Really? That’s the best boogyman he can think of? They’re going to ban ice hockey for no reason? (When they take over a country they barely think about)

I mean, Islam is also an Abrahamic religion, and capable of being just as severe as Christianity. Except political Islam is dominant, while the West has been rich and gotten more secular over the centuries.

Saudi beheads people publicly. A caning is not as bad as it can get.

Indonesia is not a stable, long-establish democracy. A lot of people are pleasantly surprised they’ve kept it together this long.

So no, a big dramatic swing directly targeting one of the major provinces and by proxy ethnicities is not a good idea.

Nah, the Christian thing was more live burnings. Some drownings.

I’m pretty sure Hawaii, at least, would vote red and orange.

I mean, you definitely don’t speak for all of us, there, although you’ve worded it that way.

Anyway, the real obstacle is that they legally can’t leave the US.

You have to consider it’s a two party system, though, and America First will always sell better to Americans. That 15% of Canada is well to the right of the average Trump voter.

I have no idea which way they’d vote as a Canadian city, but it wouldn’t be the bluest (as in Conservative) place in the country.

Oh yeah, it’s kind of a purple state, isn’t it?

Like everywhere else it’s going to heavily differ in major cities vs. outside, but just letting the twin cities in wasn’t the question.

At that point it’s blue America with a bit of Canada attached, though. At least by population.

Does surgery count?

On the early Antarctica expeditions they wouldn’t let anyone with a war injury or surgical scars join, because scurvy can do something similar.

Obviously if it’s a web app client it’s going to load in HTTP before whatever other thing begins, but Zoom has a standalone application, and so does WhatsApp. I’m not even sure if they have web app offerings as well.

An octet stream itself is just an octet stream - raw data. If it’s HTTP so was a teletype connection in the 70’s.

Yeah, exactly.

The actual video data is not HTTP, because how would that even work, and I was just working on an API that’s over raw TCP recently.

Yes, it is a huge piece, though, and has a way of spreading even into places you don’t technically need it.

I’d like to point out that Amazon still hasn’t made a profit. Everything they save doing Amazon things has just gone back into building the system, so far.

Non-commercial would mean no money changes hands. Sir Tim is thinking of the way it still is an amateur radio, for example.

A small(-er) business is still definitely a business, though.

I don’t know, the thing about the internet is that it does bring a ton of value, and operating it does have costs in turn. Maybe Sir Tim is right about DNS being the point where it got commercial, but it was going to happen somehow. Arxiv and Wikipedia still exist, but how do you do Amazon non-commercially? Even YouTube is a challenge.

There used to be a sort of mantra that technology was neutral and people are good and bad. But actually, that’s not true of things on the web

Arguably, that’s not the distinction. Technologies can be explicitly of control or of chaos. And then that relative structure or freedom can itself be used for good or for evil.

A central platform is of control, Lemmy or Linux is of chaos. And obviously we lean towards the latter a lot, but for some things even Lemmy wants central control and monitoring, so it’s not evil, exactly.

But to the layperson at large we’re just pedantically nitpicking.

Important to mention. The idea that the internet isn’t actually on their box is already a frontier of public communications.

But, for Lemmy’s sake, yeah email, straming, VOIP and video calling, whatever IOT or app protocol.

Yeah, it was always going to happen.

Yeah, I did notice the use of “remigration” (although he said “reverse migration”) and “low-IQ” in referance to an ethnicity that happens to be black. Also he just openly blamed non-white Western culture for the third world being poorer.

He actually prefers to leave the bun off his burgers anyway. I’m not kidding.