Only pedophiles defend pedophiles.And I fucking HATE pedophiles.
Woody Allen is still a pedophile who raped one of his own young step-daughters and married another.
People who defend that shit are SICK.
Karoline Leavitt, WH spokesperson, resigned yesterday. She had a baby in May and had already returned from maternity leave, but has now suddenly decided she wants to spend more time with family.
She was one of the staffers he left on the decoy.
I suspect my ongoing emphasis on individuality and use of words and phrases like "one by one" and "personally" and "different for everyone" may have escaped you.
I don't see groups as masses of fungible humans; I see them as a collective unit of individuals like myself, each one with a separate history and a separate set of decisions to make about their lives, and for that reason I tend to avoid all-encompassing generalizations of "people" as homogeneous units -- to the point that statements such as your own strike me as propagandistic, more intent on changing my view and laying down a law on a subject than on considering any evidence to the contrary.
When I read your reply to me, so confidently wrong about what I see around myself in terms of phone usage, I wondered if asked the same you'd even see anyone not on their phone, because you seem to have decided that everyone everywhere at all times is glued to it by choice, permanently and without exception.
For myself, I've chosen to be off technology for long stretches, and I see more and more people making their own decisions to do the same even if their individual choices don't look exactly like my own. And yeah, when I go out, I see plenty of people both off and on their phones. When I make eye contact in a store aisle, I see plenty of eyes making contact back. When I eat dinner out, I see as many phones face down on tables as I do in hands. Mostly I don't pay attention because I don't need to: others being on it or not is their own battle to fight.
And they will.
The future of computing is corporate controlled siloes people simply cannot escape
Lol, no. To remain in a prison of choice requires the consent of the imprisoned. I am not bound to engage in computing on demand, nor am I addicted to it, and if it comes down to it I'll just turn the shit on only when absolutely necessary. I've done it before and every time it is great; I'll do it again in a heartbeat.
Some may have to participate by necessity in corporately-controlled computing structures to some degree depending on work needs, for example, but most of what is booming now is entertainment, not business: social media, streaming, subscription services. Entertainment is a matter of individual choice and again, I find myself in no prison not of my choosing.
I can escape those silos simply by walking away when I am not contractually obliged to interact with them, such as in a work scenario, and so can everyone else. Even you.
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Ah, I see your point. It is a particularly rough crowd. Try commenting how well a disfavored Linux distro works for you and watch the downvotes fly, lol.
c/Technology is the preferred nomenclature I think, or I guess the full community link if you want to distinguish it by instance (there are several).
There's also the fact that an internet full of bots, AI slop, and privacy risks is making more people pull away from the online world. In our poll, 97% of people said the internet today was a hellscape compared to its early days, and it looks like things are only going to get worse.
Looks like the cure is inherent in the disease. Anyone else remember the early 90s when Usenet was just text-based fun and then some motherfucker thought it was a grand idea to run ads? I do, and it's been downhill ever since.
It's sad that it has come to this, but as usual a handful of greedy fuckers have ruined it for the rest of us. (My personal opinion is that big tech could have arrested this downhill slide at any point, even from back in the first days of email spam, but have chosen to monetize it every step of the way instead.)
Real humans are already individually opting out, one by one, as we each personally get sick of the slop and realize it's just not helping anymore. For myself I'm only on intermittently, I've ditched all social media, Lemmy is all I participate in regularly now beyond the odd comment here and there, and that seems about right for me at this time.
I adjust it regularly, often just by going offline for days, but I had to see the problem before I could change it. I think that's where a lot of people are, just now seeing it for the first time as a real problem affecting their quality of life directly.
But like any other addiction, the point of turning is different for everyone. These fuckers on the other end, filling everything with slop and running bots without end, are just speeding it all up.
I can't even remember them all, but it's usually one of the following, in no particular order:
-- Someone who started well but whose channel is now just ads for paid content elsewhere, OR whose content is clearly only there to serve as a vehicle by which to present all their merch, affiliate links, new products, paid collaborations, etc., and/or where the content itself is merely a series of reminders about "check the link in the description!" every two minutes to the extent that even Sponsor Block can't keep up (the art communities tend to have these more than others do)
-- Someone who is casually cruel, or if they mock others in a way that could even be remotely considered serious (Cam Anderson of Blacktail Studios is my sole exception here: mouth like a flamethrower but it's hilarious and clearly not meant seriously except in regard to his ex-roommate, iykyk)
-- Someone who draws me in on content but turns out to have an incessant whine or series of gripes or is embroiled in unending conflicts
-- Someone who leans heavy on religion, or uses voiceover to deliver extended essay-like monologues on some unrelated subject
-- Someone who turns out to be right-wing/fascist or strikes me as a propagandist, and/or delivers propagandistic content that seems to rely on emotional interaction or visceral response from the viewer
-- AI content: I can live with a splash screen/intro or other minor bits, but otherwise I don't want to see it or hear it
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I dislike how disenting opinions get downvoted on Lemmy/technology probably more than even on reddit.
That almost makes it sound unfair, but the technology on Lemmy is doing exactly what each one of us tells it to do every time we cast a vote. It is, as far as I can tell, an exact representation of our own individual votes cast.
I could almost see your point on Reddit because of all the vote fuckery that goes on there, but here on Lemmy blaming a mass downvote on the tech and not on the users casting the votes is a misdirection of blame.
Yup. And it's an embarrassment to see. At this point anyone who has done the bare minimum in actual security work can run intellectual rings around any of these tech bros.
They're not geniuses when it comes to real-world application, just moneyed dreamers so immensely out of touch with the real world they don't even know the basics of the industry they claim to be innovators in.
Meanwhile, those of us who are even superficially acquainted with the basics see it immediately, like you did and so many in this thread. It's the same old thing of peddlers of tech not actually having to know their tech as long as they know just enough to sell it to those corporate IT decision makers who also don't know their tech.
I cannot wait for this tower of shit to collapse under its own weight.
No problem. Thanks for taking the time to do these, much appreciated.
You're probably right about the "stable after resuscitation" thing. I assume that means independent breathing and heartbeat. I don't know much about emergency medicine, though I have always heard a body can maintain independent life support with only minimal brain health. (This is probably before your time but I was around when the Karen Ann Quinlan thing was going on with all its endless debates.)
But it's not just that. In an interview with Katie Couric last month, Gov. Andy Beshear said,
Well, Mitch McConnell's boss are the people of Kentucky. There are constituents which deserve honesty and transparency. It had been a month before anything had been put out, not even an official statement from Senator McConnell. In fact, I'd gotten two calls from different agencies, not state agencies, suggesting he'd passed. So, this rampant speculation that was out there, it needed to end.
That's McConnell's governor himself saying he got calls "suggesting" that McConnell was already dead, not from individuals but unnamed and "not state" (presumably federal) agencies.
Most importantly, McConnell himself still hasn't ended the speculation when to do so would be easy enough if he were conscious and alert. Instead, AI press releases come out of his office with "proof of life" photos that are both problematic in their own right, strongly suggesting that his people are already going to extreme lengths to keep his actual condition a secret, already remaining silent on the truth, already creating false evidence to support a fraudulent pretense of not just life but ongoing improvement. Yet he personally never shows.
So for me, I don't think it's a stretch to consider that people already committing that kind of fraud on the public would stop short of a job well done. But that's not a slam on someone that doesn't want to go there; I can understand why anyone would want more proof. It's not like a hearty set of lies has never come out of the US govt before, lol.
If a friendship will be over because one party to it is pursuing a goal they genuinely believe in, that is not only to the betterment of their community but because of who they are as a human being, I think it's safe to say there was never actually a two-person friendship there.
Or to put it another way, I am certain that of the two, Alice Wade was a real friend and thought she was in a real friendship.
Link to actual Newsweek article (original source, more readable):
https://www.newsweek.com/judge-rules-ice-coerced-legal-migrant-to-sign-deportation-papers-12285581
He's not even the first. Tom Kean, a Republican rep from NJ, stayed absent for just under four full months earlier this year without explanation and then blithely explained it as "treatment for depression." But he's still running for reelection in November.
McConnell announced his retirement in February 2025 and was not seeking re-election this year, meaning that Kentucky was always going to elect a new senator for his seat this November anyway. Otherwise your point is well taken, and it was McConnell himself who pulled that "too close to an election" shit with Obama's Supreme Court nomination.
Same here. When the video by his DC neighbor came out showing the ambulance, the EMT was standing in the back with the doors open, McConnell's feet clearly visible behind him on the gurney, and the EMT was casually doing something else in no hurry to get going. Other witnesses also mentioned that when it left there were no sirens.
So yeah, dead or brain dead like you say, but clearly not coming back.
Personally I think his people are gonna give it a bit of time, anywhere from a couple days to a month, and then announce some kind of downturn that has now resulted in his "sudden and unexpected" death. But he's been gone all along, IMO.
JD wants to grow up to be president one day, but he's bothered by fat, he thinks it's a personal failure, and he's too sensitive to hear criticism about Iran, lol.
I hope the Iranian Lego guys drop a new video on this, because he just handed them his insecurities on a platter, lol.
One notes he still has not been personally seen or heard from, yet if he's well enough to travel to go "home" -- "home" still remaining carefully undefined -- he's certainly well enough to appear in a 30-second video, IMO.
Factually speaking, whichever way you choose to interpret it, this brief ChatGPT-sounding press release from his office comes just after the deadline for calling a Kentucky special election to fill McConnell's Senate seat; he still has not offered any kind of live evidence that he is compos mentis or even conscious; he is still just as personally absent in every way as he has been since June in an unbroken streak of total non-verifiable communication; and his Senate seat is now legally and permanently locked until its new occupant is elected in November and sworn in later in January.
My personal take, and it is just my opinion, is that he is not expected to live, never was, and this is what we were all expecting to see. Instead of being a death notice it's a pre-death notice, if you will. He has been moved to a longer-care facility, wherever that may be, and his handlers don't want to deal with the rightful backlash of the rest of us knowing the truth.
Or, you know, he could just get up and do a happy little jig for TikTok and prove us all wrong, lol.
Now that you know everything on Snapchat is going through active automated filtering, consider what Snapchat has chosen NOT to flag and is allowing to flow freely, like sex trafficking and the sale of minors.
As unfair and life-changing as this event has been for this young teacher, I think the actual story of what Snapchat (and every other digital communication method) is reading/tracking yet allowing is a much, much bigger story. And dirtier. With billionaires and pedophiles and all manner of nasty allowables we do not yet know.
Chief Justice John Roberts wants us to believe that neither the court nor the judiciary as a whole has “Obama judges or Trump judges, Bush judges or Clinton judges.” Justice Neil Gorsuch insists that the court is not populated by “politicians in robes.”
Justice Amy Coney Barrett went on Fox News to say that justices “don’t wear red and blue, we all wear black because judges are nonpartisan. And the idea is that we are all listening to the law. We’re all trying to get it right. We’re not playing for a team.”
One notes that the judges most invested in the appearance of "not playing for a team" are, in fact and by every discernible measure, all playing for the same team.
Same here, I think we've had it close to ten years now. After seeing how the cats respond to it we started calling it The Food God.