Since I have my nationality and am about to get my businesses set up, I can look into what it would take to start up a business to do tech conferences.

It's where I live now. With my family that I hadn't seen in many decades.

"we went to the platonic realm of forms (it's a very high dimensional manifold where all concepts are appropriately entangled, don't worry about it) and it turns out that the Concept of Those Guys You Hate and the Concept of a Fuckin Fool are the same thing"

Most USians who voted for T-rump don’t understand how most things work. So yes, they are for real despite how unbelievable their reaction seems to educated folk. I think the right knows how uneducated their constituents are and use that to their advantage.

I’m currently assuming that we will. You know how Twitter(“X”) wants to be WeChat? Well, this is probably step one. The next step is to mandate that all people use it to receive government payments. Then he gets to skim money off every federal payment.

Here’s the original link to the chart for the full high resolution version: static.scientificamerican.com/sciam/cache/...

I’ve just been watching for friends posting their Bluesky handles on FB and Twitter. Hopefully more people will move over here very quickly. Definitely want to hit that deactivate button soon.

I haven't gotten the intro yet.