MapleEngineer
@MapleEngineer@lemmy.world
- Comment on House Republicans Investigate Wikipedia Over Alleged Bias 22 hours ago:
Back in they day when being a Republican meant more than obstructionism and authoritarianism.
- Comment on House Republicans Investigate Wikipedia Over Alleged Bias 1 day ago:
Pre-Reagan
- Comment on House Republicans Investigate Wikipedia Over Alleged Bias 2 days ago:
I remember a time when telling the truth wasn’t considered bias by the Republican party. It was the same time when, “conservative speech” didn’t mean lies, misinformation, and hate speech.
- Comment on House Republicans Investigate Wikipedia Over Alleged Bias 2 days ago:
I remember a time when telling the truth wasn’t considered bias by the Republican party. It was the same time when, “conservative speech” didn’t mean lies, misinformation, and hate speech.
- Comment on LPT: Go get a shot, now. 1 week ago:
I live in Ontario, Canada. I can just walk in to the local pharmacy and get the Covid, flu, and RSV vaccine for free.
The True North Strong and Free (except Alberta, their government are fascist Trump bootlickers.)
- Comment on U.S. government takes 10% stake in Intel, as Trump expands control over private sector 1 week ago:
Fascism is a far-right, ultranationalist, and authoritarian political ideology that emerged in early 20th-century Europe, characterized by a totalitarian, one-party state, a charismatic leader, a fixation on national decline, and the suppression of individual rights and opposition groups. It combines elements of militarism, economic self-sufficiency, and mass mobilization, often through propaganda and violence, to achieve a vision of national purity and power.
- Comment on Starlink tries to block Virginia’s plan to bring fiber Internet to residents 2 weeks ago:
Starlink goes down during heavy rain.
- Comment on Where did the downvotes go? 2 weeks ago:
Fortunately other instances allow their users to downvote and show downvotes on posts from instances that don’t allow down votes locally so users on other instances know when users of that instance are posting garbage.
- Comment on Starlink tries to block Virginia’s plan to bring fiber Internet to residents 2 weeks ago:
Did fiber go down when it rains?
- Comment on Marco Rubio orders US diplomats to launch lobbying blitz against Europe's tech law 3 weeks ago:
Yet Trump has made combating censorship - particularly what he sees as the stifling of conservative voices…
including hate speech and child sexual abuse material.
To be very clear.
- Comment on Trump says he plans to put a 100% tariff on computer chips, likely pushing up cost of electronics 3 weeks ago:
In the US the point of tarrifs is to tax the poor to pay for tax breaks for the rich.
- Comment on What is the point of this exactly? 5 weeks ago:
I said that in a comment. It won’t catch the bulk of the abuse because it is perpetrated by wealthy, powerful, connected white people.
- Comment on What is the point of this exactly? 5 weeks ago:
It won’t collect the statistics of the white, wealthy, and powerful who have always gotten away with their crimes because other white, wealthy, powerful people look the other way.
- Comment on What is the point of this exactly? 5 weeks ago:
The only problem with this idea is that it is designed to record sex crimes against children by non-wealthy, non-politically and -religiously connected, non-powerful, and non-white child sex predators. The wealthy child sex predators, the politically connected child sex predators, the religiously connected child sex predators, and the powerful child sex predators who are predominantly white and birthright citizens will continue to cover for each other or be moved from parish to parish to continue their child sex crimes as her have done for hundreds of years.
- Comment on What is the point of this exactly? 5 weeks ago:
To show that the vast majority of child sex crime in the UK is committed by white, birthright citizens of the UK?
- Comment on US regulators approve $8.4bn Paramount-Skydance merger 5 weeks ago:
If the Magazis approved this it is 100% bad for consumers.
- Comment on Texas Officials Slam Trump’s National Weather Service for Botched Forecast 1 month ago:
It’s all Joe Biden’s fault for quitting and letting Kamala Harris run and lose the election to me knowing that I would gut FEMA! - Trump
- Comment on Socialism is the actual teaching of Jesus 2 months ago:
Matthew 25:35-40
35 For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, 36 I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.’
37 “Then the righteous will answer him, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you something to drink? 38 When did we see you a stranger and invite you in, or needing clothes and clothe you? 39 When did we see you sick or in prison and go to visit you?’
40 “The King will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.’
- Comment on Russia is at war with Britain and US is no longer a reliable ally, UK adviser says 2 months ago:
I’ve been around long enough that I recognize bad faith and fallacious arguments, pedantism, and particularly expressions of Danth’s Law and choose not to take the bait. I stay on message which was that it was obvious to the UK who their true and trustworthy friends were (for example Canada which joined the Second World War 9 days after its outbreak and sent young men to fight to stop the spread of fascism and defend Britain) and weren’t (for example the US which sat on its hands for 829 days while Europe burned) at it should be today. It should be horrifying (but not at all surprising) to the UK, and to the rest of the free world, to see that fascism has taken hold in the US.
- Comment on Russia is at war with Britain and US is no longer a reliable ally, UK adviser says 2 months ago:
829 days. Canada was there for 820 of those 829 days.
- Comment on Russia is at war with Britain and US is no longer a reliable ally, UK adviser says 2 months ago:
829 days.
- Comment on Russia is at war with Britain and US is no longer a reliable ally, UK adviser says 2 months ago:
For 829 days the US sat and watched.
- Comment on Russia is at war with Britain and US is no longer a reliable ally, UK adviser says 2 months ago:
Canada, 9 days.
US, 829 days.
For those 820 days the rest of the world, including Canada, was sending its young men to fight and die for freedom.
The US sat and watched.
- Comment on Russia is at war with Britain and US is no longer a reliable ally, UK adviser says 2 months ago:
Canada entered the was 9 days after it started. The US entered the war 820 days later.
Canada went and fought while the US sat and watched.
- Comment on Russia is at war with Britain and US is no longer a reliable ally, UK adviser says 2 months ago:
Cherry picked? 9 days versus 829 days. Cherry pick my ass.
- Comment on Russia is at war with Britain and US is no longer a reliable ally, UK adviser says 2 months ago:
Then why did it take 9 days?
- Comment on Russia is at war with Britain and US is no longer a reliable ally, UK adviser says 2 months ago:
Bombed into it.
- Comment on Russia is at war with Britain and US is no longer a reliable ally, UK adviser says 2 months ago:
Just a reminder that it took the US years to join the Second World War while the UK was pounded by the Nazis. Canada joined the war nine days after it began. Remember who your friends are. The US isn’t anyone’s friend but it’s own.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
It’s called an ontological paradox.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
I disagree. If you made a change on 2000 you had already made it when whatever happened in 2025 happened. If you went back and killed Hitler in 1885 that had already happened in 1933 when Hitler was appointed Chancellor. What happened in 1885 didn’t change what happened in 1933. Maybe you killed the wrong person. Maybe history got wrong who Hitler was. Maybe Hitler assumed the identity of the dead infant and went on to be appointed Chancellor. The point is that whatever happened in 1935 happened after whatever happened in 1885.