I hope he never has another moment of peace in his entire life until Flock is abolished. Even then…

35% to the lawyers

15% to court, state, lawyer administrative costs

40% to Governor’s cousin’s LLC established since last Tuesday specializing in child online safety issues according to their website which goes on to read “would you like me to create promotional flyers and other materials in addition to the website”?

15% nobody can trace where it went - but did you know BOYS are playing GIRL sports?!

25% to a program that passively encourages risky online behavior

20% to pro-business tax breaks

That’s right taxpayer, you’re gonna need to chip in for the extra 50%.

“up to” over 10 years, which means they’ll pay 1.8B this year, a massive 3% of annual income, for now and find a way to get out of this before the decade is up

Maybe read the email they sent you in the first place

That’s no way to get into management.

Yes! Entirely too many movies dwell in historic facts or likeliness (e.g. two characters small talking about the big ball game- not a documented event but entirely plausible) to ground themselves then go into fantasy/ax to grind land without warning. A cyborg raptor with lasers on it’s head should pop up in the corner to let the audience know we’re in fantasy land.

I agree. Our starting position is all flock cameras should be taken down and then shoved up Garrett Langley’s ass. Every single one of them.

Now let us come to the table and find a compromise.

I suspect the Mandala Effect is what happens when timelines/realities collapse/fold into one another. Us humans are bad are perceiving when these things happen because we simply wrap it in an SEP field and go about our lives, but sometimes little leftover details catch our attention.

We need politicians with actionable plans worth voting for

Reading is hard, yo

Great context. Though you should probably change all that talk of the US funding research to the past tense, or the in-freefall-collapse-as-budgets-are-slashed-and-political-goons-replace-science-advisors tense, which is rarely used but the current situation fits.

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I’ve found fanbases are often split between the best and worst people around without much in the middle. It usually comes down to WHY they enjoy the thing.

Star Trek space travel and the social commentary versus pew-pew. R&M science fiction concepts versus being a drunk asshole. Warhammer as satire versus …whatever they think it is.

Now look, you can think lasers are cool or that one jerk is funny, but if that’s all you got… yikes.

I really have a hard time reconciling the Trek fans with the shows. Like, how did a person watch [insert any Picard speech] and end up this way?

Yes, middle school level reading skills are super deep.

Yes, costs are higher now relative to income, but demands also are.

There is a dangerous underlying logic to this line of reasoning. Treating all technological innovation as an added cost to be borne by the end consumer leads to one inescapable dead end. Yes, sometimes there are actual costs. If so, fine. However, this blanket notion of hedonic price adjustment increases wealth inequality with no end. It isn’t a sensible and we should be thankful our ancestors were not so foolish or we’d all be living in trees or caves right now.

This is one of those situations where I’d have to write an essay to dive into everything wrong. I’m not going to do all that just to have you say “nu uh”. Here’s one example:

The title is “I can’t use Linux! It’s too hard!” yet the crying bell curve person in the middle is literally using Linux.

Did you mean for the title to say “the terminal”? That would change things. But that’s sort of my point, everything has this one off LLM vibe.

I didn’t say people there were satisfied with the status quo. I said they had fantasy-based thinking instead of actionable plans and, for some reason, are letting the GOP sane-wash itself so long as they blame what they did on Trump. Both of those actions are quite anti-status quo. They’re also really, really stupid.

This is 100% the wrongminded mentality we are talking about. We need systemic change to how we vote. We need politicians with actionable plans worth voting for. We need people who understand how voting ACTUALLY works in this country. But nah, man, just fucking vote! That’s the solution!!1!

Did AI write this? It has that weird detachment from understanding the meme format, what the people are saying, and the point of everything that LLMs tend to get just right.

I tried Bluesky. I noticed two overwhelming trends that led to my hasty departure:

Wishful thinking left-wing politics. Encouraging people to pretend like how things ought to be is how things are, and to act accordingly. This is lazy and disastrous thinking, both because it overlooks the real systemic change that needs to happen to get to where you want to be. Though, in fairness, there is quite a bit of this on Lemmy too.

Extremely popular poster who spent their entire careers making the Trump presidency a certainly trying to back pedal on Trump specifically. No mention of their awful ideas they still keep and spread that lead to such an outcome. Lots of thumbs up and people saying “see, they get it” while also not connecting the dots, as if Project 2025 fell from the sky and wasn’t the product of decades of effort.

It’s an idiot convention.

We must change everything we’ve been doing the past 80 years to be far and away #1 in the world if we want to continue to be #1 in the world. Trust me, bro, I’m a political hack.

It sure is neat watching the USA destroy every advantage it has to boost short term profits for a select few.