and shame-based social safety net. There are fewer chances to earn an honourable wage.

There’s also the decades long effort, of a certain political party, to suppress and distort education. There’s a fair amount of the population essentially programmed to vote against their best interests. And that’s not even accounting for stupidity like the electoral college and rampant gerrymandering…

We absolutely need to learn from the lessons being shown by the US, I hate to use the slippery slope fallacy, but some slopes really are slippery…

Fair dues

I mean… it’s already been kinda treated that way for decades?

Ehhhhhhhhhh…depends what the person’s job was

And I’m not saying I endorse a bullet or a guillotine or something like that.

Honestly, my greatest wish for Trump and Musk? That they have all their wealth and contacts stripped from them, and they either spend the rest of their lives in a blue collar prison, or homeless on the street without a single soul willing to help them… I’ll settle for the guillotine though.

Won’t someone please think of the metrics?!

Yeah! What they said!

Year of Linux wen? Now? Ples, B now?

paper thin security advantages.

And loads of highly intrusive, unremovable, anti-user bullshit.

Counterpoint: British Food

Edmntn

Just like we will over sand!

Chew?