Yes, it seems that way because your kitchen scale is faulty and measuring everything a bit on the light side.

Make sure you have plenty of toilet paper.

Are you not aware of Idaho?

The world court can do two things. First, arbitrate between two consenting states who agree to abide by the decision. Second, issue advisory rulings which have absolutely no functional authority. America doesn’t have to step in. Nation states around the world wouldn’t have signed onto a world court that could actually compel them to obey, we all like our sovereignty.

Sure. It can know that I am, but that doesn’t mean I want it watching.

I always take off my watch when I’m fucking. Feels weird with the algorithm watching.

Yeah, I worked there back in the day. Started when we were still owned by Vivendi. Quit after about a year of ownership by Activision. Fuck Kotick. Seriously.

Are you me? Seriously though, we’re in an almost identical situation. How are people supposed to buy homes under these conditions? Prices are insane, rates are sky high. Our home value on paper went through the roof but we’re never gonna see any of the value because we’re basically stuck. The only effect the value increase has is that we pay more property tax. I can’t imagine the difficulty younger millennials and Gen z are going to have getting a home.

That’ll get em back.

The meat and potatoes of Chinese imperialism.

Add Tibet, Xianchang, Manchuria, as separate countries and switch Inner Mongolia to being part of Mongolia and now we’re getting somewhere.

The only thing I’m confused by is that you thought this would confuse us…

You could have one day outside of all months. It could be a holiday or something.

Oh, it’s a total guarantee they won’t, ugh.

I’m not saying it is identical, there are some key differences, and yet social media platforms are much more like a publishing company than they are a town square. Just because they’re choosing to publish your tweets/posts for free and you’re choosing to create content without pay doesn’t mean it’s not a better analogy than saying their the equivalent of a public space. They’re very clearly not a public space. Using the street analogy, these are storefronts on the street, not the street itself. Again, the Internet itself is the street. Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, Mastodon, Lemmy, or whatever social media platform, are not the street or the town square. They are not and should not be considered to be public spaces any more than a mall or a Walmart is.

There is a key difference here. Social media companies have some liability with what gets shared on the platform. They also have a financial interest in what gets said and how it gets promoted by algorithms. The fact is, these are not public spaces. These are not streets. They’re more akin to newspapers, or really the people printing and publishing leaflets. The Internet itself is the street in your analogy.

And yet, having more representatives fundamentally reduces the power of each as well. Your vote is fundamentally worth less as the population increases. Something you’re just gonna have to come to terms with.