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@goatsarah up, it goes for the UK just as well, and I'm pretty concerned about it. For a brief beautiful moment it looked like Scotland might make a break for it, but I guess that moment has passed. Not that I'm well enough to go running around moving to other coutnries anymore.

America's short term problem is obvious but its long term problem, I suspect, is that Reagan paid for a tax cut by stopping infrastructure investment and now nobody still of working age remembers what maintenance actually costs. It's now politically unthinkable to tax enough that government departments can run efficiently, that schools are properly resourced, that the line at immigration is quick, that bridges are properly inspected and maintained.

Service guarantees food - join the army today!

I feel really bad for Musk's kid, having to wait until the next CEO gets shot before he gets to see daddy again

"it's going to be a long four years"

oh you sweet summer child

actually that crowd was chanting "see Kyle" because they wanted to see a man called Kyle. A lot.

Given that the order on gender includes visas and that most trans people have updated passports, I assume that this leaves trans people with a choice of either breaking immigration law and hoping the US doesn't know they're trans, or having a mismatch between their visa and passport which will no doubt be used to deny issuance or entry.

Unfortunately for me the US government definitely officially knows I'm trans.

I guess we're at the bit where we all fucking see stuff with our own eyes and are then asked to believe that something more innocent is going on, like we didn't see that fucking bozo smack his heart and do an emphatic seig heil _twice in a row_

@Remittancegirl what gets me the most is that Musk could have kept the mythos of a tech genius going for a lot longer if he simply did not have a twitter account. He's single-handedly punctured his own reputation by failing to shut up

Je pog
Tu pogs
Il pog
Nous poggons
Vous poggez
Ils poggent

@cstross fair point, hostile things aren't they

@cstross updating the Turing Test so it has to work on someone who, given an instruction manual, can successfully set the clock on an oven or VCR

I know I've been going on about preparing for the country's Internet getting islanded but this week it feels like the real thing to prepare for is major datacenter losses or one of your communication tools just geoblocking the UK.

A good time to build resilience in the form of self hosting.

There's dozens of data centres in LA. I wonder how many big company NOCs have realised the danger

Three or four years ago I decided to ditch music streaming and put my music budget towards buying CDs and unencumbered digital albums instead. No regrets. It can't disappear from your collection due to rights expiry if you've got the physical disk.

The civility has been illusory the whole time, but now we're heading well into the territory where people don't believe in it anymore.

Throw in people being killed, losing loved ones or otherwise losing everything to climate disasters and predatory insurance companies and you've got a lot of people who are angry, radicalised and convinced that nothing in the system can deliver them justice.

And now something anarchists like to call "propaganda of the deed": assasinating an unsympathetic target

From their perspective, the state absolutely has to get this guy and they will throw every resource into chasing him. The longer he evades them, the more of an advert it is for other people to try the same thing.

Either way, the conditions that undoubtably created this guy will continue. If the ACA falls, it'll be worse. The next city to be wiped out by fire or flood will add a dozen more.

We've got worse income inequality than the run up to the French Revolution. It's gonna get Interesting.

The cool thing about civil society is that when there's injustice, you know it's someone's job to handle it. Criminals are punished. Corporations are held to account. The government provides a safety net. There's no need to get spicy.

Now if people see a supreme court make blatantly partisan decisions, your incoming president pardons his allies, corporations have been fucking you for five decades and your healthcare costs more than rent and bankrupts you anyway, they might try other stuff.