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- Comment on Imagine being a billionaire, running one the most powerful, corporations in the United States, and prostrating yourself to Donald Trump in this very public and embarrassing way. 2 days ago:
On nerdy sites like Lemmy people tend to fawn over Google and they can do no wrong
[Citation Needed]
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
It does not seem like the most likely of possibilities at the moment though, I must admit.
- 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 days ago:
I know I know, so was my edit. 🙂
- Comment on Now it's stuck in your head too. You're welcome. 5 days ago:
Well, at least you finally got hmmm bop out of my head.
- 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 days ago:
I hope you applied this same level of rigor to your analysis of the reports of Haitian immigrants in Ohio eating cats and dogs.
- Comment on Meanwhile in Israel 1 week ago:
Beyond words…
- Comment on Microsoft suddenly bans LibreOffice developer's email account, blocks appeal 1 week ago:
I’m not as in the loop these days - are some Linux pundits still trying the “maybe MS isn’t as bad as they used to be” line or have we learned again now?
- Comment on Microsoft admits it would have to let Trump spy on EU data if demanded 1 week ago:
I think my point is kinda that the whataboutism poster I blocked might have needed a reminder that the idea that “no one cared until it was Trump” is just another pro-Trump attempt to rewrite history, and untrue on the face of it, because it has never been difficult in the age of MS dominance to find knowledgeable people expressing these concerns.
However, and going back to my original comment and my underlying frustration that I’ve entertained this whataboutism for this long, like all examples of whataboutism it’s nothing but a waste of time where we all circlejerk about how of course we all cared about it even before Trump while simultaneously failing to call out the original statement of “no one cared about Trump” as the obvious bullshit that it is, on top of being whataboutism.
So now I get to walk away smugly congratulating myself for how thoroughly I’ve explosed the whataboutism, meanwhile all the time you and I spent thinking about and typing this could have been spent thinking up creative methods of civil disobedience, or otherwise doing something more valuable than impotently demonstrating what an inane point was made in the first place.
So next time, I’m just stopping at Goodbye, and the downvoters can fuck themselves.
- Comment on Microsoft admits it would have to let Trump spy on EU data if demanded 1 week ago:
I’m holding my breath for the pinephone to be ready for primetime. I check in on it every so often to see what the current buzz is.
- Comment on Lately, a great many people who used to say they didn't care about privacy because they had nothing to hide must be realizing what a flawed conclusion that was. 1 week ago:
I’d hope current events would be the counter argument. Take your pick regarding country/continent and event. I’m being intentionally vague to ensure I don’t run afoul of the rules of the sidebar, but there are legitimately many examples currently, some mentioned by others in this discussion.
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- Comment on Microsoft admits it would have to let Trump spy on EU data if demanded 1 week ago:
I haven’t used a Microsoft product in my personal life in twenty years. One of the primary reasons for that is that I don’t trust them with my privacy. People (gestures broadly at the tech space) have been expressing similar sentiment for decades.
We are not a monolith, and some people have cared about these things while others have not.
For those who only just began caring, I find it entirely reasonable that when the top of the pyramid wasn’t Trump, someone who there are a great many reasons to distrust, they weren’t as worried about it.
If you didn’t care about it until recently, only you can answer the question you have asked.
All of which is far more of an answer than the sheer whataboutism merited.
- Comment on Microsoft admits it would have to let Trump spy on EU data if demanded 1 week ago:
Goodbye!
- Comment on Microsoft admits it would have to let Trump spy on EU data if demanded 1 week ago:
Well, you are entitled to your opinion.
- Comment on Microsoft admits it would have to let Trump spy on EU data if demanded 1 week ago:
I’m guessing the admits part.
- Comment on Microsoft admits it would have to let Trump spy on EU data if demanded 1 week ago:
My assumption for many years now has been that the answer to any question involving MS giving access to your data is “yes.”
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- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
I’ve heard this.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Unless we win the lottery or my long lost cousin from somewhereelseistan calls to let me know they’ve got a spot for us, we’re sheltering in place unfortunately.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
You know I’ve had this feeling for a long time. But I really have it now.
Look at everything going on, everything he’s doing. If AOC (arbitrary example, but he’ll call any Democrat a “radical marxist” through the entire campaign no matter who it is) is elected in 2028, he and his handlers will go “well, at least it will take them a long time to unfuck things.” No, there’s no way that happens.
Maybe we’ll get an honest election and maybe we’ll learn the results of it. I don’t think he leaves in Jan 2029 without a fight no matter who wins, unless it’s Vance, and maybe not even then.
And to be clear, there’s no way the Dems will run AOC. We’ll probably get someone even further right than Kamala or Biden since it seems to be Republican votes they actually want now.
I only have hope for 2028 actually resulting in Trump no longer being president if the cheeseburgers take him before then, or the 2026 midterms are not only a blue wave, but also entirely above board and free of shenanigans.
- Comment on I've always liked names that describe your interests 5 weeks ago:
IRL an opener like that receiving a response like that would probably be a sign that these two people are absolutely made for each other, IMO. They’d probably be a fantastic couple and wind up growing old together.
- New wealth of top 1% surges by over $33.9 trillion since 2015 – enough to end poverty 22 times over, as Oxfam warns global development “abysmally off track” ahead of crunch talkswww.oxfam.org ↗Submitted 1 month ago to aboringdystopia@lemmy.world | 9 comments
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
It’s almost like everything Republicans claim to stand for is a hollow lie.
- Comment on You're not alone: This email from Google's Gemini team is concerning 1 month ago:
When a company gets criticized for everything it does, its decline increases significantly.
Gives me hope for the future of MS then!
- Comment on French city of Lyon ditching Microsoft for FOSS 1 month ago:
I dunno, between how clearly French people routinely and thoroughly let it be known that they will not be fucked with by their leadership and shit like this, if I win the lottery and get rich enough for some country to let me escape from the white nationalist oligarchy of the US, France is looking pretty good.
- Comment on So um, america just started another war in the middle east. We're going to need a shit ton more memes to americans from the nightmare they are enduring. Thanks in advance... 1 month ago:
- Comment on So um, america just started another war in the middle east. We're going to need a shit ton more memes to americans from the nightmare they are enduring. Thanks in advance... 1 month ago:
Being so far away with a huge military insulates us from the consequences of our actions abroad.
- Comment on Shit posts to Los Angeles. Literal fascist Nazi traitor behind illegal invasion visits our city. Post this shit to a state jail. 1 month ago:
Ffs this is not twitter, the point of communities is you don’t have to read about topics you don’t care,
I know! It’s super annoying when people do not conform to the stated rules of the community they post in!
- Comment on Defense Department signs OpenAI for $200 million 'frontier AI' pilot project 1 month ago:
the performer will develop prototype frontier AI capabilities to address critical national security challenges in both warfighting and enterprise domains.
So they want to let the plagiarism-machine conduct war now? Cool cool cool.
