If Tesla approves Elon Musk's $55b pay package after the year he's had then frankly they're dumber than he is, just absolutely wool-over-the-eyes conned by a personality cult.
@rodhilton We are currently at the stage that if I see you interacting with any musk product, I am considering you to be a moron. I believe this to be a reasonable stance to take given the circumstances.
A brilliant scam email I got this morning. I hope they do well. It's pretty easy to tell it's a scam from the return address: site@nl.autojoulonkarnal.fr
(It'd be a shame though if they started getting spam, too.)
A natural basic income experiment began in the mid-1990s and how the kids (now in their 30s and 40s) are doing is incredible. As adults, they have fewer drug problems and their average IQ is higher. By age 26, the benefits of the UBI exceeded its cost by 3-to-1 thanks to better educational outcomes and reduced spending on crime and medical care.
@scottsantens Every study of UBI has been overwhelmingly POSITIVE!!! Also every study of UBI has ended without enacting UBI. I suspect they will continue to study this until they get the result they want.
I just came across this TikTok "#boycott#Kelloggs for their #LetThemEatCereal for dinner" remark", and I love how clear the goal and mechanism to achieve it are: if enough people do this one fairly little thing for a full quarter, the powerful will notice, and can be forced to change their behavior.
Nowadays when I post something on my blog I almost always have to delete one or more comments that are highly offensive or outright attacking me verbally.
@bagder Just learn to think that every time you block someone it is a win. Feel good about it. Put a smile on your face and block the idiots, assholes, fascists, misogynists, racists, white supremacists, maga, trumpists, and losers. My block list is yuge!!!
@ilumium Which is why you should learn all the places where browsers store data, and delete them all, EVERY TIME YOU CLOSE YOUR BROWSER. I am beginning to believe I might be the only person on the planet with an internet connection who has never seen a targeted ad. I have been using computers for decades before the internet existed, and ran a world wide connected BBS prior to the internet.
The commander who gave the order to fire on the WCK convoy, Colonel (res.) Nohi Mendel, was a graduate of Ateret Kohanim, an extremist religious organization. His reasoning for ordering the attack: "if they've already delivered food, they're no longer under humanitarian protection." John Brown/Sebastian ben Daniel's point that the war criminals all turn out to be right-wing and religious strikes true again. https://www.ynet.co.il/news/article/hypzdd3ya
"The New York Times reports that Trump is planning to 'build huge camps to detain people,' and 'to get around any refusal by Congress to appropriate the necessary funds, Mr. Trump would redirect money in the military budget.’ "
"How many people? ‘Millions’ writes the Times. And not just immigrants: Trump is planning to send his enemies to them, too.”
@StillIRise1963 Since the day trump entered politics, the question of how hitler did what he did was answered. You are looking at it in real time. If you were ever curious what you would have done when hitler came to power. YOU ARE DOING IT NOW!!! If this is not the hellscape you want do something else.
I am running windows 10, today without warning microsoft decided to install something called copilot on my computer without my knowledge or permission. This is the last straw. Tomorrow I am going to go begin research on getting a new computer. I will be running some form of LINUX... Microsoft can go fuck themselves.
@Grant_M I have been playing with Linux since the 90s. I only have windows to play games but 99% of my gaming library will now play under linux. In fact the only game I have that will not run in linux will also no longer run in windows.