I can't believe Saudi Arabia are nationalising Pokemon Go when the UK won't even nationalise regional water monopolies. Honestly these things were never great for privacy and given the state of things I'm not sure I'm more concerned about a Saudi entity tracking me than a US one.

Not good news for gay Pokemon fans in that country though.

All capitalists are humans but not all humans are capitalists so it's a bit of an overgeneralisation.

What dem supporters need to understand is that support for Trump for many is people sticking two fingers up at the neoliberal order. All this talk of "woke" or whatever would all evaporate if people thought they were getting a fair shake. Of course it's a bloody stupid way of protesting this like so as it's basically asking the foxes to fix the hen house.

The key point is the neoliberal order hasn't been successful by capitalist standards. GDP growth in western countries from 1985-2015 was slower than the 1955-1984 period which preceded neoliberal policies taking hold.

So what you ended up with was a system which actually slowed growth, removed welfare in a lot of cases, made housing unaffordable and really only seems to have succeeded in funnelling money into the hands of the 0.1%.

People have been convinced all kinds of scapegoats and whatever are to blame, but it's pretty clear that they see mainstream politicians, as most embodied by the Dems, as the face of their issues.

The lack of self-reflection on the part of mainstream Dems is a huge, serious issue which has basically given Trump and Musk a blank cheque to implement fascism or at least very authoritarian capitalism.

Imagine doing this during a massive bird flu outbreak, in a country that was essentially founded on biological weapons based genocide.

Republican Senator Lindsey Graham suggested at the Munich Security Conference over the weekend that Trump’s demand was a clever ploy to bolster declining popular support for the Ukrainian cause. “He can go to the American people and say, ‘Ukraine is not a burden, it is a benefit,’” he said.

I continue to be amazed by how frequently the entire spectrum from ~~mainstream liberal~~ regular conservative to ~~Trumpist conservative~~ fascist fall back on a line which is tantamount to "they're not tricking you, they're tricking someone else! Totally trustworthy!"

Too real. Not just holidays, weeks and months go by and it's like "shit when did it get to 2025??"

I no longer feel a sense of unrealised potential for myself I guess. That's it, I've got what I've got.

I've been using this for a while. It's good, lots better than postman's annoying attempts to force you into their cloud nonsense.

Oh yeah the hosted DeepSeek has that

The very stretched use of the word "voluntary" here also leads one to inspect the meaning of "departure".

Presumably every other country now ought to update their safety advice as it pertains to the US. Bleak.

Yeah but I bet he's a 10x ninja