smac

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Understandable, we should pay up in c/noncredibledefense@lemmy.world
[–] smac@sopuli.xyz 8 points 2 days ago

It doesn't matter. The debt was repaid in 1795 by James Swan, a banker who assumed the debt from the U.S.

Can Ukraine Strike the 3k+ Tanks Sitting in the Open at Russian Central Tank Storage Bases? in c/ukraine@sopuli.xyz
[–] smac@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 month ago

Seems better to let the Russians put a lot of effort into fixing them up, and then destroying them.

Meta blantantly lying in their new terms of service in c/privacy@lemmy.ml
[–] smac@sopuli.xyz 5 points 3 months ago

Selling it would be bad business. By just offering ad targeting to their customers, the customers keep coming back. Once they sell it the customer doesn't need them anymore. (used to work in an advertising-based internet business. This is how it's done.)