Ads are a core component of how search makes money. They’re also a core component of how YouTube makes money.

Satellites have some degree of mobility and space junk follows trajectories that can be computed basically infinitely into the future.

Space junk is highly deterministic, though. No atmosphere to fuck with.

It absolutely is, even if your particular instance hasn’t been. Lemmy.world probably takes the brunt of it.

Does that claim remove the existence of conflict of interest?

State funding describes a conflict of interest, whether perceived or actual.

Musk wasn’t wrong in applying the state media tag to NPR/BBC/CBC. At the end of the day, they are funded by the state.

Thanks, China.

The entire point of E2EE is that it doesn’t matter who the host is.

Tell me you haven’t read the Communist Manifesto without telling me you haven’t read the Communist Manifesto.

Most people from hexbear provide sources, which is better than can be said for all the tankie hate.

Quite. All American networking equipment is being used to spy on people, so clearly all Chinese networking equipment must be, too. Evidence? Unnecessary.

Fiberglass is a bitch and it’s used in far greater quantities.

Have you ever wondered why people are so eager to accept the premise that China is doing everything to spy on foreign nationals?

Considering that those claims are almost all getting started by American agencies, and given the details of the Snowden leaks… America is projecting.

Do you understand how fucking convoluted and bureaucratically insane the US H1B visa system is?

On the other hand, what if the problem is simply one that’s no longer important for most people? Isn’t technological advancement supposed to introduce abstraction that people can develop on?

Gender pronouns exist mostly because our society ties so many societal norms to gender. If people weren’t sexist animals, it wouldn’t really be a problem.

Joe who supports the Patriots and works on a lobster boat half the year isn’t going to the Supreme Court. Bill who’s a theatre student at NYU isn’t going to the Supreme Court. The people that are going to the Supreme Court are predominantly white men from highly privileged backgrounds.

Coincidentally, this forms the three metrics that correlate with conservative lean. Wealthier people lean conservative, white people lean conservative, and men lean conservative. In fact, even in the notoriously liberal New York Metro, white people are mixed https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/religious-landscape-study/compare/party-affiliation/by/racial-and-ethnic-composition/among/metro-area/new-york-city-metro-area/.

The Supreme Court is completely decoupled from the American population. What do you expect to happen? It’s a place where career justices can go to play ideology while normal people are suffering.

The East Coast elite is very rich and (by extension) conservative. They are never going to vote for things that actually help the American populace.

Ask yourself this: why is the circuit that covers the largest and most populous area not currently represented? Why is a court that speaks for the entire country disproportionately represented by people from the Tri Cities and DC?

The SCOTUS doesn’t represent America, it represents an East Coast elite America that turns its head away from the harsh realities of working class Americans in Midwestern and Western America.