leadore

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[–] leadore@lemmy.world 16 points 2 hours ago

But it did achieve the actual goal, which is that it created a cloud of confusion where a lot of money was moved around and huge amounts wound up in the private pockets of oligarchs, who laughed while hundreds of thousands died.

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

No, I'm not saying anything about what we need, just providing some historical context around what brought feudalism to an end -- and replaced it with capitalism.

[–] leadore@lemmy.world 26 points 2 days ago (3 children)

In Europe, what ended feudalism wasn't so much a counteracting -ism, but the bubonic plague, which in the first wave wiped out nearly a third of the population, so many people that the remaining peasants' labor was suddenly worth a lot more, giving them much more bargaining power for better wages and working conditions.

See https://chronodigest.com/how-the-black-death-broke-feudalism/

[–] leadore@lemmy.world 43 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (3 children)

I think we should just keep the floppy disk symbol at this point, because it doesn't matter what it was originally based on or whether that exists any more--everyone knows what that symbol means, and it can't really be confused with anything else.

There's no point making an icon that looks like any other particular kind of storage device since those are changing all the time. So we either have to pick some real world thing like a safe or warehouse or grain silo or whatever. or invent some completely new symbol that's not related to anything and then everyone would have to learn it. Which takes us back to just keeping the floppy disk symbol.

[–] leadore@lemmy.world 22 points 3 days ago

"It was unanimous among those we allowed to vote."

[–] leadore@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

Serious? WaPo has been a joke ever since Bezos bought it. A pathetic joke.

[–] leadore@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I’ll bet the kids have zero clue how an estate is processed and will be deeply disappointed when the bills from all the current court cases from doing illegal shit prior to presidency (and during) eats it all up.

That could have been the case if hadn't been reelected. But he has already raked in billions since he got in office again. The corruption is much more extensive and blatant than the first term.

[–] leadore@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

This isn't some sudden new thing. Tyson has shut a bunch of its plants down (at least 8 or 10) over the last 2-3 years. They still have over 100 left, it's not like they're going out of business or anything.

[–] leadore@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

She needs to stop buying so many ~~pens~~ pencils, and limit her kids to two or three dolls, they don't need more than that. (yes Mangolini did say that regarding people upset about prices)

[–] leadore@lemmy.world 17 points 2 weeks ago

In response to the incident, a company spokesperson told NBC that “safety is our highest priority at Waymo"

In all the recent stories about Waymos cruising right on past stopped school buses that have their stop sign out, lights flashing, and kids crossing, they said the same thing. They also stated that Waymos "will not be taken off the streets for now." That's even though it's still happening even after they updated the software and thought they'd fixed it.

My first thought was, Why the hell do they get to say whether or not their Waymos will be taken off the streets?! Why aren't they being told to get the damn things off the streets until they've proved this won't happen again? Have we all just completely rolled over for the oligarchs to the point where we just let them do anything they want even after they've killed animals and nearly killed schoolchildren? (that's a rhetorical question of course).

[–] leadore@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

Yes, but a lot of people say them incorrectly, like "no problemo" with all the diphthongs, instead of "no hay problema".

[–] leadore@lemmy.world 12 points 2 weeks ago

Tug o'snake

 

During a remarkable hourlong session with Bovino on the witness stand Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis instructed the 30-year border patrol veteran to get his own body-worn camera and send her every use-of-force report — and accompanying body-cam footage — filed since “Operation Midway Blitz” began nearly two months ago.

While she stopped short of finding any specific violations had occurred, Ellis ordered Bovino to appear before her in open court at 5:45 p.m. each weekday to go over any uses of force from that day. The appearances would be required until at least Nov. 5, when Ellis is scheduled to hold a full hearing on a preliminary injunction.

The judge said that since she’s sure Bovino would not simply ignore a court order, the only explanation for what she’s been seeing on videos sent to her by the plaintiffs is that her order is simply not clear enough. “So I thought it would be a really good idea to go through it so that we are on the same page,” she said.

 

Against that backdrop, the order from U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis confirms journalists’ right to report and the public’s right to protest under the First Amendment.

“Whatever lawlessness is occurring is not occurring by peaceful protesters” and journalists, Ellis said after reading her decision aloud. Some actions by federal agents “clearly violate the constitution,” the judge said. “Individuals are allowed to protest. They are allowed to speak. That is guaranteed by the First Amendment to our Constitution, and it is a bedrock right that upholds our democracy.”

The order also requires federal agents to wear badges or other “visible identification” so the public can know who they are, with exceptions for those officers who work undercover.

 

The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) provided the following template language to establish employees' out-of-office notifications.

"Furloughed Employees: Thank you for contacting me. On September 19, 2025, the House of Representatives passed H.R. 5371, a clean continuing resolution. Unfortunately, Democrat Senators are blocking passage of H.R. 5371 in the Senate which has led to a lapse in appropriations. Due to the lapse in appropriations I am currently in furlough status. I will respond to emails once government functions resume," the text read.

However, multiple furloughed employees at the Department of Education report their out-of-office replies were automatically reset to mimic the language above – without their permission.

"They changed our out-of-office message… [They] did it after everyone left," one department of education staffer told ABC News. "[I'm] so pissed," they said.

 

Rafie Ollah Shouhed, 79, suffered multiple broken ribs, elbow injuries and a traumatic brain injury during the Sept. 9 incident, according to the federal tort claim filed by his attorneys.

According to his claim, when Shouhed attempted to show agents proof of his employees' work authorization, agents "cursed at him" and "violently body-slammed him onto the pavement." Three agents then allegedly pinned him down, with one placing a knee on his neck, the claim stated.

"You don't f--- with ICE. We are here," agents responded, according to the claim.

 

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.

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