Pandering to their main partner I guess.

Considering how badly Colonialism 1.0 went especially for Africa, and how the 2.0 version isn’t much better, I think it’s understandable that they aren’t keen on co-operation with so-called Western countries, and might be looking elsewhere. Is China really better than all that? I don’t think so. Is it worse? Probably not.

overview of the like 30ish military bases the US had in Greenland.

Had, during and right after WW2. The Guardian article you linked quotes a 1952 news report:

At least four major United States air force bases will be built in Greenland in addition to the three already operating there, Danish government sources announced to-day.

The new bases will be hundreds of miles closer to Moscow and the western rim of the Soviet Union than the existing base at Thule. They will lie right across the path which Soviet bombers may be expected to follow in any mission against the chief industrial areas in the eastern United States and around the Great Lakes.

some bases were toxic and needed cleaning up (…) Denmark had announced that it would contribute 180 million kroner ($29 million U.S.) over six years to begin cleaning up some of the abandoned military bases on Greenland, though experts warned that the amount was unlikely to be enough to finish the job.

Why am I not surprised.

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   Synonyms: actorish, actressy, dramatic, theatrical
2. (by extension) Excessively dramatic or emotional, especially with the intention to draw attention.
   Synonyms: melodramatic, overdramatic, sensationalized, stagy

OK. But the quotes of what he wrote are just weird.

tl;dr: he’s salty and hitting back at his former employer.

Of course I believe in justice.

I’ll say it again: this is not the only way to fight back. But it’s how politicians operate, and this one’s now doing what is in their power. Something else might be in someone else’s power to do.

IDK where that ICE murderer now is, but they could have detained him right there and prosecute him to the full extent of the law. Nothing Trump can do about it (short of starting a war against a state). But you’d probably say they’re “still dreaming of a thing named justice”.

Further, a professor sued his university who fired him over some Charlie Kirk comment on social media. He won, and the university that decided to obey MAGA is now $500k poorer. But you’d probably have told that person that they’re “still dreaming of a thing named justice”.

I understand the anger and frustration, but it doesn’t have to lead to pessimistic fatalism.

No. Every bit counts. Of course this one thing doesn’t mean you can lean back and claim the problem is solved. There is many different ways of fighting back, and they all need to be employed.

They really are intent on kicking the USA back a century or more. They might think that was the Golden Age, but you cannot exploit these resources a second time, and there’s more people now anyhow. doG, why am I even entertaining such thoughts. You cannot go back in time. It’s probably going to be more like post-Soviet-Union Russia, but without Gorbachev, and someone like Putin right from the start.

It’s Schrödinger’s satire.

Lunduke is mentioned 10s into the video and Linux Sucks is his series of videos.

… “The end of Linux has already happened”, and he’s serious about it, complaining about pretty much everything.

He’s definitely anti-woke in all its colorful facets, self-confesssed “conservative” and hides behind constant “I’m not political” statements to continue pushing clearly political opinion.

He is the Alex Jones of the Linux community.

All this becomes very clear in the first 10 min of the video.

It saddens me that we are forced to take this madhouse and its utterances seriously.

As soon as I saw the name Lunduke - the Linux community’s Alex Jones for at least a decade - just not sure how much parody and how much trolling this is.

Speak for yourself. I take up to three cold showers a day during the hottest summer weeks. In winter I do warm first, then cold. Or during/after sauna <= rolling around in the snow is preferable, but not always possible.

there is nothing in the original comment that can or should justify firing

no shit

This is what he got fired for btw:

“Charlie Kirk says gun deaths are ‘unfortunately’ worth it to keep 2nd Amendment,” read the headline of an article Michael shared. He did not add any additional comment on it.

And this is how he got back:

a settlement agreement between Michael and the university, showing the school will dish out $500,000 and reimburse “therapeutic counseling services.”

“APSU agrees to issue a statement acknowledging regret for not following the tenure termination process in connection with the Dispute,” the settlement reportedly reads. “The statement will be distributed via email through APSU’s reasonable communication channels to faculty, staff, and students.”

And yes, he’s working there again since December. BTW it’s $500,000, not 50,000.

Only because he fought back, I presume. Fight back, on all levels!

I can read the full article just by blocking javascript

It scares me that people are starting to take this seriously, because that just might embolden those idiots. This is not on the same level as Invading Yet Another Latin American Country. Stop treating it as such.

My apologies to all Latin American countries, I hope you understand what I mean. Hell, the USA couldn’t even invade most Latin American countries anymore as it used to do.

This reminds me so much of this Mars scifi novel I’m reading. It includes passages where people take long trips and are stunned by the landscape. Please remove the greenery to make it perfect.

Fair enough, that often makes me swear.

The labeling was a good thing, and stackability, but otherwise I prefer USB sticks. Tactile, easy to stick in or pull out. Esp. since even an old one replaces thousands of disks. 1GB==711floppies

I think this latest step in a series of equally horrifying steps fully supports the things republicans fascists care about.

It’s horrifying, as anything coming out of the USA these days.