I Cast Fist

Not really “optional”, but more like the court knows they can’t stop the book from existing or being produced, as that would be actual censorship. This is an attempt to limit its reach and pretend it doesn’t exist, like the shadow banning on most social media whenever you say sex, fuck, death, shit or other bad-bad no-no words.

Damn, if only AI could come up with something so futuristic for us

Guillohead and Molotovman

That’s classified information. Repeating any of the actions of your previous clones is treason.

Depends on how the city is run. If it’s anything like Paranoia’s Alpha Complex, I’d probably die before even getting the chance to think about doing anything treasonous like that

I’m betting the same opinion we have today about 3D TVs

Analysts read the decision as the US government sending a stern warning to counter the calls for independent nuclear armament that have recently been surfacing in South Korea.

Experts suggested the most likely reason for South Korea’s sudden placement on the sensitive country list has to do with growing calls for independent nuclear armament, which have been proliferating among South Korean politicians and conservatives.

So, the likely reason is that SK wants nukes and USA is saying “No”. Make of that what you will.

Also, an interesting tidbit:

The announcement explained that South Korea and three other countries would be added as of April 15 to the sensitive country list, which currently includes India, Israel, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Taiwan.

I couldn’t find what the other 3 countries are.

wasn’t until he figured he needed a cult following, first

Dodge alone is down 29% in sales year-over-year.

“Clearly we need to add more AI, internet of shit, microtransactions and advertising on the cars to compensate!” - Stellantis CEO

I’ll leave it to you, reader, to guess the “where” it is cast

Media (medium, or the means through which communication happens) here matters less than reach. Both the carrier pigeon and clay tablet are the same: direct letters to someone else, direct communication. As media, a town crier is no different than town gossip or radio, it’s sound: someone speaks, others listen.

Also keep in mind that the majority of the population, even nobles, were illiterate for most of history

Lack of interest from their part. Right now, they have nothing to gain, fediverse is “small fry”, and if the attacks could be traced back to them, they’d have to deal with the PR shitstorm

What is stopping corpos from scraping everyone’s posts and stuff from the fediverse and train their AI?

They’re probably already doing that

“More powerful” in which sense? Military? Propagandistic?

An autocratic country can buy an election in the democratic country, but the democratic country cannot easily coup an autocratic country.

A “democratic” country may also install puppet governments, sometimes autocratic, as the USA did with Iran (1953), Chile (1970), Guatemala (1954), Bolivia (1971), Nicaragua (1912), Afghanistan (2003), etc.

Are all democracies are doomed to fail?

As long as it has enemies or bigger fish that want to eat it, maybe. Playing their cards right, one could manage to get the big fish fighting against one another.

What I find ironic is that misskey, akkoma and gotosocial all offer more features (reactions, server-defined post length limit, markdown support, more media per post) and a general better user experience than mastodon, but the elephant gets all the attention

“It’s not the same republican party it used to be, get over it!”

It has always been that party, idiot.

We’ll probably discuss who’s actually the evil one and probably have to settle the argument with our fists. Hm, maybe not a good idea, I’m kinda of a pushover, so I’d probably just accept his bullshit and see if evil me could at least have a paid spot for me in whatever shenanigans he was doing

“I was a Trump supporter,” he said on Wednesday. “I voted for Trump last election, but, because I thought it was going to be like … against criminals, not every Hispanic, Spanish-lookalike.”

Gee wiz, if only someone warned people that trump would act like a total racist and xenophobe when it came to anti-immigration…

The two men with Machado were taken into custody, but he doesn’t know why.

Because they were accomplices to a dirty illegal mexican, duh

I’ve checked some companies and that seems so, though reddit seems to be the only one that lost ~40% value in one month

It’s just FUD, diamond hands 💎🤝, to the moon 🚀 🌒, etc etc

/s just in case

Fully satisfied? I NEED ANSWERS!!!