Theft against banks.

Neat. The guy’s argument with you has accidentally leaked into another community, with him replying to me and another poster with ad hominem attacks and desires to see us (who never mentioned religion) institutionalized.

As an audio connoisseur, I will not settle for anything less than a private, live showing by the band without any digital assistance like microphones.

You see, when the audio goes into a wav file, it gets converted into BITS. That’s not audio, that’s food! And those bits aren’t even used immediately–they’re saved for later! They go STALE in the hard drive only to be used later to create synthetic bits, losing both quality and purity during the process. To make matters worse, those synthetic bits are used to make synthetic audio waves, which get turned into electrons and sent down a wire to make synthetic pressure waves. Nothing is REAL with digital audio. It’s fake music made from fake sounds made from fake waves made from fake bits made from a fake copy of real, honest-to-goodness music.

It may come at a premium multi-million cost for a single album, but gosh dang-it, I’m listening to music as it was made to be!

/s

I don’t think he would make it to trial. The wealthy don’t appreciate those who unite the public against them, and they certainly wouldn’t want him to send another message by having the chance to explain his motives.

Who says it can’t be?

I see you’ve just met Kaboom. If your Lemmy client supports it, it would be wise to add a tag for future reference…

Wireguard uses UDP, by the way.

https://www.wireguard.com/protocol/

Thinking about it, something about crude oil being both the largest industrial import and export seems a bit stupid. If $164b of oil is coming in and $117b of oil is going out, that’s only $47b worth of it actually staying in the country.

Oh well. I’m sure there’s some trade agreements and/or buy-low-and-sell-high trading at play to explain it.

https://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/Press-Release/ft900/final_2023.pdf

Oh, gas is absolutely going up.

If the tariffs extend to crude oil imports, they’ll pass the cost down to consumers. If crude oil is excluded, they’ll increase profits by 15% and pretend it isn’t.

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What’s next, schools? Oh, wait. Well, surely not public infra—nevermind. At least kids are safe? No? All right then.

More or less, minus the CGI.

I need to try with my user agent set to a Chromebook. Maybe I’ll even get a discount.

Then drag and I are in agreement :)

I saw drag clarification that drag comment was just about milk and not politics or economics. Myself and others had a different interpretation, which is where things were misunderstood.

Understandable. I hope drag has a good day and glass of ethical milk.

If drag does not support China, drag is probably not a tankie. If drag calls drag communist and consider Russia and North Korea communist-led countries, drag is wrong, however. A charitable description of those countries would be “socialist” by Marx’s definition.

So, Drag thinks countries that act as though their neighbors are part of a greater whole ruled by them as the motherland, and have political structures where the governing body consists of a small cohort (and not the proletariat) are communist?

That’s imperialism, buddy.

Let me know when: 1) China stops trying to exert absolute control over Tibet, Taiwan, and Hong Kong; 2) North Korea accepts that their ownership ends where their globally-recognized territory ends; 3) Russia stops invading neighboring countries; and 4) All three of them abolish the ruling class and give the power to the people.

December edit: This is a regretful instance of me being needlessly antagonistic.

The constant cheerleading of brutally-repressive regimes that don’t have any values in common with actual socialists or communists just because they oppose the US and its allies.

This is my main issue with tankies. Yeah, late-stage capitalism sucks and exploits the layman to enrich the rich further—I take no issue with that. It’s the knob-slobbering of Putin, Xi Jinping, and Kim Jong Un that makes no sense. Modern-day Russia, China, and North Korea have about as much in common with communism as oat milk has with milk: nothing but the name.

If you’re using a decent development system, you’ll have an executable called diff installed already :)