• DaddleDew@lemmy.world
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    11 days ago

    Oh no. Please. Not NVidia, or Meta, or Amazon, or Google, or Apple, or Palantir… Oh and don’t forget… Uh, I mean not Mircosoft.

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      11 days ago

      I concur, please levea the big tech alone, they are doing so much good for the world, cogh cogh, I meant for shareholders.

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    “Residents within a one-kilometer radius of these terrorist companies across all countries in the region are also urged to evacuate and move to safe locations.”

    Americans: “The fuck is a ‘kilometer’?”

    Also Americans: “The fuck is a ‘radius’?”

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      There’ll be like two actual Americans there, but the rest of the workforce won’t explain it to them because they’re sick of everything being compared to “back home” all the time.

    • finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world
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      10 days ago

      Also Americans: “Move?! You fascist! I’m tired of being harrassed by the fitness movement! I have the Constitutionally-protected right to sit and remain passive, you woke Communist Socialist!”

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    Finally a news story with multiple reasons for a cheer and support.

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    10 days ago

    You can tell America is in a pretty bad place when Americans aren’t too broken up about this development. Or actively cheering it on.

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    11 days ago

    Many U.S. tech companies have offices in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, and Abu Dhabi, which could become targets of Iranian drone and missile attacks if the country follows through on its threat.

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      11 days ago

      Microsoft has offices in Qatar, Dubai, SA, Bahrain, Oman, Kuwait, and more I’m sure. Oracle also has offices across the region.

      These come to mind, but there are many other companies I’m sure.

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    11 days ago

    April 1 - “lol check out this silly thing that Google maps is doing!”

    April 2 - ( ˶°ㅁ°)

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    11 days ago

    How difficult would it be to smuggle and assemble a variant of the Shahed drone into North America? Dissembled and separated, it would look like lawn mower parts, sheet metal, and ewaste.