So are you saying “even a broken clock is right twice a day” type of thing? One thing that comes to mind is scrapping the TPP, which would’ve sucked, but he got rid of it because it was an Obama thing, so he did the right thing but for the wrong reason.

I’m fairly confident that Trump will never get the NPP under any circumstances, but then again the world has gotten so batshit crazy that I’m waiting for aliens to land at this point.

Uh, Biden got us out of Afghanistan, didn’t he?

True, but I think the article is meant as more sort of like a “how can they (the GOP) be so stupid?” type of thing.

Thanks! 👍

BTW, are the Chinese way ahead of the US in this like they are with renewables and electric cars? They’ll probably figure out a way to have AI use significantly less power before “we” can.

Also been very happy with Filen.

We need this tool for every city in the US.

Is that still in development? The desktop client at least looks like it hasn’t been updated in quite some time.

Oops. Didn’t check the date; saw it on https://mastodon.social/explore/links.

Oh, excellent, thank you! Will take a look and give it a try. They have so many apps it’s easy to miss the ones that have the exact functionality I’m looking for!

Thanks for taking the time to write all that; it’ll take me a while to digest it all! 🤔

Now that I think of it, I do remember them asking for my address and phone number in order to sign up . . .

Infomaniak? Thundermail? The latter only has a waitlist for now, unfortunately.

Yes, I think that’s right.

EDIT: Since real (if only temporary) change seems to come after some major catastrophe, part of me hopes (although be careful what you wish for, Erinaceus!) that the Trumpster will unleash something so bad (like the Great Depression) that we might somehow find our way to something resembling social democracy in its aftermath. I know that that’s probably not good enough for many of the folks here on .ml, but wouldn’t that at least be an improvement? Let’s get to social democracy first and then we can talk about communism . . . ? What do you think? All of this is probably just castles-in-the-sky type thinking anyway, but I/we can dream.

The government no longer exists to serve us.

It never did. It only ever served the capitalist class.

I feel like this briefly wasn’t the case in the US, at least to a certain extent, during the FDR/New Deal era, which began after the Great Depression and started to fall apart in the mid 60s starting with Goldwater and the backlash to LBJ’s Great Society. The reactionaries who decided that they just weren’t rich enough, hunkered down, planned ahead, bided their time, set up a vast right-wing conservative media to brainwash the masses to act against their interests, and restored themselves to a New Gilded Age in which we now live.

To actually have your vote count, I think people will need to sign up for a Codeberg account and then vote for the logo they like best.

Think I like #2 the best.

For those of you having trouble getting this on F-Droid, @mp3@piefed.ca says: “Go to Settings > Include Anti-Features and enable Tethered Network Services for it to show up.”

May I ask who (I guess?), hosts your email?

FWIW (which, alas, is probably not much): https://act.berniesanders.com/signup/fobs-candidate-recruitment/

https://blog.thunderbird.net/2025/04/thundermail-and-thunderbird-pro-services/