Well, it’s the only thing people will reliably do. Each and every last of us.

Happy weekend, I guess.

They said “if you’re good”.

Or maybe you shouldnt be telling people how to live their lives? Even fans of communism have dictatorial tendencies.

That doesn’t have anything to do with the discussion. Either you want to ban paid content or you don’t.

Given that SQL is 50 years old, I’m not surprised they go hand in hand. I’d be more surprised if it integrates seamlessly with Kafka, k8s, MongoDB or lambda.

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So it makes sense to ban discussing games that are not open source, discussing movies not in the public domain and sports that charge for tickets?

They should have voted to prevent this, but only half of them did. They other half lived through the first Trump admin and decided that it was not worth a few minutes of their time to prevent it. They didn’t have to cross an ocean or fight a war… they needed to visit a website to get registered and the mail a form (or stand in line for a while) to vote, and they didn’t.

In other words, only 1/3 of Americans voted against this.

He campaigned for “I will fix everything on day one” and gave zero details, so if you voted for that I have a bridge to sell you. It was obvious, painfully obvious, that project 2025 was their program and since it had more that 3 pages and no pictures, trump didn’t understand it.

Trump was caught on thousands of lies already, from crowd sizes, to cat eating, to covid curing, to sexual assault, to taxes, to hurricane paths, to state secrets, to election results. People knew VERY WELL what they were getting with him. This is no surprise. They voted exactly for this.

About the result, I’m going to have to quote fast an furious here, doesn’t matter if by an inch or a mile…

Besides, polls indicate that he is at his highest EVER approval rating. Not only people voted for this, they are actually enjoying this. Yes, you and me see where this is going, but the average voter still thinks that this is fine. Americans are dumb as fuck and (at least in Europe) the relationship has been damaged for generations. I was super supportive the first Trump admin and I thought the people learned their lesson, but apparently it just took the billionaires fucking up egg prices for people to shoot themselves in the floor with a cannon.

There will be lots of pikachu faces just before leopards eat them and at this point I can’t help but shrug. I don’t think “I told you so” helps, but it’s all i have.

As everyone expected.

So we shouldn’t have communities around videogames (or board games), professional sports, traveling, food, clothes, most hobbies, or anything else, because it costs money? Even in a bookbclub, the library won’t have 15 copies of the same book, some people will have to buy it, unless your book club comprises 2 people.

You get what you pay for is exactly right.

You can apply the same for movies, games, theater plays, theme parks, travel… so you just don’t pay for anything just because you want to talk to someone about it?

Not the only one, but the closest one.

All of those are open source, so nothing to sell really (well, except MySQL, which is Oracle).

EnterpriseDB is the closest you can get to “selling” Postgres.

For sure, but even the BBC has been under heavy criticism lately for some bias.

It doesn’t. Doesn’t mean anyone has to allow anything besides fox news either.

Just pointing out that journalism costs money and certain stories are very expensive to research and cover. As many things in life, you get what you pay for.

To be fair, state controlled (or state financed) media has its own set of problems, depending on the country and historic period, and things can change fast with certain governments.

Because journalism costs money, and journalists have bills to pay. If you don’t want to pay money for news, some billionaire will happily pay it for you: https://youtu.be/_fHfgU8oMSo

Trump was polling at 45% in the worst moments… AfD is polling at 15-20%

And there is no world in which the AfD takes majority. Not even most voted, let alone majority.

To be someone who hates snarkiness you should try being much less wrong.