FlashMobOfOne

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Plague kills Arizona resident, marking first recorded death since 2007, health officials say⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I saw this yesterday and had to re-read it a couple of times to make my brain grasp that, yes, the plague is still a thing.

  Wild.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chinese Scientists Create Cyborg Bees That Can Be Controlled Like Drones for Undercover Military Missions⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Not-so-fun fact: Surveillance drones, that we know of, go back as far as the Vietnam War.

  The first UAV attacks date back to the middle of the 1800’s.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that apart from not having a car, the single greatest thing you can do for the climate is simply eating less red meat⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m pointing to observable cause-and-effect.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that apart from not having a car, the single greatest thing you can do for the climate is simply eating less red meat⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t buy it.

  In 2008 when the travel industry crashed in the wake of the market crash, and again in 2020, we saw significant decreases in pollution.

  Meat isn’t the problem. Fossil fuels are.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google Gemini is coming for your private apps. Here's how to stop it⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Went to turn it off.

  Apparently I already did. Marvelous.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Hello friend.

  This point has been discussed elsewhere in the thread. I hope you have a nice afternoon.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I dunno, H.

  I may be wrong in saying it’s indicative of a crash, and I’m okay with being corrected.

  As to inaccurate or inflammatory, maybe it feels that way if you’re on the winning side of the equation.

  I think we should be inflamed about this. I don’t think it’s unreasonable to say that thirty years of high functional unemployment being ordinary is an objectively bad thing, but when you couple it with the increasingly supercharged price gouging and inflation the US has experienced over the last several decades, things that seemed improbable before suddenly become feasible. (Like making fascists electable.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I hope you’re right.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That ship sailed under Reagan, and it’s never getting back to port, sadly. Thanks to him, families now needed two incomes.

  Then, Bush and Clinton came along, and you needed not only two incomes, but two college degrees. Now, with Dubya, Obama, and Trump, not even that’s enough, and they’re capping student loans instead of regulating student loan interest, so your only real shot at being a doctor now is being born in the right zip code.

  America, baby. Dig it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Also, not so fun fact, but this got me curious so I looked up the unemployment rate during The Great Depression: apparently then it was around 20% to 25% as well, so I feel like that reinforces the point I’m making a bit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  We’re already there. The only reason we aren’t calling this a depression is that the stock market hasn’t been affected much.

  But when 25% of Americans are functionally unemployed, it’s hard to argue we aren’t already largely ‘crashed’.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨*Now you're playing with power!*⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Gaming in the 90’s was so glorious.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨As of 30 minutes ago at the time of posting, the NYPD has detained two young Black men after they refused to show ID without explanation or cause.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Give it to NYPD for threatening us all with a good time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Everybody talks about beliefs like they're this big important thing.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  They do indeed.

  My parents are deeply religious, but have never figured out that it’s my siblings and I who actually answer their prayers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does the "White Power Ranger" seem like an odd title?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Only when taken out of context.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How Nintendo locked down the Switch 2’s USB-C port and broke third-party docking⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I know it doesn’t matter, but after all I’ve read about Nintendo and the Switch 2 in the last year?

  Fuck 'em. I’m going to get a Steam Deck or a Lenovo handheld, and I’ll just enjoy the Nintendo I have. I’m not spending a small fortune on a console that they can brick remotely, or force me to buy a $50 proprietary charger for, or a “virtual game cartridge”.

  Fuck all of that bullshit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump Team Has Full Meltdown Over CNN Story on ICE-Tracking App⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This app sounds exceedingly useful to me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Senate strikes AI provision from GOP bill after uproar from the states⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Not sure if he pushed the original measure but he was definitely instrumental in the compromise they attempted to insert into it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Senate strikes AI provision from GOP bill after uproar from the states⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That vote tally, though.

• Senate strikes AI provision from GOP bill after uproar from the statesapnews.com ↗
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[US Politics] How much can Mamdani even do as Mayor? Couldn't the NYC City Coucil just block every progressive thing he tries to do?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Can’t even articulate an actual critique. Definitely a cop.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[US Politics] How much can Mamdani even do as Mayor? Couldn't the NYC City Coucil just block every progressive thing he tries to do?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  ^ This guy is a cop.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump says he has 'a group of very wealthy people' to buy TikTok⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Totally, and the deal’s going to happen in two weeks. Definitely two weeks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Brazil's supreme court rules that platforms like Facebook and X can be held liable for user posts, requiring them to remove content even without a court order⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  it becomes a form of censorship when snall websites and forums shut down because they don’t have the capacity to comply.

  In this scenario that’s not a consideration.

  We’re talking about algorithmically-driven content, which wouldn’t apply to Lemmy, Mastodon, or many mom-and-pop sized pages and forums. Those have human moderation anyway, which the big sites don’t. If you’re making editorial decisions by weighting algorithmically-driven content, it’s not censorship to hold you accountable for the consequences of your editorial decisions. (Just as we would any major media outlet.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Australian police beat an opposition politician so badly that she might lose an eye -- simply for being at an anti-genocide protest.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  True. An important distinction.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Death Stranding 2' proves more video games need to get weird, experts say⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Getting weird is why we love Bioshock so much.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This California community's water will be shut off if it doesn't approve a stunning 300% rate hike by Monday⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Added it in. My mistake. :)

• This California community's water will be shut off if it doesn't approve a stunning 300% rate hike by Monday
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do Conservatives physically look evil?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s just because you think they’re evil. Otherwise, they’d just look ordinary.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Summer Sale 2025 has begun!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What a bummer. Might get it second hand then instead.