Only a third of Americans are backing the LA protests over the ICE raids, poll finds
Only a third of Americans are backing the LA protests over the ICE raids, poll finds
The Trump administration has ramped up its response after protests against sweeping immigration action broke out across Los Angeles over the weekendRhian Lubin (The Independent)
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Only a third of Americans are backing the LA protests over the ICE raids, poll finds
Only a third of Americans are backing the LA protests over the ICE raids, poll finds
The Trump administration has ramped up its response after protests against sweeping immigration action broke out across Los Angeles over the weekendRhian Lubin (The Independent)
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Philadelphia paper warns Fetterman to take Senate job seriously – ‘or step away’
The Philadelphia Inquirer’s editorial board has issued a sharp rebuke of Pennsylvania senator John Fetterman in a new opinion piece, urging him to take his job “seriously” and writing that “it’s time for Fetterman to serve Pennsylvanians, or step away.”
In a strongly worded piece published on Sunday, the editorial board of the Philadelphia Inquirer, which endorsed Fetterman during his 2022 Senate campaign, said the first-term Democrat “has missed more votes than nearly every other senator in the past two years” and “regularly skips committee hearings, cancels meetings, avoids the daily caucus lunches with colleagues, and rarely goes on the Senate floor”.
The editorial board also wrote that six former Fetterman staffers told an Inquirer reporter that Fetterman was frequently absent or spent hours alone in his office, avoiding colleagues and meetings.
Philadelphia paper warns Fetterman to take Senate job seriously – ‘or step away’
Democratic senator hits back at ‘smear’ after being accused of missing votes and skipping committee hearingsAnna Betts (The Guardian)
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Fetterman turned conservative after his stroke. His lack of participation in the Senate and change in stance after a major health episode should bring his competency into question.
It’s incredibly sad, because he was so promising in the early days. He is not the Senator everyone voted for.
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so promising in the early days.
About that... Some more news did a whole episode on his career showing that he's been an opportunistic grifter this whole time.
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Hegseth jokes about US allies doing nothing in Afghanistan – despite hundreds dead
Hegseth jokes about US allies doing nothing in Afghanistan – despite hundreds losing their lives
‘Don’t try and make it look like I don’t care’, insisted secretary after saying he saw a ‘lotta flags’ but not a lot of effort from US partnersJohn Bowden (The Independent)
Trump claimed ‘tariffs are easy’ – he’s learning the hard way that’s not the case
Time and time again over the past four months, reality has failed to match Trump’s rhetoric
“Tariffs are easy,” Donald Trump claimed in March. For his administration, and the world, they have proven anything but. Now an obscure New York court has blocked his signature trade policy, setting up a battle that looks sure to end up in the supreme court.
The plan was simple. For decades, Trump has made the case for tariffs. Now, in his second term, he would dramatically hike them on the world; raise trillions of dollars for the federal government; cut taxes for Americans; and lure manufacturers to the country’s industrial heartlands, creating millions of jobs.
But this drastic bid to overhaul the global economy has proved far more complicated.Time and again over the past four months, reality failed to match the rhetoric. Threats were followed by delays. Exemptions were carved out of supposedly universal tariff waves. Even when they were imposed, it was days, if not hours, before pauses were announced.
Danish Ministry Replaces Windows and Microsoft Office with Linux and LibreOffice
From Word and Excel to LibreOffice: Danish ministry says goodbye to Microsoft
All employees at the Danish Ministry of Digital Affairs are to work without Microsoft. Instead, Linux and LibreOffice will be used, says the minister.Martin Holland (heise online)
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Wikipedia Pauses AI-Generated Summaries After Editor Backlash
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Text to avoid paywallThe Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit organization which hosts and develops Wikipedia, has paused an experiment that showed users AI-generated summaries at the top of articles after an overwhelmingly negative reaction from the Wikipedia editors community.
“Just because Google has rolled out its AI summaries doesn't mean we need to one-up them, I sincerely beg you not to test this, on mobile or anywhere else,” one editor said in response to Wikimedia Foundation’s announcement that it will launch a two-week trial of the summaries on the mobile version of Wikipedia. “This would do immediate and irreversible harm to our readers and to our reputation as a decently trustworthy and serious source. Wikipedia has in some ways become a byword for sober boringness, which is excellent. Let's not insult our readers' intelligence and join the stampede to roll out flashy AI summaries. Which is what these are, although here the word ‘machine-generated’ is used instead.”
Two other editors simply commented, “Yuck.”
For years, Wikipedia has been one of the most valuable repositories of information in the world, and a laudable model for community-based, democratic internet platform governance. Its importance has only grown in the last couple of years during the generative AI boom as it’s one of the only internet platforms that has not been significantly degraded by the flood of AI-generated slop and misinformation. As opposed to Google, which since embracing generative AI has instructed its users to eat glue, Wikipedia’s community has kept its articles relatively high quality. As I recently reported last year, editors are actively working to filter out bad, AI-generated content from Wikipedia.
A page detailing the the AI-generated summaries project, called “Simple Article Summaries,” explains that it was proposed after a discussion at Wikimedia’s 2024 conference, Wikimania, where “Wikimedians discussed ways that AI/machine-generated remixing of the already created content can be used to make Wikipedia more accessible and easier to learn from.” Editors who participated in the discussion thought that these summaries could improve the learning experience on Wikipedia, where some article summaries can be quite dense and filled with technical jargon, but that AI features needed to be cleared labeled as such and that users needed an easy to way to flag issues with “machine-generated/remixed content once it was published or generated automatically.”
In one experiment where summaries were enabled for users who have the Wikipedia browser extension installed, the generated summary showed up at the top of the article, which users had to click to expand and read. That summary was also flagged with a yellow “unverified” label.
An example of what the AI-generated summary looked like.
Wikimedia announced that it was going to run the generated summaries experiment on June 2, and was immediately met with dozens of replies from editors who said “very bad idea,” “strongest possible oppose,” Absolutely not,” etc.
“Yes, human editors can introduce reliability and NPOV [neutral point-of-view] issues. But as a collective mass, it evens out into a beautiful corpus,” one editor said. “With Simple Article Summaries, you propose giving one singular editor with known reliability and NPOV issues a platform at the very top of any given article, whilst giving zero editorial control to others. It reinforces the idea that Wikipedia cannot be relied on, destroying a decade of policy work. It reinforces the belief that unsourced, charged content can be added, because this platforms it. I don't think I would feel comfortable contributing to an encyclopedia like this. No other community has mastered collaboration to such a wondrous extent, and this would throw that away.”
A day later, Wikimedia announced that it would pause the launch of the experiment, but indicated that it’s still interested in AI-generated summaries.
“The Wikimedia Foundation has been exploring ways to make Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects more accessible to readers globally,” a Wikimedia Foundation spokesperson told me in an email. “This two-week, opt-in experiment was focused on making complex Wikipedia articles more accessible to people with different reading levels. For the purposes of this experiment, the summaries were generated by an open-weight Aya model by Cohere. It was meant to gauge interest in a feature like this, and to help us think about the right kind of community moderation systems to ensure humans remain central to deciding what information is shown on Wikipedia.”
“It is common to receive a variety of feedback from volunteers, and we incorporate it in our decisions, and sometimes change course,” the Wikimedia Foundation spokesperson added. “We welcome such thoughtful feedback — this is what continues to make Wikipedia a truly collaborative platform of human knowledge.”
“Reading through the comments, it’s clear we could have done a better job introducing this idea and opening up the conversation here on VPT back in March,” a Wikimedia Foundation project manager said. VPT, or “village pump technical,” is where The Wikimedia Foundation and the community discuss technical aspects of the platform. “As internet usage changes over time, we are trying to discover new ways to help new generations learn from Wikipedia to sustain our movement into the future. In consequence, we need to figure out how we can experiment in safe ways that are appropriate for readers and the Wikimedia community. Looking back, we realize the next step with this message should have been to provide more of that context for you all and to make the space for folks to engage further.”
The project manager also said that “Bringing generative AI into the Wikipedia reading experience is a serious set of decisions, with important implications, and we intend to treat it as such, and that “We do not have any plans for bringing a summary feature to the wikis without editor involvement. An editor moderation workflow is required under any circumstances, both for this idea, as well as any future idea around AI summarized or adapted content.”
Wikipedia Pauses AI-Generated Summaries After Editor Backlash
The Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit organization which hosts and develops Wikipedia, has paused an experiment that showed users AI-generated summaries at the top of articles after an overwhelmingly negative reaction from the Wikipedia editors community.“Just because Google has rolled out its AI summaries doesn't mean we need to one-up them, I sincerely beg you not to test this, on mobile or anywhere else,” one editor said in response to Wikimedia Foundation’s announcement that it will launch a two-week trial of the summaries on the mobile version of Wikipedia. “This would do immediate and irreversible harm to our readers and to our reputation as a decently trustworthy and serious source. Wikipedia has in some ways become a byword for sober boringness, which is excellent. Let's not insult our readers' intelligence and join the stampede to roll out flashy AI summaries. Which is what these are, although here the word ‘machine-generated’ is used instead.”
Two other editors simply commented, “Yuck.”
For years, Wikipedia has been one of the most valuable repositories of information in the world, and a laudable model for community-based, democratic internet platform governance. Its importance has only grown in the last couple of years during the generative AI boom as it’s one of the only internet platforms that has not been significantly degraded by the flood of AI-generated slop and misinformation. As opposed to Google, which since embracing generative AI has instructed its users to eat glue, Wikipedia’s community has kept its articles relatively high quality. As I recently reported last year, editors are actively working to filter out bad, AI-generated content from Wikipedia.
A page detailing the the AI-generated summaries project, called “Simple Article Summaries,” explains that it was proposed after a discussion at Wikimedia’s 2024 conference, Wikimania, where “Wikimedians discussed ways that AI/machine-generated remixing of the already created content can be used to make Wikipedia more accessible and easier to learn from.” Editors who participated in the discussion thought that these summaries could improve the learning experience on Wikipedia, where some article summaries can be quite dense and filled with technical jargon, but that AI features needed to be cleared labeled as such and that users needed an easy to way to flag issues with “machine-generated/remixed content once it was published or generated automatically.”
In one experiment where summaries were enabled for users who have the Wikipedia browser extension installed, the generated summary showed up at the top of the article, which users had to click to expand and read. That summary was also flagged with a yellow “unverified” label.
An example of what the AI-generated summary looked like.
Wikimedia announced that it was going to run the generated summaries experiment on June 2, and was immediately met with dozens of replies from editors who said “very bad idea,” “strongest possible oppose,” Absolutely not,” etc.“Yes, human editors can introduce reliability and NPOV [neutral point-of-view] issues. But as a collective mass, it evens out into a beautiful corpus,” one editor said. “With Simple Article Summaries, you propose giving one singular editor with known reliability and NPOV issues a platform at the very top of any given article, whilst giving zero editorial control to others. It reinforces the idea that Wikipedia cannot be relied on, destroying a decade of policy work. It reinforces the belief that unsourced, charged content can be added, because this platforms it. I don't think I would feel comfortable contributing to an encyclopedia like this. No other community has mastered collaboration to such a wondrous extent, and this would throw that away.”
A day later, Wikimedia announced that it would pause the launch of the experiment, but indicated that it’s still interested in AI-generated summaries.
“The Wikimedia Foundation has been exploring ways to make Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects more accessible to readers globally,” a Wikimedia Foundation spokesperson told me in an email. “This two-week, opt-in experiment was focused on making complex Wikipedia articles more accessible to people with different reading levels. For the purposes of this experiment, the summaries were generated by an open-weight Aya model by Cohere. It was meant to gauge interest in a feature like this, and to help us think about the right kind of community moderation systems to ensure humans remain central to deciding what information is shown on Wikipedia.”
“It is common to receive a variety of feedback from volunteers, and we incorporate it in our decisions, and sometimes change course,” the Wikimedia Foundation spokesperson added. “We welcome such thoughtful feedback — this is what continues to make Wikipedia a truly collaborative platform of human knowledge.”
“Reading through the comments, it’s clear we could have done a better job introducing this idea and opening up the conversation here on VPT back in March,” a Wikimedia Foundation project manager said. VPT, or “village pump technical,” is where The Wikimedia Foundation and the community discuss technical aspects of the platform. “As internet usage changes over time, we are trying to discover new ways to help new generations learn from Wikipedia to sustain our movement into the future. In consequence, we need to figure out how we can experiment in safe ways that are appropriate for readers and the Wikimedia community. Looking back, we realize the next step with this message should have been to provide more of that context for you all and to make the space for folks to engage further.”
The project manager also said that “Bringing generative AI into the Wikipedia reading experience is a serious set of decisions, with important implications, and we intend to treat it as such, and that “We do not have any plans for bringing a summary feature to the wikis without editor involvement. An editor moderation workflow is required under any circumstances, both for this idea, as well as any future idea around AI summarized or adapted content.”
The Editors Protecting Wikipedia from AI Hoaxes
WikiProject AI Cleanup is protecting Wikipedia from the same kind of misleading AI-generated information that has plagued the rest of the internet.Emanuel Maiberg (404 Media)
This is — and I cannot stress this enough — a real government website
Trump Card - Pathway to American Citizenship
The opportunity to live in the Greatest Country, THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, with the largest economy in the World, is here.Trump Card - Pathway to American Citizenship
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"dictator sells access to failed democracy"
If a democrat did this, the democrats would want that person impeached..
but conservatives are over here just licking trumps asshole
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Danish Ministry Replaces Windows and Microsoft Office with Linux and LibreOffice
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The Danish Ministry of Digitization is to completely abandon Microsoft in the coming months and use Linux instead of Windows and switch from Office 365 to LibreOffice. Minister Caroline Stage (Moderaterne) announced this in an interview with the daily newspaper Politiken. It comes just a few days after the country's two largest municipalities initiated similar steps. This summer, half of the ministry's employees will be equipped with Linux and LibreOffice. If everything goes as expected, the entire ministry will be free of Microsoft by the fall, Politiken summarizes.
The Ministry of Digitalization's move away from Microsoft is therefore taking place against the backdrop of a new digitalization strategy in which the Kingdom's "digital sovereignty " is given priority. According to newspaper reports, the opposition is also calling for a reduction in dependence on US tech companies. Just a few days ago, the administration of the capital Copenhagen announced its intention to review the use of Microsoft software. The second-largest municipality, Aarhus, has already started to replace Microsoft services. Stage has now told Politiken that they should cooperate and that it is not a race. All municipalities should work together and strengthen open source.
When asked how her ministry would react if the changeover was not so easy, Stage replied that they would then simply return to the old system for a transitional period and seek other options: "We won't get any closer to the goal if we don't start." So far, she has only heard from employees who welcome the move. But in her ministry, which is mainly concerned with digitalization, she expects a lot of interest anyway. She also assured them that the initiative is not about Microsoft alone, as they are generally far too dependent on a few providers.
As background to the move, the article also refers to the events at the International Criminal Court, where an email account operated by Microsoft was disconnected. This caused an uproar across Europe. In Denmark, there is also the fact that the new US President Donald Trump has been announcing for weeks that his country wants to take over Greenland. The island in the North Atlantic is a self-governing part of Denmark, and the outrage at Trump's proposal is huge. The desire to reduce dependence on US companies is therefore evidently even greater there than in the rest of Europe.
Microsoft: Kein Mail-Block für IStGH, startet europäisches Sicherheitsprogramm
Microsoft dementiert, Dienste für den Internationalen Strafgerichtshof eingestellt zu haben. Das Unternehmen startet ein europäisches Sicherheitsprogramm.Stefan Krempl (heise online)
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Again.
Every few years we hear a nations gov say this. Them m$ makes a deal to good to be true. And it all resets.
It's basically become an accounting trick for national govs.
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Microsoft will offer to build a big data warehouse there then.
For m$ it is very much about not having a big gov org successfully moved over. As then corps may consider it.
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They like to settle here, because they can get cheap renewable energy, which they then use as part of their ~~advertising~~ propaganda to claim they are working for a greener environment, when in reality it's Denmark that has made the investments in the infrastructure for it since the 70's to make it possible.
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So fucked that microsoft has the excess funds to do something like that.
I guess all the prices they were charging for their products weren't necessary after all.
True enough but we’re pretty serious about this shit in DK.
I’ll give them a call to make sure.
Tech support. Knowing you have available staff who understand how to fix issues. And will take responsibility
These are always the questions that sell commercial software over os to big corporations.
Anyone who has ever worked in a big corp recognises the arguments even if they disagree.
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We are just among the first to have decided to begin implementing it.
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A little while ago I met someone whose job is to worry about international affairs and they were worried about operating systems.
After that I started worrying about every end user device in Ukraine shutting down until peace was negotiated.
From Trust to Threat: Hijacked Discord Invites Used for Multi-Stage Malware Delivery
- Check Point Research uncovered an active malware campaign exploiting expired and released Discord invite links. > - Attackers hijacked the links through vanity link registration, allowing them to silently redirect users from trusted sources to malicious servers.
- The attackers combined the ClickFix phishing technique, multi-stage loaders, and time-based evasions to stealthily deliver AsyncRAT, and a customized Skuld Stealer targeting crypto wallets.
- Payload delivery and data exfiltration occur exclusively via trusted cloud services such as GitHub, Bitbucket, Pastebin, and Discord, helping the operation blend into normal traffic and avoid raising alarms.
The operation continues to evolve, and threat actors can now bypass Chrome’s App Bound Encryption (ABE) by using adapted tools like ChromeKatz to steal cookies from new Chromium browser versions.
The Discord Invite Loop Hole Hijacked for Attacks - Check Point Research
Learn how Discord's invite links are hijacked and reused to redirect users to harmful servers in place of trusted communitiesalexeybu (Check Point Research)
From Trust to Threat: Hijacked Discord Invites Used for Multi-Stage Malware Delivery
- Check Point Research uncovered an active malware campaign exploiting expired and released Discord invite links. > - Attackers hijacked the links through vanity link registration, allowing them to silently redirect users from trusted sources to malicious servers.
- The attackers combined the ClickFix phishing technique, multi-stage loaders, and time-based evasions to stealthily deliver AsyncRAT, and a customized Skuld Stealer targeting crypto wallets.
- Payload delivery and data exfiltration occur exclusively via trusted cloud services such as GitHub, Bitbucket, Pastebin, and Discord, helping the operation blend into normal traffic and avoid raising alarms.
The operation continues to evolve, and threat actors can now bypass Chrome’s App Bound Encryption (ABE) by using adapted tools like ChromeKatz to steal cookies from new Chromium browser versions.
The Discord Invite Loop Hole Hijacked for Attacks - Check Point Research
Learn how Discord's invite links are hijacked and reused to redirect users to harmful servers in place of trusted communitiesalexeybu (Check Point Research)
Former Trump supporter Pamela Hemphill refuses and returns her Jan. 6 pardon
Former Trump supporter Pamela Hemphill refuses and returns her Jan. 6 pardon
Pamela Hemphill of Idaho is one of the more than 1,500 people whom Mr. Trump pardoned earlier this year for their roles in the U.S. Capitol Insurrection.Scott MacFarlane (CBS News)
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I thought presidential pardons were absolute with no oversight. How can a congressman help block a pardon?
Also, can you refuse a pardon? I was also under the impression that the president signs a pardon and that’s the end of it.
I guess tomorrow will be looking for refused pardons
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Burdick v. US.
A reporter was ordered to divulge a source. Reporter refused, on 5th amendment grounds.
Reporter was given a blanket pardon. Government argued that because the reporter could not be convicted regardless of what they said, the reporter was compelled to testify and name the source.
SCOTUS said that accepting a pardon was tantamount to an admission of guilt. The reporter could refuse the pardon, maintain their claim of innocence, and continue to exercise their 5th amendment right against self incrimination.
Yes, you can refuse a pardon.
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IAEA an 'instrument for Israel,' secret documents seized by Iran reveal
The documents prove that “Iran’s official and confidential letters to the IAEA – containing sensitive information – were channeled to the espionage agencies of the Zionist regime through covert conduits,” the report added.
The report also notes that several top Iranian nuclear scientists ended up getting assassinated due to their names being disclosed by the IAEA.
IAEA an 'instrument for Israel,' secret documents seized by Iran reveal
Iranian media says the documents show that Tehran’s confidential letters to the IAEA were passed on to Israelthecradle.co
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RFK Jr. appoints high-profile Covid shot skeptic to vaccine committee
Robert Malone shared several COVID conspiracy theories during a controversial appearance on Joe Rogan's podcast at the height of the pandemic.
Robert Malone, one of the eight new members named by Health and Human Services Secretary RFK Jr. on Wednesday to serve on the committee tasked with advising the U.S. government on vaccines, has a long track record of sharing conspiracy theories about life-saving COVID shots.
Malone, a former mRNA researcher who also runs a blog on Substack with over 357,000 subscribers that he has used to spread COVID misinformation, gained prominence spreading baseless claims about the pandemic, including in an interview on Joe Rogan’s podcast in December 2021.
During the three-hour sitdown, Malone falsely suggested that former Joe Biden lied about being vaccinated for COVID while receiving his booster on live TV, and claimed that Israel, where over two-thirds of the population had received the vaccine, had a higher mortality rate than Gaza and the West Bank, which had lower vaccination rates, despite figures pointing to the contrary, according to The New York Times. He also drew a comparison between the country’s pandemic policies and medical experiments in Nazi Germany, and accused Dr. Anthony Fauci of hypnotizing a third of the U.S. population into believing his recommendations on COVID.
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Lion kills businessman at luxury safari lodge in Namibia after he stepped out of tent to use toilet
Lion kills businessman at luxury safari lodge in Namibia after he stepped out of tent to use toilet
The victim was camping with other tourists at the tented resort when the early morning tragedy unfolded, police said.CBS News
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Sounds like this person wasn't a trophy-hunting motherfucker like Donald Jr. or Eric or the fat fuck from Jimmy Johns. (And therefore, in my book, a genuine tragedy.)
Still, when nature can't feed itself (and the article states food is depleted due to drought) animals can and will attack humans. This was the risk he took.
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If that's true, then he deserves it.
*EDIT: I love that people will say 'hey, read up before forming an opinion', and just ignore that I'm literally not forming an opinion and acknowledging it's because I don't know. This is very unreasonable.
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What is the lowest wages/(wages+profits) (after all energy, taxes, transport, marketing costs are removed) ratio that workers should tolerate? I'd say a min of 70%, but OECD countries have slipped to 55%.
PS: Bear in mind that this microeconomic wage share links up with inequality macroeconomically. And inequality leads to the decay of democracies and rule of law (because with depressed wage share economic indicators you may still have great growth numbers, but if nobody feels it in their wallet, they go vote for the loudest village idiot)
I'm just writing this to be more constructive than the average tankie, but to also make it clear that the neoliberal approach to things has unintended social consequences that end up eating your pretty conceptions of markets, risk, investment and innovation and people are growing tired of it. FDR knew this, but nobody high up seems to care anymore about regulating these forces, because that would be "socialism".
You're saying that a man deserves to die by lion attack if he has money.
Lemmy is a cesspool sometimes.
False.
I'm saying a man deserves to die by lion attack if he robs people of their labor. Also, this is a hypothetical, as the first part of the sentence "if that's true" means we're discussing a hypothetical and not expressing an opinion on this specific case.
...not that I'd expect random folks on Lemmy to understand nuance, and maybe don't simply make things up and put words in other people's mouths while you're at it. Thank you.
I mean, do you HAVE to be wealthy to do a safari camp out thing?
Looks like the nice spots (not in a tent) are around N$ 4,030.
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$225. US.
So I could stay at a Namibian resort for 8 days for $2,000. That's not like Bezos money or anything. The airfare would likely cost more.
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It can get expensive obviously, but you can also do it for a reasonable cost. Like almost any other holiday to a foreign country.
Some luxury camps are well over $1000US a night even in the offseason. But there are also many to choose from that aren’t nearly that much. If moving around, you could fly between camps, but you can also drive. It’s up to you. There are many youtube videos about it.
And as you’ve stated, the airfare itself is something to contend with if traveling to the other side of the planet.
Not at all. Especially in Namibia.
Edit: if there wasn't an en suite bathroom attached to the tent, its not fancy. En suite tents are absolutely a thing.
Source: lived in southern Africa for a while, did a lot of sketchy car camping that included many, many opportunities to be killed on the way to the toilet at 2:00am.
Big jump to conclusions here.
Can the guy not run an honest business make money? It looks like he started a business in Namibia that rented and sold 4x4s and other Safari stuff and that he donated a significant amount of money to wildlife preservation, specifically and ironically to protect the lion population.
I have no idea how wealthy he was, but he wasn't billionaire class, and has a solid track record. Perhaps more info will come out, but it's super shitty to say that someone got wealthy on the backs of other with nothing to back it up.
Everything I'm finding on the guy is that he was a big philanthropist that has dedicated a good portion of his life to defending Lions and nature. Unless you've got something better than, "hur dur, wealthy man got killed . Good", then your just an asshole.
In the grand scheme of things, we're all animals.
Push any of us far enough, starve us enough, etc.
This is why we have self-defense laws. It is inherently understandable that under duress a person (or lion) will act outside of their usual nature to secure food, shelter, or safety.
That being said, this is no way in defense of any mass-shooter types. There is a difference between self-defense and mass-murder.
According to the Daily Mail, Kebbel was a philanthropist who supported wildlife conservation in Namibia...
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Why are all the comments defending him having money? The article has nothing about that, and the "luxury" part of the article isn't about his wealth. It's about a fancy resort not being secure. And "safari lodge" does not mean "hunting lodge"
Are there tons of hidden comments I'm missing? Are people preemptively assuming comments will complain? Or is everyone's reading comprehension that bad?
First off, lions rarely attack humans. Most notable repeat cases have been found to have been the result of a tooth abbess that makes it hard for the lion to hunt its usual prey. This was likely just bad timing, and a lion hanging around a camp waiting for interested prey like warthogs to also be interested in food scraps.
If the tent didn't have a full bathroom attached, then this wasn't "luxury." Full stop. Even an en suite bathroom attached to the tent doesn't cross the line into "luxury" at some camps. But that doesn't mean they won't spray "luxury" all over the website of any camp with mattresses and a lodge restaurant to justify the upcharge.
Next, he was a local, staying in an elevated tent, likely on top of his car. I doubt he paid more than $20 a night got there stay.
As for all you people saying "well good" because he was a "businessman" keep in mind that the media simplifies things like a person's whole life into a word, and would do the same to you. He owned an Off Road Centre, a place that kits out 4x4s for exactly the kind of thing he was doing, camping on the Skeleton Coast. That being said, being a person of British descent in Namibia that was a young adult during the Apartheid era....eesh.
If you feel you MUST hate this person, that's your only real avenue and you all don't even understand that. Hate will consume you, and makes you stupid. Maybe try not being a dick and accepting this is clickbait with limited detail because of only contains enough info to piss you off.
Yeah, it's listed on their wiki as a possible reason.
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Suffocating a struggling zebra requires a healthy song jaw and teeth. One wrong tooth starts to hurt and suddenly the lion can't hunt large prey anymore. Humans are very easy to kill relative to usual lion prey, so we're the blended ham and peas at the nursing home.
You're saying that being angry makes it acceptable to be stupid as well. That being downtrodden not only doesn't offer the opportunity to be smart about it, that instead the oppressed can't be free to do much other than be hateful assholes.
Cool. Cool cool cool. Was that already written inside your MAGA hat from a factory in China? Or did you have to write it in there next to your own name so you didn't forget that either?
Edit: the last part is slight /s since I know you don't really mean that, but its a slippery slope.
Man, I really wish I could afford to go on a safari like that ... if it's not clear, I mean the safari that lion had, I wanna join on the side of lions.
Similarly with the orca yachting.
UK 'currently' training Israeli soldiers on UK soil, Labour Government admits
UK 'currently' training Israel soldiers on UK soil, Labour admit
The UK is hosting and training soldiers from the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) despite allegations that the military is engaged in genocide in…Xander Elliards (The National)
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Labour government.
Labour.
This is supposed to be a government of the working class?
Does the working class support genocide?
Mount Etna eruption live: Huge volcano eruption in Italy sends tourists fleeing
‘Mount Etna is erupting, look!’ Tourists flee as volcano spews ash and lava
Video showed dozens running down the mountain but officials said it posed no widespread dangerRachel Clun (The Independent)
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It looks like CNN has video:
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At least some of that has to be sped up to fit in the short clip, though.
EDIT: Ah, yeah, the part I'm thinking of does mention that it's timelapse.
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Influenciadora Laura Sabino sobrevive a tentativa de assassinato e sofre ataques nas redes
Influenciadora Laura Sabino sobrevive a tentativa de assassinato
Voz conhecida da esquerda na internet, a estudante Laura Sabino recebeu mensagens de ódio antes da tentativa de feminicídioAmanda Audi (Agência Pública)
Universal Studios, Disney sue AI company Midjourney over copyright claims
Disney and Universal Studios have filed a lawsuit against artificial intelligence company Midjourney, alleging copyright violations of their intellectual property.
The movie studios claim Midjourney, a popular subscriber-based interface that generates AI images from text prompts, has trained its AI models on their intellectual property and creates images featuring their famous characters.
For example, according to the lawsuit, if a Midjourney subscriber submits a simple text prompt requesting an image of the character Darth Vader in a particular setting or doing a particular action, Midjourney generates a high-quality, downloadable image featuring Disney’s copyrighted Darth Vader character.
How will the space race affect our environment? (Video 25mins)
In recognition of World Environment Day, we examine the environmental toll of the new space race and what’s at stake as climate change accelerates here on Earth. Billionaires are racing to conquer the cosmos, launching hundreds of rockets yearly for exploration and profit. But the cost to our planet is mounting. Are we turning our backs on the planet we still call home?
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How will the space race affect our environment?
In this episode of The Stream, we explore how the race to conquer space will affect the world’s environment.Al Jazeera
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In North Korea, your phone secretly takes screenshots every 5 minutes for government surveillance
A smartphone smuggled out of North Korea is offering a rare – and unsettling – glimpse into the extent of control Kim Jong Un's regime exerts over its citizens, down to the very words they type. While the device appears outwardly similar to any modern smartphone, its software reveals a far more oppressive reality.
The phone was featured in a BBC video, which showed it powering on with an animated North Korean flag waving across the screen. While the report did not specify the brand, the design and user interface closely resembled those of a Huawei or Honor device.
It's unclear whether these companies officially sell phones in North Korea, but if they do, the devices are likely customized with state-approved software designed to restrict functionality and facilitate government surveillance.
One of the more revealing – and darkly amusing – features was the phone's automatic censorship of words deemed problematic by the state. For instance, when users typed oppa, a South Korean term used to refer to an older brother or a boyfriend, the phone automatically replaced it with comrade. A warning would then appear, admonishing the user that oppa could only refer to an older sibling.
Typing "South Korea" would trigger another change. The phrase was automatically replaced with "puppet state," reflecting the language used in official North Korean rhetoric.
Then came the more unsettling features. The phone silently captured a screenshot every five minutes, storing the images in a hidden folder that users couldn't access. According to the BBC, authorities could later review these images to monitor the user's activity.
The device was smuggled out of North Korea by Daily NK, a Seoul-based media outlet specializing in North Korean affairs. After examining the phone, the BBC confirmed that the censorship mechanisms were deeply embedded in its software. Experts say this technology is designed not only to control information but also to reinforce state messaging at the most personal level.
Smartphone usage has grown in North Korea in recent years, but access remains tightly controlled. Devices cannot connect to the global internet and are subject to intense government surveillance.
The regime has reportedly intensified efforts to eliminate South Korean cultural influence, which it views as subversive. So-called "youth crackdown squads" have been deployed to enforce these rules, frequently stopping young people on the streets to inspect their phones and review text messages for banned language.
Some North Korean escapees have shared that exposure to South Korean dramas or foreign radio broadcasts played a key role in their decision to flee the country. Despite the risks, outside media continues to be smuggled in – often via USB sticks and memory cards hidden in food shipments. Much of this effort is supported by foreign organizations.
In North Korea, your phone secretly takes screenshots every 5 minutes for government surveillance
The phone was featured in a BBC video, which showed it powering on with an animated North Korean flag waving across the screen. While the report did...Zo Ahmed (TechSpot)
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Shhh don't tell them that American Corporations have been doing that for years.
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Your phone isn’t secretly listening to you, but the truth is more disturbing
Last year a longstanding conspiracy was reignited, telling the tale of how your smartphone is listening to your conversations and delivering targeted ads, but it still isn't true and the way you actually get your ads is much more unsettling.Rich Haridy (New Atlas)
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Out of over 17,000 Android apps examined, more than 9,000 had potential permissions to take screenshots. And a number of apps were found to actively be doing so, taking screenshots and sending them to third-party sources.
this is a weird paragraph. no permission is needed for an app to take screenshots of itself. all apps can do that.
just an example: the Element matrix client has a bugreport feature that allows you to submit an automatically created screenshot of the previous menu.
it seems there are several ways to accomplish this: stackoverflow.com/questions/26…
Do those code snippets on the Stackoverflow post allow you to capture the entire screen regardless of which app is open, or do they only allow you to capture the app the code is running in?
Capturing the app itself makes sense (for things like bug reports) but does Android really let any app capture whatever is on the screen?
The one time I do connect the TV to the internet is when there's a firmware update that fixes an issue I'm encountering. That's rare though.
I still have it on my network so I can control it using Home Assistant (eg have a backlight come on and dim the main lights when the TV is turned on) but it's on an isolated VLAN.
Although I dislike recall as much as anyone else, this is quite a bit worse.
From the article:
Then came the more unsettling features. The phone silently captured a screenshot every five minutes, storing the images in a hidden folder that users couldn't access. According to the BBC, authorities could later review these images to monitor the user's activity.
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For sure. But at least those images aren't kept in a secret location where users can't see or delete them. Even if Recall makes this harder, there's a meaningful difference here.
That said, neither one is doing you any privacy favors...
Sure, but at least from a technical POV those screenshots are accessible to the users, can be deleted/manipulated and the user is not forced to have the feature enabled
Better than recall. No need for special hardware like an NPU, nor does it keep asking you to sign in.
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frequently stopping young people on the streets to inspect their phones and review text messages for banned language
I'm really tired of people saying "both sides are the same" when it comes to western capitalist exploitation vs eastern totalitarian authoritarianism.
It's ironically so privileged to even make the comparison because if it were the same, you wouldn't have been allowed to make this comment.
I didn't say both sides are the same. I made a stupid joke about a garbage operating system and the garbage company that runs it.
And your example of stopping people on the streets to inspect their phones doesn't really do a great job at making the argument you're trying to make. We have ICE running around and throwing people into contracted prisons even when they have proof of citizenship. We are trafficking people to foreign concentration camps. We are rocketing at light speed to a techno fascist authoritarian state and the level of surveillance we are under is increasing at a mind boggling pace.
So we aren't the same, and the people currently in charge are striving to make the differences smaller every day.
In addition to your point, literally just two days ago I saw an article about a Texas sheriff running a search through a nation-wide network of license plate readers to track down a woman suspected of having an abortion.
Oh OK they didn't stop her on the street, they just queried the panopticon system that tracked her movement as much as possible. Want to protest a genocide your state and university are sponsoring? Sorry, MIT will muzzle you and now you are now forbidden from giving the commencement address. Wouldn't want to offend the dear leader in the white house.
I'd rather live in NK then in Gaza: the West loves to create hellholes, and the US has the most prisoners of any country on earth so calling it a 'free society' is pretty rich.
More to the point, if any Western country had done to it what NK had done to it by the West during the Korean war, it would turn into a brutal basket case far worse then anything NK could imagine. Things like 9/11 and October 7 turn Westerners into frothing omnicidal maniacs, and those are completely negligible in scope compared to what the west has done to other countries, including Korea.
if it were the same, you wouldn’t have been allowed to make this comment.
It works both ways. Is OP allowed to make the comment because he is more priviliged or because he has less power and is less of a threat?
Remember the McCarthy era. There can be more restrictions if needed.
One of the more revealing – and darkly amusing – features was the phone’s automatic censorship of words deemed problematic by the state.
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I think that's the link to the video?
Seems like it's part of a longer video...
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Hhmmm here is a slightly longer video that doesn't really add anything
Actual edit:
I genuinely couldn't find a better source video
.ml admins and Tankies: "something something THATS JUST WESTERN LIES something NK is actually THE GOOD GUYS something something ITS JUST TO KEEP OUT WESTERN PROPAGANDAAAAA"
... How do you people think your stock mobile OS keyboard 'learns' how to better autocorrect to your manner of typing?
Do ya'll think that data is not available, for sale, to any business or agency that will pay for it?
If I read somewhere correctly, they're also the first to open source their swipe dataset:
huggingface.co/datasets/futo-o…
You can also contribute and help out with their dataset here:
swipe.futo.org/
It’s literally propaganda. For some reason I subjected myself to watching the BBC video that the article referenced and screenshotting the Korean text that the BBC video purports is autocorrecting terms in real time. Below are the findings
The only (half) correct claims they make are the “South Korea” and “comrade” translations, but they could just have set the autocorrect in the phone’s settings for each and every word in this video, before making it lmfao
Completely baseless claims and frankly pathetic attempt. Crazy how this shit spreads like wildfire
<br />Based on the provided files, here's the translation analysis:
1. **IMG_0283.png:**
South Korea
남한 | 1
### Translation Analysis:
1. **Korean Text**: `남한` (pronounced "Nam-han")
- **Literal Translation**:
- `남` = "South"
- `한` = Short for "한국" (Hanguk), meaning "Korea"
- **Correct Translation**: **"South Korea"**
2. **English Caption**:
The English text `South Korea` **perfectly matches** the Korean term `남한`.
3. **Additional Note**:
The `| 1` appears to be a separator and numerical indicator (e.g., a menu/item number), **not part of the translation**.
### Conclusion:
✅ **Yes, the English translation is 100% correct.**
- `남한` is the standard Korean term for "South Korea" (contrasted with `북한` for "North Korea").
### Extra Context:
- While `대한민국` (Daehan Minguk) is the formal/official name ("Republic of Korea"), `남한` is the universally used shorthand in daily language and media.
2. **IMG_0282.png:**
* Korean Word: **동지** (dong-ji) - Found in the `[file content begin]` section near the bottom ("Comrade / 동지").
* English Caption: **Comrade**
* Caption Correct? **Yes**. "동지" (dong-ji) directly translates to "Comrade". It's a term often used in socialist/communist contexts or historically in leftist movements in Korea.
3. **IMG_0281.png:**
* Korean Word: **동지** (dong-ji) - Found under "Comrade".
* English Caption: **Comrade**
* Caption Correct? **Yes**. (Same translation as above).
4. ** Based on the content in **IMG_0284.jpeg**:
Puppet state
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과뢰지역
### Translation Analysis:
1. **Korean Text**: `과뢰지역`
- This appears to be a **misspelling** of the correct term `괴뢰 지역` (goe-roe ji-yeok).
- `괴뢰` = "puppet" (referring to a politically controlled entity)
- `지역` = "region" or "area"
- **Correct Translation**: **"Puppet region"** or **"Puppet state"** (contextually equivalent).
2. **English Caption**:
`Puppet state` is **semantically correct** but not a literal translation.
- The Korean term specifies "region" (`지역`), not "state" (`국가`).
3. **Accuracy Assessment**:
- ⚠️ **Conceptually Similar**: The core meaning ("puppet regime/entity") is somewhat conveyed.
- ⚠️ **Terminology Nuance**:
- A stricter translation would be "puppet region" (less common in English).
### Conclusion:
**The English caption is functionally correct** for real-world usage, though it slightly generalizes the Korean term. The minor spelling error (`과뢰` → `괴뢰`) doesn’t affect the meaning.
### Additional Notes:
- The correct Korean spelling is **`괴뢰`**, not `과뢰` (likely a typo).
- In historical/political contexts (e.g., Korean War), "괴뢰 정권" (puppet regime) or "괴뢰 국가" (puppet state) are commonly used.
**Summary of Korean Words & Translations:**
* The *only* Korean word appearing in the provided files is **동지** (dong-ji).
* Its English caption, **Comrade**, is **correct**.
well, I don't have anything to hide. Do you?
edit: because the sarcasm was lost on some, I am not advocating for this message.
I am mocking it.
At least you can choose not to use their services.
I guess a smart phone would be a luxury item in NK. So one could chose not to use one instead of being tracked?
In Germany the government and police use the word Quellentelekommunikationsüberwachung (telecommunication source surveillance) when they express their desire to have a Trojan on someone's phone - to protect the children of course.
So the phenomenon is not unknown outside of NK.
Edit: fixed translation, thanks Muehe
use the word Quellentelekommunikationsüberwachung
Yeah, right, as if that can be used by humans, or if it's even a word.
No hardware documentation whatsoever. We don't know what registers and instructions exist at the lowest levels.
As far as I am aware, there is no way to totally shut off and verify all cellular connections made, like to pass all traffic through a logged filter.
There is certainly validity in the concept that no known instance of exploitation exists. However that is only anecdotal. The potential exists. Naïve trust in others has a terrible track record on these scales of ethics. Every instruction and register should be fully documented for every product sold.
An adequate webp image is only a few tens of kilobytes. Most people now have a bridged connection between their home network and cellular, unless they go out of their way to block it. Periodic screenshots are rather crazy. It would be much easier to target specific keywords and patterns.
I'd be interested in how this documenting could be done. If you're a manufacturer, you'd probably want to keep everything secret - except what's needed for a patent for example - otherwise the competition might get an idea of the proprietary things you make in house.
I mean I'm all for it, I just don't see it happening unless under very strict regulations.
Well are we putting people in prison with the help of them? A secret screenshot folder nobody can exploit isn't very useful ...
Not saying it can't be done (you are of course right there), we hand it over freely often, but that the implications are not death to your family.
You dont have to bring them to court with it for it to be useful. It could be used to target individuals then they use more conventional methods of evidence gathering to arrest.
I would guess they arent currently doing it enmasse because that doesnt sound useful either. I would say, solely on a vibes based level its been done by US intelligence. Its really not so different than a wiretap.
Developed by Xerox and Canon in the mid-1980s, the existence of these tracking codes became public only in 2004.
This isn't really up to China, NK won't listen because it's not really up to them either. Most authoritarians would love to scale the repression down, but you can only do it while political and economic climate is right (without losing your power and your head)
If you signal to your citizens that they can speak more freely, the first thing out of their mouths will be Hey why did you do that fucked up thing?
Thus, you can "loosen the bolts" only when you are safe in your position of power and don't mind a few concessions to the masses. "Yes we overstepped a few lines, but it was all the fault of this one bad man and also look at all this bread we have now!"
This is why authoritarian countries usually have "seasons".
Yes, it's also that authoritarian leaders grow plenty of friends and relatives who'd done really fucked up things. It's not in their control to just do the oppression legally and possibly to explain (as in "it was such a time", "those were imperfect measures and we've found a better way"), if they don't do serial murder\rape and drugs trade and racket and theft, someone of their surroundings will.
That's probably also why western political climates are slowly becoming more authoritarian - it's the same mechanism, just much smaller and slower. Maybe it's not drugs\murders\theft, but it's gray legal area tax evasion, suppose. Then after a few years it's something a bit worse, and so on, gradually.
Like it's impossible to make an eternal engine, it's impossible to make a political system without this.
Yep, confunding dictatorships with google, sweeping Kim's regimes horrors under the mat.
It's almost like yes we have problems in our democracies but being put in prison because you don't want to starve to death isn't really on the list for us.
And just read , or maybe you do not think of homeless as people ?
but being put in prison because you don’t want to starve to death
That is the main reason people are in prison in the West, you're just privileged.
Oh yes the main reason people are in western prisons is because ... They do not want to starve to death.
Are you an AI bot just reversing comments?
Most crime in the West is driven by poverty, yes. So unless you're saying that NK literally convicts people for the formal, on the books crime of "not wanting to starve", then it's the same principle.
But I assume you already know you're wrong, based on the fact you're bringing out the personal attacks
A state that sees it’s citizens as a threat is broken by design
there are very few places in the world where this doesn't apply
and needs to be ~~changed~~ fixed
by whom?
Sure does. There's not one in history that worked out long term.
Usually by the citizens.
While the report did not specify the brand, the design and user interface closely resembled those of a Huawei or Honor device.It’s unclear whether these companies officially sell phones in North Korea, but if they do, the devices are likely customized with state-approved software designed to restrict functionality and facilitate government surveillance.
I remember watching a series of Youtube videos by a guy working in the diplomatic department of a Southeast Asian country who I can't name, and he took videos while on the sly, his camera (or phone) hidden carefully, showing some glimpses of life in Pyongyang. At one point he and his wife visited the government-run department store and, yeah, it's pretty much a drab place to be there, you'll be only buying necessities. However, there's the special section where certain types of people such as high officials and foreigners are allowed to buy electronics, mostly with hard currency, and the merchandise included smartphones, all of them looked to be Chinese brands.
Yes, Google's code processes every touch, they wrote Android after all, so you are technically correct.
Is it all being sent somewhere from every Android device? Of course not, that's ridiculous. Individual apps might have various levels of usage analytics though.
Yes, I'm sure he's angry people are diluting the invigilation he exposed by coming up with fake ones all the time, and making people think it's not worth fighting it anymore.
Do you have something constructive to say? Did you read an interesting article about a new type of tracking by a security researcher? Maybe you ran your own network capture and found something previously unknown? Great, let's share that and learn how to block it.
Do you just wave your hands around and say that Google knows everything about you at all times using all Android devices, through unspecified means based on your gut feeling? Then that's not constructive and is just spreading helplessness.
Oh Google logs and collect all taps on the screen? I'd love to know through which system service that happens, how the data leaves the device, to which servers is it going, which devices are affected by this, and how we can disable it. Oh you made it up and actually there are no details? Right.
I don't have the time right now to addeess all of this, but:
Device interactions can be used to identify users, predict and manipulate their behaviour, contribute to further identification measures etc..
Furthermore my point was that there are many reasons to be cautious about any type of data collection and processing. Saying a specific type would be ridiculous undermines the possible dangers stemming from this. Therefore I wouldn't plainly discard these concerns.
Even if, in this context, the transmission is not widely noticed, this doesn't pose a universal guarantee, especially if this can be turned on on demand via backdoors, trojans or whatever. Even worse if the transmission can be hidden. (Less likely for very proficient users with extremely tight network monitoring & control, but that's rarely the case.)
I absolutely agree with you. What I'm arguing against is baseless FUD without any specifics, any sources, any details, and making extraodinary claims without extraordinary evidence. I didn't mean that the type of tracking is ridiculous, what I'm saying is ridiculous is the claim that Google is collecting the logs of EVERY touch on EVERY Android device. Does that claim even needs to be disproven?
- Is that happening on Chinese Android phones without any Google services?
- Is that happening on AOSP phones without Google services?
- Is that happening on GrapheneOS, on other custom ROMs?
- Is that happening on my washing machine that for some reason runs Android?
- Is that baked into the system? From which Android version? In a particular system app? Where can I see these logs of all touches for myself?
It is patently obvious it cannot be happening on EVERY Android device. And I'd welcome evidence that it's happening on even a SINGLE one. But I don't see it. Because it's made up hyperbole that's poisoning the discussion of real tracking.
Because your touches are tracked. But not system-wide, but in individual apps, by the individual developers, most of whom don't share the data with Google, only if you use these apps, and each developer can only track what's happening in their own app. Which is worth talking about, but it's hard when people are just making stuff up.
However, you can find it by navigating through your Google account settings.
Look for "Manage your data & privacy" > "History settings" > "Web & App Activity."
Yeah, good stuff to tell people about!
But "Google is tracking your every touch on any Android device" is very different from "Google saves a history of your Google searches, and some major actions in some Google apps".
Have you checked what's in it? Every action and touch is logged with all the details. Many people didn't even guess that such actions could be logged. It's like super spyware activity; it's very creepy. "Google is tracking your every touch on any Android device" - is exactly what it does.
I first noticed this issue around 2015, and I have been trying to disable it on every Android device since then. However, it re-enables itself from time to time. I have a few Google accounts, and it must be disabled on each one.
What I'm seeing, is that:
- it doesn't log all your touches, but some actions in some apps
- not on any Android device, but some device categories like smartphones
- only on those with Google services (no China devices for example)
- only with a Google account logged in
- only when that account has that feature turned on
That's already very far from every Android device, let alone every touch.
not on any Android device, but some device categories like smartphones
Hm, are there any categories? I didn't see any, but maybe they've added them already. They log whatever they can. Today it's smartphones and tablets, but tomorrow it could be other devices and other things to be logged and uploaded to Google, like screenshots. The problem is that it's done behind your back, and many people are unaware of this creepy activity.
By the way, if you did not disable the option to automatically upload all photos to the cloud, then manually taken screenshots are already uploaded. Many people are too busy to find and disable this option. And we're discussing North Korea here, LOL.
That's the difference between North Korea and the western world:
In North Korea the government forces spyware onto your device.
In the western world, people share their data voluntarily and publicly.
Instagram, Facebook, Dropbox and Co. made it possible.
There is no better regime than the West in this regard. Force things on people? You're gonna risk a revolt or dissent. 'Subtly' make people dependent on your product so they'll voluntarily use it and share everything with you while you 'subtly' control the algorithm in your favour? Now that's perfect. Social media is the ultimate tool of power and governance.
Although North Korea is a very "successful" oppressive regime, largely able to have full control over information both in and out of the country and to greatly limit desertion. I can't think of a "better" regime in this regard.
You're gonna cook up a crazy theory like that and not even mention big daddy capitalism?
edit: I was making a joke, it didn't land right. I agree with you, I probably wouldn't be on this website if I didn't.
Reminds me of that great joke -
::: spoiler A KGB agent and CIA agent meet up in a bar.
"I have to admit, I'm always so impressed by Soviet propaganda. You really know how to get people worked up," the CIA agent says.
"Thank you," the KGB says. "We do our best but truly, it's nothing compared to American propaganda. Your people believe everything your state media tells them."
The CIA agent drops his drink in shock and disgust. "Thank you friend, but you must be confused... There's no propaganda in America."
:::
::: spoiler Over analysis caveat of the joke
Of course it's not state media directly in the states, but the same billionaires who own the state own the media, so it turns out all to be the same thing in the end.
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Then you get these two madlads who go and find out..
The news clip commentary:
The full video:
Holy shit actual media criticism and analysis on North Korea. Never thought I'd see this day.
The little clip with the meta-commentary on news stories commenting about them was hilarious yet insightful, so I definitely have to watch the full documentary they're referencing (EDIT: especially if it's just the 20 minute video you linked. That's the full video? I thought I heard the word documentary so thought it would be longer).
It really is a shame, as accurate reporting enables their crimes to be documented better, and gives them less ammo on the world stage.
"How can we be mistreating our citizens? Remember when people said sarcasm was banned? Haircuts had to be approved and the same? How can you believe anything."
Documenting people/governments/coprorations for the things they've actually done is the most we can ask for. Making shit up on the fly for a quick buck is the death of truth. It just enables them to deflect everything and anything.
There's dozens of reasons to dislike/distrust North Korea. We don't need to make ones up.
It's a secret smart phone that was smuggled out of the country by the Top Spies in the "Going to N. Korea to ride the subway" YouTube gang. We sent in some of our stealthiest and most clandestined professional infiltrators. Real Navy Seals meets Mission Impossible type guys. And they came out of N. Korea with this cutting edge "phone that randomly takes pictures while its in your pocket" technology.
Using the country's state of the art telecommunications system and their cutting edge image processing technology, the Glorious Leader analyzes over 40 Zetabytes of information daily. This dragnet of highly accurate, insanely rigorous, and insidiously nefarious ultra-spyware is then handed over to a crack team of North Korean special agents who utilize their pre-crime tracing technology to break up hundreds of resistance cells every year, long before they can become a threat to the iron fisted communist regime.
It's the only explanation for why North Koreans haven't fully revolted and overthrown their despotic leadership. Juche Super-science keeps the rabble in line.
lemmygrad and hexbear users now scavenging for windows phones
Bill Gates is actually a based ally!
Oh yeah, have there been reports on this ?
(Not trying to shut you down, I'm genuinely curious)
Yeah, there have been various leaks over the years that trickle out. Supposedly they’ve banned companies from operating in the US for refusal to comply with backdoor demands (Hawei, Kaspersky), some reports of backdoors built right into both Intel & AMD processors, some vague stuff that’s come out about backdoors in Windows, etc. Even when the companies refuse to comply, there’s been reports of US intelligence going into factories or intercepting deliveries to install spy chips into hardware. I recall there was a local ISP provider somewhere in the mid-west that got shut down for refusing to install spy devices in their facilities.
Really a lot of this was confirmed as far back as Snowden. And plenty of whistleblowers and leaks since.
There's an extremely powerful backdoor in every processor/chipset. Intel named it "Management Engine" and AMD "Secure Technology".
From the Wikipedia page on Management Engine:
The ME has its own MAC and IP address for the out-of-band management interface, with direct access to the Ethernet controller; one portion of the Ethernet traffic is diverted to the ME even before reaching the host's operating system.
ME has Serial over LAN, so it's possible that attackers can have a more intimate access to your hardware than your Operating System.
I imagine other manufacturers have similar frameworks.
Sure, those could theoretically be used for backdoor access to your computer.
However, they are trivial to spot on most routers. If you see another device on the ethernet port that your computer connects to, then something weird is going on.
Another important consideration is the fact that those technologies are meant for ethernet, while most people use laptops with wifi.
Murena - deGoogled and privacy by design smartphones and cloud services.
Escape the digital surveillance now. We combine privacy by design smartphones with safe and transparent online services.Murena
didn't google just announce android was gonna do the same thing?
edit: it was microshaft.
Yep. Just like with reverse-engineering software and making unintented use of proprietary services, whistleblowing depends at nobody being able to threaten you with jail or worse.
Your country should have made it law when Watergate and such were still fresh in memory. To make such mechanisms not just "de facto", but "de jure" reality. Because any "de facto" either becomes "de jure" or vanishes without a trace.
EDIT: similar with "adversarial interop" CD was talking about
EDIT2: or Gutenberg and the printing press and the conflicts to ensue...
does anyone really think our freedom phones are far from this?
Maybe the western world can be given some credit on being a tad more subtle, but overall the difference here are in tecnique, not goals
Eh, they didn’t exactly paint it in a good light. It’s more like not laughing too much at the ordinary NK citizen’s big brother plight while the rest of us are being monitored constantly and much more real time.
The two situations are not the same, but the parallels show his we all deal with this crap in our own ways.
Tracking someone's history through screenshots sounds like a fucking nightmare for the person doing the searching.
It's evil, but also a PITA for the analyst.
But it does in the EU and similar laws exist in other countries. I can do nothing about the corruption in the states
Ps. it does exist in Amerika
Tell me you are blind to privilege without telling me you are blind to privilege...
I get what you are saying but claiming that Capitalism and the Free Market got you there is laughable.
A shit ton of people in the USA do not actually have a choice in carrier and choice of phone seriously depends on how rich you are, the spread is wide!
More importantly, how many people do you think have the tech knowledge (or access to pay) to get an open source OS in their phones?
“It Can’t Happen Here”
Unironically a good book about fascism happening in the US, and was written before 1984 and other dystopian novels that were largely reactionary to the USSR.
- North Korean Smartphone
- koryolink Arirang AS1201 (North Korea's Smartphone) - Review
In August 2024, security experts revealed code similar to NSO Pegasus were reused by Russia-linked agencies. They pointed out the uncontrolled proliferation of surveillance tools to authoritarian actors
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pegasus_…
Could the north Koreans have a copy of Pegasus (like) software/spyware through russia? Pegasus is a proven solution to spy on Saudi Arabia (and others) on ios™️ and android™️ devices.
70 Percent of Trump’s Cabinet Tied to Project 2025 Groups | More than 50 high-level Trump administration officials have links to groups behind the Heritage Foundation-backed plan
MAPPED: 70 Percent of Trump’s Cabinet Tied to Project 2025 Groups - DeSmog
More than 50 high-level Trump administration officials have links to groups behind the Heritage Foundation-backed plan, a DeSmog analysis found.Joe Fassler (DeSmog)
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what’s the point of this article? why should i read it when we’ve all known Trump lied about Project 2025 and who was behind it? and that he was loading his staff with the authors and true believers?
this is all such bullshit. across the board.
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This 2025 thing, are the contents of it public? Is it just more fascism all the way down, or are there some curveballs in there?
Signed european that has heard of it but don't know any of its content.
It's Christofascism. They published it way before the election, it was available as a free PDF for anyone to download and read, but where they really tricked us is they made it nearly 900 pages. The volume of it, coupled with the long-term assault on our education system which has produced a USA that reads at something like a 6th grade reading level as far as average adults go, and further enfuckened by our insanely short attention spans, means most of the people that voted in the Project 2025 administration had no idea what it contained.
Someone else already linked it, so I wont duplicate that, i just wanted to add some extra context around how we US Americans had literally every chance to learn what these fuckheads intended to do. But our collective ability to make informed decisions has been undermined by a concerted effort from the right to make us dumb as rocks.
They're not, they're lawful evil. Everything they do, everything they support, every last word that comes out of that place is carefully sculpted to cause suffering. If it seems like it might be ok, or even good, dig deeper - it's always horrible
But they're the opposite of terrorists - they don't disrupt order to meet political goals, they corrupt the law to bury the mass murder under layers of buracracy
Troops and marines deeply troubled by LA deployment: ‘Morale is not great’
Three different advocacy organisations representing military families said they had heard from dozens of affected service members who expressed discomfort about being drawn into a domestic policing operation outside their normal field of operations. The groups said they have heard no countervailing opinions.
“The sentiment across the board right now is that deploying military force against our own communities isn’t the kind of national security we signed up for,” said Sarah Streyder of the Secure Families Initiative, which represents the interests of military spouses, children and veterans.
people hold signs that read 'ice out of LA'
Families arrested in LA Ice raids held in basements with little food or water, lawyers say
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“Families are scared not just for their loved ones’ safety, although that’s a big concern, but also for what their service is being used to justify.”
Troops and marines deeply troubled by LA deployment: ‘Morale is not great’
Several service members told advocacy groups they felt like pawns in a political game and assignment was not necessaryAndrew Gumbel (The Guardian)
Pixelfed Uptick in Monthly Active Users
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I don't even use Pixelfed, but its growth is kind of interesting to me:
- its recent rise
- its subsequent plateau
- its (expected) ebbing
The ebb lasted a lot longer than I was rooting for. But now it seems to have caught a recent uptick. Still slight in terms of its maximum peak, but respectable: 47K Monthly Active Users. (about the same as the total number of MAUs on Lemmy!)
Furthermore, it's also reflected in the half-year Active Users, meaning it's not just people who signed in a couple months ago who are now checking back in -- looks like brand-new active participants.
Any idea what caused this? Another "migrate" campaign? Did Instagram do something stupid again? Or is it just a data glitch?
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only in theory
Pixelfed doesn't use groups/communities, so Lemmy cannot access their content since Lemmy can't follow users
(maybe you were thinking of PieFed? that's a different platform with a similar name lol)
I just tried and PieFed cannot access PixelFed posts. Mbin can do it.
Personally I don't mind the separation between some platforms, I'm fine with having 2 accounts. The UX is designed to work with the style of content anyways. But I know a lot of people want everything to work with everything.
Re: Pixelfed Uptick in Monthly Active Users
I would say that Pixelfed is closer to the microblog space than it is the threaded discussion space.
It's essentially microblogging except with an image media focus (or video, in the case of Loops.)
To each their own, some people communicate better using pictures, some better over short text, some better over long-form text. There's a space for them all :smile:
Maybe because Meta is going to use your photos and all the other shit you post to train their AI models.
I think they started doing this 2 days ago, it was in the news, here in Europe at least.
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I understood nothing you just said. Are you an alien from mars, who's almost learned english, but not quite?
Because if so......that's pretty impressive. But also, you should leave earth. Humans have been known to kill other humans for having a different skin color, or for believing in a different magical man in the sky. I can't imagine what they'd do to someone from another planet!
Earth is not tolerant of others.
I hosted social.photo, which was a Pixelfed instance.
I had an uptick in users when I started to consider shutting down the site. It was the reason, ultimately, I decided to shut down as soon as possible. The software is awful, and I don’t want to deal with the issues multiplied by growth.
I decided to announce a shutdown by posting and hoping people see it because you can’t make an announcement to users on Pixelfed out of the box. I know there is an admin interface for it, but it doesn’t work.
Afterward, many of my new users told me they came from other instances that shut down.
This trend could be a blip as users create new accounts to migrate as they did before from their previous accounts. I know there is a user interface for this, but it doesn’t work.
Or it could be the terrible spam filter that blocks real users and allows bots. So, real users aren’t there to report bots. This is compounded by an uptick in new hype instances. These are sometimes poorly moderated instances full of bots awaiting returning interest from their owners to get cleaned up or closed.
Or it’s real!
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Hey, sorry. I've been dealing with some ongoing personal stuff.
There are no clear release versions in the repository; all work is done in the mainline branch, called "dev". Therefore, you are not guaranteed to always use the same code as someone else on the same "version," which makes debugging issues difficult. I had to build my own Docker containers when I first started hosting it because the ones provided didn't work as expected. I've not tried them since. So, depending on your deployment process, this may not be an issue.
New releases are often buggy and break existing functionality. Feature releases are slow and seem unnecessary when core features are incomplete or not working. The developer is distracted by other projects.
There aren't any ways to communicate and create a community unless you force everyone to follow a specific account from the start of your instance. Funding is challenging and becomes expensive due to image storage and bandwidth usage.
I have other projects I contribute to; otherwise, I'd contribute to improve or fork Pixelfed. I want to reimplement many of the existing features.
Re: Pixelfed Uptick in Monthly Active Users
jgrim@discuss.online Pixelfed has no versioning? That's concerning that you have to live on the bleeding edge if you don't want to be outdated.
I do see there are tags, which at least shows some versioning?
FBI Wants Access To Encrypted iPhone And Android Data—So Does Europe
FBI Wants Access To Encrypted iPhone And Android Data—So Does Europe
The biggest threat to encryption yet — what to know.Forbes
This isn't a backdoor, the bureau says.
"It isn't a backdoor because we aren't calling it one. We named the backdoor Lawful Access, so it's that, not a backdoor."
Can't login on Photon or Tesseract
When I try to log in, I get the following errors.
Photon:
Your instance's API did not return your user data.
Tesseract:
Auth Error - Failed to fetch your user.
Not sure if anyone else faces the same issue.
No problem on the base ani.social or Voyager app btw.
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Huge Sahara dust cloud smothers the Caribbean en route to the U.S.
A massive cloud of dust from the Sahara Desert blanketed most of the Caribbean on Monday in the biggest event of its kind this year as it heads toward the United States.
The cloud extended some 3,200 kilometres from Jamaica to well past Barbados in the eastern Caribbean, and some 1,200 kilometres from the Turks and Caicos Islands in the northern Caribbean down south to Trinidad and Tobago.
"It's very impressive," said Alex DaSilva, lead hurricane expert with AccuWeather.
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Atom-Thin Tech Replaces Silicon in the World’s First 2D Computer
World’s first 2D, non-silicon computer developed | Penn State University
In a world first, a team led by researchers at Penn State used two-dimensional materials, which are only an atom thick and retain their properties at that scale, unlike silicon, to develop a computer capable of simple operations.www.psu.edu
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A promising start, but a thousand transistors at 25 kilohertz puts it where silicon tech was 60 years ago, so they've a long, long way to go.
If it scales, they can use modern tech and know-how to accelerate their progress and they can get funding, maybe this will be viable in a decade or so.
Former Biden official Matthew Miller : Israel has 'without doubt' committed war crimes in Gaza
Former Biden official Matthew Miller Israel has 'without doubt' committed war crimes in Gaza
In a wide-ranging interview for Sky News' Trump 100 podcast, Matthew Miller also said if he was "outside of government" he would have preferred a "better candidate" for the 2024 presidential election than Mr Biden.Mark Stone (Sky News)
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Matthew Miller also said if he was "outside of government" he would have preferred a "better candidate" for the 2024 presidential election than Mr Biden.
If it helps, you see, he was “in government” at the time so he had no choice but to be a shit eating sycophant who told the president whatever he thought he wanted to hear. Had he been outside government, and free from the shackles of his own cowardice, he would have preferred a better candidate. A patriot if ever I saw one.
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If it helps, you see, he was “in government” at the time so he had no choice but to be a shit eating sycophant who told the president whatever he thought he wanted to hear.
"Just following orders" is very famously not a defense for being complicit in a genocide
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Biden was the best president since Jimmy Carter and with Harris as the VP he'd still be doing a better job than what we have now.
Harris and Walz would be amazing but the voters decided Trump is the better choice.
He took the shitty situation that the country and world was in and turned it around.
He was not and he is not a piece of shit and Trump getting back in is squarely on the shoulders of the people who voted Trump in or decided not to vote.
The world and the country would be in a better place right now almost everywhere if he won again.
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Biden was and is shit for his role in the Gaza genocide alone.
And now things are worse there too.
Being a single issue voter on the Gaza topic just makes the world a worse place.
Usually if you agree with 80% of what someone does you call them an ally.
With some on the left if you don't agree with 99.9% of what they do then they're an enemy and it makes them useless as a political bloc.
No matter how tough the single issue is you've got to look at the full picture and make a choice from there which I have.
Biden is not a piece of shit and Trump is making the situation worse and the fault lays on people who voted for Trump or chose to stay home.
Biden is not a piece of shit
So someone who enables genocide is not, in your moral framework, a piece of shit. Full stop. Not even a "lesser evil" argument, just straight out not-evil.
Good that we've got that definitively stated.
This feels like talking to anti-abortionist.‘When the issue is killing babies there’s nothing to talk about.’
I just posted this but it's worth repeating.
Gotta draw the line somewhere, and the left decided that genocide is that hard line that under no circumstances should be crossed.
If you don't draw the line at genocide, then where exactly do you draw the line?
Does it matter how morally bankrupt the 20% is?
Asking before I pose any analogies you might think is unfair
Idk man. If, just as an example, Biden "shot someone in the middle of 5th avenue", i think it would be hubris to expect him not to lose any voters
You can call that 'purity testing' if you want, but I'd say that the expectation for it to have no effect is just wishful thinking.
This feels like talking to anti-abortionist.
'When the issue is killing babies there's nothing to talk about.'
There was two options because the majority of Americans decided so for being fine with a two party system for decade if not more than a century . You can't blame third party voters which even if they all voted for Harris she would still lost for wanting change
he would have been better now than Trump is.
For Americans yes, for Gaza not all all. Trump being vocal about ethnic cleansing plan make you think he is a lot worse but the USA was never going to oppose Israel. Facts on the group is that the USA been giving billions dollars to Israel and unlimited diplomatic support no matter who is in charge. Democrats can't keep saying over and over about how Biden was trying to hard to stop the war , it won't make it true when no real pressure was done with actions supporting it.
We already forgot about Bush war crimes and don't want it to happen again.
Don't think I will forget that trump continued support the genocide when he is out either.
There were two options because the US has a FPtP voting system that always devolves to a two party system. The American voters didn't decide to go two part as a whole, it was predetermined.
I can absolutely blame third party and non voters. Everyone of them was complacent with a Trump victory, because unless they're completely ignorant, that was the known outcome. Doesn't matter how you want to paint it, that's the reality.
Keep lying yourself, keep complain, keep blaming third party voters and let the United Snake self destruct itself.
The reality is that third party voters has zero real effect on the ground about Harris losing . No amount of blaming will change that.
If you don't want to remind people about Biden complicity it's your choice but don;t tell other what to say
I been talking with multiple users on the post. I may get confused in certain points , forget some etc.
Lol it is you who do alternate facts. If every 3rd party voters voted harris she would still lost popular vote.
Just like cult follower you can't see facts
What's 75,000,000 + 2,800,000? Is it more than 77,300,000?
Math is hard for some people, and to those of you that struggle with it (the answer is yes, 77.8 million is more than 77.3 million) it may seem like alternative facts, but really, it's elementary level research and math.
His admin got a lot of good shit done and I think history will show it as one of the best presidencies in the past 30+ years, but Biden was and is a PoS for being complacent with genocide. I voted for the same complacent Harris and would have done the same for Biden because Trump was and is worse, but Trump being king of the shit pile doesn't absolve Biden's shittiness.
Voters and non voters are 100% to blame for Trump being POTUS, but that and Biden's admins accomplishments have no bearing on the quality of person that Biden is and was.
Biden continued the same policies every president had before him on Israel.
Genocide has become the left’s thought and conversation ending cliché.
Every president prior to Biden wasn't facing a full genocide in Palestine. I'm not saying it was sunshine and rainbows before, but it was full invasion genocide during Biden's tenure. The situation was very different, way worse, and while things should have been different for every president before Biden, he should have been better. He wasn't, and that's why he's a POS.
Also, the actions of other presidents has no bearing on Biden as a person. They were all independently also trash for many of their policies. They aren't mutually exclusive.
Why are you so hard on downplaying genocide? It should be a main topic in every conversation about US politics, because it's heinous. Like I've said, I voted for the lesser of two evils in the last two elections, I would have voted for Biden if it were him, but it doesn't excuse his actions.
Why are you so hard on downplaying genocide? It should be a main topic in every conversation about US politics, because it's heinous.
This is the updated version of ‘are you still beating your wife?’
This is the exact same as the anti-abortion activists screeching about the wholesale murder of babies.
I wish the world was as black and white as you desperately want it to be but if you scratch the surface you realize that it’s very complicated and nuanced and messy.
This isn't a single issue voter thing. This is condemning genocide and the people that enable it. It's not at all like anti abortion, because an abortion isn't murder while slaughtering living humans is. People that didn't vote for Biden on the grounds of Palestine are idiots, and I know they exist, but that's not what we're debating. We're debating the character of Joe Biden, genocide enabler.
If you don't think the genocide is a black and white issue, you're a fucking psycho. If you think that the genocide in Palestine is justified, you maybe had an argument for the first couple of days following the Hamas attack, but the moment it publicly went from trying to get back hostages to carpet bombing hospitals, shooting children, and blocking side to create a famine, you have nothing. That is black and white.
It’s thinking like that that makes wedge issues so effective.
I don’t think the genocide is justified but I think Biden was handling it much better then Trump currently is.
Lemme splain:
He expanded the IRS with, what, 84,000 agents?....under the guise of going after all the crooked billionaires. Everyone cheered!!! Then he set them against anyone who deposited $600.
The IRS immediately started harassing me for money that I absolutely DO NOT FUCKING OWE because that goddamn asshole told everyone to go out and justify their paycheck.
He didnt change any of the tax loopholes for billionaires. He attacked the working class instead.
He has ALWAYS been a right wing conservative, and he's a fucking demented asshole who should NEVER have been allowed near any nomination stage.
And he didnt win the nom in 2020. He was second to last ahead of Bloomberg. That shit was rigged because "its his turn! Remember obama??!!"
Then he REFUSED to defend the country from criminals and terrorists.
FUCK
JOE
BIDEN
I used the autofill function of lemmy without verifiying. That explain the lack of ponctuation.
As for his war crimes, is covering israelis war crimes which make him complicit aka also a war criminal under international law
Notice the distraction, pulling you away from a current harm and looking instead at an opportunity to blame for a past mistake.
Let’s reopen this criticism of these past mistakes later ok?
Mistake : an action, decision, or judgment that produces an unwanted or unintentional result
Biden and he knew very well what they was doing. That's not a mistake
I am sure that you agree that the statue of limitation do not apply to someone who committed a crime or assisted the killer. So why do you oppose condemning Biden and Miller and not forget what they did?
Let’s reopen this criticism of these past mistakes later ok?
Don't you mean never when did any American president been brought to justice for war crimes ?
Probably because it does nothing now while children are burning to death.
It should definitely not be forgotten... but it also shouldn't be our focus. Because if you focus on the inconsequential you get the situation we've constantly been in the last... well probably at least as long as the US has been a thing.
If this were more like reconstruction after the US civil war, where the damage has been done and we're trying to recover from it, it might be the same. Where forgiving past mistakes causes massive consequences that are still being felt. We're not at that point yet, if we ever manage to get there.
Not a single person in the world can fix all issues all at once. Most people can barely keep one important thing in their mind at a time. We have too many things to worry about to obsess about a group of people who have almost no power anymore. If the time comes when the pendulum swings back in their direction, sure, it's worth making it an issue... but the world is on fire and you seem to be spending an inordinate amount of time buying gasoline.
Stop trying to fight every battle all at once, and most importantly stop trying to get everyone else to care about every battle you're obsessed with fighting. They'll just end up treating it like everything else, too much to deal with.
Are people dying right now? That’s an immediate need, if so.
Are they in power right now? Campaigning for reelection right now? That’s an immediate need if so.
Please don’t demonize “let’s focus on immediate needs” as I feel that’s a reasonable thing to want.
Sure war criminals can be free with no accountability when they no longer in power.
What a terrible logic. We will demonize them as much as we want, you can't stop that.
Maybe if your presidents was held accountable like Bush , trump wouldn't feel free to do all the terrible thing he does.
Will you forgive trump and forget his crimes when he is out?
The immediate need is to not allow these weak willed genocide enablers anywhere near power again. We need the position of those connected to this administration to be in pile of pig manure, so that way we get people who aren't absolute fucking cowards doing less than the bare minimum to maintain their own system.
People are dying right now that Biden's administration could've saved, but because the cause long precedes the effect, we need to be looking farther ahead. Weak liberals will be complicit at best, and monsters at worst, so we need to work every day until the next somewhat fair election to make their brand weak.
When the fascists begin to bleed themselves dry, the left must lead the charge, not the money loving liberals. If we don't lay that groundwork before most can envision the fight, we'll have feudalists ushering in a "return to normalcy" with broad support from the public.
Doctors flee Trump’s America: 'It’s no longer safe or sane to practice here'
Earlier this year, as President Donald Trump was beginning to reshape the American government, Michael, an emergency room doctor who was born, raised, and trained in the United States, packed up his family and got out.
Michael now works in a small-town hospital in Canada. KFF Health News and NPR granted him anonymity because of fears he might face reprisal from the Trump administration if he returns to the U.S. He said he feels some guilt that he did not stay to resist the Trump agenda but is assured in his decision to leave. Too much of America has simply grown too comfortable with violence and cruelty, he said.
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What was the term back during Bush's war on peace?
"Extraordinary Rendition"
No. That was shipping "criminals" to torture camps and prisons in a third country so the US wouldn't be blamed for all the torture and illegal imprisonment.
That sounds familiar. Like recently familiar.
Still. Wonder if there's a name for kidnapping escaped scientists who fled the country and bringing them back. I bet there's a German word. There's always a German word. Might be 47 letters and entirely unpronounceable. But it probably exists.
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From the article, Google can technically let AOSP still exist while destroying it in practice:
what could happen is that Google takes Android closed source from here on out, spinning off whatever remains of AOSP up until that point into a separate company or project... This technically means “AOSP is not going away”,
From the author, a sentiment I fully agree with:
If in 2025 you still take statements from big tech based on best intentions, you're a fool.
Thom, 𒂍𒀀𒈾𒍢𒅕 (@thomholwerda@exquisite.social)
Wild how many news sites just take "AOSP is not going away" to mean "nothing will change". Anyone with more than two brain cells to rub together can deduce this statement is entirely meaningless, as even closing Google's Android fully and spinning of…Exquisite.social
Disney, Universal sue image creator Midjourney for copyright infringement
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Gavin Newsom has shifted his stance on running for president
Gavin Newsom now says he could run president
Newsom has long implied that higher office wasn’t on his mind. Lately, he’s begun publicly acknowledging his presidential ambitions.Alexei Koseff (CalMatters)
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'Now The War Has Reached Us Too,' Russians Far From Ukraine Say After Drone Attacks
For more than three years, most of Russia has viewed the war sparked by the Kremlin's full-scale invasion of Ukraine from afar.
Now, some say, following an audacious attack by Ukraine that saw hordes of drones smuggled into Russia and then deployed on June 1 to wipe out dozens of long-range bombers, it has arrived on their doorstep.
In the Irkutsk, Murmansk, Ryazan, and Ivanovo regions, drones struck air bases, shocking Russian authorities and citizens.
"It was a fiery hell," residents of the Irkutsk region told RFE/RL's Siberia Realities.
In Siberia, some 4,000 km away, residents appeared to be shaken.
"Now the war has reached us too," residents told Siberia Realities.
'Now The War Has Reached Us Too,' Russians Far From Ukraine Say After Drone Attacks
For more than three years, most of Russia has viewed the war sparked by the Kremlin's full-scale invasion of Ukraine from afar. Now, some say, an audacious attack by Kyiv deep inside Russia means it has arrived on their doorstep.RFE/RL's Siberia.Realities (RFE/RL)
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Reminds me of wildfires.
Australia was gripped by some of the worst wildfires in history, and it was said that, while wildfires are inevitable, climate change contributed to the scale of them.
Saw loads of Americans call it alarmism, abd not an issue because it was just Australia.
Then the next year America was gripped by some of the worst wildfires in history. Suddenly those same people were wondering if it could be that climate change thing.
Oh totally.
I’m on the us west coast and the national news (think USA today, cnn, fau, etc.) is all “there is smoky weather over there or smthn, anyway here is a monkey dancing” each summer (local news is covering the smoke obviously)
BUT as soon as it started drifting eastward and reached Nyc/DC then the news lit up with it about climate change/hazardous conditions.
Funny how that happens
and now we collaborate quite nicely! we share fire fighting helicopters and fire fighters often fly over to help each other, since our seasons are offset
hopefully that remains and isn’t just seen as “giving things away” and used as a bargaining chip in a perverse game of number go up
Are you implying Ukraine was wrong to pull off this attack?
Because that smells like Russian apologism.
Edit yeah you can see whenever you catch Russians when they're thought they were being "smart". It's honestly ridiculous how low your bar is for that. It's almost like interacting with another species.
Well this attack is to make Russia realise they should stop killing Ukrainians?
Ukraine isn't doing it for fun, you know?
There were dozens of long range bomber destroyed. Bombers which have been dropping bombs on Ukraine, killing people.
So now there's less of that.
So... why the comment about "maybe stop killing people?" That's literally what Ukraine is trying to achieve with this.
Edit you downvote all you want Ruski bots
Oh I do. Lemmy is filled with Russian bots, who the fuck cares about votes? Lol.
So it's a pacifist comment then?
Because either it realises this attack destroyed equipment thats used to kill people, thus leading to less killing (ie on the way to stopping killing) or it's a "Ukraine shouldn't be bombing Russia, everyone should just live in peace" which is just dogwhistling Russian propaganda as there's definitely not any actual Ukrainian pacifists here.
And they're the ones getting bombed. But you're just here for a snarky oneliners, you don't possess the capacity to argue it.
Run along kiddo
Yeah, anyone who isn't a screaming idiot can see it.
I'm a Finnish person, in the Finnish reserves. I gladly kill Russians who break international laws, like the pathetic sack of shit Putin is.
And I can prove that.
I'm not like davel@lemmy.ml who claims to be American while sucking Putler's cock, spreading Russian propaganda.
From the downvotes and still not receiving an explanation to the first comment, yeah, everyone with a basic education from a developed country would know, yes. I assume that grouping doesn't involve, among others, you.
Dare you say any of those things or are you a pussy afraid of getting arrested over writing things online and then "having an accident"?
Yes, the old "mentally ill people have nothing to contribute".
Ever stopped to think about how stupid that fucking argument is, since more intelligence usually means a highers likelyhood of mental disorders?
Some of these leading professors in bipolar diseases take heavy doses if lithium for their personal bipolar diseases.
Disregarding that, the implication you're making is that there aren't Russian trolls on Lemmy, and definitely not a concerted effort of any sort, ever. And if there are Russian troll on Lemmy, they certainly wouldn't lie about being Russian trolls. Like davel@lemmy.ml is always admitting he's a Russian shill.
Oh no wait, he's always pretending to be an American.. How weird, isn't it?
Edit, weird how you stopped accusing me of being a Russian troll? 
There is a ignore button for you to use.
I've always found it enlightening when people assert their personal feelings as objective truth. Tells a lot about you, as a person.
So, you don't believe in Russian disinfo?
Why did you stop calling me a Russian troll?
Why can't you answer ANYTHING?
I've always found it enlightening when people assert their personal feelings as objective truth.
Talk about the pot calling the kettle black.
Whst exactly do you think I've asserted at any point in this thread, except for personal facts about me, like that I'm part of the Finnish Defence Forces?
I've explicitly stated I've not asserted anyone being definitely something. So please, do enlighten me?
Perhaps your English isn't yet on the level where you can distinguish "assert" and "imply"?
You realise you're still avoiding insanely simple questions, right?
Unlike some, no matter what I say here, I don't have to fear physical reprisal. Unlike Russians. In Russia, being a journalist is extremely fucking dangerous, and that's why most Russians are afraid for their lives and would never admit what a small-cock authoritarian Putin is.
Eugh. Such a bore, just vomiting the names of fallacies, not even understanding how one uses them.
Well, make it clear for everyone. You admit that Putin is a war criminal who should be seized and trialed for crimes against humanity, IMMEDIATELY? Right?
Why on Earth would you imply I "think otherwise"? Oh right, your verbal skills aren't enough to answer a single fucking question in English.
I forgot, izvini comrade.
edit just a reminder, this is my personal knife, and it's explicitly for killing Russian war criminals;
Stress on the pronoun "I" there.
I'm manufacturing defense of Putin? Me? A member of the Finnish Defence Force? A Finnish reserve member, trained to kill cyka ruskis?
Me who's saying Putin is a pathetic balding whore afraid to even appear in public because his country hates him so? Putler, who has an ICC warrant ouf for his arrest?
icc-cpi.int/news/situation-ukr…
I bet you don't dare to say any of those things.
Please, prove me wrong in that aspect. Please
ps how much military training you have?
No, I didn't misunderstand it at all.
I'm clarifying it.
You don't understand how clever Russian disinfo is. That is a comment that should be read as "Hey, Russia, please stop and Ukraine won't have to keep doing this to you" but it can also be read as "War is always bad, so this too was bad".
The fact there's two options and this is a pro-Ukraine article means it needs clarification. Because Russian disinfo accounts rely on things like that to build credibility to their accounts. If you're not completely sure when checking an account, if it's a little messy to figure out who a person is for and who they're not for, you're more likely to give up. And then that account can continue.
Lemmy is fucking infested with Russians.
And if you think this is cynic or paranoid or whatever, I've a bridge to sell you
Mate, as much as I want to believe you and I think you are right in general terms, in this particular case it is a false positive I have not tagged this account and I've glanced the account and I didn't see anything that would be tankie like.
However yes lemmy is infested with Russian disinfo but this ain't it chief.
I'm definitely not implying the first account is pro-Russian. (I didn't even check the profile)
I'm just pointing out there's an alternative way to see it, and we should be mindful of the sort of language we use and the implications it has.
Ah well, if you trust everyone on the internet, dear stranger, then so do I.
Henceforth I shall never question anything. It's not like bad actors actually exist.
Why bother retaining any sort of suspicion towards anything? It'd just be a waste of energy. Well meaning people have never been taken advantage of as far as I remberer.
I’m clarifying it.
That's the issue. You misunderstood and you try again and again to be right on the internet. It won't work. May I suggest some meditation? meditofoundation.org/ is free.
Medito Foundation - Building a more mindful world
Meditation and mindfulness can greatly improve mental wellbeing and can have a transformative effect on all of us as individuals and on society as a …Medito Foundation
Youre simplifying it.
Why is it that people online think they're masters of nuance, and other people just don't even understand what the word means?
Do you have any idea how good Russian disinfo is? That's like the only thing I'll ever give them credit for; spycraft and manipulation. They're fucking experts at it. CIA relies on machines and could never manufacture campaigns to shift Russian public opinion on the scale that Russia manufactures opinions in the Anglosphere. Russia uses people, and extremely effectively. Social engineering more than hacking, simply put.
I meditate daily, probably since you were born. If you speak Finnish, I'd suggest listening to Väinö Pertamo "Itserentoutushypnoosi" to learn the basics. Unfortunately even if you find the clip and manage to read the words said in it, I don't think it will work, because it's so much about the timbre of dr Pertamo. Basically more than half the lesson is not about the words.
Anyway, that aside, the point is I genuinely am glad of the downvotes. That will make some people question, why? It is quite the innocent comment. But to say it's obviously the meaning which is more likely, is well, to fall into the trap.
I'm not saying what it is. I'm pointing out that vaguely positively comments on Ukraine communities are something which Russian accounts use at the start to render credibility to their accounts, without having actually said anything that's not in-line with their propaganda.
You can jest and say I misunderstood and am making shit up, or that I'm being paranoid, but again, I simply care more about actually having this argument out there than you mocking me for it. For all I know, (and I underline I do not believe in this at all, but it is possible, if not even plausible), you're part of it. As me making that point would reveal that tactic, rendering it less useful unless it's "thoroughly debunked".
That's what happens with all of it. Once I caught davel@lemmy.ml, we went on for days, him claiming he's American. Now he doesn't even post anywhere else than lemmy.ml, because he knows he can't mod, so he doesn't want to, because he knows I or some other troll-hunter will be on him like stink on a pile of shit for the pretend-American he is.
And he's probably not even paid, just a nationalist moron. The people who actually get paid aren't that stupid.
Because again, Russia is terrifyingly good at manipulating people.
Although a part is ofc the ubiquitous nature of English and somewhat arcane nature of Russian. It's easier for a Russian to pretend to be from the West than the other way around. Except in voice chats. Reminds me of when I caught a Russian on the Irish national discord. He claimed he was Irish, but lucky for me their egos are easy to hurt. Dude didn't even know what a limerick was or where Limerick is. Once I managed him on voice, he had such a strong fucking Russian accent, and the most pathetic attempt at hiding it and trying a cartoonish Irish one.
It was hilarious.
So again, mock me all you want. No such thing as bad pr when it comes to talking about Russian disinformation
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Hate crime against gay people isn’t recognised by law
...it's not recognised in e.g. Germany either? Crime is recognised by law which plenty of states consider plenty. Punching people outside of self-defence is wrong doesn't really matter to many jurisdictions why you're doing it.
Protections against workplace etc. discrimination were introduced in 2014, gay marriage is on society's agenda but as so often the first reading was controversial and now there's a war and the constitution can't be changed, anyway.
You could say the same thing about people getting hospitalised at prides about Poland. Ukraine is a post-soviet state so the starting point was "not great, not terrible" (that is, it wasn't literally illegal to be gay but no social acceptance whatsoever), and is moving in the right direction. Don't make the perfect the enemy of the good.
Do note that the likes of right sector don't have wider societal backing. Politically, they're very much fringe.
You could say the same thing about people getting hospitalised at prides about Poland
Yes, Poland is a reactionary hellhole too. Being compared to Poland in gay policy is fucking dire.
is moving in the right direction
I hope you're right
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It was a fiery hell
No it fucking wasnt, they just destroyed some planes and you watched them burn from a few kilometers away. Victim complex ass people.
Walmart Workers Share Photos of Price Increases
Another product on the Walmart site that spiked in price was a left-handed fishing reel. It rose from $57.37 to $83.26 from April to May, a jump of 45 percent, with a post on Reddit showing the two price stickers. Aisle Gopher's price history says that the price of the reel was $51.12 on March 14.Another Reddit post showed an increase in the price of cocoa powder from $3.44 in May 2024 to $6.18 in April 2025.
Walmart Workers Share Photos of Price Increases
Walmart announced plans to raise prices on some products in May as a result of President Donald Trump's tariffs.Marni Rose McFall (Newsweek)
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and anyone with critical thinking capacity knows/has known that
I'd love to see this same perspective voiced with equal indignation when Joe Biden campaigns with black people and pledges support for BLM, but then doubles down on militarizing the police once elected. (Among other outright lies.)
Trump voters and all non-voters should not be immune from accepting their share of it.
Absolutely not. If you want people to vote for you, you have to give them something to vote for. Despite knowing the deep unpopularity of Biden's presidency and campaign, the Democrats crowned a weak candidate (wait no, two weak candidates really) who promised to change nothing about it. If we're being reasonable here, one has to credit Democrats' outright stupidity and obstinance in the face of a base demanding real change.
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Protest non-voter apologia, excuses, and mental gymnastics
Some day, maybe, they'll take responsibility for their own actions. Today is not that day.
Much like the Democrats who told poor people that they should, you know, just be joyful about it.
Then again, to take responsibility would require some introspection.
You of course can blame whoever you want, deep state, establishment, democratic party (never republicans though, for some reason), but that would be the deflection. Up until recently, US had a shitty but semi-functioning democracy, and whatever is happening is a result of your collective chosing.
one has to credit Democrats’ outright stupidity and obstinance in the face of a base demanding real change.
They're beholden to the same forces of campaigning and capital in a first-past -the-post system. If they wanted change that matters, their financial backers pull out.
So how's their strategy working out for them?
There are two groups at fault here:
1) The protest voters refusing to take the simplest action to prevent what is now happening.
2) The people who said "we're not going to try to change or improve anything because we're running against a literal dictator so it's not like we have to actually try to improve people's lives. What are they going to do? Let Hitler win?"
So how’s their strategy working out for them?
For the privileged classes, it's working out splendidly. For now anyway.
The fundamental problem with American politics is that you've got a party of callous, narcissistic far-right lunatics slavishly loyal to Capital that only knows how to lie, cheat, and be corrupt as all get out while the news media endlessly runs cover and gaslights the country into believing they're actually quite moderate and reasonable.
And then you've got the Republican Party coming in to replace them and make everything worse.
This isn't a problem of "Critical Thinking". This is a problem of the Bastions of Liberalism electing Gavin Newsom as Governor of the West Coast and Eric Adams as Mayor of the East Coast. And these are your top picks for President in 2028. Meanwhile, the furthest left-wing voices in the party are so utterly buck-broken that they can't admit they've once again kicked several billion dollars towards genocide. The moderate liberals in the purple states are vetoing wildly popular legislation that kinda-sorta prohibits price gouging in rental unit markets. The party leadership fully embraces cryptocurrency as a rich vein of fundraising cash. The conservative wing of the Ds is full on TERF
Think critically about the current state of the American political establishment and what you realize is that you're boxed in. Everyone of note is bought and paid for. The population is fully gaslit by a consent manufacturing machine running on overdrive. The best case scenario for someone of liberal disposition is that the government simply ignores you. The worst case is that gestapo punch through your door and drag you to an overseas prison to be tortured to death.
Republicans are frothing at the mouth for more, more, more. Democrats only know how to shrug, pocket more donor money, and tell you that Biden would have fixed everything if you'd just voted for him.
In states, some Democrats back anti-trans bills
Democrats in conservative districts are choosing to vote against LGBTQ equality groups, and the last Democratic president.David Weigel (www.semafor.com)
That’s why a total Revolution is the only actual solution.
Total Revolution is difficult and requires a very active, committed group of supporters acting both within and outside the administration. Absolutely something you want to aim for, but often the product of generations of struggle.
You could, for instance, argue that the current Trump/DOGE government is a kind of (counter-)revolution that is finally overturning the Progressive Era of liberal democratic government. But this was a project that played out over decades, with each new wave of outsiders agitating and being rebuffed and regrouping to try again, while moderates on the inside cleared more and more space for radicals to infiltrate and overturn the New Deal and the Warren Court.
If the Democrats wanted to try reform they would be acting completely different.
The deeply unsettling and grisly truth is that Democrats are as much a part of the Trump/DOGE government as the Republicans. Liberals demand a return to Clinton-Era governance and Chuck Schumer responds by posting taco memes while complaining about Trump being weak on Iran. They have been as much a force in moving our country towards fascism as the Republicans, through constantly splitting and vilifying the progressive opposition while holding out deceitful promises of reforms they never planned to implement.
Like, we're in the midst of a Revolution. It's just not the kind folks on this site want.
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No, it's not.
It's the fault of the Democrats, who had an abundance of information about the unpopularity of Biden and his presidency, and then made a series of awful decisions about the presidential campaign, not the least of which being nominating a weak candidate who prioritized Biden's ego over appealing to voters.
You also cannot tell voters who've been getting poorer while you've ruled that you won't change anything, and definitely shouldn't tell them to be joyful about it.
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Is it not the voters fault though?It’s the fault of the Democrats
...and...
You also cannot tell voters who’ve been getting poorer while you’ve ruled that you won’t change anything,
The opponent promised all kinds of things to voters who had been getting poorer, most of those promises were straight up fantasy, while others were distorted mistruths.
In your mind, do you think voters are free from have any responsibility for critical thinking? If a known liar is lying to you and you take action supporting those lies, should you be responsible when the lies are indeed shown to be lies?
and definitely shouldn’t tell them to be joyful about it.
This is the second time you've used this exact same language. Can you cite the source where you're saying Democrats told people they should be joyful?
If a known liar is lying to you and you take action supporting those lies, should you be responsible when the lies are indeed shown to be lies?
If I'm starving to death, and the most trustworthy man in the world says "I will do nothing to help you" while the most dishonest man in the world (Donald Trump) says "I will shower you with more food than you have ever seen in your life" I'm going to take my chances with the dishonest man. Maybe the lie is how much but there will still be something. Better than a guaranteed nothing.
If I’m starving to death, and the most trustworthy man in the world says “I will do nothing to help you” while the most dishonest man in the world (Donald Trump) says “I will shower you with more food than you have ever seen in your life” I’m going to take my chances with the dishonest man. Maybe the lie is how much but there will still be something. Better than a guaranteed nothing.
Except its not a "better than a guaranteed nothing". The liar didn't just not shower you with food, he stripped you of what little clothing you had left, and threw you out in the desert to die faster, and he even has a history of that, so its not like you didn't know the liar was capable of it.
Best case scenario with the honest man: he does nothing and I starve to death. Worst case scenario with the lying man: I starve to death anyway. May as well try changing things.
Sure, maybe I starve to death faster, but you give most people a choice between "100% chance you starve to death" and "99% chance you starve to death and 1% chance you don't" and they will take the 1% chance.
At least the lying man admits there's a fucking problem. "Everything is fine and nothing needs to change" was not a good strategy.
Best case scenario with the honest man: he does nothing and I starve to death. Worst case scenario with the lying man: I starve to death anyway. May as well try changing things.
With the lying man, as in my example, you won't starve to death, you'll die from exposure long before you die of starvation. If you're seeing dying much sooner as direct result of his actions as an equal outcome, I'm not sure what to tell you.
At least the lying man admits there’s a fucking problem.
He's not admitting there's a problem, he saying whatever he thinks you want to hear to give him your vote. This man stiffed his own employees and contractors on a regular basis. On what evidence in his entire life, did you arrive at the conclusion that rich donald trump wanted to do anything at all to improve the life of people like us? Not words. Actions.
We don't have to speak in theoreticals though. trump won. Are you glad he got voted in? Is your life better now? Or is this now worse than under Biden?
If you’re seeing dying much sooner as direct result of his actions as an equal outcome, I’m not sure what to tell you.
There's dying, or a 1% chance of not dying. These are in fact not equal.
he saying whatever he thinks you want to hear to give him your vote
Which to someone starving to death is a lot better than someone saying "everything is fine, keep the status quo".
Are you glad he got voted in?
Nope. I was spending time trying to argue with people to do the bare fucking minimum to stop this, and the Democrats did not help with their campaign of "lets change nothing because everything is fine."
Is your life better now?
Not an American. I'll be fine. I can just understand why someone who is desperate (which according to polls is over 50% of your population) could decide to vote for someone who says they want to fucking change things, instead of the people saying everything is fine and they will change nothing.
Donald lied repeatedly
No It Won’tNo it won’t.
It just won’t. None of that will happen.
You’re getting worked up over nothing. Everything is going to be fine. So just relax, okay? You’re really overreacting.
This War Will Destabilize The Entire Mideast Region And Set Off A Global Shockwave Of Anti-Americanism vs. No It Won’t
George W. Bush may think that a war against Iraq is the solution to our problems, but the reality is, it will only serve to create far more.The Onion Staff (The Onion)
Why would we not blame the voters?
Ignorance is not an excuse. We should not normalize that.
They were told, repeatedly, by everyone, including every economist in existence, that tariff's would be a tax on consumers. They didn't listen, because they're fucking assholes.
This guy has already lied to them many, many, many times over. They didn't learn either because they're unbelievably stupid, or committed to hurting others so much that they chose to turn a blind eye to the lies.
Of course I'm blaming the voters.
I commend these employees for posting the price increases.
Despite TACO Don's lies, really, we all knew this was coming. It's good to have validation, regardless.
As best I can tell from Trump administration statements, their strategy for mitigating their political damage has been to publicly demand that WalMart and other companies just take losses as he increases their input costs.
That's not going to happen, but I suppose that it doesn't matter, if enough people believe that it could.
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Liberal: "Haha, stupid conservatives, now we're all going to drown together, you idiot."
Conservative: "Fucking smug liberals, I'm going to put another big hole in this boat, just to show them."
Leftist: "Shit! Fuck! Guys, please let's not drown. We need to come together as working people and fight to reclaim the boat we've all worked so hard to build."
Liberal/Conservative In Unison: "God damn Tankies. This is all their fault. Let's throw'm overboard."
Walmart Chief Financial Officer John David Rainey previously told Newsweek: "As we look ahead, while operating conditions are expected to remain dynamic, our strategy is clear, our top-line momentum is strong, and we are flexing into our advantages to protect margins as we grow."
"Look, lord knows what our fuckwit President will do next, but our plan is clear. While our profits continue to be strong, we'll use our heft to squeeze suppliers and our near monopoly in rural areas to squeeze customers. In any case, we'll protect our bottom line and continue to grow."
Lemmy is big on making fun of "forever growth". But that's how the world has always worked, there is no ideal steady state. We Americans are within a couple of years of slamming into the brick wall of "can't buy shit".
Nothing will save us but straight raping the rich for what they've done to us. And since they've bought and paid for all the mechanisms to claw back even a morsel, too late. There will quickly come a time when they can no longer be their own best customers. We provide the labor, value and purchasing power.
I spent more for groceries than I ever have before last week.
I'm not looking forward to the future.
As a USian that just got back from world travel, the only freedom we have here that’s different from many places is the freedom from nasty-ass tobacco smoke EVERYFUCKINGWHERE. It’s the only freedom we have that’s better at home than elsewhere.
Also the weed and beer are way better here.
I do think it's ironic that a chunk of the places that have universal healthcare still have a massive smoking problem.
I can't help but wonder in a silver-linings-to-shit-stains kind of way if part of the reason smoking was curbed as much as it was in the states (aside from successful votes/lobbying) is because it's too expensive to die from.
(although I am a wimp in the cold).
it's 18°C here, and I'm frozen. No way i'd ever survive in Canadia.
There are only two places on Earth:
- Countries called the US
- Countries the US is planning to invade next
You've got some catching up to do then.
Pink is countries the UK has invaded. Purple is everyone else.
Newsweek has reached out to Walmart outside of regular working hours via an online contact form.
Lol gotta love how Newsweek doesn't even have someone they can reach out to at Walmart. At this point Walmart's PR department is probably an intern with a microsoft copilot account since no matter what shitty thing they do nothing happens to them and people still shop there.
You know where you notice this? As an American buying appliances in Europe. You can buy a front loading washing machine for 300€, including VAT. A refrigerator? 400€. Three years ago I paid 1800 for a fridge in the us, and last year bought a scratch and dent special washing machine for $600
Edit: and US prices are not including Tax.
The oven fan drives me nuts. It allows them to sell stupid shit like air fryers. Put convection in my fucking oven and stop charging up to $1000 extra for the option.
Also the combo washer dryer. I stayed with friends in Belgium for a month over 25 years ago. They had a front load washer/dryer. One appliance. We are now finally seeing these in North America but they suck balls and are really expensive.
Oh I hate them combos, great in theory often poor in practice. They are usually in rental properties here, cheap and cheerful resolution.
The ovens are crazy, no wonder the US have all these appliances. My oven steams and a dude on here would not believe me saying its not practical to have an industrial oven in my house.
To be fair though we have a higher voltage residential supply too so you guys might not be able to as effectively use this shit.
Due ye have dual supply or step up?
To be fair I got what I paid for, I paid shy of two grand for two full size ovens that include a steam and microwave function. We use them all the time. Do you guys have down draft hobs? Best thing I ever bought for the kitchen.
I'm not a typical North American. I have a full kitchen outside my house in an outbuilding that is fully set up as a commercial kitchen on three phase power. Inside my house I have typical shitty North American appliances. The "outdoor" kitchen is all second hand bought at auction commercial restaurant appliances. Gas stove tops. Commercial electric ovens. Vent hoods. The whole thing. It's taken years and years to build up.
We grow, forage and raise a lot of our own food and have a small galley style kitchen in our little house that just isn't practical for large batch stuff like butchering and canning.
HitlerPig's primary campaign promise was to lower prices, which were already under control. Now prices are going up significantly, and the media isn't going after him for it. I have heard him claim in multiple interviews that gas is $2 a gallon, and yet I've never heard a journalist challenge that easily disputable lie. There is not a single place in this country where gas is $2, so why aren't they demanding answers when he says this? Where is it $2?
Every interview should be demanding how he intends to bring down prices, like he promised, and when it will happen.
Well, you see, the people who voted for him weren't actually expecting lower prices, they were expecting racism, because they're racists.
So far he's delivered on schedule.
To be fair, there's a portion of Trump voters that just believe him because they're idiots who don't pay attention to any news and lack even the most basic critical thinking skills. I know from firsthand experience as several of my family members are in this category.
They're not red hat wearers but voted for him because they're poor and he said he'd make things cheaper. They're surprisingly not racist, but their stupidity supports racism.
And most of them are socialists. I sat my reliably republican voting aunt down and had a discussion about policy. Point for point. Healthcare. Immigration. Labor. Even stuff like gay marriage. Point by point I proved to her that she was and always has been a socialist. But the instant the big scary S word left my mouth her pavlovian conditioning kicked in. I was a fool and an idiot. Didn't know what I was talking about. etc.
She shut down the convo.
Always have to clarify for the pedant that can't use context clues...
I thought it was made up organically by internet users as the source, rather than repeated from some peice of media.
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in reply to Nightwingdragon • • •A few things to note.
Once again, the mass media are calling these "violent protests", and tacitly giving cover for Trump despite no evidence that the protests have scaled to the point where the National Guard is even necessary. This will do little but embolden Trump to expand the use of these tactics to other cities, especially if he's going to have majority support from the voting base.
2/3 of the voters are either "not sure" or are actively supporting ICE and the Trump administration. He is literally marching in authoritarianism to thunderous applause. Worse, only 58% of Democrats approve of the protests. Which means 42% are either indifferent or are actively supporting ICE.
The more Trump marches in authoritarianism, the more people on both sides of the aisle seem to be stepping aside and saying "Right this way, sir."