the americans want the venezuelan oil fields since they’re the largest in the world; nobody stops the united states whenever it comes to oil and especially so with trump in charge.

another bad apple?

I couldn’t get my account banned when I decided to leave Reddit; I broke every rule I can think of and only got banned from a hand full of subreddits.

Go figure. lol

I tried using the pinebook as a daily driver and broke it by updating the os; worst $250 paperweight ever. Lol

either that or the people in charge are saving up lol

did you respond to the wrong person? lol

i wish i understood why people use those apps to browse lemmy. i used to think that they were pointless, but watching them drive up the userbase numbers up for .world and .ee made it seem like i must be missing something so i tried all of the ones i could find and the experience was the same for me as it is with a browser.

it’s wild how much more effective dividing and conquering with legacy/social media is compared to doing it with a military.

where do they say bollocks and have states?

it’s funny you mentioned the 1870’s since i took in a youtube documentary of the story of the religious right since the fouding in this country. i was surprised to learn that americans in the south weren’t very religious to begin with

the phone i used was a redmi note 13 pro.

i had it on tmobile prepaid for a little bit over year or so and i had the account since 2009 w 2 other chinese phones in the past. i tried switching to at&t in january and it worked for the first day, but then i got a text from at&t saying that my phone is no longer compatible and i had no signal. the store told me that the imea number had to be whitelisted and that i had to put in a request at their website. the signal reception sucked anyways, so i tried switching back to my old t-mobile account by popping in the sim, but it didn’t work either and the t-mobile store said that chinese phones aren’t allowed on prepaid anymore for “public safety”. (he literally used air quote fingers and rolled his eyes. lol)

google recommended mvno’s to get around the ban, but they’re just as unaware as most that this is a thing in the united states; their websites still show that my redmi is compatible but i’ve literally tried them all and none have worked.

chatgpt recommended getting around the ban by purchasing phones that share the same hardware like they do with oneplus, oppo, etc. and that was the approach i was going to take until i decided to get a fairphone and put eos on it instead.

Same here because of the last election and I see it as a blessing

The phone won’t get a signal w the SIM card and the stores are the only people the carriers have shared this information with.

somehow they stayed away this time. lol

i’ve been wondering if i was the only one seeing the absurdly high criteria for software development jobs in the last year or 2.

this field already had an artificially high bar; but it’s taken on a whole new meaning when you solve the hypotheticals during the interviews, yet they’re still not satisfied with the answers because they’re expecting a specific one that they won’t name.

i’ve learned to make peace with the reality that my 20 years in the field is only enough to get interview requests; so i went back to IT.

they’ve been groomed for it since the 70’s

it would be a FANTASTIC show of solidarity if they could manage it!

don’t worry, they’ll be gone soon enough, but isreal will stick around so long as the us is still here. lol

there’s always ways around work stoppages.

i’ve been trying to de-google myself for almost a decade now because; them blocking me would be doing me a favor as it would force me to give up those things that have me stuck in their ecosystem