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Trump said to lift all military restrictions on Israel on 1st day in office according to reports
  • Never going to learn your fucking lesson are you? International diplomacy and tact is a thing. Now you watch what's gonna happen, you absolute short-sighted, headline-skimming child... Nobody is defending the Biden approach as the ideal, but you're about to see the difference you ignorant fucking chud. Fuck you and everyone that's ever shook your hand with this horseshit response.

  • what is the most "above your station" thing you have ever experienced?
  • A foam is just another texture of a sauce as a garnish, and typically not the main sauce. It's not as "why was that even food" as people put on. It's just an easy scapegoat for something different.

    Cotton candy is air fluff that melts instantly on your tongue and leaves a bubblegum or artificial cherry taste behind. A foam is a similar thing, just with basil or truffle to compliment a piece of lamb sauced with its jus.

    It's just lazy commentary.

  • Climate change projections
  • [Still gurgled from underwater, even while surrounded by the floating water bloated corpses of their neighbors, who weren't able to get homeowner's insurance for the prior 20 years] "let's go Brandon!"*

  • Frustrated Americans await the economic changes they voted for with Trump
  • Remember, those CEOs are also all trump sycophant idiots. They'll artificially lower costs further, to sell the lie, trump admin will make up the difference, and then some, on "lost" profits in tax breaks for the rich. Then, once he can take credit, they'll start to raise again, blame China or another country for rising prices as they climb back up and surpass current.

    That will be the paper plan though, in reality, he'll lose his focus and just say it out loud halfway through.

  • ‘Women Over 30 Would Have Uteruses Removed’ says Conservative Party of Japan Leader Naoki Hyakuta
  • A meaningful number of people globally want "revenge" on COVID. They are impotently raging along with the nearest angry person they can attach to. They don't understand their feelings but they feel generally cheated. Many real issues layered on to, but that's the motivating foundation.

    They also are failed adults that just want a "daddy" to feel like he will make things better or "beat up" problems on their behalf (or more likely just make them feel like that's happening, regardless of reality).

  • Opinion | Voters punished Biden for problems he didn’t cause and effectively addressed
  • I don't think this is trying to teach tens of millions, I think this is a scaled equivalent of me just standing in my kitchen, looking around and saying to nobody, "God damnit... What the fuck!" Before I take a moment to figure out what's next.

    It's very human. Many had a lot invested in the idea of a better future, that this all might be salvageable. Takes a minute to reckon with the reality here. We're going to have to replace presidential debates with slap fights and primaries with Jello wrestling. For someone relatively younger with a family that they pictured hopefully supporting to grow to be good people doing good things in the world, just sucks to realize the "support" now means we need to start slapping them in the face as early as possible so that they have the most red and calloused cheeks possible to survive in the world we selfishly forced them into.

    Raising someone to be decent today feels like he would be as valuable as raising them to be the best VCR repair person in 2024. You have a severely limited and likely permanently outdated skill set. You might be able to enter a few small rooms where your talent is appreciated and useful, but more often than not you'll walk around in a broader humanity that has no use for you or those like you.

  • Opinion | Voters punished Biden for problems he didn’t cause and effectively addressed
  • Your landlord is a republican.

    Or more specifically, your landlord is a property management company employed by venture capitalists who you just emboldened to get even shittier. And those VCs are conservatives.

    Enjoy your perceived victory against bad old uncle Joe...

  • Minimal Voting Data of 2020 and 2024 US presidential election.
  • Looks like that Kathleen person is making that claim, I'd reach out to them if you'd like expansion. I'm not on Twitter so can't engage further. If anything, I imagine "starship" would be a common spell check correction of "starlink" as it's a made up marketing word. To that, seems she'd be referring to the recently discussed rumors about musk starlink satellites somehow being involved in the collection/transmission of vote counts in some areas (I haven't looked into or seen any direct evidence of that specifically), alongside things like Joe rogan just saying that musk "had an app" and he "knew the election result 4 hours before it was called".

    I'm more interested in hearing more about the "under ballot" concerns and the person outlining the simple way to get clarity here with strategic confirmation of votes in a couple counties with especially prevalent shifts as illustrative of larger potential issues.

  • Minimal Voting Data of 2020 and 2024 US presidential election.
  • "When someone shows you who they are, believe them..."

    They've told you with the "eating the dogs" comments and hundreds of other examples... They aren't afraid to confidently lie to win...

    They've told you they believe they are in a way that they would die and kill to win...

    Remember, years of false, unsubstantiated outrage is meant to dilute challenge to actual crimes and horror. Some things to think about...

    And here's more about voting systems experts that tried to warn early about potential issues like this

    We can have measured confirmation, without conspiracy. We will review this election and make evidence-based arguments.

    The richest man in the world owns thousands of SW engineers that remain in his companies (after all with any morality have been purged through years of labor abuse). He joked with carlson about how he was completely fucked if trump didn't win. What do you think the richest man in the world is capable of in that moment?

  • Trump declares that Senate majority candidates should allow him to make recess appointments
  • I see your angle, but it's not good. This is just the heritage foundation and power hungry around him telling him he needs to go through the process to lay a "defensible" legal path. He says they need to do it, instead of him unilaterally just doing it by decree. So they do it, and if/when challenged up to the Supreme Court, they just say all the boxes were checked, technically legal, moving on.

    He'll do that dance, initially at least, for them to support the "is he being presidential today?!!!" BS narrative that they couldn't stop drooling over last time. He'll eventually collapse and regress, but this time when mask comes off all the way (or more like skin peels off of his face, as the mask has been off) he has absolutely nothing left to lose. Things are going to get dark.

  • Voters in Arab-American strongholds likely tipped Michigan in Trump’s favor
  • If you voted for stein, trump or stayed home...

    The hardest thing to accept is that, regardless, good Americans are still going to fight for those in the Muslim community if this administration gets in. You voted for this, indirectly or directly, and they are salivating at the pending opportunity to put you in camps, regardless of your actual background of citizenship, because you "Look foreign!" and that scares them.

    How can you be such poor students of (extremely recent) history? I sincerely hope that we don't see the worst of what's possible, but make no mistake, you've made the wrong bet and very likely voted for your own downfall.

  • Political Memes @lemmy.world Snapz @lemmy.world
    🎶 Friday, I'm in (the near future, around election day)

    I don't care if Monday's filing cases without evidence to clog the courts

    Tuesday's prematurely declaring victory and Wednesday accusing fraud because vote count went overnight due to unsupported and disproven gop challenges of voting machines

    Thursday, trucks with ski masked neo-nazis pulling up to the Capitol with assault rifles

    It's Friday, I'm in a camp for suspected Marxist socialist antifahs!

    Monday, barricades at politician's homes can fall apart

    Tuesday, Wednesday, break my elderly neighbor's hip when cops break the door down at the wrong home and tackle her for being a suspected "illegal"

    Oh, Thursday doesn't even start because musk/trump dept of efficiency has outlawed clocks and calendars so there can be no more legal labor challenges of unpaid overtime, no weekends and no holiday pay

    It's Friday, I'm in only the second week of trump's second, never-ending term as America's dictator clumsily toppling 250+ years of democracy

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    You know you can do the right thing here. Go register, go vote. (Start here) - It's fast, simple and painless. You know we have to tell ourselves the above could never happen here to feel safe, but you also know it's closer to reality then ever before and you can do something, right now.

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    AI are like shitty palm readers/fortune tellers

    You willingly give them key points of information about yourself, directly or indirectly. They then read those signals and use your own information against you to convince you they have answers. And they are often wrong, but you walk around repeating their "insights" as if they are true.

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    Uncanny...
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    Do companies store facial and voice recognition data from the thousands of hours of zoom/teams calls that their employees use?

    I heard a person call into a show the other day, voice only, and talk about some poor working conditions at a factory. Made me think about how it would probably be so easy for nefarious bosses to be able to identify that person through voice recognition SW with all of the data that comes from us looking directly into cameras and speaking clearly in modern workplace meetings.

    Do "anonymous" callers need to start using voice modulation software for these kinds of calls in the modern world?

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    If Reddit had a soul/conscience, I think it was us, and we're all on Lemmy now...

    As a little background, I didn't actively use Reddit for months following the blackout. I still barely stop in over there and if I do I'm never logged in our contributing to the communities there (where I was previously a daily poster/commenter).

    Just bringing up a point that I'm not sure I'd seen anyone discussing directly over here; the general sentiment and quality of posted information on Reddit has become tangibly worse in multiple ways (I think coinciding with this group, us, leaving).

    Now don't get me wrong, Reddit sucked in many ways and for long before the migrations to Lemmy, but there is a noticeable difference in a few key areas:

    1. Less skepticism in replies

    2. Less sourcing of information in posts and replies

    3. Less counter positions expressed generally

    4. If there is a decent reply, you have to scroll much further down to find it

    5. Less plain labeling of obvious bullshit

    Many of us used to introduce counter viewpoints or clarifying information into posts, with sources. That functionally worked as a roadblock to stall the quickly building momentum of disinformation/misinformation. Those roadblocks often feel absent over there now, IMO.

    Not saying we hold a responsibility to go back there or that we were saving lives before, but the difference is very apparent to me - Have you seen it? Any examples?

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    Youtube @lemmy.ml Snapz @lemmy.world
    Have you noticed, in "Watch Later" playlist YouTube no longer remembers position in playlist when you complete or exit a video?

    This was on the roku app on a TV, haven't explored other platforms yet.

    I'm assuming this is to disable the ability for users to quickly start, back/exit and restart a video until an ad doesn't play. Eternally user hostile, enshitification bullshit.

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    Is it known that some of the streaming services with advertising artificially reduce their ad length after the holidays?

    Assuming to artificially secure people with new memberships through their first 4-6 weeks to establish a habit through the first billing cycle. Is this a known thing?

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    Who got notably rich from each major, historical tragedy?

    Through the great depression...

    When 9/11 happened...

    The 2008 housing crash...

    COVID...

    On a smaller scale, when the Titanic sank, I'm assuming someone inevitably got rich from the aftermath somehow?

    Who are the people/groups that make up history's must successful parasites? Who "came out on top" in each instance of historical human suffering?

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    Are any of the DNA testing companies trustworthy?

    So obviously we're all on Lemmy for a complicated combination of reasons, but we all likely share some common ground, namely...

    • need for privacy
    • need to own/control/access the data we produce
    • healthy skepticism about the trustworthiness of for-profit corporations, in general

    So if we don't want meta to know even innocuous things; like how many times/when we message our grandma, and we don't google to know when we're searching for remedies to a rash, and we don't want reddit to... Well we just don't want reddit - we don't want them to profit from or weaponize that data against us in a myriad ways.

    We also don't want them artificially removing features and creating tiered layers of service/value hidden behind a paywall (I understand this is very present in the some of the commercially available DNA services).

    So that brings me to DNA testing services. Since they started to emerge in the mainstream they were immediately an interesting, exciting novelty and I also knew it was data I wouldn't feel safe trusting with a for-profit org - with broken systems like law enforcement and health insurers on speed dial and just salivating for the goodies they collect.

    So all that considered, any groups that provide this type of service that you do trust/use, and why?

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    Can't remember name of an old Android app... help!

    Hey all, I used to use a to do app and can't remember name, it was very distinct though, please help!

    • visual aesthetic was of an IRL open paper journal (distinct touch: out had a coffee stain on upper corner of the paper)
    • extremely simple, text input on lines and a checkbox to complete (animation of pen crossing by hand would play IIRC)
    • only option besides complete/delete was to move to "tomorrow". Then when you flipped the page (animation) you'd see the next day's tasks.
    • only looked at today and tomorrow in favor of simplicity
    • For some reason, I want to think it was just called "today" or "tomorrow".

    Any ideas?

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