America has a 40% approval rating for Israel’s actions in Gaza. That is an astonishing number of people in favor of genocide.

FWIW I would be cheering for the Iranians.

We already accepted it. Millions of people were purged from voter rolls. Polling stations in Democratic and minority areas were shut down. Mail-in ballots were discarded. Bomb threats in Atlanta. Hell, Bush v Gore was a stolen election.

By the numbers: https://hartmannreport.com/p/trump-lost-vote-suppression-won-c6f

The only people on the list already voted for him three times.

Going forwards I don’t really know what I want to do about it. I don’t think I’ll stop making layered satirical comments

Definitely don’t do that. I also like to make comments that mix puns and subtle references to niche culture/news wrapped in a dry delivery. But I am also fully aware that almost nobody will get the layered references, and sometimes that results in downvotes. It’s worth it when someone gets all the nuance though.

The person who thought I posted an article about George Floyd obviously wasn’t going to respect my time by considering anything I wrote.

Having not gotten the satire myself (or even recognizing that satire was in play, in which case I might have tried to interpret your comment differently), I took your words literally. That’s totally on me as I often miss the cues. But from that perspective the article was genuinely confusing as it seemed unrelated. I could be wrong, but I assume the other commenter was in the same boat as me and not trying to be inconsiderate of your words or time.

I’ll take the downvotes, but my Autistic ass didn’t get the satire, so I appreciate the explanation.

It seems it travels much farther and much faster when using metric. No wonder they chose it over imperial.

/s

RSS is enabled by default on every WordPress install. That’s a big part of it.

They do exactly that. You just use a keyboard instead of a mouse to accomplish the task.

On the flip side, this makes a ton of money for ad platforms.

I feel like nobody read the article. It mentioned an “ad carousel” which would be a fairly standard way to offset costs on free plans. I don’t see that specifically as being enshitification. Now, if they start altering AI responses, that is definitely enshitification. I have no doubt they will eventually get there, but I don’t think that’s what this article is about.

What I’m hearing is that even if you aren’t a Signal user, you might benefit from having Signal installed on your device?

I wouldn’t assume any news about technology being used by IDF to be true in the first place. It could just as easily be misinformation.

I was so hopeful they might just skip one yearly release and focus on bug fixes and technical debt. But then they go and change the name of the version to match the calendar year, and now I’m convinced we’re never going to get a stable iOS again.

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And his ballroom.

I whore myself out and pay for the family plan, but I have a good reason.

My dad watches YT almost exclusively so I told him if he shared his password with me I can add him to my plan so he doesn’t see any ads. He fell for it. Now I login into his account ever so often and mark “not interested” on any red pill bullshit I see. It seems to be working.

I would not underestimate this particular threat. Under a more competent administration I would at least worry slightly less. But the levels of incompetence in positions of power have me genuinely worried. This is a real threat that we have carefully managed since the Nixon administration (IIRC). If it makes its way here it will wreak havoc on livestock.

Vivaldi. The tab management is unparalleled, and the chrome extensions I depend on still work. I’ve been using it for many years now and have no regrets. I also use NextDNS and see no signs of it doing anything unexpected.

I’m pretty active on there and my entire feed is academic and thoughtful left-leaning commentary. Granted I had to work at curating it. Day one was all thirst traps. But now I really enjoy it. I will actually be sad when it becomes unusable.

It’s the same thing they do with claiming some random tattoo is a gang tattoo.

It’s difficult to prove an actual crime was committed by someone than to create a scary boogeyman “organization” and just convince people you’re guilty by association. It’s even easier when you can change the characteristics of the boogeyman to match the person you’re trying to prosecute.

We’ve let it go on for decades, and now there’s plenty of precedent. We don’t stand a chance.