Which is irrelavent when the vast majority of americans STILL don’t know the first thing about trump other than his slogans.

People genuinely take pride in not reading articles (or, as is obnoxiously common on lemmy, losing their god damned minds over a paywall). Same with how nobody watches the news and takes pride in “valuing my mental health”

The vast majority of those voters likely only knew about trump from a few clips from his rallies or hearing a “friend” talk about him. They never actually listened to a complete non-sentence or looked at any of the policy stances.

Which, to be clear, is not an excuse. It is an explanation.

The thing to understand is that people are deeply stupid and revel in their own ignorance.

Black males, like genz and hispanic males and…, mostly just said “I don’t like my life under Biden. We need a change” and voted for “the other guy”. Some were indoctrinated by their right wing (or tankie dumbfuck) influencers. Others just figured they were being cool and “we need to shake things up in DC”.

Yes. That is the security theatre part of it.

A metal detector would only matter if that were an electronically triggered shoe device. And the x-ray/“scanner”, as mentioned, has trouble distinguishing between different materials and also works best if it is an electronically triggered shoe device. A fuse and a lighter ain’t it.

Again. There are ways to actually be secure. That isn’t what TSA (or their national equivalents) is about.

So people were protesting. The cops opened fire, shot one of their own, and spun it as said protesters who

individuals dressed in black, military-style clothing began shooting fireworks and engaging in acts of vandalism at the facility,

Were ACTUALLY ambushing and trying to murder cops.

Don’t worry everyone. I don’t like musk any more than you do but you can’t deny that space x is amazing and perfect and sexy and not Jewish and will solve all problems because nobody else in human history ever thought of a reusable vessel!

And this is definitely a “good” reminder to reach out to a buddy at NASA

The bottle of water actually has real reasons behind it.

For the scanners the TSA (used to?) uses, it is REALLY hard to distinguish between liquids. Water looks like shampoo looks like hot sauce looks like the magic binary liquid that Bruce Willies had to solve riddles to save Hey Zeus from. So a bottle of “water” actually is a big safety concern… yet apparently a quart of miscellaneous liquids totally isn’t and I won’t expand on that because I am already on too many watchlists.

Which makes it kind of unique in that it is (was?) a very valid safety concern AND extra hilarious in that it highlights the theatre of it all because of that. It also gets MUCH MUCH funnier when international flights pretend it is about protecting ecosystems even though everyone just chugs their water or empties it into a bin.

For funsies, the shoes thing will probably end up being a huge headache but has different rationales. Back in the before times, everyone had metal buckles and eyelets and so forth on their shoes. That… really hasn’t been true for over 30 years where shoes are almost all rubber and plastics. But the former would trigger the metal detector.

That said? People who wear nicer boots still tend to have enough metal to trigger it (the bane of the pre-check line). So either they turn off the metal detector below the knee or EVERY queue is going to be the pre-check line at seatac.

Texas’s infrastructure is so horrible that you honestly don’t need a lot of warning to get the hell out.

Even “those clouds look kind of dark” is good odds of SOMETHING that will cause a disaster to some level.

If anything, I would have expected him to be super into NOAA just so he knows when to fly to Cancun.

What would be the point? It won’t change US politics and it will just incriminate “allies” like prince andy et al.

If trump/the fbi gave him a sufficiently exhaustive list of all of his children, I could see it. musk needs to get clean piss and spare organs from SOMEWHERE and it hurts his (father’s) life goal of single handedly making the (white) human race significantly balder in future generations.

In all seriousness, the “noveau rich” (of which the child of an emerald mine owner considers himself to be part) tend to be obsessed with their children. They think they are feudal lords who are going to use their children as bargaining pieces. So they might openly hate their families even more than the “old money” families, but they consider them their strongest bargaining pieces. And since musk is both…

Ahhh! Jump scare! Clicked the link and suddenly a rapist started talking.

Its important to communicate that this is not just revoking citizenship or deporting people (a LOT of us would be cool getting a free trip to Europe or Canada…). It is about putting people in concentration camps where they sidestep the legal system because they are not dealing with a citizen.

No.

I like AOC and I think she has demonstrated that, of the entire “Squad”, she actually knows how to be a politician and when to fight and when to bite her tongue.

She has zero chance of winning. First, this country has demonstrated that it will NEVER elect a woman. But second, she is still too young and the DNC will never give her that “Obama Moment” where she can win over the entire country in one speech. And third… republicans hate her so much that she would get shot at every single week AND would actually care about the people who took bullets for her.

Nah. I want AOC to stay in Congress. Not sure if she is more valuable as a Senator at this point, but she is increasingly showing she is well suited to being the politician who rallies and guides the other politicians. A Pelosi but not 90 years old and constantly pushing centrist viewpoints.

He is 100% a gun nut (although probably the only genuinely universal second amendment guy out there) but Karl over at InRange actually has a ridiculously good video that should be spread to all the right wing loonies in your life:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nppYglaJKa0

Yes, there is a lot of "great’ stuff for the fascists and isn’t it great to repeal all those nasty gun laws? And… we can argue about that later.

Selling off all the public and BLM land? Great, you can now put a silencer on your gatling gun you bought at Walmart. Where are you going to use it? You can now hunt deer with your Barrett but there is nowhere left for you to go hunting. And so forth.

I don’t use jellyfin but my general approach is either:

1. Expose it over a VPN only. I usually use Tailscale for this so that I can expose individual machines but you do you
2. Cloudflare tunnel that exposes a single port on a single internal machine to a subdomain I own

There are obviously ways to do this all on your own but… if you are asking this question you probably want to use one of those to roll it. Because you can leave yourself ridiculously vulnerable if you do it yourself.

As someone who used to work for an org: I got this bridge for sale. I’ll get it to you for a good price.

Generally speaking, those orgs are designed around punishing those who are so egregious that it can’t be covered up and going after peons committing time fraud.

But there is very much a reason that the dream of most workers is to negotiate a big purchase and they just so happen to buy new cars or leave for a private industry job with the contract winner shortly after. Same with how orgs outright structure their travel/reimbursement in ways that encourage misreporting and taking the most expensive options.

Again. If the goal were ACTUALLY to have “outsiders” identify fraud and waste, they would have found MASSIVE amounts. And most of it would actually make the average worker happier. Instead they just gutted the government and carved out more contracts for musk.

I’mma be honest:

If you have unconstitutional widespread access to the books of the US Government and DON’T find fraud and waste, you… are somehow even dumber than I ever expected.

The issue was never the lack of efficiency. The issue was that musk actively was not looking for it and was just tearing the government apart while making sure he got more handouts.

All signs are that he still has enough dirt and genuine threats to browbeat the republicans when it matters. There is a lot of argument toward making him do that rather than just assuming he will but that would involve the fucking democrats doing anything.

The only “hope” will be IF we have fair midterm elections and there is a blue wave. Suddenly “only trump can get you reelected” will be forgotten (or, more pointedly, they’ll remember how he has never been able to do that…) and it will just be the die hards who know there is footage of them doing Whatever in moscow.

Because it works.

kiwifarms has been doing this en masse for over a decade and others predated that.

It is gauche to link to it considering this is the umpteenth fucking person murdered by angry and hateful bastards. But Patrick Klepek, someone who has been targeted by these orgs for over a decade, wrote about this in the context of the emulator developer Near being murdered by kiwi farms et al a few years back https://www.vice.com/en/article/what-i-learned-from-near-an-emulation-legend-and-real-person/

He talked about it more on the Waypoint (now Remap) podcast, but it is very much an open secret that these hate campaigns are ongoing with the explicit goal of murdering their target (it is not fucking suicide if you were tormented until you picked up the gun). And how even fellow victims who usually will advocate for this kind of stuff are wary of raising their voices because they or their partner are semi regularly approached, in person, by these bastards.

My hope, as always, is that this will be the last time. That this will lead to focused efforts by those with platforms to speak out. The reality is that the mid tier “creators” will probably say something and give the trite “If you or someone you know is in crisis, please call the national suicide prevention lifeline”. Or, well, these days “the national slip and slide prevention lifeline” because gotta stay fucking monetized. And then they’ll remain silent. All while the biggies choose to stay fucking silent out of concerns of losing people in their audience who are part of those hate campaigns.

To be clear, I do not fault the people who are under attack and wary of reminding those murderers they exist. I specifically linked to Patrick’s post because he and the (now Remap) crew did an amazing job of explaining exactly what goes into this and how painful it is and why they are genuinely afraid to speak up.

I do very much fault the ludwigs and charlies of the world who will mention this for clicks and then never care again. And if the truly massive outlets were to speak out against this kind of harassment and reach out to the victims? Suddenly youtube and twitch and reddit and the like would care and start moderating this shit rather than laughing that kotaku in action and the like are so popular and only occasionally link to where the REAL hate and doxxing happens.

Fuck that.

Of course it has no chance of passing. That has absolutely no bearing on future attempts to impeach the dictator which also will have no chance of passing.

But you know what voting against it does? It tells the American People that the democrats in office support trump completely shitting on everything and unilaterally joining israel in a war.