Musk has already turned Twitter into Truth Social anyway. So no need.

Beautiful. What kind of Product is this?

Sounds exciting. I hope you got a decent pay raise.

I think your employer is lucky to have someone like you. In my experience, very few people have this attitude. And that’s also my tip: realize that the vast majority of people only do their job by the book and don’t care whether they do it well or not. You should then consider whether your employer appreciates the fact that you care about your job. If that’s not the case, just do it like everyone else or try somewhere else. But always be aware that your employer probably doesn’t care about you and your concerns for the company at all. In my experience, it is unfortunately all too often the case that motivated people sooner or later give up and are no longer prepared to do more than the absolute minimum. Unfortunately, that’s how working life is at the vast majority of companies. It’s really sad because there is so much lost potential. But on the other hand there is all the more potential outside of work.

It would certainly be a technical challenge. But I think the utility would be very high. In my experience, it’s difficult to convince people to use an app like Signal if they can’t use it to communicate with their Whatsapp contacts (etc.).

Yes, sure, but why not point out that the communication between Signal and Whatsapp, for example, is not sufficiently encrypted? If someone doesn’t use Signal or Theema, you can only communicate with this person anyway if you use the corresponding app. That’s not any more secure. I just think that Signal & Co. could gain a lot of users if they also allowed (insecure) communication with other messengers. Encryption between users who both use Signal, for example, is not affected by this.

I still don’t get why.

Well, somehow he is right: all over the world, the excessive greed of these scoundrels has been allowed to continue for far too long.

“Ich glaub mein Schwein pfeift” (I think my pig is whistling) - in German that means “I can’t believe it”.

I try to think about how happy and content Future-me will be once the job is done. I confirm the accuracy of this thought to myself by thinking back to how it was in the past when I completed some task that was difficult for me. So I think of an experience where I realized in hindsight that it wasn’t actually that bad and that I was worrying for nothing that I might somehow fail. And even with things that ultimately didn’t go well, I can still reassure future-me that there was no need to make a big deal out of it, because even my failures have lost their horror over time; for example, embarrassing moments at school, awkward dates or bad presentations at work. All these things are just water under the bridge or at best even funny when I think back on them today - and that’s how it will be in the future: as soon as the job is done, I’ll be alright, regardless of whether I succeed or not.

Well, that’s some really interesting inside info. Thanks a million. Lemmy is really the shit: I’m just a rando thousands of miles away. And yet I still get quality answers to my naive questions. Wonderful; thank you!

I thought maybe there is some special provision for issuing driver’s licenses in Native American territory (Pamunkey) or something. We have these clowns here in Germany as well. They’re pretty much the same way. Somewhat hilarious folk. Some of them even planned a coup d’état a few years ago - even that was kind of funny because it was so absurd and awfully planned.

That’s what I thought. Thx.

Is it legal in the U.S. to produce fantasy documents that purport to be any kind of real document? That’s not a valid driver’s license, is it?

Did reddit pay a dime for that content? I guess not. That is what social media is all about.

Are you still convinced that you live in the “best democracy in the world”?

Tbh I think the world was already laughing in 2016. Even back then Trump was an absolutely ridiculous candidate. The real joke, though, is that even after his disastrous tenure as president and despite all of his criminal dealings, Trump is running again (and will probably even win the election). That would be funny if it were just about what this fact says about the American electorate. But unfortunately, the USA is still the strongest military power in the world. So it’s not too funny for the rest of the world to have to worry about how to deal with an orange psychopath with a gigantic arsenal of weapons and enormous economic power. I therefore assume that at least the democratic rest of the world has stopped laughing by now.

I agree that, from a European perspective, the USA has unfortunately turned out to be an unreliable partner, mainly because of the Trumpist’s strange closeness to Russia. But I don’t see why Europe needs to massively rearm its military because of this. Europe has nuclear weapons, which makes open conflict pretty unlikely in the first place. What’s more, I don’t believe that Europe could build a competitive conventional army even with massive investment. For this reason, the path that Switzerland (not part of the EU) is taking, i.e. far-reaching neutrality with simultaneous economic cooperation with more or less all players, seems to me to make more sense. I just think that instead of spending billions on armaments, it would be much better to invest in futureproof infrastructure. There is a massive lack of this in Germany, for example - in terms of telecommunications, transport and in the energy sector. I am simply not convinced by the arguments of military deterrence, especially as I think that Europe has little prospect of ever reaching a corresponding level in conventional warfare capacity anyway - all the more so in the very unlikely worstcase scenario that is that the USA under Trump turns into an autocracy with Russia as a partner.

I think Europe would then be forced to intensify its relations with China. Since China has so far been somewhat cautiously supportive of Russia’s military expansion policy, or at least has not decisively sanctioned it, I think that would be a reasonable way of minimizing the risk of military aggression from Russia in the first place. I hardly believe that Russia would risk a military conflict with Europe if they could not expect support or even just tolerance of such actions from China. The consequence for the USA would then not only be a loss of strategic military influence in Europe, but probably also considerable losses in terms of trade and so on.

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