kreskin
@kreskin@lemmy.world
- Comment on Too soon? 22 hours ago:
Look what you made me do, I’ve opened a bottle of very good pinot to ponder these things.
- Comment on Too soon? 1 day ago:
I expect the NRA will stage a gunshow at a nearby site someplace in the next few days, right? Its what they do for school shootings and this was at a school. So Kirk’s fam can stock up on cheap ammo.
- Comment on Too soon? 1 day ago:
Have you even sent your thoughts and prayers yet?
- Comment on Bye Intel, hi AMD! I’m done after 2 dead Intels 4 days ago:
they always did, even back in college.
- Comment on EU Hits Google With $3.5 Billion Antitrust Fine 5 days ago:
googles EMEA division is 29% of profits. So figure about 30k profits.
- Comment on EU Hits Google With $3.5 Billion Antitrust Fine 5 days ago:
googles net profit is 115 billion/year. So while 3.5 is inconvenient, I imagine google feels that its just the cost of doing business in the EU.
- Comment on It's been downhill since 2020 6 days ago:
2022-2024 were the most normal and stable years of my life.
Maybe stable for you, but the rest of the world wont leave your world alone. Defund and reallocate happened in those years. The genocide of Palestinians under a Dem president using your tax dollars started in 2023. And Ukraine was invaded in 2022.
- Comment on It's been downhill since 2020 6 days ago:
2017-2021 was Trump, so I think it started earlier. Was it maybe more like US election season 2016 as the start of it? It’s hard to pinpoint. But yes. The old US seems gone now-- Our government went from covertly corrupt to very openly so. We’re becoming Russia, and its hard to imagine ever rolling it back to who we once were.
- Comment on Ice obtains access to Israeli-made spyware that can hack phones and encrypted apps 1 week ago:
France, Britain, Germany. All as bad as the US.
- Comment on If what they taught us about checks and balances was a lie maybe what they taught us about civil disobedience was a lie too. 1 week ago:
sure but there are holes in our entire constitutional process that you can drive a truck through. They work in certain cases, but in others they may as well not exist. Like ,impeachment barely works. And god knows a lot of our presidents should have been impeached. And the will of the people is not implemented by our government and hasn’t been for a long time, if ever.
- Comment on If what they taught us about checks and balances was a lie maybe what they taught us about civil disobedience was a lie too. 1 week ago:
lemme know where and I’ll come join you. I’ll bring a 6 pack and some chips.
- Comment on If what they taught us about checks and balances was a lie maybe what they taught us about civil disobedience was a lie too. 1 week ago:
yep, I need to polish my rifle before I go out, wouldn’t want it to jam when its hero time. Will be right behind you. Actually I need to buy that rifle then polish it. Actually I need to decide which rifle. AR15 right? I heard they are heavy though? and probably do some mandatory classes and paperwork, license fees. Practice at the range. Etc. The point is, I am right behind you… We all are.
seriously though, why are we all so sedate about fascism and losing our rights? I think its because we dont imagine ourselves to be in imminent danger yet? Its all still very abstract. And yes, I am white and male, and have enough resources to be OK on a day to day basis. the price of eggs being higher and the news sucking every day, and our country’s participating in war crimes are each unbearable, but on a day to day basis, its still mostly just expensive eggs. I can always worry about the rest… later.
- Comment on Perplexity AI is complaining their plagiarism bot machine cannot bypass Cloudflare's firewall 3 weeks ago:
you’re not wrong, but it also allows more than 99.8% of the bot traffic through too on text challenges. Its like the TSA of website security. Its mostly there to keep the user busy while cloudflare places itself in a man in the middle of your encrypted connection to a third party. The only difference between cloudflare and a malicious attacker is cloudflares stated intention not to be evil. With that and 3 dollars I can buy myself a single hard shell taco from tacobell.
- Comment on Perplexity AI is complaining their plagiarism bot machine cannot bypass Cloudflare's firewall 3 weeks ago:
they cant get their ai to check a box that says “I am not a robot”? I’d think thatd be a first year comp sci student level task.
- Comment on ICE agents pointed guns at a US citizen when she walked out on to her yard to ask why they were arresting her (legal immigrant) partner. 5 weeks ago:
and yet we dont.
- Comment on ICE agents pointed guns at a US citizen when she walked out on to her yard to ask why they were arresting her (legal immigrant) partner. 5 weeks ago:
So felony kidnapping and aggravated menace. If they refuse to identify I dont see why we have to assume they are officers.
- Comment on ‘It is time to stop this slaughter’ in wake of deadly Israeli strike on Gaza church: Pope Leo 1 month ago:
Looks like pontiffy hand gestures and “calls for” is all the guy is good for. I rank him behind letter-writing Schumer in terms effectiveness.
- Comment on You can drive 74 hours and still be in Germany. The American mind can't comprehend this. 1 month ago:
No one can make a profit on people walking, so I dont understand how your point makes any sense.
- Comment on In 6 hours it will be illegal to say "I support Palestine Action" in the UK, with a sentence of up to 14 years in prison. 2 months ago:
Feeding, housing and guarding someone for 14 years has got to be ridiculously expensive. All for uttering a few words.
- Comment on Sincerely, your literally poorest europoor. 2 months ago:
You can say the same thing about every region of the world. Why does Europe just ignore African and South American news?
- Comment on Sincerely, your literally poorest europoor. 2 months ago:
You know you can start your own lemmy instance for EU centric topics right.
- Comment on Sincerely, your literally poorest europoor. 2 months ago:
language barriers are a thing.
- Comment on I have never in my 43 years heard of anyone else with the first name Sigourney. 2 months ago:
- Comment on ‘FuckLAPD.com’ Lets Anyone Use Facial Recognition to Instantly Identify Cops 2 months ago:
Hard agree. Its a non negotiable part of the job. I dont know that it would work to say absense of footage is evidence of wrongdoing, but its definitely enough to fire someone. Accountability would keep cops in line. Currently there is VERY little real systematic accountability for cops, in any situation.
- Comment on ‘FuckLAPD.com’ Lets Anyone Use Facial Recognition to Instantly Identify Cops 2 months ago:
fix what. You have some expectation that everything is actionable and merely a matter of nattering at people to go do it?
We cant know its a honey pot and its not even remotely realistic to say a citizen can fix it or investigate it. So you’re just trolling.
- Comment on ‘FuckLAPD.com’ Lets Anyone Use Facial Recognition to Instantly Identify Cops 2 months ago:
Well, the US Supreme court did explicitely say cops have no expectation of anonymity on the streets. This is completely legal. Its premised on the idea that cops arent there to be abusive but to uphold the law, which is not always actually true. The root of the problem is cops behavior themselves rather than the recording or identifying of them. Up until very recently cops at least had their names visible and were required to show ID upon request.
- Comment on RFK Jr. Wants Every American to Be Sporting a Wearable Within Four Years 2 months ago:
He reminds me of the ‘precious bodily fluids’ general from Dr Strangelove.
- Comment on Melon-chicken-Aspic 2 months ago:
Maybe it had a personality.
From what I have seen chickens absolutely do have personalities. Some are nice, friendly, cuddly and playful, and some are just mean little bastardbirds.
But they cant live forever and I do think when creatures die, we can either recycle them in our bellies or let wild bacteria can do it. I’m all for doing it ourselves because we cant absorb nutrition from the sun.
- Comment on Melon-chicken-Aspic 2 months ago:
Is this british food?
- Comment on What the fuck 2 months ago:
Well. I would still eat a bunch of ice cream just in case those calories are in fact needed.