The silver quicksilver lining is that plague doctor masks might be making a comeback, at least?

It’s better than letting him milk it from the shadows.

With the way he’s set up his own companies to benefit from DOGE “inefficiency” fixes and government contracts, Tesla has a safety net and path to perceived growth. And unfortunately, the public has a short memory. If he leaves and decides to stop interfering with global politics for a while and people move on to boycotting something else, Tesla’s already-overvalued hype stock will have a chance to recover even more.

It’s also against his interests to sell his Tesla stock since he used it to help secure those massive loans when buying Twitter. If he’s forced to divest, he would actually have to eat that massive multi-billion loss in a tangible way.

Anyhow, I brought up the idea more so as a reminder that we must not stop with the boycotts until he does finally sell. While he still gains personal wealth from the company, it’s not enough for him to just step down as CEO.

Not good enough. His personal wealth is still backed by his ownership in Tesla stocks, and he’ll keep profiting and using them to bankroll his fascist fuckery and geopolitical interference.

Force him to sell his shares and divest.

A more depressing and less bat shit insane take I heard from a few of them is that “it will hurt but it needs to happen” and “everybody takes advantage of America and Trump will change that”.

Where cult stupidity doesn’t work, propaganda still does.

At this point I’m unsure if he just didn’t understand the letters were superimposed

He seems to genuinely think they’re part of the tattoo. From another interview:

Trump kept insisting: “No, no: He had ‘MS’ as clear as you can be, not ‘interpreted.’"

No, no. You see, “swamp” was actually an acronym:

Socalists,
Women,
And
Marginalized
Persons

As far as I see, he’s done an unprecedentedly tremendous job draining the government SWAMP. /s

Trump kept insisting: “No, no: He had ‘MS’ as clear as you can be, not ‘interpreted.’"

That is astonishingly—but unsurprisingly—stupid.

It’s one thing to insist that tattoos of a weed leaf, a smily face with “x” for its eyes, a cross, and a skull are pictographs for “M S 1 3”. It’s another to be such a dumbass that you think the superimposed text trying to explain that interpretation is the tattoo.

I don’t know what they teach in journalism school

It’s not what they don’t teach. It’s that what they do teach is immediately and unobjectionally discarded by the oligarch paying their salary.

If something doesn’t benefit the ownership or the ideals promoted by the ownership, it won’t be published. If it’s in opposition to the ownership or their ability to retain wealth and power, the journalists behind it won’t be employed any longer. Outside of publicly-funded or independent journalism, journalistic integrity and unbiased reporting are practically dead.

This is what happens when news and media are consolidated into a few large conglomerates owned by a wealthy few.

I think it would depend on whether Canada’s new government is willing to play ball. If they’re not willing to kiss Trump’s ass and give America the preferential treatment that he’s trying to extort from the country, there’s going to be more than just a one-off passing comment about it. Probably a woe-is-me “Canada is taking advantage of us” campaign, I reckon.

They railroaded Clinton into being the 2016 candidate and appointed Harris as the 2024 one. The DNC leadership doesn’t care what their constituents actually want.

Uncoincidentally, that’s why said leadership needs to be replaced.

Of course, most Americans don’t realize it’s an intensely offensive thing. That’s a major part of the problem.

“America is the greatest nation on earth, why wouldn’t another country want to be part of it?”

That’s what happens when a population is spoon-fed “patriotism” from birth. All the nationalism and propaganda is doing its job promoting American exceptionalism while diminishing empathy and critical thinking.

A) Reporting facts of public opinion is never illegal.

So far. If the crybaby gets what he wants, it will be.

D) YOU CANNOT RUN FOR PRESIDENT AGAIN YOU FUCKING RUBE!

Alas, when has the constitution actually stopped him? His supporters fully support this blantantly corrupt crap, and he’s even selling “Trump 2028” merch.

China might not be the worst option if you had to pick any of the BRICS countries. Lots of people, not landlocked, and huge potential for business. Canada absolutely shouldn’t trust them for anything involving defense or global politics, but they at least have more stability than we do as a trade partner.

As for trusting BRICS as a whole… fuck no. Least of all, Russia.

either a troll or a shill.

A tankie. To her credit, though, sometimes she makes good points about topics related to communism like class warfare and how exploitative capitalism is. This was not one of those times, unfortunately.

Just a really bad shill take of supporting the authoritarian-“communist” countries that conveniently ignore the communist ideals of no hierarchical power structures and being run by the people.

@Sunshine@lemmy.ca said those countries are authoritarian, and your response is to say “so is this one, and you’re racist”?

You’re not even denying Sunshine’s claim, you’re just redirecting to a different topic and attacking the beliefs you prescribed to someone else. Just strawmen and ad hominem attacks. Nice.

In a Musk-approved world:

• You’re hit by a Tesla in FSD mode, the driver gets sued for not driving.
• You’re hit by a fully autonomous Tesla taxi, you get sued for vandalism.
• You’re the driver and FSD hit someone, you get sued.
• You’re the owner and the car hits someone while you’re not in it, you get sued for owning it.
• You’re the owner and it catches fire with you inside, you(r estate) gets sued for “not maintaining it”.

3 people showed up, and one of them was the poster… I can already see tomorrow’s headline:

Democrats Falling Apart: 33% of Protesters Against Senator Van Hollen were Democrat Voters

Emulation is legal

Unfortunately, it’s not that straightforward anymore. Emulation of modern consoles exists in a legal gray area that may or may not be illegal under the DMCA.

With something like the Switch, the ROMs are encrypted in a way that they can only be unencrypted with keys that are derived from data baked into the console itself. Yuzu for example is still protected as an emulator for some hardware/software platform, but it wouldn’t be able to run retail games without being able to decrypt the ROMs.

And that’s kind of the problem. Creating tools for preservation and interoperability is permitted by the DMCA, but tools that are made in part or whole to bypass DRM measures is explicitly not. That conflict hasn’t been tested in court either, so the first ruling is going to be the one that sets the precedent.

This is my problem with your argument, you’re saying that because of piracy they’re entitled to crack down on emulation.

My argument isnt that they’re entitled to crack down on emulation because of piracy. My argument is that people blatantly and publicly using emulators to play pirated, unreleased games emboldens Nintendo.

I believe Nintendo isn’t willing to test that gray area in court without having something to support their anti-emulation position. What they want to do is bully devs into settling because it’s a low-risk way to kill development on the emulator without opening up that can of worms that could make Switch emulators unambiguously legal. But, the more evidence Nintendo gets to support their argument, the more confident they become in thinking they would end up winning if they don’t get that settlement.

Keep in mind that when they did finally go after Yuzu’s devs, they went after them for creating software to circumvent the Switch’s DRM (that gray area I mentioned) and not for creating an emulator. If they were actually confident in thinking the legal answer to “is an emulator that decrypts ROMs illegal” was “yes,” they would’ve just went after Yuzu a long time ago instead of waiting 7 years into the console lifestyle.

Don’t get me wrong: Nintendo deserves no sympathy here. They could do many things to make their games more accessible, but they chose not to.

That’s not to say asshats like this deserves any either, though. The homebrew community and emulator developers step in to make Switch software interoperable, and they end up being the ones getting screwed over by both Nintendo and the people who provoked Nintendo.

I don’t normally victim-blame, but streaming an unreleased game is really asking for it.

It’s one thing to pirate a game for yourself. That’s just called being poor or being someone who doesn’t believe in copyright. The only party who can argue they’re being harmed is the developer, who may or may not have received a sale otherwise.

It’s another thing to pirate an unreleased game and stream it for others. If you do that and receive ad revenue or donations, you’re profiting off of someone else’s work. Not only that, but you’re also harming the console modding community by incentivizing the publisher to go after homebrew developers and emulator developers. It wasn’t a coincidence that shortly after some asshat streamed an unreleased Zelda game being played on Yuzu, Nintendo decided to finally come down on the emulator with an iron fist.

In conclusion, between pirating a game to enjoy yourself and pirating a game to play on a for-profit streaming platform, one of those two things is morally gray and the other is someone being a selfish fuck.