Part of me thinks or wants to believe that these people are only a subset of humanity.. About 25 to 30% that is VERY LOUD so they managed to sway another chunk into their delusions.
But when they finally get the opportunity to put their ideas to practice it goes so wrong and it turns out to be so dumb that those who were swayed by their speech cant help but realize they are full of shit. So if someone isn't really into Fox, home of the dumb and the despicable, then it's natural that people start backing off from places where MAGA and the likes congregate.
Sadly, it seems to be a cyclical movement. took us around 80 years to go back to dumb and violence.
Billionaires are the obvious result of unregulated or poorly regulated capitalism. And well regulated capitalism resembles socialism. In fact, Marx and other socialists argue about that.
And we are seeing billionaires destroying US democracy without much resistance. I hope the midterms weed out Republicans from the legislative and later in 2028 they finally get kicked out of office. Weeding out corrupt judges is going to need more time and what Stephen suggested in the other reply is just some first-aid patch. What needs to be weeded out is the entire electoral system and the bipartisan idiocy. The US needs more political parties and the electoral college needs to be replaced with direct voting.
There's much to learn with the Brazilian electoral system for instance. While not perfect and with political parties that are in for money, power and authoritarianism like the Republicans they can't overthrow the entire system by themselves like it's happening in the US.
Predictive betting platforms should be forbidden and other gambling mechanisms should be very restricted in their online (an thus very easy to access and waste money) form.
Predictive markets are just money laundering schemes as we are seeing abundantly with the Trump admin and online betting is an easily and readily available method to ruin lives of entire families through addiction.
Hard times for comedians when reality beats them every single time. It's even better when you see the MAGA zombies trying to defend mighty orange baboon from his own idiocy and producing... More idiocy.
Since nobody is gonna stop the master stooge we can at least sit back and laugh our arses off hahaha
A fool and their money are easily parted, eh? Maybe we should take note and start exploiting this with anti-woke, MAGA approved garbage (within regulations but vey overpriced for what it really doesn't offer). I'm gonna beat Musk very fast into being a quadrillinaire!
I used to be against laws that were already codified into the Constitution (in my country) but sometimes it takes a law to narrowly define some practices that are already barred in the document but only under some big umbrella like freedom of speech. Makes it easier and more straightforward to identify, properly punish and assess economic damage than the broad wording of the Constitution.
Hopefully this will make into law because the Trump administration has shown very clearly that you need to narrowly define stuff to prevent tyrannical assholes from abusing every breach, loophole and lack of definition in the system to advance their evil intentions.
He's rerouting his attention to the Latin America. It's not only Cuba. It's every country that doesn't bow to the US will. He attributed the "terrorist organization" status to PCC and CV, the largest organized crime groups operating in Brazil opening up a window to conduct operations ignoring the country sovereignty under some shitty US law.
He is also attacking Brazilian banking system, mainly what we call Pix, an electronic transaction system that's free for the ordinary citizen while commercial entities pay a much smaller fee than using Visa and Mastercard for instance. Via USTR. He says it's unfair competition.
Another major attack vector is against our institution, mainly our supreme court and the electoral system, one of the most advanced and secure in the world. All while tagging along with people that have already been found guilty of trying a coup d'état.
This man is a fucking piece of turd and nobody is stopping him. Hopefully this complete loss and the continued destruction Trump is promoting in all areas of the USA strips some power and the ability to cause so much destruction of future baboons the Republicans will eventually put in power.
The guy is a nazi and the administration is full of nazis. They just don't care about those they believe to be less than animals. And it's terrifying how a whole lot of society has simply shrugged and moved on.
When people ask how the Holocaust was allowed to happen by humanity just point to current times. It's happening all over again.
It's training when they start shooting and using gas chambers on undesirables (or aliens like they like to call those they don't like). I do hope the circus USians call elections start to take power away from the nazi party (Republicans) this year and places a better president in 2 years. Then you'll have to deal with the absolutely corrupt SCOTUS (and possibly many other levels of you judiciary).
I used to subscribe to PC Game Pass even during times I didn't really play anything from the library for months because I was busy with something in another platform. Because it was reasonably priced and I could even get one or two months off with the rewards program. Then they steeply increased the price and made the rewards program a whole lot worse. So they lost the customer. Possibly forever because even if they revert to the a better price and bring decent rewards program back I already decided to go without.
Ironically, I was thinking about getting an Xbox because of the versatility of the platform and the integration with the Windows environment (mostly) because it would provide me with a lot of mobility for decent pricing. No more. A Steam machine or a deck are much more attractive even without subscriptions. And since I can't try games with no risk of losing money if I don't like, I'll be unfolding my skull and crossbones flag every once in a while before adding a game to my library.
Talk about alienating their customers.
I think it's a somewhat worldwide trend. Police forces are gradually stopping to pretend to protect the population and steadily making it clear that they are there to protect those in power, be them politicians or super rich. Their catering to the rich is so intense they mimic the contempt towards poor, minorities and are just going full nazi like most of their billionaire masters.
I hate to admit it but this kind of behavior is not the exception in law enforcement. It's the rule. And I have no fucking clue how we are going to root this out of the government. I think we are going extinct by wars and the environment collapse before anything can be done.
It's not only search that has been seeing a steady degradation of quality. I use that gesture typing method on my Android (swype was the name at some point if memory serves) and part of it relies in predictions of the next word to make it faster. And boy it got so much worse in the last few months. It used to learn my gesture particularities and my pattern of speech thus providing better results and less corrections for gestures that were in some sort of intermediate between many possible words.
It's clearly using AI now and I'd say it's dipping its toes in some common training data because it simply stopped offering useful predictions AND it's struggling to identify my gestures correctly with a much higher frequency than before. All that while refusing to learn words I use shitloads of times but aren't really part of the lexicon like the names of my cats (before the keyboard learned them and could identify all, including one that had an indigenous name but now it simply doesn't "memorize" anymore") or silly, made up words we use as nicknames and such.
It's happening across all products. I haven't really noticed because I use GPS for reference and don't really follow routes on a daily base but some people say Maps is tracing worse routes as well. Google is dead. It is now a giant zombie eating the internet we knew and leaving a wasteland where it touches.
Thankfully the old, rich internet is resisting in open initiatives. But overall these are sad times for tech enthusiasts.
The main problem for this kind of stuff always goes back to money to maintain the access. When a determined service gains traction and grows beyond a few thousands or tens of thousands of users the costs start to bite.
I think we need publicly funded nodes or CDNs if you will that can be freely used to host these decentralized solutions and make them operate faster and smoother. And most important of all, operate independently from deep pockets.
In fact, we need a lot of publicly funded stuff, from low cost, subsided food and housing to entertainment and digital infrastructure. It's about time we got rid of huge corporations with more power than entire nations. It's time we got rid of nazi billionaires with enough influence to start pogroms around the world (see northern Ireland and nazi Musk). It's about time we tackle wealth inequality and provide dignity to every human being.
The more I read about Trump govt shenanigans the more I ask those questions. It's not that there isn't evidence of corruption and violation of people rights. The evidence is abundant. To the point there's plenty of judicial decisions against the government and when they weirdly favor the government they are done without justification or any respect towards plenty of precedents (see SCOTUS). And this has been happening over and over for decades in some places like law enforcement abuses. I've been following TD for more than a decade now and the only difference from 10, 15 years ago is that it's getting worse.
The current system has shown to be deeply flawed to contain repeated abuses. I think we'll keep asking those questions from my post for a long, long time.
So what exactly is preventing the DOJ and the people they represent from doing this again trying different paths? Any meaningful punishment? Threat of disbarring if it continues? Fines to the DOJ itself and those repeatedly doing this kind of persecution against trans people? Perhaps jail time? No?
It will keep happening.
A train wreck in slow motion.
It's amusing how incompetent these people are. The only thing they have is money to pay people who actually understand stuff to do their work. When they pivot from hiring the best to hiring their preferred (and thus as incompetent as they are) then things go bad very fast.
The capture of the SCOTUS had me thinking how this can possibly be fixed even if Ds win by a wide margin in the midterms. Because corrupt and partisan biased judges like Alito will stay there for life.
I don't think judges should be elected no, that would be very bad. But maybe impose terms, longer than any other (say, 12 years)? And maybe the appointment of new judges to the court should have SOME input from current magistrates?
I'm not entirely sure how to improve things but I think the current status reached limits all over the world. Venezuela saw their supreme court be captured by Hugo Chávez, Erdogan did the same in Turkey and Órban in Hungary to name a few examples. How can we prevent Donald and the likes from using their corporate sponsored powers along with a corporate sponsored legislative to capture the supreme court? Hard one.
While somewhat rare considering the entirety of GOP voters, there are those Republicans that don't like the shit that's happening, the shit that the party has become. If he had spine and stood by his principles he could have a chance. But he angered the idiots and then gave up on his spine. That's when he lost everything.
Democrats could have beaten Trump. And after he got elected they could have already put a lot of pressure to stop him, possibly succeeding considering public opinion of the orange baboon has been falling for ages now. But they too lack spine. With very few exceptions.
It's all about having a spine.
Note: I do hope Ds win by a landslide and a big one. I don't lump them together with the Rs at all. Except regarding a complete lack of spine. Good thing there are people like Wyden or Sanders (and others with spine).
Part of me thinks or wants to believe that these people are only a subset of humanity.. About 25 to 30% that is VERY LOUD so they managed to sway another chunk into their delusions. But when they finally get the opportunity to put their ideas to practice it goes so wrong and it turns out to be so dumb that those who were swayed by their speech cant help but realize they are full of shit. So if someone isn't really into Fox, home of the dumb and the despicable, then it's natural that people start backing off from places where MAGA and the likes congregate. Sadly, it seems to be a cyclical movement. took us around 80 years to go back to dumb and violence.
Billionaires are the obvious result of unregulated or poorly regulated capitalism. And well regulated capitalism resembles socialism. In fact, Marx and other socialists argue about that. And we are seeing billionaires destroying US democracy without much resistance. I hope the midterms weed out Republicans from the legislative and later in 2028 they finally get kicked out of office. Weeding out corrupt judges is going to need more time and what Stephen suggested in the other reply is just some first-aid patch. What needs to be weeded out is the entire electoral system and the bipartisan idiocy. The US needs more political parties and the electoral college needs to be replaced with direct voting. There's much to learn with the Brazilian electoral system for instance. While not perfect and with political parties that are in for money, power and authoritarianism like the Republicans they can't overthrow the entire system by themselves like it's happening in the US.
Predictive betting platforms should be forbidden and other gambling mechanisms should be very restricted in their online (an thus very easy to access and waste money) form. Predictive markets are just money laundering schemes as we are seeing abundantly with the Trump admin and online betting is an easily and readily available method to ruin lives of entire families through addiction.
Touché. It is getting tired indeed.
Hard times for comedians when reality beats them every single time. It's even better when you see the MAGA zombies trying to defend mighty orange baboon from his own idiocy and producing... More idiocy. Since nobody is gonna stop the master stooge we can at least sit back and laugh our arses off hahaha
A fool and their money are easily parted, eh? Maybe we should take note and start exploiting this with anti-woke, MAGA approved garbage (within regulations but vey overpriced for what it really doesn't offer). I'm gonna beat Musk very fast into being a quadrillinaire!
I used to be against laws that were already codified into the Constitution (in my country) but sometimes it takes a law to narrowly define some practices that are already barred in the document but only under some big umbrella like freedom of speech. Makes it easier and more straightforward to identify, properly punish and assess economic damage than the broad wording of the Constitution. Hopefully this will make into law because the Trump administration has shown very clearly that you need to narrowly define stuff to prevent tyrannical assholes from abusing every breach, loophole and lack of definition in the system to advance their evil intentions.
He's rerouting his attention to the Latin America. It's not only Cuba. It's every country that doesn't bow to the US will. He attributed the "terrorist organization" status to PCC and CV, the largest organized crime groups operating in Brazil opening up a window to conduct operations ignoring the country sovereignty under some shitty US law. He is also attacking Brazilian banking system, mainly what we call Pix, an electronic transaction system that's free for the ordinary citizen while commercial entities pay a much smaller fee than using Visa and Mastercard for instance. Via USTR. He says it's unfair competition. Another major attack vector is against our institution, mainly our supreme court and the electoral system, one of the most advanced and secure in the world. All while tagging along with people that have already been found guilty of trying a coup d'état. This man is a fucking piece of turd and nobody is stopping him. Hopefully this complete loss and the continued destruction Trump is promoting in all areas of the USA strips some power and the ability to cause so much destruction of future baboons the Republicans will eventually put in power.
Meanwhile in China: Do nothing. Win.
The guy is a nazi and the administration is full of nazis. They just don't care about those they believe to be less than animals. And it's terrifying how a whole lot of society has simply shrugged and moved on. When people ask how the Holocaust was allowed to happen by humanity just point to current times. It's happening all over again.
It's training when they start shooting and using gas chambers on undesirables (or aliens like they like to call those they don't like). I do hope the circus USians call elections start to take power away from the nazi party (Republicans) this year and places a better president in 2 years. Then you'll have to deal with the absolutely corrupt SCOTUS (and possibly many other levels of you judiciary).
I used to subscribe to PC Game Pass even during times I didn't really play anything from the library for months because I was busy with something in another platform. Because it was reasonably priced and I could even get one or two months off with the rewards program. Then they steeply increased the price and made the rewards program a whole lot worse. So they lost the customer. Possibly forever because even if they revert to the a better price and bring decent rewards program back I already decided to go without. Ironically, I was thinking about getting an Xbox because of the versatility of the platform and the integration with the Windows environment (mostly) because it would provide me with a lot of mobility for decent pricing. No more. A Steam machine or a deck are much more attractive even without subscriptions. And since I can't try games with no risk of losing money if I don't like, I'll be unfolding my skull and crossbones flag every once in a while before adding a game to my library. Talk about alienating their customers.
I think it's a somewhat worldwide trend. Police forces are gradually stopping to pretend to protect the population and steadily making it clear that they are there to protect those in power, be them politicians or super rich. Their catering to the rich is so intense they mimic the contempt towards poor, minorities and are just going full nazi like most of their billionaire masters. I hate to admit it but this kind of behavior is not the exception in law enforcement. It's the rule. And I have no fucking clue how we are going to root this out of the government. I think we are going extinct by wars and the environment collapse before anything can be done.
It's not only search that has been seeing a steady degradation of quality. I use that gesture typing method on my Android (swype was the name at some point if memory serves) and part of it relies in predictions of the next word to make it faster. And boy it got so much worse in the last few months. It used to learn my gesture particularities and my pattern of speech thus providing better results and less corrections for gestures that were in some sort of intermediate between many possible words. It's clearly using AI now and I'd say it's dipping its toes in some common training data because it simply stopped offering useful predictions AND it's struggling to identify my gestures correctly with a much higher frequency than before. All that while refusing to learn words I use shitloads of times but aren't really part of the lexicon like the names of my cats (before the keyboard learned them and could identify all, including one that had an indigenous name but now it simply doesn't "memorize" anymore") or silly, made up words we use as nicknames and such. It's happening across all products. I haven't really noticed because I use GPS for reference and don't really follow routes on a daily base but some people say Maps is tracing worse routes as well. Google is dead. It is now a giant zombie eating the internet we knew and leaving a wasteland where it touches. Thankfully the old, rich internet is resisting in open initiatives. But overall these are sad times for tech enthusiasts.
The main problem for this kind of stuff always goes back to money to maintain the access. When a determined service gains traction and grows beyond a few thousands or tens of thousands of users the costs start to bite. I think we need publicly funded nodes or CDNs if you will that can be freely used to host these decentralized solutions and make them operate faster and smoother. And most important of all, operate independently from deep pockets. In fact, we need a lot of publicly funded stuff, from low cost, subsided food and housing to entertainment and digital infrastructure. It's about time we got rid of huge corporations with more power than entire nations. It's time we got rid of nazi billionaires with enough influence to start pogroms around the world (see northern Ireland and nazi Musk). It's about time we tackle wealth inequality and provide dignity to every human being.
The more I read about Trump govt shenanigans the more I ask those questions. It's not that there isn't evidence of corruption and violation of people rights. The evidence is abundant. To the point there's plenty of judicial decisions against the government and when they weirdly favor the government they are done without justification or any respect towards plenty of precedents (see SCOTUS). And this has been happening over and over for decades in some places like law enforcement abuses. I've been following TD for more than a decade now and the only difference from 10, 15 years ago is that it's getting worse. The current system has shown to be deeply flawed to contain repeated abuses. I think we'll keep asking those questions from my post for a long, long time.
So what exactly is preventing the DOJ and the people they represent from doing this again trying different paths? Any meaningful punishment? Threat of disbarring if it continues? Fines to the DOJ itself and those repeatedly doing this kind of persecution against trans people? Perhaps jail time? No? It will keep happening.
A train wreck in slow motion. It's amusing how incompetent these people are. The only thing they have is money to pay people who actually understand stuff to do their work. When they pivot from hiring the best to hiring their preferred (and thus as incompetent as they are) then things go bad very fast.
The capture of the SCOTUS had me thinking how this can possibly be fixed even if Ds win by a wide margin in the midterms. Because corrupt and partisan biased judges like Alito will stay there for life. I don't think judges should be elected no, that would be very bad. But maybe impose terms, longer than any other (say, 12 years)? And maybe the appointment of new judges to the court should have SOME input from current magistrates? I'm not entirely sure how to improve things but I think the current status reached limits all over the world. Venezuela saw their supreme court be captured by Hugo Chávez, Erdogan did the same in Turkey and Órban in Hungary to name a few examples. How can we prevent Donald and the likes from using their corporate sponsored powers along with a corporate sponsored legislative to capture the supreme court? Hard one.
While somewhat rare considering the entirety of GOP voters, there are those Republicans that don't like the shit that's happening, the shit that the party has become. If he had spine and stood by his principles he could have a chance. But he angered the idiots and then gave up on his spine. That's when he lost everything. Democrats could have beaten Trump. And after he got elected they could have already put a lot of pressure to stop him, possibly succeeding considering public opinion of the orange baboon has been falling for ages now. But they too lack spine. With very few exceptions. It's all about having a spine. Note: I do hope Ds win by a landslide and a big one. I don't lump them together with the Rs at all. Except regarding a complete lack of spine. Good thing there are people like Wyden or Sanders (and others with spine).