I’m the ffmpeg guy. It’s the pandoc of binary media, except it actually does do everything.

Hmmm. I need to write an PR for converting mardown to jpeg.

Does that invalidate what he said? Isn’t that just the genetic fallacy?

True. But the US has a tendency to make exceptions for Israel. So the fact that he stuck to his math and didn’t get Israel a special exception is a small win for US Israel relations. (aka making them more normal).

Basically it’s exceptional that we didn’t make an exception. That’s kind of sad. But because it’s exceptional it’s worth noting.

That’s called chutzpah. People who take that strategy in life should be ignored.

My position is that no politician deserves respect.

This is why we should end all federal policing. It’s not in the constitution. You were never meant to interact with your federal government. The federal government was for regulating the states, interstate commerce, and common defense.

So instead you’d like protectionism for corporate moguls because at least it isn’t free market?

Found the communist so dedicated to communism that in turn he hates the free market so much that he’d prefer government backed inequality. Anything that points out that its wrong should be questioned as suspect as wrong think. It’s funny how useful the anti-wrong think crowd end up being to corporations.

What makes you think he supports Trump? What a strange comment.

Jokes on them. I’m going to use AI to estimate the value of content, and now I’ll get the kind of content I want, though fake, that they will have to generate.

How am I not aware of that being a thing. I looked it up to confirm my stupidity but I ended up finding what I thought I would find. Syrup to add to coffee. I have never heard of anyone selling a concentrated coffee syrup.

Ok. That’s valid.

In theory that kid was alive because his parents were fucking morons.

But they have a little less than 60% of the total US gold reserves.

Do you want the government to give you some gold?

Well that party will always make exceptions for Israel, which is relevant because of Epstein’s and Ghislaine’s ties.

Maxwell’s father had experience in distributing spyware for Israel’s CYBINT, having infected nuclear sites like Oakridge. Basically what Epstein and Ghislaine ran falls under HUMINT, which is the development of human assests (often semi-willing) in foreign countries. Everybody they managed to blackmail is a form of Israeli asset.

They aren’t going to burn Israel’s HUMINT assets in the country. This is who they released the documents to: https://img.gvid.tv/i/2XBnn6G6.jpg

Good luck getting them to give us all the names. Israel is all but caught running an underage trafficking ring targeting the US. All but caught is a lie because they are caught. But no one in the media, congress or government will say it. Just like Israel can commit mass genocide in open day light and we pretend like those who are alarmed by this are unreasonable.

As a gun owner the idea that people are ok with pitbulls but have a problem with me pisses me off. For anything bad to happen with a gun requires human agency. I actually have the capacity to know I’m not going to harm an innocent person today. But a pitbull, their owners are openly playing a lottery. Every time you walk out side with it its like me muzzle sweeping everyone in my community with my finger on a trigger saying “I’ve done it lots of times and nothing bad has happened. It didn’t hurt you this time so mind your own business. My choices don’t effect you. It’s not my fault if your kids are scared of me pointing my gun around. My kids aren’t going to get hurt in my home if I practice poor gun safety. See, they love playing with it. That’s proof it’s kid friendly”

As dangerous as a gun and with less certain human control over it is not acceptable. I’ll straight up say it. I feel as uncomfortable around a pitbull owner as someone mishandling a gun. And in the gun world if someone is willfully and blazenly mishandling a firearm to the point of endangering people you have a license to shoot them if they aren’t responsive to someone telling them to stop (non-lethally ideally).

I don’t know about licenses but if you own a pitbull people should openly tell you you are the asshole that you are.

But think about it. Even small companies will self-censor in fear that the government will act against them. Every company exists in hope of being big enough that they could have a target on their back. Yes lemmy operates at a scale that it can be considered a personal project and will likely stay at that scale. But that’s not the majority of social media. Maybe it was a bit of a joke on my part to say Lemmy would be targeted. But I don’t think it’s ridiculous that American business owners should think woah the government will intentionally wreck me and try to sell me off to their friends if there is some 100% legal and reasonable conversation on my platform they don’t like.

Either there are principles to protect you or there aren’t. The fact that we have a politician openly saying we attack companies to buy them cheap or ask for half should be pretty fucking scary to anyone who owns a business.

The Eastern European countries for a long time were said to lack economic development precisely because of corruption. This is exactly the kind of interaction with government that caused that. The idea that it doesn’t matter because they are big and I am not doesn’t work. In the long run small businesses will be more vulnerable if the principle doesn’t stand that the government can’t attack you and sell you off to their friends. If that principle is gone then it’s gone.

And Donald Trump saying “We destroyed your business so we should get half of it” is a very scary precedent. You know that’s what the Israeli settlements do. The will burn the olive groves of neighboring land owners and then say, your land is worthless, sell it to us for a quarter of it’s original value. You are now in ruin you will need the cash. They will often do it in the night, but I saw video evidence once of an altercation where they were openly burning a farmer’s field in the day time right in front of him. But there was an IDF soldier ready to shoot the farmer if he tried to defend his fields physically. An entire family’s future going up in smoke because someone else wants a deal on buying land not by producing anything of value themselves but by destroying things.

In a lot of ways TikTok is an American company. To operate here it has to be structured and registered in the US. It just has foreign investment. If they can do it to TikTok (single out a company) they can do it to American companies. They just have to find some secondary reason to dislike you. Is Lemmy next if we say Free Palestine on here? All so that Israel can have their Labensraum.

And also a reminder that Switzerland flirted with actual nazism. Remember that whole “neutral” during WWII thing. That was really finlandization of Switzerland from western powers. They operated inside the German economic block.

So telling a swiss company that Trump is a nazi and association with anything even 0.0000001% a nazi would be outside of what you’d expect for a Swiss is kind of funny.

The only thing Nazi-like about Trump is his support of Israel committing a genocide against people who are in the way of Israel’s Lebensraum.

What we found out was that wiping an entire civilization or culture off the map was a lot harder than we realized. We couldn’t unseat the existence of an agrarianist regime with the level of economy you would expect from a country with no water access, even after we applied 50% of what our current debt was at the time to do it.

These leaders may have had the same thought you did, that at that time we had that capacity. But it was shown to be a bluff.

Shouldn’t it be tens of thousands of dollars? So it’s like $2,000 dollars and $40 bucks?