Definitely.

I like searching the library of Congress’s site for the federalist papers when researching about the (surprisingly advanced) political science discussions during the Enlightenment.

Federalist papers 67-70, and 73 make some comparisons between kings and presidents. It’s definitely clear that a king is a common example in the political discourse at the time, which makes sense since their system had a king just 10-15 years before.

Yeah, there seems to be a weird reversal in the powers of a king and president. Federalist#73 says that kings fear challenging parliament, so a president who has to face reelection should be even less powerful, but it really seems like the opposite these days. The US president has so much influence over congress. It also seems like they have more of a mandate to override congress because of how involved they are in campaigning. The modern system of prime Ministers where the executive comes from parliament seems to play out better in modern politics.

Off-topic, but Federalist#66 is suuuper unfortunate to read in the modern day. The idea that senators will feel empowered to impeach officials they previously endorsed, just because individuals in the senate might feel like an official has betrayed their trust? The idea that a majority of congress would never act tyranically? Hamilton, what the fuck? I guess the main issue though is that parties have become much stronger than democratic pressure on individual seats in the senate.

In many countries, the president is the head of state, they manage the transition of power and act as diplomats, in place of a king. Finland has both a president and PM.

Was giving literal gold to Donald Trump part of that campaign to save the users?

Both Tim and Pinchai paid Donald Trump money to attend his inauguration and lick his ass on a daily basis. They both have one very big incentive to invade their user’s privacy: American fascism.

You will sleep in your car, you will work in your car, you will eat in your car. You will pay your monthly payments in the Tesla app. The only entertainment you get is playing Cyberpunk 2077 on your Tesla steeringwheel, and the only social interaction will be with your voice-activated AI girlfriend.

You don’t understand Marx or Lenin if you don’t understand their belief in the relationship between capitalism and communism.

My point was that there’s more nuance than just “capitalism always causes social fragmentation”

We should all get together and shit on that orange fuck’s grave when he’s good and dead.

It’s not that cut and dry. There is a lot of overlap between capitalism and communism.

At the risk of quantizing humor, I’d argue that this isn’t really that funny.

It’s basically only enjoyable since it’s celebrating the death of someone we don’t like, and mocking the people who feel like we should be mourning him. Gore similes aren’t really “funny”.

Like it’s enjoyable to animorph Hitler into a burnt corpse, but if someone posted the same meme with George Floyd and a crushed snail, I don’t think anyone would find it funny.

Anyways, reee shitpost in my diaper give me tendies

Oh, TIL. I’ll have to check that out next time I’m in Germany.

The commenter above was comparing working environments in Trader Joe’s (a US only store), Costco (majority US), and “Aldi”. The logical assumption is that this comparison is with Aldi US.

It would be strange if the commenter was comparing working environments in specific store franchises across countries with completely different labor markets. Furthermore, why would they specifically compare Trader Joe’s to German Aldi in North Germany?

I am certain that the above commenter was comparing Trader Joe’s to Aldi Süd and specifically their US subsidiary. These two brands are not the same company, despite Aldi’s naming quirk.

government efficiency is when the government pays the salary of 200+ people for a chatbot toy

Aldi US stores are owned by Aldi Süd, which is different from the Aldi Nord that owns trader Joe’s. You can see it in the logo that Aldi US stores use.

Actually a fun fact there, they’re both owned by different Aldis.

[Aldi] was split into two separate groups in 1960 that later became Aldi Nord (initially Northern West Germany), headquartered in Essen, and Aldi Süd (initially Southern West Germany), headquartered in neighbouring Mülheim

The brothers split the company in 1960, reportedly over a dispute about whether they should sell cigarettes. Karl believed they would attract shoplifters, while his brother, Theo, did not. This led to Theo running Aldi Nord and Karl running Aldi Süd.[22]

in 1976, Aldi Süd opened its first store in the United States in Iowa,[a][29][30] and, in 1979, Aldi Nord acquired Trader Joe’s.[19]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aldi

Windows users complaining every time someone says they like Linux

Trolleybusses and trams are basically indestructible. Normal busses only last like 20 years, electric busses even shorter, but trolleybusses and trams will last 100 years with proper maintenance. The only big wear part is really the tires on trolleybusses, which doesn’t affect trams.

The main reason why old trams aren’t run anymore is just because they’re a bit small and noisy and not wheelchair accessible. That and car companies convinced cities to pave over their tram lines to be able to sell more cars.

Remember to thank your chatbots!

coup goons

Who the fuck generates graphs with AI? Genuine slopper behavior.