[…] now that the US is directing their usual behavior towards white Europeans.

That’s nothing new, that’s happened before.

Hm, no, I can’t imagine that I’ve ever experienced a worse purchasing regret than the one you described there with the pizza.

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Compared to a debit card, it adds an additional layer between my money and the rest of the world. If my card is wrongly charged, by malice or honest accident, I then have some weeks to sort that out before the money is actually going to be pulled from my bank account. That’s why I prefer to pay by credit card instead of by debit card.

I’d be really curious about the Tarzan experiment, having a human infant raised by apes.

Wikipedia knows what saint the city was named after: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Diego#Name

A search engine could easily enough set up their own Lemmy server to search from. Same with Mastodon.

Sure, but if Google actually did that, a lot of people here would go apeshit about them profiting from this content.

Well, while utterly terrible, that would pretty much only affect people here in our nation, that’s not something that would give the feeling that “the universe had just changed”.

I must say that nothing afterwards has ever given me the feeling of This Changes Everything quite the way the fall of the Berlin Wall did.

Two evenings ago I had dinner with a friend who grew up on the other side of the wall. It’s not something that we really talk about very often, but it’s impossible to forget.