@sjw
>It really kind of seems like there's someone above the Democrats and Republicans pulling all the strings.
Because there fucking is. It's why I have embrace Voluntaryism. Stop having faith in fake (s)elections.
@PhenomX6 I decided to call it Zerox. It's named after the Xerox computer because I thought it sounded cool but I spelled it phonetically.
@vriska I know. It should be 13.
People have been arrested, charged, and convicted for threats for sending messages containing a pistol emoji. It's not hard to imagine a situation in which someone sends the emoji from a new phone (displayed as a water pistol), it's received on an old one (displayed as a handgun), and it's taken as a threat.
U+1F52B PISTOL (🔫) is meant to represent a handgun. US vendors, for political reasons, decided they didn't like the idea of a realistic handgun, so for quite a few years now, it's been displayed as a water pistol, exaggerated ray gun, or similar. Older devices and more compliant fonts haven't stopped existing, so here's a character that can seem either like a deadly threat or innocent fun depending on where you send or receive it
@icedquinn hard sci-fi is boring
Translation: Our Alliance is turning your cities into digital prisons.
https://www.weforum.org/impact/smart-cities-governance-alliance/
@PhenomX6 I'm far from a patriot but a lot of these criticisms of the US from Europeans are just fucking dumb.
@GirthyChode @Indigo Multiple companies and organizations are doing this. The Seasteading Institute is just a think-tank. They have a list of projects, all by different companies. I know Ocean Builders makes their designs open source so they are unlikely to be a scam.
https://www.seasteading.org/active-projects/
Liberland is another place to escape to (located on a plot of land between Croatia and Serbia in which neither one of them claims), but I'm skeptical because they seem to be too invested in the crypto/blockchain meme (not necessarily saying there aren't good things to come out of them) and their "voluntary tax" system (where votes are counted by how much money you give to the government) sounds plutocratic to me.
@GirthyChode @Indigo *escape to floating cities.
@GirthyChode @Indigo I'd rather escape to the on floating cities.