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Starglasses ,

Hey, that’s clever. Snails are a scourge of gardening. “I want to kill those suckers.”

It makes sense that they made doodles of their desirrd victory over the garden-munching snails.

Instagram Users Shown Transphobia As Promotional Tool To Join Threads (neuromatch.social)

The link goes to this users Mastodon post on the subject. I’m going to copy part of the text of his post without having to post the Threads post they were shown. Click through if you want to see for yourself, avoid if such things are upsetting to you....

Starglasses ,

That’s not a good thing. There have been minimal consequences for being hateful, so now advertisers are comfortable spreading hate to get more money/users/etc.

The cancer of hate is growing.

Starglasses OP ,

Oh I missed that great opportunity :3 Very nice

Starglasses OP ,

Anything that has four corners is like magic

Starglasses OP ,

Thanks! I was in the middle of framing them and got distracted . I’m glad I did 🥰

Brazilian girl commits suicide due to Fake News on big Instagram Gossip Page (g1.globo.com)

They basically posted that she had an affair with Whindersson Nunes. When she posted that it was fake, the owner of the page responded: oh come on, you can’t fool anyone with those acting skills. She ended up committing suicide due to all the harassment from the fake news. There’s a Xwitter thread explaining everything...

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The article via Google translate:

The Minister of Human Rights and Citizenship, Silvio Almeida, cited the case of suicide of a young woman who was the target of fake news to defend the accountability of both those who spread false content and the companies responsible for social networks. “The regulation of social networks becomes a civilizing imperative”, he stated this Saturday (23).

Minas Gerais student Jéssica Canedo, 22, appeared in false conversations with comedian Whindersson Nunes, publicized by gossip profiles on social networks, which reported that the two had a relationship.

Before she died, Jéssica published a text stating that, because of fake news, she was suffering attacks on the internet. Her family reported that she already suffered from depression.

“Tragedies like this involve mental health issues, without a doubt, but also, and perhaps to a greater extent, issues of a political nature”, wrote Silvio Almeida on his profile on X (formerly Twitter).

“The irresponsibility of the companies that govern social networks in the face of content that other irresponsible and even criminals (some involved in institutional politics) propagate on it has destroyed families and made a minimally healthy social life impossible”, continued the minister.


<span style="color:#323232;"> "Therefore, I return to the point: the regulation of social networks becomes a civilizing imperative, without which there is no talk of democracy or even dignity. The rest is a bet on chaos, death and the monetization of suffering" , he concluded.
</span>

Also on X, the Minister of Women, Cida Gonçalves, said that the student’s death is “the result of the irresponsibility of profiles on social networks that profit from misogyny and the dissemination of lies and, equally, the lack of accountability on the platforms”.


<span style="color:#323232;"> "It is unacceptable that the lying content against Jéssica, which led to a defamation campaign against the young woman, was not taken down by either the owner of the page or platform X for almost a week, even after appeals from Jéssica herself and his mother", declared Cida.
</span>

Bill

Silvio Almeida also republished on

“Changing the liability regime for digital platforms is a political and even moral imperative that Congress must face. PL 2630 YES!”, says the message.

“The responsibilities [in Jéssica’s case] need to be determined and the authors identified and punished. It’s not a left or right debate, it’s about civilization! The big issue needs to be resolved: platforms are not neutral, algorithms they reward the extreme, the grotesque, the destructive, the aberrant, the chaotic. And this is paid for! There are people profiting from the degeneration of society”, wrote the parliamentarian.

Understand the case


<span style="color:#323232;"> At the beginning of the week, gossip profiles shared fake screenshots of a conversation between Jéssica and Whindersson.
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> The fake messages involved supposed flirting on Instagram, culminating in a request for a personal meeting.
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> Both, however, denied the authenticity of the messages, claiming they were fake news, and stated that they did not know each other.
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> The student then published a long message on her Instagram account, revealing that she was suffering attacks. She explicitly asked for the deletion of posts containing fake screenshots.
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> One of those responsible for the Choquei profile, who wrote about the case, even made a joke about Enem's writing, in response to Jéssica's publication, and then deleted it.
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> Family members reported the student’s death; Whindersson and Choquei's legal advisors spoke (see notes below).
</span>

Read the note published by the Choquei profile:

"We deeply regret what happened and we sympathize with the family and everyone affected by the sad event. We reinforce our commitment to act with diligence and responsibility.

The profile Choquei (@choquei), through its legal advice, would like to clarify to its followers and friends that there was no irregularity in the dissemination of the information provided by this profile. It should be clarified that there is no responsibility to be attributed for the acts carried out, given the action in good faith and regular compliance with the proposed activities.

In relation to the events circulating on social media and which were associated with a tragic event involving the young Jéssica Vitória Canedo, we want to emphasize that all publications were made based on data available at the time and in strict compliance with the usual activities arising from the exercise of right to information.

This profile’s commitment has always been and will be to legality, responsibility and ethics in the dissemination of information within the limits established in the Federal Constitution, especially in art. 5th, item IX.

Finally, we reaffirm our respect for intimacy, privacy, well-being and integrity.

São Paulo-SP, December 23, 2023.

Starglasses ,

“We deeply regret what happened and we sympathize with the family and everyone affected by the sad event. We reinforce our commitment to act with diligence and responsibility.”

what does that even mean? Reinforce our commitment to act with diligence and responsibility

What diligence and responsibility did they show when they didn’t delete the posts? The entire response from @choquei is a passive write-off.

Starglasses ,

“If you hire someone and they get hurt doing the job, you need to make sure they get compensation.”

“If you hire less than 6 people, though, you don’t have to give a crap if they get hurt. It wouldn’t be fair if you went bankrupt just cuz one person got injured making money for you.”

Starglasses OP ,

I learned that lesson recently about RAM. I have DDR4. I don’t care for gaming. I think it could be fun to have a dorky little mini-PC that can do all the PC stuff that I can tote around to show off :P

Starglasses OP ,

Dang, look at that. I would spend way more that $170 fitting my own PC probably.

Sucks that everything is so disposable these days.

Starglasses OP ,

It’s not vital to keep the ram since it is definitely bulky when it comes to a mini pc.

I also don’t necessarily need a “normal” case. Could I make something weird? Could I make a shoe-computer?

Starglasses OP ,

I definitely know. I already made myself a small form factor case. My cat is bigger than my computer ;)

I like these niche hobbies and the silliness that can go into it. I think I spent $250 on this case and (k, due to covid) it took more than a year to ship. Now its smallness is so large!

Worth it :D

Starglasses OP ,

Couldn’t post the picture here, sso I posted it to cats. My cat and my PCnvm. idk why i can’t upload my pic. another time :)

Starglasses OP ,

(no offense, OP)

None taken. I am absolutely a rando. Selling the stuff seems like the smartest idea. 8gb ram is so old and “small” anyways :)

What's a word you've spent a long time not using right?

Just recently I was in a conversation with a number of UK mainlanders and we had a debate over what “tories” meant, apparently disproportionately ordinarily it refers to a political party and it’s not usual to use it as short for “territories” as I’ve used it (according to how the debate ended, it was half and half...

Starglasses ,

Thankfullfy just her and myself in the car, and the first time I used the phrase aloud : I once excitedly exclaimed how I loved my friend’s “thunder thighs”.

Totally thought it meant powerful thighs, like in nice and physically fit shape.

🤡

(Not long-term use, but felt the same vibe)

Starglasses ,

Once talked to the real estate agent that helped my mom buy in 2008 about buying a place for me around 2020. I found a decent-enough property for about 250k that i could put a house on.

A part of their advice to me was to wait for a home around $80,000 like my mom got in 2008.

Thanks.

Edit: that 80k is now 460k btw

U.S. government spent more on health care in 2022 than six countries with universal health care combined (www.statnews.com)

American taxpayers footed the bill for at least $1.8 trillion in federal and state health care expenditures in 2022 — about 41% of the nearly $4.5 trillion in both public and private health care spending the U.S. recorded last year, according to the annual report released last week by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid...

Starglasses ,

It isn’t clickbait because the title is true.

Starglasses ,

I recently upgraded my RAM because it was wild how much was being used. I have to eat the cost of more RAM because sites don’t seem to minimize it at all.

The Fastest Growing Demographic In The Workforce? People Over Age 75 (www.forbes.com)

Some are still working to pay off student loans decades later or have to provide for their grandchildren, says Loretta Barr, an associate principal and career coach at Korn Ferry. Or, they’re making up for unforeseen circumstances. “When the pandemic hit, a lot of people lost their jobs suddenly, and they had to use up their...

Starglasses ,

We might finally see the minimum wage rise 🤡

(Boomers will want living wages, of course)

Starglasses ,

So. let’s say they’ll die if society collapses. Right now they are alive and suffering. Suffering for years, or the release of death? Those should not be the options we have to pick from.

Maybe let’s fix that?

Starglasses ,

So what about fish and sea life?

Students and Educators in Idaho Show Us What It’s Like When a State Fails to Fund School Repairs (www.propublica.org)

No other state spends less on school infrastructure per student than Idaho. As a result, many students, especially those in rural districts, deal with leaking ceilings, freezing classrooms and discolored drinking water. Some students have to miss school when the power or heat goes out....

Starglasses ,

Can the govt order one less bomb and give the money to schools?

Ridiculous

Starglasses ,

I can’t talk with a professional on the fly. I can’t even talk to a professional more than once a month if I’m lucky.

Starglasses ,

What’s this exactly? Would you mind an explanation? I would like my files to only be my files.

Starglasses ,

"…leaked photos and video of detained Palestinians in Gaza, stripped to their underwear, in some cases blindfolded and handcuffed… Hagari said this week that soldiers have undressed Palestinian detainees to ensure they are not wearing explosive vests.

They aren’t wearing explosive vests. Give them their clothes back.

This is intentional evil.

Polish Hackers Repaired Trains the Manufacturer Artificially Bricked. Now The Train Company Is Threatening Them (www.404media.co)

In one of the coolest and more outrageous repair stories in quite some time, three white-hat hackers helped a regional rail company in southwest Poland unbrick a train that had been artificially rendered inoperable by the train’s manufacturer after an independent maintenance company worked on it. The train’s manufacturer is...

Starglasses ,

I think the idea is that people check the weather So they will actually see it. Like, I never read the sports section, but if there was a tidbit on the weather page I might click it.

Starglasses ,

If $100 bills are like pennies to you, you don’t even think about it.

Starglasses ,

Can you give us a rundown on what you think is a good plan?

If we need to learn about compound interest. This is a good time to teach us.

Starglasses ,

Thats some nice info, but it doesn’t explain what compound interest is.

Starglasses ,

And where are these good interest rates and compounding services?

Starglasses ,

It’s unintentional the first times. Speak up and help them know better. If they keep doing it, ask again. If they keep doing it…

I’d be upset if my partners family was racist and insulting to people not like them. I’d be pretty frustrated that my partner lets it slide.

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despite me explaining it over and over again.

I keep telling myself it’s useless, they refuse to understand.

… then I keep trying … T_T … in vain (15+ years of trying)… but then I try again. I just want to feel understood. I long for the family connection they’ve told me is so important my whole life .

I have bent my words over backwards and reworded them in every way possible. I’ve used articles, videos, and infographics. I have made dozens of analogies and comparisons to their own lives. I have handed them literal scripts of things they could say. I’ve ve tried everything I’ve heard of so far to try and get my family to understand me. It very much feels like I am solidly in a box to them because I see them be understanding to others, to their own family, but never receive the same compassion.

I resonate with this quote:

“Once everyone sees you as a villain, that’s what you are. They only see you one way, no matter how hard you try.”- Nimona

Starglasses ,

Yeah, same. I’ve accepted I just don’t have a family 😪

Now it’s all me… mostly. I’m working on it 😌

Starglasses ,

You watched the video, yea? It did happen. Or are you just saying that it wasn’t only her involved in getting there?

Endangered species list grows by 2,000. Climate change is part of the problem (apnews.com)

Climate change is worsening the planet’s biodiversity crises, making environments more deadly for thousands of species and accelerating the precipitous decline in the number of plants and animals on Earth, according to an international organization that tracks species health....

Starglasses ,

Placing the focus on climate change let’s humans ignore that they are the cause.

I hate that species are being irrevocably erased from the world. There is no one to blame but humans.

Starglasses ,

the question of whether former president Donald Trump has absolute presidential immunity for crimes he’s accused of carrying out while in the White House.

The constitution let’s us know:

Article II of the Constitution establishes the executive branch of the federal government and vests executive power in the president. The power includes the execution and enforcement of federal law

He should enforce the law that he is meant to execute.

Zero immunity.

Starglasses ,

The Razr flip phone was my first phone. It was such a cool phone to have. Now its back, and with a lot more!

Starglasses ,

Want to talk about the billionaires evading taxes instead? That’s far more money and billionaires get government subsidies or contracts or…

A lot more money.

Starglasses OP ,

Ok so I am so unknowledgable about keyboards. They exist all over the place. How cool :D Guess that could’ve been a google >.>

Starglasses ,

I had an appointment canceled on me the day-of. It was rescheduled 47 days from that day. I waited 6 weeks already for the first one…

Starglasses ,

That’s awful. Any problem is enough of a problem to talk about. Shame on that therapist. 5 minutes is nothing to tell the stories in your life that could indicate stuff.

Starglasses ,

Two come to mind:

If you can’t pay the property taxes every year.

If you don’t pay HOA fees or follow their rules (they have way too much power)

Starglasses ,

Who is “we”? Because I have no power.

Starglasses OP ,

Oh jeez two typos! Royalty and Majesty! But you guys get it :)

Starglasses OP ,

He really is “meowsalittle”. He has the cutest little mew.

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