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- Comment on Is there a reason that all elected (not appointed) officials shouldn't be subject to a recall vote? 1 day ago:
Yeah, I’m not totally sure I would go as far as requiring criminal charges to kick things off, but their ought to be some restraints on recalls. Besides stability in government being at least somewhat important, it’s unfair to the past electorate who voted whichever candidate in for a given term to have a different electorate (because new people are always becoming eligible and other people are passing away or otherwise becoming inelligble) come along and mess with that.
- Comment on Is there a reason that all elected (not appointed) officials shouldn't be subject to a recall vote? 1 day ago:
Fair point in practice, but in theory that’s a campaign finance regulation problem not a recall election problem
- Comment on Achievable dreams 1 week ago:
Unfortunately (almost) anything you do for a living becomes a chore even on the best days
- Comment on A Wired analysis shows that ICE & CBP have collectively spent at least $515 million on products from Microsoft, Amazon, Google, and Palantir in the last few years alone. 2 weeks ago:
Eh, that’s what they’re trying to do, but that’s always what groups like them have tried to do throughout history and it never really works for very long. We aren’t reaching the end of anything, it’s just the next stage of the game.
- A Wired analysis shows that ICE & CBP have collectively spent at least $515 million on products from Microsoft, Amazon, Google, and Palantir in the last few years alone.www.wired.com ↗Submitted 2 weeks ago to technology@lemmy.world | 15 comments
- Comment on Income inequality 3 weeks ago:
*freebased
- Comment on EA invents new microtransaction nightmare as it breaks paywall promise on Skate: rent a playable area for 24 hours or buy a premium pass, bucko 3 weeks ago:
They’ve stopped trying to make fun and started trying to exploit psychological weaknesses and hijack our internal reward systems to rinse us of both time and money
Exactly, and the fact that Jeffrey Epstein was pro microtransactions really tells you the kind of scum we’re dealing with here
- Comment on 2 North American 4 you has been created 4 weeks ago:
Fusion kitchens are the best and maybe the only good thing to come out of colonialism
Well, there’s also a pretty good music that jazz doesn’t happen the way it did without putting European instruments in the hands of formerly enslaved Africans. Would be a lot cooler world if we could figure out how to evolve our art and culture without crimes against humanity, tho.
- Comment on 2 North American 4 you has been created 4 weeks ago:
How do you get the energy drink and nutrition supplements to stay in the taco
- Submitted 1 month ago to technology@lemmy.world | 2 comments
- How ICE is watching you: A rundown of some of the tech the government is deploying to identify and spy on usminnesotareformer.com ↗Submitted 1 month ago to technology@lemmy.world | 36 comments
- Comment on ‘Wall Street Sweetheart’ Kevin Warsh Picked to Run Fed After Changing Views to Match Trump’s | Common Dreams 1 month ago:
If you pick someone from the Hoover Institution don’t be too surprised when things going 1929 on everybody
- Comment on Noooooo 1 month ago:
I’m hearing that my summary won’t be helpful, so I don’t need to spend my time on this request, which certainly works for me. You are, of course, welcome to take any notes for yourself that you would find helpful, and I would be happy to review those if you would like.
Thanks for your time!
- Comment on Noooooo 1 month ago:
According to my recollection, you accepted full responsibility and pledged to do better going forward. You also promised not to embezzle any of the company’s money going forward, which was a weird thing to say unprompted.
- Comment on Noooooo 1 month ago:
Avoiding my calls because verbal conversations make you anxious? Fair enough, I will spend an embarrassingly long time to write, re-read, delete, re-write, re-read several times, re-delete, re-write a third time by blending versions one and two, re-read and realize I didn’t explain something, re-write and realize that something else is irrelevant, re-read and realize it wasn’t irrelevant because two paragraphs later etc. until I have a message that can’t possibly be misread, send it, and then agonize about writing something that was misread until I hear back from you while pathologically refreshing my inbox.
Saying you can’t talk now but scheduling a time for me later? Totally fair, you have a whole ass job outside of my stupid problems, if they can wait I will wait and if they can’t I’ll go back to paragraph 1.
Avoiding my calls because you think I’m dumb but won’t just tell me how I’m being dumb so I can try to make improvements? Congrats, my new work project is making your work life a living hell until you either quit or schedule a call with me where we can discuss preferred communication styles and how to demonstrate mutual respect.
- Comment on Bugger! 1 month ago:
Well that’s epistemological ephemera for ya
- Comment on Definitely the safest source for advice 2 months ago:
Easy there Camus
- Comment on Innocent African-American child George Stinney executed after being falsely accused of murdering two white girls | 1944 2 months ago:
There’s a real fuzzy line between confronting people with evidence of our brutality and just normalizing that brutality
Also, I feel like on this network more than others you’re just showing this to people who are already fully aware that horrific racist violence like this has happened and is happening
- Comment on What I feel like every fucking time I wake up and read this morning's news of a superpower becoming its worst. 2 months ago:
- Comment on Kohler Can Access Data and Pictures from Toilet Camera It Describes as “End-to-End Encrypted” 3 months ago:
I mean, if that one gains sentience and goes all SkyNet on us I’ll understand where it’s coming from
- Comment on Kohler Can Access Data and Pictures from Toilet Camera It Describes as “End-to-End Encrypted” 3 months ago:
Soon
"… the federal agency announced a 20 million dollar settlement with the individuals who claim the agent invaded their privacy when he accessed their toilet cameras without their consent. A source who did not wish to share their name said the department was initially given back door access as part of an undisclosed agreement with Kohler to further their investigation into ‘transgender crime’ and further anti-drug smuggling efforts. When contacted for a statement on the matter, the department’s spokesperson stated, “Fuck off, lib.'”
- Comment on Fuckin' PSYOP 3 months ago:
is working splendidly
Is it?
- Comment on Sony’s Concord Is Playable Again Thanks To Fan-Made Custom Servers 4 months ago:
Also basically every chapter of Habitat for Humanity has a home repair program people can apply to
- Submitted 4 months ago to games@lemmy.world | 1 comment
- After police used Flock cameras to accuse a Denver woman of theft, she had to prove her own innocencecoloradosun.com ↗Submitted 4 months ago to technology@lemmy.world | 149 comments
- Comment on OpenAI Says Hundreds of Thousands of ChatGPT Users May Show Signs of Manic or Psychotic Crisis Every Week 4 months ago:
That archive link wouldn’t load for me but this one seems to work - archive.is/HoGoV
- Comment on xkcd #3155: Physics Paths 5 months ago:
Nobody said it was your ruin
- Comment on ICE tries to kidnap random food delivery driver off the street. He jukes them on a foldable bike. 5 months ago:
Future pizza delivery guy outruns fascist enforcers sounds like an awesome low budget 80s movie but it’s not that much fun to actually live through
- Comment on It's depressing, man 5 months ago:
A lot of “stupidity” you see in the world is a result of anxiety and exhaustion proximately caused by individual poverty and bad infrastructure*, imo
*Infrastructure includes hard systems like transit and housing and soft systems like community organizations and government agencies imo
- Comment on 6 months ago:
If some historian a hundred years from now or whatever wants to say this moment represented a real turning point, please don’t
