There’s a few reasons to get that data.
To weaponize it against us himself, or sell it to our enemies.
To create a “master list” that the authoritarians can use to disburse and destroy those they disagree with or find impure.
This isn’t just about some shitty AI. It’s about destroying and controlling us.
He’s currying favor with world leaders because he saw how easy it has been for such vast wealth to undermine and topple American democracy and he wants to do this everywhere.
What’s the total of the cost of insurance companies standing between patients and care?
Oh, you don’t really give a shit about anything but hate.
You can also download all of Wikipedia in a package about 120GB in size. I have a snapshot from Jan 1, 2024 before the fascists took over.
Kiwix is the name of the offline browser designed for it.
This is the hostile attitude they were talking about
I don’t disagree with what you said but there’s not 3.5 billion people in the US. There’s like 340 million.
I’m not sure why you’re getting down voted for stating a fact: money has to be created through direct spending or back stopping the creation of money by private banks via the reserve system before it can be taxed away.
You can’t tax back something that doesn’t exist yet.
Just because it’s not “our tax dollars” doesn’t mean is isn’t OUR public money.
That’s… not how tariffs work. No one externally is paying anything. The customer pays.
The block function is heavily used. Whole block lists get passed around quite frequently. I’ve never really seen much hate on there unless I’m clicking into something obviously heated politically. Other people may have other experiences, but the current culture there is to not engage the hate farmers and just block people instead
I see them on BlueSky more than any Mastodon or Lemmy instance, sadly. But that could just be my experience.
Citizen Kane.
Yes it is circle jerked hard by film lovers… For good reason.
This is what I might consider the first movie shot in what would be recognized as a modern movie format.
It is told non sequentially, the composition of shots is absolutely incredible.
It’s a movie shot in 1941 that looks nothing like the other movies of the time. Literally decades ahead of its time. It looks like it could have been shot a few months ago as a period piece.
There’s good reason for it being one of the most acclaimed movies of all time.
This was the Greeks, not the Romans. It was used to describe non-Greek-speaking people.
The Romans took it up from the Greek “barbaros” and expanded it in meaning to include anyone without Greek or Roman traditions.