Technically it’s true. There’s a high chance bits and pieces of you have been used in other life several times, though you were more likely parts of plants than other creatures.

And when you die, you’ll be reused again. Nature has always been like that.

It’s going to look tacky. You’ve seen what he’s done to the Oval Office. It’ll be $230M for that slap-dash look of awful design populated with gilded nonsense to try seem classy.

For now

Getting news off Lemmy is a shit-for-brains idea. It’s 70% bias saturated US politics links. I have no.idea how people keep lapping it up, but I hear that’s the culture of Americans being told what to believe and do based on their feeds.

You can block keywords, though, so if anyone posts any interesting news, you may even get to see it.

As for what would be at the top of the arch, Trump said it would be a gilded “Lady Liberty.”

“That’s Lady Liberty. Did you ever hear of Lady Liberty?” Trump said.

🤦

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Okay, this isn’t nottheonion

We don’t really get drug and insurance stuff in my country like the US. Product1234, if it can actually be determined, is often some sort of web service that helps by doing something “all in the one place” or some shit.

But as I said, often literally nfi. Like maybe their plan is to have their isolating commercial cause me to go to the effort of Googling them.

I do find US ads funny, though. Its like they’re made by non-humans trying to do humans. Fake children laughter, soft voices, lots of smiles and well-ironed light clothes. Often ends with a slightly slow-mo shot of someone turning to camera and smiling, like that person has anything to do with anything and I know them, a voiceover trying to me like, “Because we’re in this together” or some weird shit.

Like, “Wow. I didn’t know Super United Allied Mega Insurance cared.” sniffle

I notice more and more ads just try to be my friend.

They don’t advertise anything about their product, I have nfi what they do. They’re just trying to align with me in the weirdest generic way.

“This is Sam. Sam works hard every day. Sam likes their family. Sam laughs with their friends. Sam enjoys a movie on the couch with their partner. Sam uses Product1234.”

I first noticed this tactic specifically aiming at women. They just show footage of girls doing girl things and the product is there. What does the product do? Why is it worth my money? What makes it better than other ones? Who the fuck knows?

But now that seems to be the same targeting for men just as much, if not more.

Like, this shit is happening and apparently working when it should be making people feel massively patronised and insulted.

The UN has said that at least 22 people were killed in the first days of the protests that started on 25 September at the call of a youth-led movement called “Gen Z”.

Omg. CHINA DOESNT CARE lol

It’s like he wants the US dead and them on top.

That’s any smart device. Unless you’re the one.doimg the updates.yoirself, they will all become obsolete as technology evolves. This is the case here too; sounds they just don’t have enough people using them to justify figuring out how to keep them working as new devices and platforms roll on. 9.5 years is an alright run, comparatively.

In context of the times, Jesus was very left. Surprised they didn’t kill the guy.

Don’t even need a college degree.

Australia, Spain, UK, Portugal (they may even still be doing that super cheap buying a property thing for foreign workers they’re trying to attract in smaller towns), Finland… I assume the other countries around Finland…

Many of these places they are more concerned about filling industries regardless of your qualifications. Education and hospitality are lways in demand. I have four American friends that went to Australia and NZ for short-term visas and just decided to never leave and are PR now. No degrees, though two were former US servicemen which may have boosted their credits.

The only catch for pursuing PR is you either have to have an employer happy to sponsor you, or you are told which cities and industries need you the most. After some time for the government to know you’re not fucking them around, welcome to your new home.

Teaching English is a classic too. Especially in SK and Japan. You don’t need to know the language well as English is expected to be the natively spoken language in classrooms. Have a friend that never left China doing that and two that never left Japan. No degrees; only basics of the national languages. They obviously have become fluently bilingual over time.

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Oh, Il he playing King Gizzard nd the Lizard Wizard all day since I noticed they dropped everything off streaming services and the new album (like their 27th now?) is only in BC 👍

I don’t think it was designed as that at all. But like anything long-term with no protection or regulation, it will be exploited. This is as guaranteed as sunrise.

Only gets worse the longer you leave it. Myself and many friends I have met along the way one day just did it, with nothing. Within two years, things are so much better than if they were spent in the same situation. The worse that can happen is you just go back to what you have now. So what you have now is the worse-case scenario.

Edit: Oh, I mean there’s cavets to that, obviously. Like you could get ruined. But that’s why less likely than getting ruined by a drunk driver or something. Point is, what you have control of will always end up how you imagined.

I can understand immigration restrictions because they’ve always been in the interest of maintaining a healthy economy that can contribute plenty toward future infrastructure. This is just the play for as long as history is recorded. As long as we’ve had borders, and walls, fences, guards… It’s common for countries to go through periods of restriction to only skilled workers, specific industries, etc. otherwise it’s working internally on itself for a period.

But when you’ve got a booming GDP, restricting visas makes as much sense as having substantial poverty among citizens. Like sovereignty and protection of those within was never on the cards, it’s just straight up fascism, as you said. You get the same idiots saying they’re the most powerful military in the world capable of destroying anything—which isn’t far from true—also saying a brown family is going to destroy the nation… Uh-huh. Sure… One of these things has to be a lie for both cannot be true.

I know in my country, such a thing is illegal af and there’d be very damaging outcry from the public if a gov tried it. But this country and the ones I’ve lived in, the governments seem to understand they’re in service of the public. This is one of the reasons why governments came to exist and why they are still relevent, after all.

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Y’all fucked. Bail now. There’s way better places to live out your days on earth .