beefalo

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[–] beefalo@fedia.io 9 points 1 month ago (2 children)

It's in the earnings reports: https://dropbox.gcs-web.com/financial-information/earnings-reports 18.16M paying customers in Q2 2024

[–] beefalo@fedia.io 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If the country is invading you, doesn’t that make them de-facto worse?

Conscription is a necessary tool for a defense effort. There are countries (Sweden, Norway) where conscription serves more as a mandatory civil service period. Those programs give citizens a much greater understanding of their government and society.

[–] beefalo@fedia.io 4 points 1 month ago

Basically the tech industry is full of enough "product leader" douchebags that they truly believe a "convincing bullshit generator" is revolutionary. Now they don't even have to come up with their own vacuous bullshit

[–] beefalo@fedia.io 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The real answer is he will continue the gutting of the administrative state. The direction we are going is corporatism. Absolution of federal agencies tasked with legally protecting people (education, health, environmental protection, labor protection, safety, finance regulation) and expanding the agencies that legally bind people (police, prisons).

It's not likely that Trump would be going "full Hitler". But the governors of Texas and Florida might.