TurtleJoe

TurtleJoe , 4 months ago

The NFL doesn’t own the teams. The teams, collectively, own the NFL.

TurtleJoe , 5 months ago

That’s actually pretty convenient; my old landlord always charged a fee for large furniture/appliance/child removal.

TurtleJoe , 5 months ago

And the stuff they put in chemtrails are the original RNA packets that will change your DNA. The covid vaccine is what activates them.

(But seriously, pretty much every covid vaccine conspiracy is just the chemtrail conspiracy repackaged.)

TurtleJoe , 5 months ago

Yes, he’s trying to “protect” landlords and other cops with these vetoes.

TurtleJoe , 5 months ago

Go into settings on your app, set to open links in external browser. Assuming your primary browser is Firefox with ublock on, you shouldn’t have a problem.

Even opening with my Lemmy app’s internal browser, there were two easily closable pop-ups, and the embedded ads in the article didn’t even load.

TurtleJoe , 5 months ago

I have a friend that is a sales manager for private planes. He said business exploded during the pandemic and then never slowed down. This despite flights being eye-wateringly expensive (like, 20k for one-way is a great deal, because you managed to book an empty leg.)

TurtleJoe , 5 months ago

People only thought it was the former before they actually learned anything about them. They were always this way.

TurtleJoe , 5 months ago

If he wins, we’re done. No doubt about it. However, if we hold back the fascists this election (this includes the House and Senate,) there is a real chance at landing a huge defeat to maga extremism in '26 and '28.

Yes, you should be paying attention to your local politics: right wing extremism is on the rise everywhere.

TurtleJoe , 5 months ago

It was this judge that put the initial partial gag order in place, and when he did it he basically said, “you can talk shit about me all you want,I believe that too be your right, just don’t bring my staff into it.”

Then when Trump continued to bring up his clerk, the judge fined him what he was allowed to, which was something like $10k. Wish it could be more, but them’s the rules.

As has been stated elsewhere in this thread, the various judges on these cases are giving Trump and team a lot of leeway, because they don’t want anything overturned on appeal. This judge has actually shut a lot of nonsense down, while allowing other nonsense to go forward, while being extremely sarcastic about it. He also just told Trump that he won’t be able to testify (ie rant) during closing arguments in this case.

TurtleJoe , 5 months ago

FYI, all Starbucks brand coffee sold outside of actual Starbucks stores is actually Nestle, which is definitely unethically produced.

TurtleJoe , 5 months ago

This was a case where you needed the sarcasm tag. Up to then, it was a totally “reasonable” comment from an AI bro.

BTW, plug “crypto” in to your comment for AI, and it’s a totally normal statement from 2020/21. It’s such a similar VC grift.

TurtleJoe , 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago)

This is basically what is currently happening in many states.

Many parents will also travel if their home state won’t allow it. Iirc, Missouri Kansas is a popular choice, because they will allow a child as young as 14 15 to be married to an adult.

TurtleJoe , 5 months ago

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/1282ba60-106b-4a07-8c6c-98f59a6603de.jpeg

Are you intentionally using misleading phrasing here? Sure seems like it.

To put it a different way: 40 out of the 50 states allow minors under 18 to be married, with 30 of those 40 allowing children under 17 to be married.

Since those people being married are under 18, they don’t have the legal rights of an adult, with guardianship going to their spouse. Can you see how that is a problem?

TurtleJoe , 5 months ago

We can excuse the racism, the transphobia, and the antisemitism, but we draw the line at drugs!

TurtleJoe , 5 months ago

I know it can be difficult to search for answers when you have questions. I did a deep dive into the subject matter, and found the following info hidden within the first sentence:

Overtime pay for cops in New York’s subway system increased from $4 million in 2022 to $155 million over the same period in 2023, according to an analysis by Gothamist.

TurtleJoe , 5 months ago

I think that they are both idiots, and an organized threat to democracy. Like the CIA during the Project Condor years. Those guys were mostly morons, but they had a firehose of money, and tons of manpower. Very similar to the GOP at this point.

TurtleJoe , 6 months ago

Golf courses actually see pretty frequent use; anybody who has played a public course on the weekend knows what it’s like to be constantly waiting to take your shot because the group in front of you is still putting, and the group behind is waiting to take their tee shot.

A much bigger waste of resources and land are the sterile suburban yards that barely get used at all.

I do wonder how much fertilizer runoff, herbicide use, etc the average golf course is responsible for

TurtleJoe , 6 months ago

This is every colonizer’s playbook: you make constant small incursions, then when the people finally push back, you use it as an excuse to wipe them out and take the land.

TurtleJoe , 6 months ago

You might see it that way, because you’re predisposed to seeing how ridiculous it is, but people have been using this unironically for a long time now.

TurtleJoe , 6 months ago

I think the idea (I don’t say plan, because I think it’s more of a seat-of-the-pants situation) was to first destroy Twitter as a platform for any kind of left wing activism.

Next, make it profitable as a subscription based right wing social media app.

The shit last week was just a rich, fragile narcissist lashing out at his perceived enemies.

TurtleJoe , 6 months ago

Yeah, the Mediterranean market near me just got a new credit card reader and the pre loaded software came with the tip screen on it.

TurtleJoe , 6 months ago

I also want to add that many landlords were beginning to demand that their tenants pay with venmo, or other e-payment services, and those leeches need to pay their taxes.

TurtleJoe , 6 months ago

There are some movies that just don’t exist on streaming. I’ve torrented movies, then looked them up to see what service they’re streaming on, and you just can’t watch them, not even an option to pay for it.

TurtleJoe , 6 months ago

Your edit has been my pet theory for some time. That and he gets to ruin a platform that leftists have used to organize around the world.

TurtleJoe , 7 months ago

No he isn’t. If anything he’s gone more Info Wars style.

TurtleJoe , 7 months ago

Yeah. Your item on Amazon often will say “order fulfilled by Company Y.” You can look that company up to see if you can order directly from them, that way they still get the sale without Bezos taking his cut.

TurtleJoe , 7 months ago

They’re all money grubbers. The board are part of a rationalist cult called Effective Altruism that claims to want to save humanity, but they believe they need lots of money to do this (Sam Bankman-fried is an EA guy.)

Sam Altman is also nominally part of this group, but also hangs out with people like musk and Rishi Sunak. He’s more like your typical alt-right tech bro.

TurtleJoe , 7 months ago

They have a for profit arm in addition to the non profit.

TurtleJoe , 7 months ago

It’s my opinion that every single person in the upper levels is this organization is a maniac. They are all a bunch of so-called “rationalist” tech-right AnCaps that justify their immense incomes through the lens of Effective Altruism, the same ideology that Sam Bankman-fried used to justify his theft of billions from his customers.

Anybody with the urge to pick a “side” here ought to think about taking a step back and reconsider; they are all bad people.

TurtleJoe , 7 months ago

The non-profit has a corporate arm. https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/5d516092-8a35-40c4-9626-e20e95a232e4.png take a look at that structure.

TurtleJoe , 7 months ago

Lol, they’re upset because their stock dropped when they fired him. That’s all this is.

Before you go, “oh, they’re non-profit!” They have a for profit subsidiary.

TurtleJoe , 7 months ago

This guy is a former (and current) crypto bro who just pivoted to the next tech buzzword. This shit was never gonna be a benefit to humanity.

TurtleJoe , 7 months ago

The minimum that will happen here is the $250 million fine. That’s because he’s already been found guilty of the top count. The current trial is to determine if he’s guilty of the other counts, and how much more Trump will be fined. He could also lose his ability to operate any of his businesses in NYS (this may have already happened, I can’t remember.)

This is also a bench trial, since his attorneys forgot to ask for a jury trial. That means the judge will decide if he’s guilty of the further counts, and what the punishments will be. The same judge that he’s been screaming at from the stand, threatening on social media, and whose staffers trump has also been threatening and doxxing.

TurtleJoe , 7 months ago

That’s OP’s headline.

TurtleJoe , 7 months ago

I don’t see what the city prosecutor has to do with it. This is similar to a FOIA request, just based on Kansas law, which is pretty clear:

The law states: “Public record” means any recorded informations, regardless of form, characteristics or locations, that is made, maintained or kept by or is in possession of: (A) Any public agency; or (B) any officer or employee of a public agency pursuant to the officer’s or employee’s official duties and that is related to the functions, activities, programs or operations of any public agency.

This guy’s cell phone is clearly “kept in the possession of an officer or employee of a public agency.” The city is arguing that asking for the cell phone is an “undue burden” efficiency is ridiculous on its face.

The reason that records acts like this are put in place is because the way you described it working would be a clear conflict of interest: the city prosecutor suing the city to turn over the records of an official, with an attorney hired by the city working to keep those records from being public.

TurtleJoe , 8 months ago

Well, they do have some sort of crypto integration in that browser, so it makes sense why they come off that way.

TurtleJoe , 8 months ago

He’s using every trial to fundraise.

TurtleJoe , 8 months ago

Every local TV News station is likely to be conservative, no matter which broadcaster they are affiliated with. Sinclair, Hearst, Scripps, etc, they are all right wing, even by American standards.

TurtleJoe , 9 months ago

I don’t think there were ever that many of us who read Adbusters every month, but it’s likely even fewer now.

I think that reality TV and social media influencers have had as much to do with people embracing conspicuous consumption as a culture as much as advertisers have.

TurtleJoe , 9 months ago

Boy, the museums are really just the very tip of the iceberg for the Brits.

TurtleJoe , 9 months ago

The biggest difference that I’ve noticed between lemmy and Reddit is that your comment would’ve been downvoted to oblivion by the modi fan boys over there.

TurtleJoe , 9 months ago

Lol, it’s legal in the vast majority of states.

As of July 2023, ten states have banned underage marriages, with no exception: Delaware (2018),[3] New Jersey (2018),[4] Pennsylvania (2020),[5] Minnesota (2020),[6] Rhode Island (2021),[7] New York (2021),[8] Massachusetts (2022),[9] Vermont (2023),[10] Connecticut (2023)[11] and Michigan (2023).[12]

It’s especially super cool when parents marry their underage teenage daughter to her rapist, and then he becomes her legal guardian. I’ll let you guess which major political party overwhelmingly supports this.

TurtleJoe , 9 months ago

OP is saying that emoji is a Nazi.

They start with Elon saying, “I’m a socialist, but I don’t believe in any socialist things.”

Then they point out that the Nazis also called themselves socialist, but weren’t.

TurtleJoe , 9 months ago

That and/or, “I’m such a raging asshole that I’ve created a terrible, toxic environment and everybody always quits.”

TurtleJoe , 9 months ago

Tell them you were deathly sick.

“Yeah I had skin cancer. Nothing major but I had to take it easy and after beating it we all went on vacation to celebrate”

It may depend on where you live, but it may be illegal for an employer to ask about anything medical in an interview. I have a two plus year gap and if I get asked about it, I just say, “illness.” They can’t ask any follow up questions.

I have occasionally expounded on it, saying, “I’m fully recovered now.” Just to reassure them that I don’t expect to miss work due to illness in the future.

TurtleJoe , 9 months ago

Did you specifically choose 100 years in order to not include the Great Famine in Ireland? Or what the East India company did in India? Lassez faire capitalism in action right there, baby.

How about US funded right wing death squads in central and South America that eliminated whole peoples in the 70s and 80s? There are entire languages that are no longer spoken in countries like Guatemala because the people who spoke it were all murdered systematically with US taxpayer money.

TurtleJoe , 9 months ago

I’m with the commies on this one. We need to nationalize utilities like energy distribution. No reason to have a profit seeking entity in charge of necessities like electricity.

TurtleJoe , 9 months ago

Still the same hot take comments based on an article headline, though.