Will Bluesky eventually enshittify? Probably.
Should people come to Mastodon instead? Of course.
Are there far bigger concerns at the moment? Absolutely.
Whatever Bluesky may or may not turn out to be, the important thing right now is to get people off of X, which we already know is a nazi controlled space. We don't sabotage that goal by being high and mighty and telling people they're not leaving to the right place.
One battle at a time.
most european nations have no standing armies, and no conventional weapons stockpiles
Wherever you're getting your information from, you should probably look elsewhere.
Define "outdated".
My main workstation desktop that I use for most of my heavy lifting was bought in 2016. In the years since, however, it's been maxed out on the RAM that the motherboard can support, the ssds, the video cards, etc... So while it's now hit that bottleneck of "can't upgrade anymore because it's at the limit of what the motherboard itself can handle", I don't consider it outdated because it can still comfortably do what I want it to do.
A close second would by my Lumix G7 mirrorless camera. Old, yes. But still works perfectly fine. Records in 4K and still produces a better result than smartphone cameras because it uses actual proper lenses rather than digital software trickery. With mirrorless and DSLRs, the lenses are far more important than the frame (to a certain extent), so I don't see a need to upgrade that anytime soon.
I took my dog out for her morning poop...FOR THE GLORY OF THE EMPIRE
If the U.S. doesn't want to be a part of NATO anymore, than they can get their military bases off of NATO territory and European countries can (and should) up their spending to re-man and re-arm those bases under the flags of countries that aren't dickheads.
I don't think Trump understands just how much of America's global exercise of power relies on the good will of having countries willing to have them in their territory.
Spoken like a true 2.
Local is the key. Or at least, it's the best first step.
I live in a small Canadian city. Frankly there aren't always a lot of options for me to buy Canadian brands. I'm limited by what is available to me. My response has been to go even deeper than just "buy Canadian" to "buy Local".
Go to your local independent grocer. Go to your local independent clothing store, coffee shop, mechanic, etc.... Find your local farmers market where local gardeners and producers sell their vegetables, sausages and meats. Somewhere in your city, there's a retired person who spends their spare time making bespoke wood work furniture. Support them instead of buying your next table from Ikea.
Are the items I buy all going to be 100% Canadian. No. It's unrealistic for most people (including myself). But my response even before all of it went to hell has been to say that wherever possible, ensure that your money is staying in YOUR community instead of being shipped off to a corporate headquarters.
That's my thought anyway. The more local the better. Your community becomes culturally and financially more robust when we stop letting corporations take our money out of them, regardless of nationality.
I think (my own personal opinion) is that Big Trouble in Little China did something so crazy and wacky that no one actually recognised it at the time.
If you look at the film from a certain perspective, Jack Burton was the sidekick, and Wang was the main character. And they just filmed it from the perspective of the sidekick who thinks he's the main character, which is a conceit I've always adored.
Bought my last pair from them. Still going strong.
They do feel somewhat cheaply made if you (like me) are money tight and can't afford the higher end ones. But they haven't fallen apart on me at all and it's been about three years now with the same frames.
So for the 120 I paid for them, I'd say I got my money's worth.
I don't think that's gonna buff out.
Josie and the Pussycats.
Rated 5.7 by people who had no clue what it was saying at the time. I feel like if it was released in today's pop culture environment it would fare far far better.
It's far more satirical, clever and funny than an Archie adjacent bubblegum pop movie has any right to be.
More and more every day...