So all or nothing? No nuance, no difference. Either you get all you want or you get nothing?

Worst part is - this is the fuel for anti-EU crowd.

Snowden was a naive intellectual who thought that if americans knew they are getting fucked they would do something about it.

they are stupid, dumb animals that must be corralled like sheep toward the future

Hm, this is what Nazis and Communists both said about my countrymen. The idea that fearing change is anti-intellectual… hmm… anti-abortion laws are changes too, introducing mass surveillance is also a change. Not every change is as good as you imply.

That aside digital surveillance prison already exists. Google, Meta, Amazon etc. know enough about their users to build a complete day-by-day activity list with high accuracy. Phones listen constantly, Windows logs all you do on their servers, the dystopian tech is already there. Whet most dystopian predictions missed is that instead of endless rows of Secret Service officers watching you, it’s the advertisers who want to milk your attention.

Dystopian police state will start when police starts offering money for reporting crimes. Then all this data will pour into their hands, neatly tagged, packaged and sold.

This is a perfectly valid opinion. Not all tattoos are good. I’d say you wouldn’t be welcome in my town (people here seem to at least don’t mind tattoos), but putting that aside - it’s a perfect fit for this place: a valid but unpopular opinion.

The only problem I see with your explanation is that it seems to boil down to defeatism:

• emotional people are more numerous than rational people
• emotional people cannot be convinced, any argument will get shot down
• politicians in any democratic society will follow majority opinion

So… why bother? It’s a fight minority cannot win and majority does not consider to be worthwhile or even real.

Also - I honestly hate the american meaning of word “conservative”. Conservative should be someone who wants the law of his country to stay as it is, not be changed. Republicans are not conservatives, they are radicals. Conservative is someone who responds to idea like for example “gay marriage” with logic “if this was legal when I was a kid, it should be legal now and in the future”.

In my country when you say “organization of pedophiles” we either think Catholics or Americans…

This is why it’s frustrating. It’s not a lie, it’s not wrong, it just fuels anti-climate-change crowd.

During last 30 days my region had:

• above 30C
• below 20C
• thunderstorms
• strong winds

But because it’s summer, the “below 20C” is the one people usually focus on. “If there is global warming, how come summers are colder?”

In fact ever since COVID my region had much colder summers…

Whoever called it a “climate warming” should be shot in the head. Because yes, yes it is warming in general, but the choice to call it that was terrible. It’s summer, temperature is below 20C today, my neighbors are saying “where the fuck is climate warming? those idiots said it will be hot!”

It should be called climate destabilization, focusing not on hot/cold but on extreme weather.

Ain’t it ironic that technology failed mostly because humans are still cheaper option for the same work?

Tools like this also do not work with multiple screens.

Set up a solo meeting with yourself. During meeting it doesn’t change the status at all, so after you join that solo meeting in the morning set yourself to available and you will be available whole day.

He will be the most hated american president SO FAR. I believe in americans, they can do worse.

Sometimes I wonder why our official “Epic Work of Art of National Importance” is a long-ass rhymed story by drugged hopeless romantic instead of Witcher games.

Yup, we exist, despite evidence of it being frankly unlikely

Ha! I expected people o try to guess…

My country has committed countless acts that would be considered atrocities either now or at the time. We had several groups of second-class citizens, dabbled in genocide, were religiously tolerant, sided with nazis, sided with communists, convinced muslims that alcohol is okay, foiled plans of every ally and enemy we came into contact with, our president endorsed Trump and was endorsed by Trump, successfully invaded russia twice, enlisted animals into army and had pedophiles among clergy.

And we still have several movements, modern or historical, portraying us as the good guys and calling us “Jesus of nations”

Americans can’t possess small dick energy. To possess small dick energy you must be insecure about having a small dick. To be insecure you must know you have small dick. For that you need to see your dick. And americans are usually too fat for that.

You know what? I’m not even mad anymore. Thank you for explanation, I’m still getting a hang of this place.

After reddit (popular but useless comment wins over less popular but useful one) I had higher hopes for lemmy. I am complaining, because in my opinion explanation of borrow checker should be higher in popularity contest than I found it.