Food Not Bombs has a cookbook with a similar style of “protest food” recipes.

Sounds like an excuse.

What I mean is: it sounds like his handlers kept making excuses and you kept accepting them because you wanted to believe them.

I know, I’m frustrated too. I dismissed the Alex Jones Fox News crowd because they were known liars, they’d lied to us for decades, and this really did seem like standard conservative projection to deflect from their candidates’ obvious mental issues.

Hate to admit it. But the conservatives were right and we were wrong.

Same as when one of the big name hosting companies takes a site down. You hope it’s archived, and if it was important enough to you, hopefully you saved it to your personal server.

What you’re describing is a major benefit of federation. Any site can be taken down. But when a federated server goes down it’s because the site owner exercised their control over their own data. If Google or Amazon takes a site down, you lose your data, but they keep copies to use however they want.

You spelled “pay bribes and walk free” wrong. Tate set up shop in one of the most corrupt countries in the world for a reason.

I like to imagine that most intelligent species of the universe evolved from eusocial insect analogues or herd animals or solitary predators, and our weird tribal ape habit of domesticating and pack bonding with various predator species - and our general attitude that large predators are cool and exciting to be around because as we evolved domestication we modified our own brains to have positive associations with potentially domesticatible species - freaks them the fuck out.

It’s like every other alien species is the Utah Conservation Department’s Twitter page warning people not to pet mountain lions and we’re all yelling “but if not friend, why friend shaped” at the whole universe.

iOS devs on the other hand often only support the newest version of iOS, so if your device doesn’t get new OS updates any more, you can toss it.

And the newest versions of iOS only run smoothly on the newest iPhone hardware, so if you want your phone to keep running quickly and smoothly you have to keep updating to the newest hardware. Planned obsolescence in action.