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Comment · 1 month ago
> Yes you can, the US could shut down the entire internet if it wanted.

No, they can't. The rest of the world would just route around the US with BGP. All of the US infrastructure/service providers would be down, so a ton of things would break, but the Internet would not be "shut down". The US government also no longer has authority over the DNS root servers. So unless you're referring to thermonuclear war or some similar scenario then the US does not have this capability.

Comment · 1 month ago
That is the longest run-on sentence I've seen in quite some time
Comment · 2 months ago
If you read the comments on the Github issue for Nitter shutting down you'll see that's precisely what it is
Comment · 2 months ago
Tell your 5 followers on Bluesky about it?
Comment · 2 months ago
At first I thought Redlib was a pejorative term for how left-leaning Reddit is
Comment · 2 months ago
Liability for the professional that knows if they botch a job in horrendous fashion that they could lose the ability to continue practicing their profession.
Comment · 3 months ago
Emulation and realistic proxies are the solution for people who simply want to play and not invest
Comment · 3 months ago
> According to a report by The New Yorker, Swartz described Altman as a "sociopath" who "can never be trusted" and "would do anything

Who is surprised by this development?

Comment · 4 months ago
> If one truly cared about (un)fairness in sports there are other issues that you'd address long before you ever even think of trans

Such as?

Comment · 4 months ago
Excellent reference
Comment · 4 months ago
Do it anonymously?
Comment · 4 months ago
Comment · 4 months ago
> Anecdotally I know of some parents having a battle with their local school because their kids have been watching this sort of crap in kindergarten.

I'm imagining a scene from Idiocracy where a kindergarten teacher is the person whose job it is to press play on Youtube videos

Comment · 5 months ago
Irrelevant
Comment · 5 months ago
This is the fate that awaits us all once the machines take over

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