If this is real, how much you wanna bet that this guy spent two years telling people “Yeah I have a girlfriend, we’re supposed to meet in person in 2025”

This comment made me think that it was a statement of futility, as in “don’t bother trying to decipher it, there’s not enough there,” so I decided “Hell, I’ll give it a try” and stared at it for like 3 minutes trying to piece it together into something that made sense, only to then come back to this comment and realize that’s literally what it says.

I’d say that’s just as likely they do. A lot of “native” English speakers really only speak 0.5 languages.

No, wasnt trying to say it did, just if anyone was curious when it will next be possible to oust him

Schumer’s seat is up for reelection in 2028.

What the fuck are they looking to do, arrest kids who say “meow” in school?

Blocking users would actually probably be more efficient because the majority of those posts come from just one or two accounts.

Because they’re not used to people saying no to them.

Yep. At least we know who among the Democratic party has a spine. The rest we might be able to do something about. It’s a good reason to support politicians over party, if anything.

Shame that the fascists are in power, though, so if there is ever another fair and free election in the US again, I’ll be plenty surprised.

Boiled alive

You’re not wrong, but I mean, did any Republicans sign it?

As an average Windows user, I feel like that shouldn’t be necessary. If you don’t want your F-35s remotely disabled, just go into the system settings and disable the cockpit personalization, DoD telemetry, flight control suggestions, and especially uncheck the “Help make America safer by sending usage and crash statistics to the Pentagon” box.

Of course you also need to double check after every system update to make sure that none of these settings ended up getting patched back on without notice, but for the average pilot, it couldn’t be more user friendly.

You’re not wrong. I answered in a reply to someone else but I have a gaming laptop with a decent enough GPU to play newer games. Not well, in many cases, but good enough.

It’s just that with prices of everything being so inflated again, I don’t want to pay more for older hardware than it’s worth, especially if it won’t be as significant a step up from what I’m using now.

Just to clarify, it exposed records for the nurses who were using this service to find gig work. The article doesn’t mention anything about patient data being leaked, which is what is usually being referred to when one says “medical records.”

Yeah, definitely an additional dimension that would need some sort of out of the box thinking to address, and I don’t think it could ever be done perfectly given that the internet is an international community not beholden to any single country’s laws.

In one sense though I don’t think it’s necessarily an issue of people posting whatever opinions and endorsements on social media, but more to do with the algorithm. No idea what could be done about that, but can’t say I’d be against some sweeping reforms hitting social media platforms anyways to address user privacy, which might at least address the algorithm problem somewhat.

That, or, we hope decentralized social media like this catches on at a larger scale, haha.

I think your concerns are valid assuming you stop there, but there’s definitely a lot more that can be done on top of campaign finance reform to make politics more egalitarian and protected from corporate interests.

Once upon a time in the US, the FCC enforced the Fairness Doctrine, which required any radio or TV broadcaster to represent bipartisan or nonpartisan views on given topics if they wanted to discuss politics. Not to say that it didn’t come with its own set of problems, but Reagan did away with that in the 80’s and we’ve seen a right-leaning slant in radio and TV ever since.

Just spitballing here, but a similar model with campaign finance in mind could do a lot to level the playing field. First, do away with corporate personhood. Then make it so that if a broadcaster or advertiser wants to show political ads, they must obtain a special designation which comes with its own stipulations: limit the quantity/duration of ads any one campaign can purchase, require that they distribute any qualifying candidate’s ads without bias, charge a flat rate for ads for all candidates, and all political ads must be divided up along regular intervals throughout the day.

Despite corporate personhood, it is possible—common, even—for corporations to be limited in what they can or cannot say. Limiting corporate speech for public good (HIPAA in the US, for example) shouldn’t be something objectionable.

Probably not perfect, but also probably much much better than how things are today with so much corporate-controlled politics.

Honestly it should not even be legal to donate to politicians at all. There should only be publicly funded elections. Earn enough signatures to end up on a ballot, you get a budget that goes to helping you campaign, audited to ensure that it only gets used for purposes directly related to campaigning.

Nope, just the product of too much time at the beginning of my day and an unfortunate familiarity with his variety of bullshit.

They are definitely eyeing Moldova, Georgia, and Estonia.

“It’s because of Biden that your testes hurt now, I didn’t want to kick them. There should have been ball kicking from the beginning, you know it’s a very, really very important thing for our nation’s egg prices and wellbeing, and you know the liberal dictators and DEI enforcers, they said ‘Why—’ yes, I know, really, they said it, ‘Why should we have to kick people in the gonads? Why don’t we just give transgendered abortions to everyone who needs a ball kicking, on the taxpayer dollar,’ and honest to God this is what they told me, honest to God. Can you believe it? They thought they would get away with it, it’s unbelievable, it destroyed America, the lack of ball kicking, really, look it up, it’s all there. So yes, maybe, it’s going to hurt for a while, maybe a few weeks or years—it depends on, well, there’s a lot of very good, very good reasons that really smart people have known for a while, but the Biden DEI squad didn’t want to talk about it. And there will probably be other kinds of pain to come, maybe some worse than ball kicking, some small pains here and there, and you might be thinking ‘How did it ever get this bad?’ But it’s all Biden, you can check the DOGE numbers if you don’t believe me, and he brainwashed all of America, it’s a disaster. But now we have a good ball kicking plan, the best plan really, and this is how America got great, and how we make America great again.”