jonne

Yeah, MAGA is just an expression of the things set in motion by the Powell Memo (in some ways Trump hijacked that infrastructure for his own profit instead of sharing amongst the other sponsors of that plot). All those conservatives in the courts and in safe red districts will just stay where they are and spin up some new 'movement' like the Tea Party before it.

Conservatives can easily be convinced to believe the opposite of what they believed just a few years ago, look at how they turned in George W Bush basically effortlessly.

I mean, you could probably use them that way, but there's no indication that they were planning on doing that. One of those devices is only ~$3000, so if you want to spam all of New York and the upside is a bunch of people sending you their life savings it's not exactly an investment that's out of reach for your average crime syndicate.

State actors would probably hack into the Telco systems themselves instead, which you can do without needing to be on the ground. Or they'd keep their DDoS device in their embassy and do it from there.

This looks like the gear normally used by gangs that do text spam scams, what makes this exactly out of the range for a run of the mill criminal syndicate? Unless they have some other information that they're not sharing?

Oh FFS. Guess I'm just going back to piracy, somehow the most moral option.

Yeah, looks like it does, but it doesn't appear to have all the podcasts I follow on Spotify.

Yeah, I'll probably look at Deezer (if it also has podcast integration). The Spotify app has become more buggy and shit over the years anyway.

First band on my playlists that is actually removing their music. I'll probably need to look at an alternate service now. Or build my own service.

Of course, this is definitely not just Kamala, this is a Democratic leadership issue, has been since Carter. Biden would've faced the same issues.

It's definitely the core of the issue. Trump ran on cost of living issues and deporting immigrants (which is essentially a cost of living argument as well to a lot of people, even if empirically it's a policy that has an opposite effect).

Kamala ran on essentially upholding existing institutions, 'democracy' and hanging out with the people that got the US into the Iraq war.

A lot of people picked the lying conman over the person that didn't even promise to do the bare minimum. If the government doesn't work for the people (and granted, a lot of it is due to Republicans cynically sabotaging things at every level), people will vote to change it one way or another.

Raising half a billion more than Trump didn't do her a lot of good. Maybe next time a candidate should try running on what the people want instead of the donors.

Only when she's not running for anything.

I mean, if you're not trained for a dangerous task and your employer still requires you to do it, and you get hurt, there should definitely be consequences for that employer.