dezmd

@dezmd@lemmy.world
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Joined 1 years ago

You really don't get it.

Masking and distancing were already well establsihed as early recommendations for flu pandemic strategies for decades prior to covid.

All it needed was a goddamn network pork instead of a dialup modem and it would be alive today. DC was the best.

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Deinitely never editing that

This is pure corruption.

Meade was not wearing a body camera at the time, so there is no video evidence of the shooting.

Straight. To. Jail.

"The Climate Change Hoax" was the most poinant takeaway of the evening, alongside Pence getting fired up without mentioning Mother. It was a wild ride of bullshit with no real substance by a pack of propaganda clowns posing as candidates.

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Being American Requires Conformity to an Open Mind, Open Heart, Open Society, Open Cultures, Democratic Ideals, and Mutual Respect.

None of which this Superintendent Greg Poole demonstrates.

Edit: You know what, full on fuck Superintendent Greg Poole. Rules for thee, not for me:

May 1, 2008

https://www.chron.com/neighborhood/pasadena-news/article/Son-s-crash-has-Barbers-Hill-ISD-chief-in-hot-1790103.php

Key excerpts:

When Greg Poole was arrested and put in jail this past weekend, he said he was acting as a father and not as superintendent of the Barbers Hill Independent School District in Chambers County.

A Texas Department of Public Safety trooper has charged the Chambers County school superintendent with obstructing the investigation of an accident involving Poole's 16-year-old son.

The teen flipped his father's pickup and knocked over a utility pole about 3 a.m. Saturday on FM 565 near Cove, about 30 minutes east of Houston, authorities said.

The trooper arrested Poole for refusing to make his son available for questioning about the accident, the Texas Department of Public Safety said.

"Trooper Dunn asked him twice to produce his son, and he would not," said Stephanie Davis, Texas Department of Public Safety spokeswoman in Beaumont. "He never informed the trooper where he could find his son."

EDIT 2: Just to be clear, it's not the trying to cover for his son that is the problem to look at. As a parent myself, I get trying to protect your children even if it's poor judgement, everyone is allowed to make mistakes, child and parent alike.

What I CANNOT FUCKING ABIDE is the insane hypocrisy this fuck demonstrates through allowing exceptions to the LAWS for his child that he will defend and go to jail over, while demanding someone else's child fall in line to school guidelines that are malleable and far less rigid in both application and enforcement than any legal criminality. RULES FOR THEE NOT FOR ME.

When you objectively consider all of the information, it looks a hell of a lot like run of the mill racial prejudice.

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Ive had my ad blocker turned off for a week on Youtube. Theres a preroll ad on every video and a shitload of ad break mid video and at the last 3 seconds of a video.

Its the worst viewing experience I can imagine. I cut out Twitch and even stopped all my subs when they went mandatory ad viewing. Im full on ready for third party options in the same spirit as Lemmy.

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https://apnews.com/article/alec-baldwin-politics-new-mexico-state-government-clovis-prop-gun-shooting-4318dd3bce9974099a8cdb599264f876

This was always a political bag of bullshit. They even had to fund it as a special prosecution with legislation, going so far as to assign a special prosecutor that happened to also be a state Republican legislator.

The gymnastics people keep using to align blame for manslaughter onto Bladwin have slowly become accepted as if it is factual like propaganda is meant to do.

88 just happens to be a Nazi reference used by white supremacists. Curious coincidences.

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Attention everyone: Your mom and your dad had the sex, thats how you even exist. Some of them had a lot of sex. Some even had sex with other people.

Censorship is required for effective brainwashing. Fuck autoritarians, not in the fun way.

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Conservatives are already running as fake conservatives.

I still cant' get past his forced cry at his trail, with the little side eye peek to see if they were watching.

Well, thanks to Dwanye for becoming an arrogant coward at the exact time people need voices like his to help build up Democracy ideals.

His take is avoidance because he arrogantly thinks his previous endorsement of Biden caused division in America. That's wild.

The Audacity of This Bitch.

Imagine voting against Scottish Independence then getting fucked out of the EU immediately afterwards by Brexit.

Somebody woke up and realized that LLM AI is just search rebranded to get more VC funding.

FOSS implementations need to be encouraged and supported at every turn on this, it's almost certainly the only way forward with any reasonably open ethical consideration.

Still want LIF in my life.

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Just a way for Google to influence and force change on end users away from previously accepted standards, a strategy that allows them to further obfuscate attempts to DRM all media to make sure only authorized parties can play in the sandbox. Don't worry, they're trying to move the entire browser that way as well. Mandatory ads and mandatory DRM that can scan your cache and local files for possible violations are coming right goddamn behind it all.

WEBP is effectively a container format warped into a media compression format, it's strength that's actively exploited is obviously in saving a little bandwidth by (further) compressing and serving smaller sized cached webp files of existing jpg/png/gif/etc files to end users.

PNG (and JPG for that matter) has worked just fine for static image files for decades, but that was a community project created to work around the patent encumbrance of GIF so there's not money to be made and nothing to embrace/extend/extinguish by the big patent happy corps by allowing it to retain status as a 'standard' in active use. Bandwidth, processing power, and storage have come a long way since PNG started giving us better quality than JPG's inconsistent compression artifacts.

/waves old man cane around in the air in a threatening manner

"Glitch"

LGBT support is framed in the context of showing how much of a giant lying cunt Boebert is. I didn't at all take any inference to it being framed as a mistake or flaw in a negative context from this article or the title. People seem to get rabidly defensive on every position, everywhere, all of the time now.

I went in with the same expectation, but holy-fucking-shit that is some WILDLY racist and delusional propaganda bullshit.

"Not Hotdog."

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"ERECTIONJECTION YOUR JUDGESHIP! somethingsomethingorangewordsalad" - Trump

/sigh

Wait, does that even count?

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"Stuff posting"

So, BBSes and Newsgroups.

What, you thought social media was ever anything more?

Everything old is new again. But are we gonna go back to dialup modems for a purer analog hipster lifestyle?

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In honor of Linus and his decades of beneficial development work on an open Linux kernel, constituting an immense body of works that has benefited all of society in measurable ways, I respectfully, honorably, and kindly implore you to shut the fuck up and stay in your lane, bitch.

"Dear Gym,

This is not an educational institution's athletics department where you can help cover up sexual abuse to prevent investigations by law enforcement."

It's not a loophole, it's a necessary security function.

Bitcoin is exceptionally traceable, this seems more about preventing banks and financial firms from hiding solvency issues from SEC and the public's analysis by off sheeting crypto holdings.

If you aren't interested in engaging on this topic then why not delete your comments on this topic and stop replying on this topic. Your comment's logic is ridiculous.

18 USC 2383: Rebellion or insurrection

Text contains those laws in effect on August 30, 2023

From Title 18-CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE

PART I-CRIMES

CHAPTER 115-TREASON, SEDITION, AND SUBVERSIVE ACTIVITIES

ยง2383. Rebellion or insurrection

Whoever incites, sets on foot, assists, or engages in any rebellion or insurrection against the authority of the United States or the laws thereof, or gives aid or comfort thereto, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both; and shall be incapable of holding any office under the United States.

https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?hl=false&edition=prelim&req=granuleid%3AUSC-1999-title18-section2383&num=0

Slow down there, Zerocool

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No opening remarks, replaced with a 2 minute commercial to be approved by Fox News.

Live audience to make it an audience cheers or jeers sports game rather than a debate on serious issues for a serious job.

Both of those are laughable changes from a non-audienced serious debate among serious and capable candidates..

Other items in the memo are just innocuous points of procedure.

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RIP Mitch

Wonder how much of that goes towards his monthly payments for lawsuits he's lost.

In other news, Russians started burning polling stations, so they're voting with fire now.

https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2024/03/15/russians-set-fire-to-at-least-3-polling-stations-on-first-day-of-election-a84478

OnlyOffice? The fuck is that?

Looks

Repackaged open source payware trash.

LibreOffice works just fine without having yet another third party dev pilfering it to make it their bankroll. They've seemingly built an entire ecosystem with resellers and all trying to FUD themselves into a claim of being more compatible with MS doc formats than LibreOffice.

Support LibreOffice development instead.

https://www.libreoffice.org/

Or...

Just pay for MS Office if you have document compatibility concerns.

AI or not, this looks unnervingly accurate enough to be one of my uncles in the 80s, including the open chest denim vest sewn onto a tshirt. The 80s was wild, kids.

Maybe he'll be teaching them that trying to force enshittification on people in the first place has repercussions.