[-] wanderingmagus@lemm.ee 3 points 6 hours ago

I don't think he's ever heard of "fragging", "mutiny" and the extreme disdain the enlisted already have for REMFs.

[-] wanderingmagus@lemm.ee 3 points 6 hours ago

Orders already routinely get ignored, it just doesn't get reported or logged. Maintenance isn't actually done as written, or in the periodicity specified. Corrective maintenance isn't actually done correctly, substitutions aren't actually authorized properly. Gauges aren't actually read, valves aren't actually checked, and the sentries are neither alert nor roving. The IDs aren't actually checked and the guard just waves people through unless there's an inspection going on and the supervisor is there.

That's not even getting to the officers sweeping all this under the rug to look good on evals. Or the commanding officers ignoring stuff to get the ball rolling faster than the next commanding officer, to get that promotion. Equipment failures don't get reported, personnel issues are just covered up - especially when everyone knows that so-and-so technician is doing this unauthorized vice, but we need said technician so nobody says anything, including back in Don't Ask Don't Tell. No, sir, I don't know where the flamboyant individual is, probably doing the extremely essential maintenance only they are qualified for, sir. Definitely not in the parts locker with another individual of the same sex, which I'm standing in front of to prevent you from entering.

Whoops, looks like the gender and sex record of the individual had a glitch at some point, must have been IT and Admin again, amirite? Well, the system says he is and has always been a man, sir, says it right there in the computer.

[-] wanderingmagus@lemm.ee 2 points 17 hours ago

Ask the women that got arrested for miscarrying their own baby, or were allowed to die after 40 hours of a half-born miscarried fetus hanging from them because doctors were unwilling to do anything that might be construed as aiding and abetting abortion.

[-] wanderingmagus@lemm.ee 5 points 1 day ago

You mean most of it isn't already?

[-] wanderingmagus@lemm.ee 1 points 1 day ago

He doesn't understand just how decentralized the military command structure is, and the enlisted-officer relationship that has existed for a very, very long time. Just because anything is written in a regulation and a high-ranking officer with a good idea fairy perched on his shoulder says something or orders something doesn't mean it happens. Or that the report back from down below is actually true. Officers that actually rise up through the ranks understand that they, too, should sleep with one eye open if the enlisted do not approve.

[-] wanderingmagus@lemm.ee 3 points 1 day ago

I suppose, then, that when "Palestinian" is only applicable in the past tense, it won't be a worse end-state, only exactly the same as the current state? That when people, like yourself and your entire family, are rounded up, that it "literally" won't be any worse than it is right now when you can still walk freely and aren't being literally tortured?

[-] wanderingmagus@lemm.ee 1 points 1 day ago

Joining mutual aid groups, coops, triple-checking that you don't have any subscriptions you don't absolutely need and doing your best to just use FOSS (it's free!) instead for the sake of your own limited paycheck, triple-check that you're taking advantage of the free programs and resources available to you like libraries and buy-nothing collectives, try growing a bit of your own food in used jars and buckets, encourage your children to also take advantage of the free resources they might not even know are available to them and ways to save even more by simply reusing every last bit they can if they aren't already? Get to know your neighbors if you have any time left in your day, parents of your kids' classmates? I don't know your situation - none of these might be realistic for you - but those are some of the free ways I could think of off the top of my head for preparing.

[-] wanderingmagus@lemm.ee 11 points 3 days ago

what kind of person

A billionaire. Especially an old billionaire, who doesn't give a shit about what happens to the planet because he won't see the consequences. A psychopath narcissist who doesn't care about anything except money - but I repeat myself.

[-] wanderingmagus@lemm.ee 3 points 3 days ago

I wonder how long the judge will maintain his sanity after disappearing into solitary as an "enemy of the state", and whether this will give him any comfort as he is beaten and waterboarded for funsies.

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An empty two story hotel lobby in Colorado, with room windows and sliding doors facing inwards, dimly lit by lamp posts. Empty chairs and sofas leave a wide open central space.

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Security company ADT disclosed in an SEC filing that hackers obtained “some limited customer information, including email addresses, phone numbers and postal addresses.” TechCrunch reports that ADT’s disclosure follows a seller on a cybercrime forum claiming last week that they had obtained more than 30,000 stolen ADT customer records.

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Security company ADT disclosed in an SEC filing that hackers obtained “some limited customer information, including email addresses, phone numbers and postal addresses.” TechCrunch reports that ADT’s disclosure follows a seller on a cybercrime forum claiming last week that they had obtained more than 30,000 stolen ADT customer records.

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A direct quote from the finance minister of Israel today: "Nobody will let us cause 2 million civilians to die of hunger, even though it might be justified and moral, until our hostages are returned."

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Google researchers have come out with a new paper that warns that generative AI is ruining vast swaths of the internet with fake content — which is painfully ironic because Google has been hard at work pushing the same technology to its enormous user base.

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Back in the 90s, Jeff Bezos went on record as hoping his employees would wake up on the wrong side of the bed—for the greater good, or for the customer at the very least.

Edit: Courtesy of @CatZoomies@lemmy.world :

Here’s the archived version to bypass the paywall:

https://archive.is/Uh2yl

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Back in the 90s, Jeff Bezos went on record as hoping his employees would wake up on the wrong side of the bed—for the greater good, or for the customer at the very least.

Edit: Courtesy of @CatZoomies@lemmy.world :

Here’s the archived version to bypass the paywall:

https://archive.is/Uh2yl

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Back in the 90s, Jeff Bezos went on record as hoping his employees would wake up on the wrong side of the bed—for the greater good, or for the customer at the very least.

Edit: Courtesy of @CatZoomies@lemmy.world :

Here’s the archived version to bypass the paywall:

https://archive.is/Uh2yl

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It’s almost laughable that these two stories happened so close to one another. The Australian government has just announced a pilot program to test an online age verification system

And then, just hours later, it was reported that law enforcement is investigating an apparent breach of club and bar patrons’ personal data, which the venues are required to collect by law for people entering such establishments.

When we talk about the privacy and data risks of age verification, this is exactly the kind of thing we’re talking about. When you’re collecting that much sensitive private data, you become a target.

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When Spotify announced its largest-ever round of layoffs in December, CEO Daniel Ek hailed a new age of efficiency at the streaming giant. But four months on, it seems he and his executives weren’t prepared for how tough filling in for 1,500 axed workers would be.

The music streamer enjoyed record quarterly profits of €168 million ($179 million) in the first three months of 2024, enjoying double-digit revenue growth to €3.6 billion ($3.8 billion) in the process.

However, the company failed to hit its guidance on profitability and monthly active user growth.

Edit: Thanks to @Zerlyna@lemmy.world for the paywall-free link: https://archive.ph/wdyDS

[-] wanderingmagus@lemm.ee 25 points 1 year ago

Not every country has a law which protects you like that, and some have the exact opposite law that actively goes after you for it instead.

[-] wanderingmagus@lemm.ee 26 points 1 year ago

How about we start right now? Just don't post anything related to him until it's actually confirmed to be actually happening and not just him shitposting.

[-] wanderingmagus@lemm.ee 33 points 1 year ago

Just goes to show that for all they claim to love the military, the GOP is emphatically not backing servicemembers. Not during service, and not after they separate or retire either, judging by how they keep cutting veterans benefits.

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