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- Comment on Democrats assail 'erratic' Trump over Iran strikes 21 hours ago:
“bristled”
“A pipe cleaning analogy, that’ll show 'em were serious this time!”
- Comment on Usually the word "alternative" should be replaced with the word "bullshit". Ex: alternative facts, alternative medicine 23 hours ago:
Came here to make the Minchin comparison.
- Comment on Teachers Are Not OK 1 day ago:
the banks are going to have to get involved soon…figure out a way to load up working-age people with long-term debt
Why the hell do the banks need to step in? System for an indentured workforce is already in full effect -no safety net, unemployment difficult to get and punishing poverty if it’s all you have -require a car (e.g. initial capital and ongoing cost) to participate in many jobs -have oligopolies rent out housing that is so expensive even those with full-time work can’t save any money -have oligopolies own groceries, Jack up prices -have oligopolies own medical facilities -stuff people full of consumer desires and give them easy access to credit
- Comment on Credit and Tipping during the period of Slavery in the US 2 days ago:
Buying goods from an on-site store was called “sharecropping” in the US post slavery, but as you noted it had binding and entrapping effects, as designed. Sharecropping was basically feudalism; forced to work land you didn’t own hoping for a benevolent lord to grant you sustenance–but prices were always raised enough to keep you in debt interestingly…
- Comment on What if you funneled Niagara Falls through a straw? 2 days ago:
Cholera bacteria wouldn’t survive in plasma, yo.
- Comment on AI CEO – Replace Your Boss Before They Replace You 3 days ago:
Be quiet!
- Comment on Someone posted the Source Code of the IRS's Directfile on Github 3 weeks ago:
Intuit about to hire a “private Security company”
- Comment on T-Mobile secretly records iPhone screens and claims it's being helpful. 3 weeks ago:
Your brevity is perfectly cromulent.
- Comment on TED launches a short-form (TikTok like) video feature. 4 weeks ago:
Totally lost their way as they commodified and expanded so quickly. Truly great, unique insights are worth keeping small and waiting for. All the ted x and mini Ted x and micro teds etc. just water the brand and impact down.
I went to one in 2015 and cried, multiple times. By 2020 I couldn’t even stand to watch them online as everyone was trying to give the next great Ted talk instead of Ted picking the most impactful. They also got into echo chamber/preaching to the choir territory as it became too rote.
- Comment on ‘It’s real y’all’: People are sharing their tariff receipts, and my wallet is not ready for what’s coming 5 weeks ago:
Where are all the “do my own research” mofos now? Would be nice if they did that and learned about economics…
- Comment on 30% of South Korean schools have adopted AI-powered digital textbooks since the country's education ministry began a full-scale rollout in March 2025 5 weeks ago:
I’d say given the current tech environment that book would “educate” based more on a Brave New World caste and less on ideal knowledge to raise someone up but to keep them in a certain assigned position.
- Comment on Trump tells Walmart to 'eat the tariffs' instead of raising prices 5 weeks ago:
See: “free market” enthusiast Donald trump
- Comment on In reversal, Gavin Newsom proposes cutting back on health care benefits for undocumented immigrants 5 weeks ago:
Do you remember when he was caught at the swanky French Laundry during COVID restrictions, like October 2020 peak deaths in the US meeting with a political advisor while telling his state to adhere to lockdown?
Britain had their chief of national health or some equivalent of that be caught doing something similar and she was sacked.
Americans have been conditioned into not accepting or expecting accountability. It’s the root of much of the rot.
- Comment on Paul McCartney and Dua Lipa among artists urging British Prime Minister Starmer to rethink his AI copyright plans 1 month ago:
Well no, just the largest ones who can pay some fine or have nearly endless legal funds to discourage challenges to their practice, this bring a form of a pretend business moat. The average company won’t be able to and will get shredded.
- Comment on 🐌 Slow Software for a Burning World 🔥 1 month ago:
Thank you for sharing. I feel like this is the first fediverse exploration I’ve had the energy for since coming over in the Reddit exodus.
Can someone explain how this can/would work for a Lemmy user? They talk about federation, would that be just within this bonfire platform where anyone can put a website and social media to connect via their goals and aims and structure or could this connect to Lemmy somehow, or would that require an integration between bonfire and Lemmy? How would instances of bonfire decide whether to connect or federate with Lemmy or vice versa?
- Comment on Skype was shut down for good today 1 month ago:
While also completely missing the boat on the potential of graphics cards and watching Nvidia and even AMD become massively more relevant in recent years.
- Comment on Skype was shut down for good today 1 month ago:
And then, to bring us full circle to OP, Microsoft made it’s strategic acquisition of Nokia 😂 theverge.com/…/microsoft-nokia-acquisition-costs
- Comment on Skype was shut down for good today 1 month ago:
Hey, RIM/Blackberry’s CEO went to mobile world Congress in 2010, 3 solid YEARS after the iPhone launched, was dominating and defining the smartphone world and said, “we feel touchscreen is not the future of mobile phones” and rolled out another hybrid touch/keyboard model like the 5 they already had
Blackberry was $150/share as of 2009 with the entire world in front of it. It’s now worth $3.59/share.
- Comment on Skype was shut down for good today 1 month ago:
Teams(s)
- Comment on Skype was shut down for good today 1 month ago:
- Comment on Seattle Sets the Stage for Automatic Traffic Camera Expansion - The Urbanist 1 month ago:
Yeah, that at least can be systematically identified and corrected; the bias and also inaccuracy of judgement of current human officers seems far worse and when combined with the fact non-vehicular safety is seen as a low priority or completely ignored, getting to “good” for safety of non-vehicular traffic is life and death. A few tickets that get waived, or in my city, Portland Oregon, a citizen sued to prove the cameras inaccurate where they were and won vs. engineers, is a small price to pay vs. the current state of zero enforcement and bodies littering crosswalks and cyclists mown down in “bike lanes”.
- Comment on Seattle Sets the Stage for Automatic Traffic Camera Expansion - The Urbanist 1 month ago:
Right; I’m considering requesting cameras in my city to protect crosswalks, pedestrians and cyclists as none of the laws are currently enforced in any meaningful way. One of the most cost-reasonable, effective ways to do that would be to have automatic cameras but the lecherous vendors that want 20-30% of the cut and authoritarian state are two massive concerns I have that make me, at the cost of my own daily safety, hesitant to call this stuff out.
- Comment on U.S. Secretary of Commerce says the ‘new model’ is factory jobs for life—for you, your kids, and your grandkids 1 month ago:
Just like the IRS, these are strategically deranged/under-funded and understaffed by conservatives and their oligarchy backers. 99% of trump voters if you asked them if they want to be physically protected in their workplace would say they want their company regulated by an enforcement body, but if you ask them if they like big government, their brainwashing will say no.
Democrats are deliberately bad at branding because they’re beholden to oligarchs as well. Progressives, who badly want to fight for these common sense things have been squeezed out due to concentration of election power, e.g. communication, into a money war and oligarchs choose winners .
- Comment on U.S. Secretary of Commerce says the ‘new model’ is factory jobs for life—for you, your kids, and your grandkids 1 month ago:
If you make it there; you won’t have a union and labor protections will be struck down in kangaroo courts, OSHA safety requirements were already a main driver of people not wanting to work these kobs–and that was before the current and future dismantling of OSHA related rules.
Also, how are you going to get 90k when federal minimum wage is what is was in 2009? Many of the southern states have even passed “counter-wage” laws forbidding the state from passing it’s own improved min wage law–truly hateful of the average person.
- Comment on Everyone knows what first aid is, but what is second aid? 1 month ago:
- Comment on All four major web browsers are about to lose 80% of their funding | by Dan Fabulich | Apr, 2025 1 month ago:
South Korea mandated internet explorer for all purchase checkout until relatively recently maybe the last 5 years. They had all these pieces but around it so checking out at a website you would have to prove your identity using national ID and then only IE would work.
Be very careful what you ask for.
- Comment on Trump Signs Executive Orders to Militarize Police, Punish Sanctuary Cities and Refugees 1 month ago:
That photo…just 🤌
“show a posse of racist police that was the beginning of police cars in the US starting to fly Confederate flags”
- Comment on A List of Social Media Platforms that Still Permit Free-Speech 1 month ago:
At the rate we’re going, anti science and antisocial, clubbing one’s next meal or foes and eating the meat raw for lack of other tools is not far off current trajectory.
- Comment on Study: Hopeful homebuyers need income of nearly $117,000 to afford typical home in U.S. 1 month ago:
And who doesn’t feel at ease predicting stable employment for several decades for themselves? After all in a world of “at will” employment and executives that need to hit their numbers for that quarterly stock grant, barely any unions, deliberately anemic unemployment insurance benefits, who wouldn’t jump at the chance?
- Comment on Todd Howard Reaffirms Bethesda Is Currently Developing The Elder Scrolls 6 1 month ago:
On the back of a wagon? More like back of a 🐉 we are dragonborn not some Falkreath yokel. Into 6 we go riding in style!