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kescusay , 11 months ago to news in Another One Of Trump’s Attorneys Seemingly Admitted (Twice) That His Client Committed A Crime

Not sure how that would work. Would he appeal on the grounds that he had terrible lawyers or something?

kescusay , 11 months ago to politics in Dealignment Is Real. We Can Help Reverse It.

Yeah, this one’s utter garbage.

kescusay , 11 months ago to politics in Selling the illusion of access: Devon Archer testifies about Hunter Biden’s use of his father’s ‘brand’

Amazing. Not one word of that was true. Impressive accomplishment.

No, Hunter wasn’t doing “almost the same shit.” No, it wasn’t “worse.” And the reason it gets “shouted down” is because it’s lying bullshit, and we’ve got no reason to put up with that.

This “both sides” garbage - as if Hunter name-dropping his dad is identical to Trump’s kids literally selling access to theirs - with his enthusiastic involvement - is reprehensible. It’s disgusting, it’s sick, and it’s disingenuous.

kescusay , 11 months ago to politics in Fall abortion battle propels huge early voter turnout for an Ohio special election next week

It’s true, but with overwhelming turnout, the hand on the scale can be countered.

So I guess the answer is: VOTE. Vote like our lives depend on it, because they do.

kescusay , 11 months ago to politics in Fall abortion battle propels huge early voter turnout for an Ohio special election next week

The thing to remember is population density. Yes, in rural areas you’ll see all sorts of conservative crap, but no one lives there. Those bright red areas outside city limits are vast tracts of mostly empty land.

kescusay , 11 months ago to politics in Selling the illusion of access: Devon Archer testifies about Hunter Biden’s use of his father’s ‘brand’

It’s not great, but it’s also not a big deal. Kids flaunt their famous parents.

The difference here? Trump’s kids actually legit sold access, with their father’s enthusiastic consent* and involvement.

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*The only time he’s ever cared about consent

kescusay , 11 months ago to nottheonion in OceanGate co-founder wants to send 1,000 people to a floating colony on Venus by 2050

Can we pick the 1,000 people? I’ve got a few I’d like to send to Venus.

kescusay , 11 months ago to asklemmy in What's the fundamental difference between Fediverse/ActivityPub/Lemmy and the Usenet?

Definitely. Humans don’t write that way unless they’re paid to. It reads like bland marketing material.

kescusay , 11 months ago to technology in Microsoft shuts down Cortana, Apple should do the same with Siri

I have no idea why they’re doing this. LLMs are a useful tool in certain areas, but they’re by no means ready as the sort of universal assistant tool Microsoft is trying to position them as.

I use GitHub Copilot to make writing boilerplate code faster and easier, and it works really well for that, but I can’t see any other computing tasks I engage in regularly benefiting from an AI assistant trying to get all up in my business.

kescusay , 11 months ago to politics in Jobs Market Shows Signs of the Gradual Cooling the Fed Wants

That said, we have to have a government that is actually willing to address unemployment. We’re lucky enough to have that now, but the moment Republicans get into office again, they’ll move as fast as they can to gut unemployment assistance and then wonder why the economy is in the crapper.

kescusay , 11 months ago to politics in Jobs Market Shows Signs of the Gradual Cooling the Fed Wants

The emphasis is on “gradual,” here. If the jobs market stayed hot no matter what, and it was impossible to find workers for any open position, it would crater the economy in other ways. The goal is to have a roughly equal amount of jobs and people who want them.

If you have too many people and not enough jobs, you’ve got mass unemployment, which is bad for everyone. If you’ve got too many jobs and not enough people, you leave needed positions unfilled and businesses fail because they simply can’t get the employees they need, which is also bad for everyone.

Balance is key.

kescusay , 11 months ago to politics in CNN Poll: Percentage of Republicans who think Biden's 2020 win was illegitimate ticks back up near 70%

The really shocking thing here is that 31% of Republicans are still aware of reality enough to understand that Biden won legitimately.

kescusay , 11 months ago to politics in Trump adviser Rudy Giuliani on tape in civil sex assault case tells accuser he wants to ‘own’ her breasts, talks about penis size, disparages Jews

Rudy was caught doing something revolting and vile? Must be a day ending in ‘y.’

kescusay , 11 months ago to politics in Oversight of Ukraine US Aid blocked by Senate Democrats [NY Post - July 27, 2023 4:15pm Updated]

Translation: Sabotage of Ukraine US Aid blocked by Senate Democrats

kescusay , 11 months ago to politics in They lied about Afghanistan. They lied about Iraq. Now they're lying about Ukraine -Chris Hedges

Nope, as much as you might like that, I - and the rest of America - are pretty damn resolute that the next step is Russia gets the fuck out of Ukraine. After that, we’ll be happy to talk about whatever reforms Ukraine needs, but first, step 1.