Have you noticed what’s going on with Marjorie Taylor Greene?

There is a small wing of the extreme right wing that is kind of like that “tea party” movement after the last Bush administration that is starting to question whether Trump has their best interests in mind.

If that continues to grow, and I do not believe Marjorie can stop it now that she’s started it, then America really is on a bonafide track to violent uprising. That momentum is why there is urgency over the upcoming open enrollment period, because doubling annualized healthcare costs will activate a LOT of conservatives when they see the whole year’s bill in front of them.

As much as left-wing politics makes people mobilize to march peacefully, it’s usually been the extreme right that has the weapons to take it from protest to open murder in the streets.

I think that administration officials know this, and that is why they are afraid of the protests.

They fear their own supporters if they become disaffected and they know that a bunch of lefties peacefully marching is going to signal permission for one of their own to start shooting(stochastically, statistically, not intentional permission nor official support for violence).

Oligarchs in America have the dangerous desire to enjoy American society using their very mortal fleshy bodies. Unfortunately, that requires enough support of the populace to not get murdered.

Sorry if it was a weird phrase. I just didn’t know if other racial identities were allowed/wanted there. I didn’t want to presume what the intent of the community founders was.

Thank you for your answer(and thank you to the others too).

Is Blacksky a racially self-segregated competitor to Bluesky?

I read the article and watch one of the videos linked in it and that’s the impression I got, but I’m hoping someone can confirm/explain.

I’m not on either network, so I think I’m woefully ignorant on this. I apologize if it’s a silly question.

During one of the mass exodus events from Reddit to Lemmy, a lot of people started using these tools they would install to automatically scrub and obfuscate their Reddit comments and posts history. Often these tools would replace posts with random letters and even nonsense links because there was suspicion that outright deleted posts could be detected and then programmatically restored if Reddit really wanted to get that user content back.

I suspect these tools probably exist for Lemmy as well and you are seeing users with long comment histories use them because those also happen to be the users who have a lot of previous content to cover up/obfuscate to maintain/ensure their own privacy.

Inject it with bleach! That’ll do the trick.

Iran’s government sucks, but this story really shows how the Iranian people are stuck between a rock and a hard place.

Regular Iranians have more in common with western social values than those of the Iranian government or Russia - it’s been that way before, during, and after the Iranian revolution.

Not sure what the answer is, but they keep trying to protest and resist their government every few years and they get violently forced back into submission.

Of all the countries with screwed up regimes, Iran is one where I think it’s more appropriate to encourage more fluid immigration into western countries - a lot of their working age population is relatively better educated than many other countries too.

I think they probably wake up thinking exclusively about how to increase their net worth, through politics and marketing, at the expense of low information voters.

A lot of the work they do is aimed at thwarting the business models of cyber criminals, scam sites, etc.

Their reviews are probably from the people who had a good thing going using bots to scrape PII or take advantage of free trials/free tier SaaS products but were suddenly put out of business by cloudflares captcha tools.

Yes it does. I would venture there are alternative solutions but I can’t imagine what they are in any detail, just generally:

Maybe these trucks operate more like trains and have a designated lane where motorists do not have to encounter them?

I think it’s a great idea to require a human attendant for giant autonomous machinery.

If the company does not provide the attendant, then the public is just going to shoulder that burden.

I am NOT going to protect or respect unattended property like an autonomous truck if it runs off the road or rams my vehicle or is a risk to my own safety, for example.

I’m pretty sure I’d be offended just having to ride behind it on the freeway as it drives precisely the speed limit in all traffic conditions - can’t say for sure until I’ve experienced it though.

Didn’t these jokers already try to overthrow their capital city, angling for a total annexation of Ukraine within the first few days of the conflict?

If Ukraine had not fought back, it’s statehood would have been history over a year ago.

Where should the outrage be? To whom should it be directed? What are the specific political moves that will change the behavior of the Israeli government?

I think these are the open questions floating around in the general world population right now. They are debated, but the answers aren’t really clear to a majority.

I won’t pretend to know for certain, but I think the outrage should be among Israelis and directed at their government because that’s the only direct way to change it’s behavior.

Alternatively, I guess a 3rd country’s citizens could pressure their own government to divest from Israel or otherwise pressure them to change their ways. Of course, that’s an indirect way to change the behavior of the Israeli government and does not address any preexisting reasons for aiding Israel in the first place.

Oh, that’s probably going to mitigate some of the risk. Hey, maybe it’ll be enough!

Haha, their take is pretty charged but it’s valid imo.

People’s Park was a major local landmark with a long history that is well known to students, faculty, residents, and alumni. It had become a home to otherwise homeless people whose existence was inconvenient for the university’s expansion plans and an eyesore to arrogant passersby.

The park’s history includes both civil and violent disobedience, including against the university itself.

It would not be surprising to hear that, whatever is built on this lot, it is subsequently destroyed by an act of arson or other vandalism.

I am surprised they are taking the risk and making the investment at all. IMO it would have been safer to just buy some of the private properties surrounding the park instead, even at a premium.

Bottom half are also Trumps family. It’s Melania and Barron, just 3rd? 4th? wife and most recent spawn.

You don’t think you’ve seen USAF stealth technology since the F-117s.

Nachos are just upgraded taco salad.

I went to a party where everyone was supposed to bring a salad and vote on the best one. I brought the nachos. The vote was unanimous.

Usage for what?

I think a promising way to defeat a giant for-profit corporation like Meta is by investing capital in many smaller non-profit corporations which can each focus more tightly on the fediverse while Meta spins off to focus on the next hype train a year from now.

Little non-profit companies can carve off small portions of the market for federated social media content and, if enough exist to carve it in small enough pieces, then giant corporations like Meta will focus on other markets that are less fragmented.

Sure, Meta might try to buy out the little guys and consolidate, but as long as the little guys keep investing in free and open source IP(not trademarked/copyrighted systems) there won’t be much room for Meta to technically differentiate themselves in a meaningful way to most consumers.