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DrALJONES, 27 days ago to random

Analysis: recent poll on voter intentions

About half of all voters would replace both candidates on the ballot.

62% of Biden-supporting voters would replace Biden.

Voters have little confidence in either Trump or Biden, including re fitness for office, personal ethics & respect for democratic values.

Pew research shows 49% of registered voters favor Trump, while 48% support Biden.

https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2024/04/24/in-tight-presidential-race-voters-are-broadly-critical-of-both-biden-and-trump/?utm_source=Pew+Research+Center&utm_campaign=0c78f7e640-Weekly_4-27-24&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-0c78f7e640-%5BLIST_EMAIL_ID%5D

#2024Election #USPol ..

mekkaokereke, 1 month ago to random

People on Twitter are debating whether a person using uncommon words like "delve" are trying to sound smarter than they are, or worse, are ChatGPT bots, because "normal" people don't talk like that.

You don't have to get upset, or embroiled in the debate. Not worth the time or attention. But I'll share some important context as your friendly neighborhood Nigerian 🙋🏿‍♂️

Many Nigerians have bigger English language vocabularies and better command of grammar than the typical American or English person

skykiss, 1 month ago to random

It’s always been obvious. Trump’s been a Russian operative–or a useful idiot for them–from the get-go. Remember 2016, when he openly requested that Putin interfere with our elections. Since then, it’s been a lovefest.

There's a reason adjudicated fraud, sexual abuser, defamer, and 88 felonies charged Trump cozies up to Putin. Putin helped Trump win his first term, and now Trump owes him. It was never about 'America First', it's always been about satisfying the dictator he's indebted to.

It all started in 1987 when the KGB paid for his trip to Moscow. In 2008 when Dmitry Rybolovlev bought his palm beach property for twice what trump had just paid for it…(and I have no doubt there are even earlier data points for when putin began grooming trump)…imagine how easy it must have been for a KGB agent to dupe him.

#comprised #disloyal #traitor #putinstooge

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DrALJONES, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to random

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hakona, 2 months ago to random

For food originalists, this rerun is gospel: Opinion | America forgot how to make proper pie. Can we remember before it’s too late?

https://wapo.st/4912u7D

> Americans invented the dessert we call pie. Why are they letting it die?

dangillmor, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago) to random

The New York Times is now visibly working -- from the "news" side of the operation -- to undermine Biden's re-election.

More than most of Big Journalism, it has been thumping the right-wing-generated "he's too old" drum even before the 2020 election. The poll published today, from my perspective, is designed to further a narrative that the so-called Paper of Record has done so much to create.

I thought a new top editor might be an improvement. Kahn has been, in fact, a disaster.

MadeyeTheCarnaptious, 2 months ago to random

"[Scotland] would tend to be in chronic surplus to a quite embarrassing degree and its currency would become the hardest in Europe, with the exception perhaps of the Norwegian kroner."

Read the 1975 McCrone Report in full. Then reflect on why it was buried by successive UK governments for three decades and is still taboo at Westminster.

"The McCrone Report coverage has no paywall. We believe it is vitally important that everybody can access it."

#RememberMcCrone 1/2

https://www.thenational.scot/news/17461406.westminster-doesnt-want-read-mccrone-report-full/

StillIRise1963, 3 months ago to random

Calling Citizen Trump "transitional" leaves out the CRIMINAL part.

drewharwell, 3 months ago to random

New: Inside the massive FBI investigation into investors of Trump Media's merger ally. A Russian owner of a Caribbean bank and a Miami "granddaddy" of weed-shop finance made tens of millions on insider trades into the big Truth Social deal, court docs show. But federal agents were on their tail - with an undercover informant, secret phone scans and a money-laundering scheme they called the “full Singapore" https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/02/03/trump-social-dwac-investigation/

RickiTarr, 4 months ago to random

My Friends, may I present the best thread of the day:

https://mstdn.ca/@michaelgemar/111750731123332307

RustyBertrand, 4 months ago to Palestine

Apartheid Clyde is banning the big accounts on Twhitler that talk about #Palestine or criticize #BillAckman

It must hurt Elon physically to be so anti-Jew yet so pro-Zionist.

#cognitivedissonance

I guess as long as they help with his ethnic cleansing goals.

amiserabilist, 4 months ago to random

joey meme phoebe:I'm a medical coder for 10+ years. joey:I'm a medical coder for 10+ years. phoebe:I have yet to see a patient getting treated for measles joey:I have yet to see a patient getting treated for measles phoebe:mumps, tuberculosis, diphtheria, rubella, or pertussis. joey:mumps, tuberculosis, diphtheria, rubella, or pertussis. phoebe:These vaccines need to be given. joey:These vaccines have no need to be given.

Gargron, 5 months ago to random

It’s hard not to say “AI” when everybody else does too, but technically calling it AI is buying into the marketing. There is no intelligence there, and it’s not going to become sentient. It’s just statistics, and the danger they pose is primarily through the false sense of skill or fitness for purpose that people ascribe to them.

RickiTarr, 5 months ago to random

One of the things that drives me crazy is the people who are constantly saying we need to go back to our roots, eat, sleep, and live like Amazon tribes or Neanderthals. If you do any research at all, this is just a ridiculous concept. Especially when you the are also encouraging people to reject modern medicine in favor of "natural" medicine. Now I understand that our current modern medical establishments are rife with issues, and I'm not denying or excusing that. But let's just address basics, life expectancy, only about 20% of Neanderthals made it past 40 years of age, and the average life expectancy for modern Amazonian tribes is 53 years. Being that I am now 42, I'd like to live a little longer than that, and the reason I can is MODERN MEDICINE, access to clean water, good and plentiful food, living indoors when it's too cold or hot, working jobs that aren't as physically demanding. Telling people that if they go back to some kind of traditional past lifestyle, that they will live a healthier happier lifestyle is a falsehood and a dangerous one. Get medical advice from a medical professional, who bases their research on science, not some person on YouTube who bases their ideas on things that seem true to them.

I'm sorry this was so ranty!

hakona, 5 months ago to random Norwegian Bokmål

I #FollowBack anybody who looks like a real person. That means having done some posts or having a profile picture or /something/

hakona, 7 months ago to random Norwegian

I dagens utgave av #EngelskeGloser har vi "girt". Vi holder på spenningen og venter litt med oversettelsen. Ordet finnes i den Australske nasjonalsangen, derav denne tuten: https://aus.social/@dgar/111149967471011729 . Teksten finnes nederst her:
https://www.australia.gov.au/our-country . Da kan vi røpe at det er fortidsformen av "gird" altså girt = omkranset.
@dgar

hakona, 8 months ago to Ukraine

Looks like fires in #Ukraine are mostly happening in the occupied areas the last 24 hours (C) Economist. Used without permission.

Loukas, 8 months ago (edited 8 months ago) to random

Edit: deleted ablist nickname for the Swedish king

atomicpoet, 11 months ago (edited 11 months ago) to internet

People are asking me what I think about #Meta joining the Fediverse. To review what I've said elsewhere, it's important to acknowledge five important realities:

1. Meta can use ActivityPub, and nothing can be done about it. Fediblock doesn't prevent Meta from using ActivityPub because ActivityPub is an open protocol.

2. A mass Fediblock (Gab style) is not happening. The big servers aren't doing it. And if the big servers aren't doing it, the medium and little servers don't have the power to enforce a mass Fediblock.

3. The majority of people on the Fediverse don't care -- and many of them even want to connect with Meta. I know, this might surprise you. But based on my observations, most people won't be leaving mastodon.social because it federates with Meta.

4. Even if the majority of Fediverse servers blocked Meta, that would still mean that certain unsavoury servers (which shall be unnamed) will likely connect with Meta -- and I certainly don't want those servers to be the face of the Fediverse for people who use #P92

5. Even if Meta pulled a Truth Social and didn't connect to the Fediverse, that does not prevent them from sucking up all that data from ActivityPub -- seeing how that data is, in fact, public.

Am I saying there's no value in blocking Meta? Not at all. Yes, block them if you don't want to send and receive messages to P92. Will that prevent Meta from seeing your messages? As I said, no, not at all. But at least that's data you haven't directly given to Meta (unless you're allowing RSS on your server). And it will also mean you won't receive messages from Meta -- if that's your purpose, blocking is good.

Now I've come to believe that when Meta joins the Fediverse, the Fediverse will largely be divided into three factions:

Faction 1: Servers that federate with Meta
Faction 2: Servers that don't federated with Meta, but federate with servers that federate with Meta
Faction 3: Servers that don't federate with Meta, and don't federate with any server that federates with Meta

Factions 1 and 2 will probably go on their merry way. It's Faction 3 that I believe will die because it's ultimately unfeasible.

"But Chris!" some might say, "There's that pact!"

Unless all those servers in that pact are only federating via white labeled servers who've signed that pact, the pact is useless. Such white labeling would mean that every server that federates must be manually reviewed. And it means that every new server that joins the Fediverse will be federated with Faction 1 and Faction 2 before they're federated with Faction 3.

Which ultimately means that Faction 3 gets tinier and tinier, especially as churn occurs, and those users don't get replaced by newcomers.

In the end, what will federation via white label achieve? Not a whole lot, except make certain people believe they have done something substantial to fight Meta when they haven't.

At a certain point, we have to accept reality: Meta will use ActivityPub, and most people using the Fediverse will talk to them.

So am I waving the white flag?

Not at all. What's important to acknowledge here is that it's not we, the Fediverse, who have conceded. It's Meta.

It's Meta who have given up ownership of their own corporate-owned network effect in order to join the Fediverse.

Despite this concession from Meta, I'm not happy about them joining the Fediverse.

However, there's another consideration: for people who use Meta. it's an incremental improvement over what they had before -- which was no federation. Again, less worse is better than worse. If the world is slightly better -- even if it's not ideal -- it's still better.

Do I want people to use Meta-owned social networks? Not at all.

Here's where I disagree with 99% of people panicking about Meta: I believe ActivityPub will ultimately be Meta's own undoing.

And I want to hasten this undoing 😊

atomicpoet, 1 year ago to fediversenews

Meta’s ActivityPub-enabled Twitter competitor is moving ahead.

The project is called “Barcelona”.

It will be its own independent app, and it’s being pitched as “Instagram for your thoughts”.

How do you feel about Meta joining the Fediverse?

Here’s a screenshot of Barcelona.

https://www.socialmediatoday.com/news/metas-twitter-alternative-barcelona-is-taking-shape/648482/

@fediversenews

hakona, 1 year ago to random

Regular masculinity is fine. #ToxicMasculinity is not.

hakona, 1 year ago to fediverse

Just following some ppl at random to get my instance filled up with pro-#democracy content #fediverse