Mirshe

@Mirshe@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Future teachers in Oklahoma!⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  This is just most education systems in America. You’re autistic or have other learning disabilities? Fuck you.

  Unless you’re in a wealthy school district without easy access to a specialized school for “those people”, your options are limited if you’re in public school.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Religion choices⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Benny Hinn?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Young men are 'playing videogames all day' instead of getting jobs because they can mooch off of free healthcare, claims congressman⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Also, unless you’ve got a way to pay rent or a house you own, good luck getting on housing assistance. Most cities have a waiting list months or years long - I know last time I had to look into it for myself, it was something like 15 months of waiting for a potential open slot anywhere in the city.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Technofascist military fantasy': Spotify faces boycott calls over CEO’s investment in AI military startup⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I switched to Tidal and love it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Minnesota Shooting Suspect Allegedly Used Data Broker Sites to Find Targets’ Addresses⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Arguably, the list alone, plus the customized police vehicle and police outfit, would be enough premeditation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump Mobile launches $47 service and a gold phone⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think he’ll try bigger and simply try to nationalize or end licensing for the big 4.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump May Launch Wireless Phone Brand⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re missing the point. The admin has full control over spectrum licensing. This means Trump could easily have the FCC just revoke all other spectrum licenses for cellphone comms, and just forcibly seize those towers. Don’t look at it like it’s going to operate like a corporation, because I promise you it won’t.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump May Launch Wireless Phone Brand⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  See, here’s the thing when you’re the President. You can just have your FCC chair shut them down. You can actively quash literally any boundaries to being a monopoly, and nobody can do anything about it (from a legal or regulatory standpoint).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ChatGPT will avoid being shut down in some life-threatening scenarios, former OpenAI researcher claims⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yup. It’s just engineers telling it to concoct a scenario in which it would avoid being shut down at cost of human life.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Facebook advertised a professional child kidnapping service to me⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They also close down and rename all the time for exactly this reason. It makes it awfully hard to do anything when the court records say We Fuck Up Your Kid LLC hasn’t existed for 3 years. There’s also often layers of legal shells that need to be peeled away too - a lot of them hire teens and young adults partly because they don’t know the law and are easy to throw under the bus when someone DOES die, and they’re easy to threaten into silence. That also doesn’t get into the complicity of local LEOs, town and state governments, and just outright lying - my former boyfriend wound up in one before he killed himself, and to everyone on the outside, they were just told it was a mental hospital for teens, thus, anything they told you was a lie.*

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Los Angeles Police Department shot an Australian reporter with a rubber bullet while she was live on TV. Zero provocation.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Especially since you can see the cop in question pointing his weapon directly at her and her news crew.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Southern Baptists target porn, sports betting, same-sex marriage and 'willful childlessness'⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The same thing Russia is doing. They want to make it illegal to choose not to have kids if you’re a married woman (and then they’ll start penalizing not being married).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨British photojournalist hit during Los Angeles protests to undergo emergency surgery⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sending war journos would definitely send a message.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Take a shot of vitamin M and keep fighting, Soldier!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Or you get a way to craft them and can make the most broken bullshit imaginable (Skyrim).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Someone should convince Trump to wear colorful robes or a uniform and a fancy hat.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Nah, he’s not that kind of dictator. He doesn’t need to feel like he’s in the military - he needs to feel like he’s above them, on top of them as it were. The big military parade isn’t for him to feel like a general - it’s so he can copy his authoritarian friends without actually having the military cred himself to back it up. It’s cargo cult dictatorship.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The USA spends $15k/student annually which is 30% higher than the global median. Why do U.S. schools have "fundraisers" where kids are incentivized to sell stuff to people?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You would be incorrect. Many wealthier high schools put a ton of money into their sports facilities and equipment. Several HS in my state operate 10-thousand-plus-seating stadiums that look a lot like collegiate or semiprofessional facilities.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The USA spends $15k/student annually which is 30% higher than the global median. Why do U.S. schools have "fundraisers" where kids are incentivized to sell stuff to people?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
  3. The schools that aren’t underfunded have millions of dollars in funds earmarked for sports usually.
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There is significant evidence that Grok actually inserted information about “white genocide” in South Africa into prompts that didn't appear to be related to this topic.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  No no, don’t try to boil it down to “they want us fighting each other”. Those wealthy people, and a good chunk of those poorer people, actually truly believe in the things they are saying. A lot of them TRULY, DEEPLY BELIEVE that they have to shout this and spread the word because the stakes are nothing less than literal life and death.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GOP sneaks decade-long AI regulation ban into spending bill - Ars Technica⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Does this not directly, nakedly violate the sovereignty clause?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oblivion Remastered or something idk⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I was gonna say “or like 10 minutes to Falkreath,” but Falkreath has nothing either.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some good examples of "Where the fuck do you go" kind of games?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think I managed to get the Earth and Fire Crystals and couldn’t figure out how to get to where the Water Crystal was. All of THAT was from literal wandering.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨More Americans are financing groceries with buy now, pay later loans — and more are paying those bills late, survey says⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Actually, yes. Donate what food you can, but I promise they have enough cans of beans, bags of rice, etc to last until Jesus comes. Especially because different areas have different people - one local pantry might just need a little bit of everything, while another one on the north side of your city needs a lot of vegetarian and halal options because of the people it serves in that area. Especially, donating money lets that food bank get things that aren’t strictly necessary, but can make life that much more bearable - pastries, cookies, candy, snack foods, etc. Sure, it’s not healthy and I can hear you all sighing from here, but imagine this is your sole source of food for the month. Having a package of shelf-stable Little Debbies or whatever can seriously make your day just a little more bearable, instead of going “oh boy beans and rice for the 23rd time this month.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Car safety experts at NHTSA, which regulates Tesla, axed by DOGE⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Pretty much this. The US will now end up with an automotive ecosystem (including fun things like ambulances, firetrucks, buses, etc) where everything is built as cheaply and dangerously as possibly profitable (see: Pinto et al). Sure, the autos we build here aren’t going to be able to be sold anywhere with a functioning regulatory body, but that’s OK because we managed to save $20 on each car we build by not having to include pesky things like airbags or a steering column that won’t impale you in a crash or a body that won’t telescope into you and crush you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cloudflare announces AI Labyrinth, which uses AI-generated content to confuse and waste the resources of AI Crawlers and bots that ignore “no crawl” directives.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Somehow one of them still invents Tombstone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Automakers urge Trump administration to clear way for self-driving cars⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Pretty much this. Ever wonder how so many people got killed and mangled during the Industrial Revolution? You’re about to find out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Millennials are watching monthly student loan payments skyrocket from $500 to $5000 under Trump: This will ‘crash the economy’⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This isn’t even true in a lot of places now. If you have a college nearby, expect your local trade school to have tuition similar to that college.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just watched the movie Hacksaw Ridge. Got me thinking can people in the military turn down an order because they disagree with it on sensible grounds? Like Trump ordering them to invade CN?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ahh, but you’re missing the bigger part of the equation: one of Trump’s first EOs this time was the requirement, by April 20, for the Pentagon to put together a recommendation on whether or not to utilize the Insurrection Act to declare martial law. I, and most others, are thinking this is purely a formality with the departmental purges - and once he’s done that, it hardly matters whether you like them invading Canada or not.

  Now, THAT BEING SAID, the military already has a manpower issue, has for a decent while. I do not think we could effectively lock down a country the size of the US, or even the major metros on both coasts, AND fight a war of invasion. Even unofficially deputizing all the various militia types, AND bringing local/state PDs and Nat Guard under federal control, I don’t think they have enough.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not sad, but there’s a lot of anxiety inducing moments.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why don't people going to college get HUD, Food Stamps, and free Medicare/Medicaid while enrolled? Instead of the parents footing the bill or the student working 3 jobs and school?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Mostly because all of that is a highly-confusing tangle. Food stamps are hilariously limited in most states, same with Medicaid. Section 8/HUD will almost always make sure you wind up living in the most run-down tenement your town has, run by the shittiest landlord, who will almost always be looking for a reason to evict you - and that even assumes you don’t have to wait literal years. The current wait time for Section 8 housing in my city is something like a year and a half.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Palmer Luckey says he wants to 'turn warfighters into technomancers' as Anduril takes over production of the US Army's IVAS AR headset from Microsoft⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is pretty much the story of the entire Land Warrior program. Nobody ever expected it to be a Real Thing, it was always a pie-in-the-sky boondoggle to make a shitload of money for the MIC.