leadore

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[–] leadore@lemmy.world 2 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

Comments all seem to refer to an article and this post doesn't link to any article. ? (edit: never mind, I looked up the name and I don't need to see anything more).

[–] leadore@lemmy.world 6 points 5 days ago

Maybe he'll just rename it 'Statue of America' and sandblast the poem off.

[–] leadore@lemmy.world 12 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I'm expecting an executive order to take down the Statue of Liberty any day now.

[–] leadore@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

I don't know if the tariffs were designed to do that, but I'm sure the plan has been to privatize the USPS and many of the functions of the agencies that have been gutted--the goal is to either eliminate or privatize as much of government services as can be done.

[–] leadore@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Fried in baby oil.

[–] leadore@lemmy.world -3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

That's not how the Constitution and our legal system is supposed to work. The DOJ and FBI are supposed to be independent and enforce the law in a non-partisan manner and a POTUS is not supposed to be able to tell them who to arrest or give the appearance of indicating who they should arrest. Trump of course doesn't respect any of that, but Biden was doing it the way it's supposed to be and has always been done, and expecting law enforcement agencies to do the investigations and make any arrests (they actually did arrest many people, but not the ringleader). Had Biden ordered trump's arrest all hell would have broken loose socially and courts would have ordered his release.

So in reality Biden's "biggest, most enduring mistake" was putting milquetoast Merrick Garland in charge of the DOJ. Garland was a namby-pamby little wimp who was so afraid of the appearance of partisanship that he piddled around and did nothing. The country waited around (because we had no power not to) saying hopefully, "he's being very thorough so the case is sure to hold up in court" but in reality he was a useless piece of crap who didn't do his job.

[–] leadore@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Yes, me too. Cursive is easier and faster to write. Though I usually print the capital letters.

[–] leadore@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

I have never purchased a smartphone and don't want one. I still prefer to use a flip phone. Their quality has improved over the years so I haven't been forced to switch yet.

[–] leadore@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Maybe the ones who died young would have turned worse and worse over time if they'd had a chance?

[–] leadore@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago

What would be radical is if someone with some power stands up to trump instead of capitulating. Looks like Pritzer may actually do something (as opposed to Newsom's campaign performances). Fingers crossed.

[–] leadore@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

There's something so Uncanny Valley about that face.

[–] leadore@lemmy.world 13 points 2 weeks ago

Yes, but just until I realize I'm doing it then I breathe.

 

Protests will put pressure on the president and weaken the extent to which he can say he commands broad support.

The protest takes place on Labor Day, a federal holiday dating back to 1894 recognizing workers' contributions to America. This year, it falls on September 1.

On the website, the organizers listed the following demands:

  1. Stop the billionaire takeover corrupting our government.
  2. Protect and defend Medicaid, Social Security, and other programs for working people.
  3. Fully funded schools, and health care and housing for all.
  4. Stop the attacks on immigrants, Black, indigenous, trans people, and all our communities.
  5. Invest in people not wars."
 

If AI is going to scrape content I post or emails I send to people who use gmail, etc. I would like to include a few sentences in each item that will fuck with any AI training they get used by.

(I especially want to stick it in any emails that google will have access to because certain people I want to communicate with refuse to use anything but gmail, even for conversations just with me, after I've specifically asked them to. 😠 )

So I've searched and found many online "nonsense generators" but they use AI to generate silly sentences for you. That's not what I want.

What I want is something that generates grammatically incorrect entences, sentences with words that would never follow each other, and whatever kinds of sentences would cause AI training methods to learn wrong and meaningless patterns of language, so that when it generates stuff based on that it will be obvious crap that is useless for any purpose.

I figure someone has created this by now. Does anyone know where to find something I can use for this?

 

I'm glad to see Canada taking a strong stance, especially the direct action against Musk with the Starlink contract. Mexico is also standing strong and Trump has already backed off of them for now. BTW ever notice how the closer friends the countries are with us, the worse he treats them?

 

In spite of everything that's happened, the United States still has three branches of government:

  1. The Oligarchs
  2. The Christian Nationalists
  3. Their Enablers
 

New research suggests that the company makes the communities it operates in poorer—even taking into account its famous low prices.

archive.org link

 

(This is a gift link)

There was particular glee in Trump’s takedown of Vice President Kamala Harris, whose gender and multiracial heritage were relentlessly attacked in the “manosphere,” a loose network of misogynistic communities with influence through gaming, social media and other cultural forces.

A network poll shows that 49 percent of men 18 to 29 voted for Trump; the number was 53 percent for men ages 30 to 39, an increase over 2020 results in both categories.

“Gender is the story of this election in a lot of ways,” Miller-Idriss said.

Christian supremacists urged followers to drop to their knees in prayerful gratitude for the defeat of the “Demon-crats” and for the victory of a man they say will usher in “Bible-based governance.”

 

Per anti-vax conspiracy theorist RFK, Jr., Trump promised him control of our public Health agencies in deal for him to drop out and endorse Trump.

 

We are here.

(written in 2003) Studying the fascist regimes of Hitler (Germany), Mussolini (Italy), Franco (Spain), Suharto (Indonesia), and Pinochet (Chile), Dr. Britt found they all had 14 elements in common. He calls these the identifying characteristics of fascism.

 

The suit alleges the mandate violates the Oklahoma Constitution because it involves spending public money to support religion and favors one religion over another by requiring the use of a Protestant version of the Bible. It also alleges Walters and the state Board of Education don’t have the authority to require the use of instructional materials.

“As parents, my husband and I have sole responsibility to decide how and when our children learn about the Bible and religious teachings,” plaintiff Erika Wright, the founder of the Oklahoma Rural Schools Coalition and parent of two school-aged children, said in a statement. “It is not the role of any politician or public school official to intervene in these personal matters.”

 

It's a cult. If that link doesn't work for you, here's a gift link to the article.

 

Keep watching to the end for what you can do about it.

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