Things would get pretty bad during and after a revolution as well.

If the authoritarians win - shit gets 100x worse for everyone “for the sake of security”

If the revolutionaries win there is a good chance those that become the new head of state aren’t going to be much better and/or now that it’s been proven that revolutions can change governments whose to say that another one doesn’t break out because the new government isn’t doing stuff “right”. This becomes a bloody spiral with no real end.

Saying we need to revolt without really looking at the long term consequences of that action is foolish.

“Hey my wheelchair bound friend wants to visit.”

“Um… uh… well… Do you think they will mind sleeping in their car?”

Interesting that she references following Jesus, being kind to your neighbors and accept people for who they are . … yet this POS did and does everything her in power to keep LGBTQ+ people, brown people, people with “funny” accents, down and persecuted.

It’s great to see cracks in the MAGA world but she is not a good person.

I believe that the reason for the layoff was due to the debt they took out to build data centers which was ~$10 billion so in order to not be too upside down they laid off 30k employees to save on payroll. I could be wrong on this fact, since I don’t completely trust the source I got it from. But sounds like something Oracle would do.

Interestingly I thought this was going to be about Fetterman …

There is a group, unfortunately large, in the political sphere that can’t fathom there being people too poor to go to Starbucks. Their world view is that the poors are only making 80k a year (which is poor to them). We have some really old, really wealthy, and really out of touch people in leadership positions in this country.

If it’s not from the German region then it’s just a sparkling WW

“If you decide to go with your ego and not with your head, you are leaving behind dozens of wealthy people from all over the world who will know that you performed market manipulation and stole from them. They know who you are, you don’t know who they are. It took them less than 5 minutes to find out exactly where you live … how often you see your lovely parents … and exactly who your … brothers and sisters are.”

So the guy threatening the journalist to change his story so the gambler can make money isn’t market manipulation, but the journalist not changing his story is…

What scary about this, and it was mentioned in the article, is how future stories by less than ethical “journalist” can be purchased so that one side can become rich. Fuck accuracy it’s all about the money.

Well it’s not like that is already the case with social media, but I would like to think there is at least some aspect of reporting that is based in ethics and truth.

The contents of which will read -

“If you or your shell company owns 50+ single family homes and/or 20+ apartment buildings then you’ll be able to buy 500 more of either, or a combination of both fully subsidized by the American tax payer. If you don’t have any home then fuck off!”

Costs of the 20-year war on terror: $8 trillion and 900,000 deaths

I’m sure the Department of defense war planned for this … right? … RIGHT?

I know I’m crazy to say this but shouldn’t this read: CONGRESS say… not trump?

The only president in US history to have been impeached twice

The only president in US history to have been convicted of 34 felony charges as well

There was a story from the podcast ‘Darknet Dairies’ where it was discovered that a journalist’s phone had tracking software uploaded to their phone in a zero click text. The target’s phone received a text in the middle of the night that uploaded the software and then deleted any history of the text being received. I think this is one of features of the Pegasus software sold by the NSO Group. And that was 5 or 6 years ago.

Right. There were many times while on Reddit that I wanted to contribute something to the discussion but ended up deciding it’s not really worth the effort, it would never get seen. Until that fateful day my last comment was seen… Lemmy ever since.

Happened to me 3 years ago for calling trump supporters dumb rednecks - turns out I was wrong; there is an unfortunate diversity in this demographic. But honestly I haven’t really missed Reddit and enjoy the slow pace of Lemmy more.

…And yet no one in power right now will push back against it because they don’t want to be seen as “weak on defense”

HA! yes. I knew I spelled it wrong just to lazy to edit my post - thanks!

This feels like gorilla marketing to me. They knew the judge would tell them to take them off and it would be just enough of a sensational story to make it to press. Now more people know that Meta has these glasses.

Edit: I’m not changing it. The responses to my mistake are too funny

“HAKEEM! get the paper! I’ll get the pen and meet me in the cafeteria for another ‘strongly worded letter’ writing session!”