And now the dilemma becomes clear: you either give up democracy to prevent a fascist takeover, or you give up democracy because the fascists have taken over.

I don't think I agree. You haven't lost democracy yet and while "purging the facists" surely sounds nice, it's still a pipedream that most certainly would just result in civil war.

I get your point and I'm not saying that everything lawful is inherently morally right. But we're not talking about challenging and improving laws here and there. The transition of power in a democracy must be honored, otherwise it's not a democracy anymore.

What else should they do? End Democracy themselves?

The american voters gave Trump access to Top Secret Intelligence (again!), so this is on them (as is every fucked up thing Trump can and will do for the next four years or longer).

Thanks for the write-up! I've settled on Immich but it's always interesting to hear about other peoples perspectives.

Musk wrote that X "has no choice but to file suit against the perpetrators and collaborators" behind an advertiser boycott on his platform.

So he's going to sue himself then?

If somebody is going to try to blackmail me with advertising, blackmail me with money, go fuck yourself. Go fuck yourself. Is that clear? I hope it is.

Elon Musk, 2023

I guess it was pretty clear. What a clown.

They're saying that the proposed gender change (in the docs) will most likely not be accepted. That's still bullshit, but to insinuate transphobia based on this comment alone goes too far IMHO.

And his concerns echo those of many teenagers and twentysomethings in town: fears of war spreading in Europe, inflation, economic decline, “unchecked” immigration and, above all, violent crime, which they say is rampant when they use public transport or hang out in public spaces at night.

The AfD will not solve a single one of these problems. Idiots.

https://youtu.be/vvDK8tMyCic

I usually check my emails while on my autopilot commute to work

Also, with a 90-minute commute each way, in 2023, he apparently started sleeping in his car, showering at the factory and microwaving his dinners on days that he was working.

This guy sounds like a fucking idiot.

It's Lena Headey and according to google she's 1.66m.

No way. Sitting around for 4.5 billion years doing nothing while nothing happens for most of the time? I'd go insane after a few months with billions of years still to go. The "with all your senses" part also sucks for the millions of years when earth was a ball of lava with a steady rain of asteroids and no atmosphere.

Kurzgesagt made a video about the entire history of earth, each second representing 1.5 million years. I'd suggest watching this to get a sense about the absolutely massive amount of time. Our monkey brains are not even slightly made to observe all of this.

Also funny that you mention money, as if someone who just witnessed the entire history of earth would care about a measly million dollars.

The country’s top Islamic body has called the practice “one of the virtues of Islam.”

Religion is a cancer.