Broke the racist Strom Thurmond’s record that had been an embarrassment for the Senate that dated back decades.

Set a marker to show how strongly Democrats reject what’s going on despite their current lack of options for pushing back.

Anyway, IMO this post flagrantly breaks rule #6 and should really be deleted. Put this discussion elsewhere.

Around 82. Most of them by train, bus and boat.

But the country count is irrelevant. Travel should be a personal experience, not a form of conspicuous consumption. Mass airplane travel in particular is completely unsustainable, which is why I hardly ever do it. I’ve been to a ton of very remote and interesting places but I don’t blog about my adventures or post anything on social media. Only a handful of people ever hear anything about it, which is the way things were for everyone until approximately yesterday. Traveling slowly is not particularly expensive, it just requires time and a patient mindset.

Sure, it’s fine. But if I’m only publishing text and photos, and I don’t need tons of specialized plugins, and I’m dealing with things myself - then personally I will go with a static-site generator every time. It’s at least as fast, and more secure by design.

Did not know that. Useful.

Full DB-driven monster for a few bytes of text. Sledgehammer to crack a nut if you ask me. But sure, this is the obvious answer.

Even more interesting IMO: what are the options that do not involve self-hosting (thus avoiding the PITA of babysitting a domain and server security)?

Bro doesn’t need DE to watch videos. Bro doesn’t need DE to do anything.

Desktop environment? Who needs a desktop environment?

The government does not “own” Meta. Words have meanings.

And then some of them learn that downvoting is obnoxious and toxic, while others never grow out of infancy.

A decade out. Yeltsin chose him.

Order. Conformity. Mystery. Impenetrable language. Impossible writing. Eating anything that moves. Mindless nationalism. People who don’t talk or even care about politics. Depressed single young people obsessed with shopping. Security cameras. Police. Airport-sized train stations. Electric scooters. Electric cars. Utopian-dystopian sci-fi.

Yes, I have been there multiple times.

PS: to be clear, I was very, very impressed by those trains and especially by the electrification of city transport. In Shenzhen the air is now cleaner than any big city in the West and with all the greenery and silence it really does have a utopian feel. The progress there is genuine, it’s amazing, it deserves lots and lots of credit.

Worth remembering that the benefits of open source are less critical with server-side software compared to when it’s your own personal computer. Personally, if it’s SAAS then I’m not much bothered what they’re running it on. Not to invalidate your general point.

Contravenes rule #3. Moderation please.

PS. And rule #1 and IMO even rule #4 because it’s a pretty boring observation.

Yes, I know all that and I completely agree. It’s all but impossible to imagine that the USA will ever be an actually dictatorship, despite the ignorant shrieking around here. Because of its traditions of individual freedom and federalism.

But it’s obviously looking less and less like democracy.

You think? I don’t much care about downvotes. But I do end conversations if I suspect that that other party is doing it.

I just extrapolated. Their comment was posted at the same time as a downvote.

If they denied it I would apologize.

I don’t discuss with people who downvote my comments. You clearly don’t care what I have to say. Good night.

The USA is categorized by people who have studied this subject more closely than you (or me) as a flawed democracy. This is a dumb discussion. That’s all I have to say here.

That’s a balanced and fair-minded take. Unfortunately it won’t be appreciated here, because what people are looking for in this thread is catharsis and confirmation of their biases.