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some_guy ,

This is my favorite thing that I’ve seen this week.

some_guy ,

“It is Election Interference, & the Supreme Court must intercede,” he wrote.

The first four words seem relevant to him, just not in the way he means.

some_guy ,

I’d still rather see Threads succeed and Twitter die now that a fash-friendly owner lets fashy types run wild.

some_guy ,

What phone does not spy on its users out of the box?

iPhone? How can someone just assume and accept the above?

Tesla sued for false advertising after allegedly exaggerating EV ranges / The proposed class action accuses Tesla of fraud (www.engadget.com)

Tesla sued for false advertising after allegedly exaggerating EV ranges / The proposed class action accuses Tesla of fraud::A lawsuit accuses Tesla of false advertising for allegedly exaggerating EV ranges…

some_guy ,

You misspelled “lying asshole”.

some_guy ,

One of my favorite things about Lemmy is that right-wing apologists and bootlickers get called out pretty consistently.

some_guy ,

Thinking back to dialup times, this made me laugh.

some_guy ,

I can tell you what wasn’t different. It wasn’t her skin color. /s

some_guy ,

Further (emphasis mine):

House Republican leaders have repeatedly denied that race was a factor in the expulsion hearings. Democrats have disagreed, with Johnson countering that the only reason that she wasn’t expelled was due to her being white.

some_guy ,

They know what they’re doing. Republicans are the threat they use to stay in office despite running the absolute middle of the road. Pelosi, for example, has been in office 36 years (according to Google). Look at the bullshit with Feinstein (my supposed rep). I’ve despised her for years, ever since her response to my emailing her office to support something or other sent back a form letter telling me I was wrong without even bothering to do the ass-kiss politician thing and pretend my opinion had some merit even if she was voting a different way. We could have had something with Bernie or other progressives if the establishment would just get the fuck out of the way.

some_guy ,

But if you don’t consider Trump the absolute threat that he is, you just stay home. When I thought there was no way he’d win (2016) I didn’t vote for Hilary because I hate her. I voted for Biden because the threat had become real.

Dems are correctly assessing that there are still people who see Trump as a clown show rather than a future dictator.

some_guy ,

Nothing in the comment to which you replied suggests that the commenter has given up. They merely describe what causes people to do so. At least as I read it.

some_guy ,

Some people are downvoting you, but you summed it up exactly as it is.

some_guy ,

Can anyone contextualize this? What YouTuber wouldn’t work with him the way he wanted?

Chinless guppy.

some_guy ,

Adorable. I raise you my kitty, Nova.

https://lemmy.sdf.org/pictrs/image/d72f3fbe-1938-4ac7-a355-a3ed9b209738.png

HBO Max was renamed Max, and Warner Bros. Discovery lost subscribers (www.theverge.com)

HBO Max was renamed Max, and Warner Bros. Discovery lost subscribers::Warner Bros. Discovery lost 1.8 million subscribers in the second quarter of 2023 following HBO Max’s rebrand to Max. The company now has 95.8 million subscribers across all of its services.

some_guy ,

Bad Faith podcast had an episode on the strike a couple weeks back. The guests (strikers) talked about how Zaslav renaming HBO to Max is right inline with their intent to churn out “good enough” content to increase profits rather than increase quality. They likened it to a signal to Wall Street to improve their share value.

some_guy ,

Sorry to repost. I immediately tossed in a thing about the rebrand and then saw this, so I’m hitting it again because it frames the rebrand as knowing and deliberate (as opposed to a fuck up).

Bad Faith podcast had an episode on the strike a couple weeks back. The guests (strikers) talked about how Zaslav renaming HBO to Max is right inline with their intent to churn out “good enough” content to increase profits rather than increase quality. They likened it to a signal to Wall Street to improve their share value.

some_guy ,

The closest I can get it to iPhone 1.0 given that some apps have changed (it shipped with an Apple-made YouTube app before Google made one that is first-party, for example). Though, to be honest, I always swipe over to the second page before putting it to sleep so that my primary TP-apps are right there when I unlock.

https://lemmy.sdf.org/pictrs/image/29bdc978-c693-4281-b0af-f372f543cc81.png

some_guy ,

From TFA:

The main specific Fitch cited was “repeated debt-limit political standoffs and last-minute resolutions” that “have eroded confidence in fiscal management.” Can anyone dispute with a straight face that, here too, the blame lies with Republicans? The two big debt limit fights occurred in 2011 and 2023. In both instances, Republicans had just regained control of the House of Representatives and narrowed Democratic majorities in the Senate. In both instances, the GOP was itching to flex its muscles against a Democratic president with a presidential election one year away. In both instances, events were driven by extremist members of the GOP—Tea Partiers in 2011, the Freedom Caucus in 2023—who called for catastrophic (and economically destabilizing) cuts to the federal budget, and professed indifference (at least some of them) to the prospect of forcing a default on U.S. debt. In both instances, the Republican motive was performative to the point of undermining stable governance. And in both instances, a big-three credit-rating firm ended up downgrading the credit of the U.S. government—Standard & Poor’s in 2011, Fitch this week. (The third big-three firm, Moody’s, threatened a downgrade in 2011 but did not carry it out.)

It’s painfully obvious for anyone who’s paying attention that Republicans act like sociopaths. That they are able to distract their base so successfully with culture-war bullshit is why I’ve lost hope that the USA can ever be politically healthy.

some_guy ,

This article from AP has a lot more info:

apnews.com/…/interstate-kidnapping-escape-oregon-…

some_guy ,

Further, they were shown to be liars. FTA:

Meanwhile, the Quantum Energy Research Centre was found to have falsely named local companies and research institutes as partners on its website on Thursday.

The company shut down its homepage that day.

[…]

However, LG Innotek said that it “has no connection whatsoever” with Quantum Energy Research Centre.

“We have asked the Quantum Energy Research Centre to remove our company’s logo from its website, and to explain how it has been misappropriated,” the electronic device part supplier said.

Samsung SDI and Samsung Electro-Mechanics confirmed that “no official request has been made [from Quantum Energy] for partnership.”

some_guy ,

I used to lament how my nieces and nephew would never be able to appreciate the modern internet because they grew up with broadband. Now I don’t think about it cause the idea itself has got old.

That said, I like this comic and saved a copy because it’s a historical artifact. I love history. Thanks for posting.

some_guy ,

If you’re affected, maybe start the group. I’m not affected (not directly), so I’m not fit to moderate.

some_guy ,

I think the idea is that if Tump didn’t get the nomination he would run as an independent and hold the party hostage.

some_guy ,

Yeah, that caught my attention, too.

some_guy ,

I identified them by awkward haircuts and clothing styles. I knew something was off / wrong, but it wasn’t until adulthood that I was able to piece it together.

some_guy ,

I’m certainly offended on behalf of all non-religious parents. I don’t even have kids.

some_guy ,

Please post a link. I shouldn’t have to find your supporting evidence myself.

some_guy ,

Oh shit, I had to scroll this far to find the truest statement. I love this. You are clearly correct.

some_guy ,

This is why I sign union-drive support sheets. You can also support unions by buying their merch to raise awareness and contribute to worker funds. I now have four styles of tshirts:

  1. Solid or blended plain tshirt
  2. Band or artist design
  3. Podcasts that I like
  4. Unions that I support

No corporate logos on my person other than my jeans, and you aren’t getting close enough to see or read that. And my socks, under my shoes, because they’re super cushiony.

some_guy ,

It actually makes me respect Hunter a little bit. If you’re gonna be a fail-son, at least have fun with it.

some_guy ,

Not who you responded to, but while most politicians grift a bit, Trump has been shown to grift his base like there’s no tomorrow. I recall that there was fine print on one of the “donate to stop the steal” campaigns that signed people up for recurring donations when they thought they were making a one-time contribution. The mountain of evidence, and your trying to defend him, robs you of any credibility.

some_guy ,

Trump-supporting lawyer and right-wing freak talks like a right-wing freak.

some_guy OP ,

Keen insight.

some_guy ,

Asahi Linux is specifically built to run on Apple Silicon. It won’t be compatible with an 11yo MBP.

some_guy ,

Similar outcome. At this point, I mostly just rent 4k online because my massive Plex library has bit-for-bit Blu-ray rips of everything I care about enough to have on hand. But I spent years building that library by ripping physical media.

I still buy and rip CDs because I love album art and want high quality. If not for the former, I’d likely go flacc or lossless and buy online.

YSK: Browsing "ALL" at work might get you pulled into an office, even with NSFW off.

Why YSK: It appears several Lemmy Instances are flagged as suspicious and at least 1 instance intentionally using the name of ransomware. A couple of the big enterprise monitoring suites (Fortiguard, ZScaler) will flag your account and may end up with you being pulled into an office for an explanation, or worse....

some_guy ,

Why would you join your phone to the company wifi? Mobile data is cheap (at least where I am). I’ve never joined my personal phone to an employer’s wifi. At least not in the last five or so years.

some_guy ,

I’m on the side where “we got him” has happened so many times without actual consequences that I’ve been numb for a long time. I’m feeling optimism that he might go down for the first time in ages.

It’s only moving goalposts when it’s outright denial of reality. When new information (failed attempts to nail the bastard) is taken into account, it’s adjusting expectations.

some_guy ,

Chapo Traphouse listeners aren’t tankies. Sure, Lemmygrad users are. But we’re fans of Bernie Sanders and not fans of Lenin, Stalin, Mao, etc. I considered creating an account there when I learned that it was full of former r/chapotraphouse users, but opted for my nerdy side when choosing my instance as that’s been a part of me longer than my political side.

Edit to add that hexbear appears to be offline so I can’t access the above link for context. If something is published there that goes against my post, it’s because I couldn’t verify what that link contained.

some_guy ,

Calling capitalism bad is not the same as supporting dictators. If you still worship capitalism, fine. But a lot of people who will never be able to afford a house are looking at previous generations vs what their generation is getting out of it and waking up to how badly they’ve been fucked.

some_guy ,

Then I thank you for it.

some_guy ,

I would expect that to be an upcoming feature, similar to how Threads is bolting on things like DMs. That’s probably part of why it still requires an invite.

some_guy ,

Look up the Dunning Kruger Effect.

The Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias[2] whereby people with low ability, expertise, or experience regarding a type of task or area of knowledge tend to overestimate their ability or knowledge.

some_guy ,

They do that when they have enough forces to put them down. The only reason these assholes left was because Trump told them to on Twitter.

Twitter Sues Hate-Speech Research Group Over Claims That Hateful, Racist Content Has Proliferated Under Musk’s Ownership (variety.com)

Twitter filed a lawsuit against the Center for Countering Digital Hate. “Despite our continued progress, the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) and its backers have been actively working to assert false and misleading claims encouraging advertisers to pause investment on the platform. X is a free public service funded...

some_guy ,

The name is a way of acknowledging that people are tired of hearing about him. It’s (I think; I didn’t create it) saying, for those who want to read about this asshat but without spamming other channels, not no one cares about this.

some_guy ,

No, I think I should pay a price and not get ads. If it has to cost more, so be it. Ads are to be avoided at all costs. They offer me no value.

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