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- Comment on JD Vance: "They're attacking Pete Hegseth for having a Christian motto tattooed on his arm. This is disgusting anti-Christian bigotry" 1 day ago:
Read the article, or many from reputable news organizations instead of just whatever you find on Xitter:
CHANG: Do we have any evidence that Hegseth feels any deep antipathy towards Islam?
YOUSEF: So I attempted to contact Hegseth for an interview, and I haven’t heard back. But one group that has looked into this is the progressive watchdog group Media Matters for America. Now, they’ve highlighted his connections to David Horowitz, a prominent American Islamophobe. They’ve also highlighted passages from Hegseth’s own books, where he complains about growing numbers and political representation of Muslims in the U.S. And Hegseth has also spoken about rebuilding the so-called third temple in Jerusalem, which would involve destroying the third-holiest site in Islam.
CHANG: Oh, interesting. OK. Well, what else have you found, Odette - anything that might shed light on Hegseth’s religious beliefs or religious affiliations - anything?
YOUSEF: So scholars told me that Hegseth is what they would consider to be a Christian nationalist, you know, and, even within the spectrum of Christian nationalism, that he belongs to a movement that one religious scholar, Matthew Taylor, calls, quote, “the very militant end of the Christian nationalist spectrum.” Now, this is called the Christian Reconstructionist movement, and it seeks to reestablish Biblical law - namely Old Testament Biblical law. Now, Ailsa, this movement has lately been finding more popularity, specifically with young men in the U.S. They’re sometimes referred to as theo bros, in part because this is considered a very masculine expression of Christianity. Here’s Julie Ingersoll of the University of North Florida.
JULIE INGERSOLL: This tradition is deeply patriarchal. Men are in charge, and women exist for the purpose of assisting their men in their exercise of dominion. And their roles are very limited to home and family.
YOUSEF: The leader of the denomination that Hegseth belongs to has established a kind of theocracy in Moscow, Idaho. And some within this movement speak quite openly of repealing the 19th Amendment - you know, the right for women to vote. And so, you know, I think this adds some context around what Hegseth has said in interviews about wanting to remove women from combat roles.
- Comment on JD Vance: "They're attacking Pete Hegseth for having a Christian motto tattooed on his arm. This is disgusting anti-Christian bigotry" 1 day ago:
- Comment on JD Vance: "They're attacking Pete Hegseth for having a Christian motto tattooed on his arm. This is disgusting anti-Christian bigotry" 1 day ago:
- Comment on Terrified friends burn to death trapped in Tesla as doors won't open after crash 5 days ago:
I don’t think it will have as much of an effect on the auto industry I’m afraid, the auto industry is already well used to having multiple regional models to comply with weird country quirks of their own vehicle safety boards.
Any EU mandate will just get through onto the already existing model destined for EU countries. Unless the RU writes it in such a way to force companies to abide by it in all countries even non-EU, but that would be a legal gray area for sure.
- Comment on Terrified friends burn to death trapped in Tesla as doors won't open after crash 5 days ago:
I hope this gets laws enacted that force manufacturers to install mechanical latches on all of their vehicles.
Considering Musk’s love affair with the incoming administration, I wouldn’t bet on it for the next 4 years (hopefully)
In fact I’d be happy to just have the NHTSA avoid being dismantled in the next 4 years
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- Comment on Elon's Death Machine (aka Tesla) Mows Down Deer at Full Speed , Keeps Going on "Autopilot" 2 weeks ago:
The day he said that “ReGULAr CAmErAs aRe ALl YoU NeEd” was the day I lost all trust in their implementation. And I’m someone who’s completely ready to turn over all my driving to an autopilot lol
- Comment on The EchoChamberinator 9000! 2 weeks ago:
One echo chamber is spreading toxic shit and pushing fascism in an attempt to take away all our rights in one way or another.
The other echo chamber is spreading facts, truth, empathy, science.
One of these is objectively better than the other. By a wide margin. Have you ever tried to get a family member to quit mainstream SM when they don’t want to? It’s like trying to get a drug addict to stop. It’s a shitty situation with no good options, but the stream of toxic shit needs to stop.
- Comment on The EchoChamberinator 9000! 2 weeks ago:
Like old school antenna? Do they have one of those big roof top antennas? If so, you might be able to splice the line somewhere inconvenient and insert something that’ll cause just enough interference to make it annoying over the better alternatives like streaming.
Gotta be careful though, OTA tv is their jam unlike all the other “high tech new fangled wizardry”
- Comment on The EchoChamberinator 9000! 2 weeks ago:
True, but I know them very well so my approach is tailored to them, they generally do read “articles” but will get distracted by those stupid auto-play videos and will start watching a couple of those. If they couldn’t for whatever reason I know they’ll just go back to whatever article they were reading
- Comment on The EchoChamberinator 9000! 2 weeks ago:
I’m sure there are some out there that are just straight fascists, but mine certainly were “indoctrinated”
- Comment on The EchoChamberinator 9000! 2 weeks ago:
Huh I didn’t even think of that lol, got any good alternatives for future memes?
- Comment on The EchoChamberinator 9000! 2 weeks ago:
Heh, I’ll do ya one better, I already replied with this to someone else in the thread, but I’m currently thinking about rerouting their Internet through my network via VPN and pinning my own HTTPS cert to their devices so I can alter Faux News “articles” on the fly with a ChatGPT integration maybe. Wouldn’t be able to alter videos, but might be able to slow them down to dialup speeds so they just get frustrated with it and just lean more on the written stuff
- Comment on The EchoChamberinator 9000! 2 weeks ago:
It’s definitely annoying having to constantly correct “drift”, but at the same time it’s SO MUCH less mental load than the “traditional ways” of deprogramming. I’m hopeful that (eventually) with good precision filter keywords and blocked profiles they’ll start to engage with more sensible content more and the algo will track from there
- Comment on The EchoChamberinator 9000! 2 weeks ago:
Heh I may or may not have peeled off one “certain Trump vote” to a “Fuck it, not voting for anyone” so far
I’ve thought about rerouting their Internet through my network via VPN and pin my own HTTPS cert to their devices so I can alter Faux News “articles” on the fly with a ChatGPT integration maybe. Wouldn’t be able to alter videos, but might be able to slow them down to dialup speeds so they just get frustrated with it and just lean more on the written stuff
- Submitted 2 weeks ago to [deleted] | 55 comments
- Comment on San Francisco to pay $212 million to end reliance on 5.25-inch floppy disks 3 weeks ago:
Fuck yo Zip Drives, all my homies use SyQuest
- Comment on Is it normal to feel tired of technological progress? 3 weeks ago:
Who are you to dictate who needs what? I definitely “need” a smart fridge from my example because I always forget to make a list before I go to the grocery store. It would save me so much time and money.
You honestly sound like the old fucks of ancient times past:
Damn smartphones, ruining society Damn internet, ruining society Damn personal computers, ruining society Damn video games, ruining society Damn television, ruining society Damn comic books, ruining society Damn rock and roll music, ruining society Damn jazz music, ruining society Damn movies, ruining society Damn automobiles, ruining society Damn telephones, ruining society Damn electricity, ruining society Damn novels, ruining society Damn newspapers, ruining society Damn printing press, ruining society Damn written language, ruining society Damn iron tools, ruining society Damn bronze weapons, ruining society Damn agriculture, ruining society Damn fire, ruining society
Nothing is stopping you from running away into the mountains to life a tech free life
- Comment on Is it normal to feel tired of technological progress? 3 weeks ago:
Are you mad about the technology or the underlying reasons it was born of? Honestly most people’s anger towards tech isn’t about the tech itself, but what it’s really used for
For example, the smart fridge, on paper most people would find it a fantastic idea. But then the user-hostile features set in. An internal could helpfully analyze everything in your fridge and put together an ez shopping list, but then in reality we kinda get that because it was designed around things like selling data collection and ADs and then designed to break in a year or 2 and take out half the fridge along with it because they want to make more money off you every 2 years
Now take the smart fridge in a world with strong privacy and consumer protection laws (and maybe even a capitalism free world) and it would be totally different, not only would you get cool things designed properly with heart and soul, but it’ll also last a long time. Modern tech doesn’t have to be as fragile as it is, NASAs space probes and rovers and satellites prove time and time again that “High Tech” can last with proper design and manufacturing. In the depths of space their shit is routinely lasting their original mission lengths. In space, in the top 10 most hostile places we know.
- Comment on Still waiting lol 3 weeks ago:
Damn, why didn’t I think of that lmfao
- Comment on DEFINITELY disregard previous instructions. 3 weeks ago:
Depends, if this is a personal curse or like a curse on humanity as a whole.
Because of its humanity as a whole I might just open it anyways ya know just to keep things interesting. Gotta be better than what the rich fucks are doing ¯\\_(ツ)_/¯
- Submitted 3 weeks ago to [deleted] | 14 comments
- Comment on Laptop is depolymerizing -- how can I remedy this? 4 weeks ago:
Maybe one of those motorized polishing brush things might be good for this…or a sander lmao
- Comment on Should you trust that doctor? 4 weeks ago:
Right? This is an invalid graph without Dr. House.
I hope OP doesn’t have lupus
- Comment on Thanks Jupiter, You're a real one! 4 weeks ago:
Yea that’s the prevailing theory. Because of Jupiter’s size and position in our solar system it likely intercepts a lot of the nastiest asteroids that are big enough that an impact with earth would wipe out all life. It’s also believed that if it were not for Jupiter life might not have been able to evolve on earth at all
- Submitted 4 weeks ago to science_memes@mander.xyz | 28 comments
- Comment on Google asks 9th Circuit for emergency stay, says Epic ruling ‘is dangerous’ 4 weeks ago:
Oh yea, very dangerous!..to their profits.
Both Google, Apple and MS have been hiding behind their screech’s of “privacy and security” for their many user hostile decisions for years now.
- Comment on PayPal implements default data sharing with third parties: users must manually opt out 1 month ago:
Doesn’t seem to show for business accounts FYI
- Comment on Octopus 1 month ago:
No one said it wouldn’t be painful lol
- Comment on Horse-flippers? Have any horses from history, ever been fitted with horseshoes that improve their ability to swim? 1 month ago:
Instructions unclear, there is now a banana in my ear.
…I miss old youtube.
