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andrew_bidlaw

@ andrew_bidlaw @sh.itjust.works

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human garbage

  • J. D. Vance Stopped Talking About Eggs | Last year, the vice president made prices a central theme of the GOP election campaign. Now that eggs cost more than ever, he’s gone quiet.

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  • I wish him getting frequently egged in public.

  • ‘Dummies for Putin’: Democrats defend Zelenskyy after ‘shameful’ Trump meeting

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  • In the 90s media were completely uncut though, especially their coverage of the first Chechen war. Some openly satyrized Yeltsin and he was kinda ok with it. Toying the line started with overtaking НТВ under Putin, the major divide between pro and anti-state stances and publications then happened around demonstrations in early 2010s, and in the end of the decade the latter started to be pushed out until ouright bans and suppression in 2022-.

    There were, like, some guidelines, but when coffins of young boys started to arrive in droves and people protested against the war, print media was there to cover it, and this better-to-be-forgotten page of our history is now set in stone and I occasionally see publications from that period, no way to purge them all. Compare it to today, when mothers' union not against war, but for better treatment of their sons got quietly put down, and the existing media are just a surrogate tightly governed by statesmen.

    On the initial question about Yeltsin vs Trump, it's hard for me to compare them for their context is inescapably different. Boris was, like, the first real elected pres, and a populist at that, and while Trump is tasked with just not fucking things too much, Yeltsin took a wheel in a harsh transitional period. And as two populists they share a lot of what makes their public image. But, call it naive and biased, Yeltsin sounded humble and honest when he talked about what he does, like he believed in it. It felt like he cared, but was a wrong person to be there from the very start, and drunk himself to death some eight years after passing the wheel to Putin being still influenced by that. With Don getting prezzed in after neolibs Obama then Biden and actually doing worse than if he did nothing at all, with empty waving like with the wall on the Mexican border, I perceive him significantly worse, more dishonest than Boris. Even knowing now that two were deeply pocketed by oligarchs (first time, eh?), I'm still find some sympathy towards our drunkie and find some personality and struggle within him, that I can't say I see in Trump.

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  • IIRC Vivaldi and Brave promised to prolong it for a year.

  • Sending a mental message [Nancy - Feb 17, 1951]

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  • Poor? Look how many sausages he got!

  • Judicial employees – which Trump does not oversee – got Musk’s productivity email

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  • Is that what your momma called you?

  • I Switched From Windows to Linux – It Only Took Me 20 Years (Including Davinci Resolve Setup)

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  • It feels basic but it gets the work done. As long as you don't need a complex array of effects and graphics, it fits. Most of simple amateur video needs are easily covered.

  • Fox News and Newsmax sign letter urging Trump to rescind ban on the AP

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  • Wox News everyone.

  • ‘It took the Nazis one month’: Pritzker compares Trump’s policies to 1930s Germany

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  • Citing historical parallels, particularly economic grievances fueling extremism

    It is correct, but I struggle to compare late Wheimar economics to Biden stickers for gas stations sold on Amazon.

  • Musk and Hannity talk right over Trump in awkward Fox News interview

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  • It's weird how a person so seemingly unimportant hasn't been converted into a scarecrow, made to vouch for key positions in their plan, etc. This man is either sleaky enough to avoid much of responsibility for what happens or everyone in the HQ forgot about him. His position doesn't mean much power in the US, but it's really interesting that he doesn't get much coverage as a legally second in chief and seemingly abstain from everything while, before Musk got the wheel I thought he would play a key role in advocating for everythng techbros are up for.

  • Trump Accuses Federal Workers of ‘Playing Golf’ After He Spent the Last Three Weekdays at His Golf Courses

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  • There is an aspect to that making it simplier in my eyes. Most cases of projection are a sign of being completely unaware of the world around them, other people's experiences, lack of interest and empathy. Trumps idea of slacking off is rooted in his own leisure routines because he hasn't talked with average people in a long while if at all. There's likely not that much of intent, not in his ramblings, but a genuine lack of touch. He's probably thinking that there are poor golf courses for poor people for casual networking like he does. You know, where they brag about their poor peoples deals, investments and tax dodging. He isn't a good liar and in his unscripted rants he is showing what he actually thinks. Rephrasing the old saying, if you are Trump, everyone looks like Trumps.

    It's not like I excuse him or think he'd do better if he'd know his shit. It's just a common occurence that career politicians usually get caught on. My own dictator couldn't imagine that the average monthly wage isn't in 7 figures because he usually sat in his bunker since COVID and forgot what money even are.

  • Trump signs new order to vastly expand presidential powers

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  • Musk's and his actions are illegal, or were illegal mostly before the Supreme Court decided there's some sleezy presidential immunity. The problem is they are so firm and quick at changing the rules of the game that no institution can catch up and, most importantly, generally afraid they would be directly attacked by these fuckers. Some commenters preciously said that it's stupid that most of people who could've challenged or straight up dismissed his executive orders are pussies for resigning or being complicit, but, in their defence, all of their personal data was leaked by Muskrat and he and Trump have a pardoned terrorist cell to carbomb them or whatever. And it's snowballing from department to department, and every new one looks at those who already kneed to the maggot.

    All these famous checks and balances were DDOSed and frightened into submission. i don't think they were exceptionally and inherently fragile. it's just the rightwing strategists just got the right guy, the right coverage and the right plan to make it all as easy as break-and-enter with absent homeowners.

  • TIL that in DuckDuckGo !g in front of your previous search will run it in Google

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  • Firefox also allows to make them for different search fields, e.g. if I write pic and then my querry, it brings me images.google.com results. Kinda nice if bangs don't cover your usecases.

  • All of Humane's AI pins will stop working in 10 days

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  • IP hoarding of products that may potentially be produced. Millions of dollars aren't a pocket change, but if anyone's going into this wearable AI bullshit, HP'd make a hole in their pockets. It's a low stakes conservative gamble 'just in case'.

  • White House says Elon Musk is not part of DOGE

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  • Privatise profits, socialise responsibility.

  • Stop trying to take my stuff!

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  • Blender installs natively from Steam and works without any emulation of windows' stuff. I noticed the download size is different for Linux, so I guess they cared to pack everything needed for it to work smoothly.

    Some distro claimed they did everything to make UX with Resolve one of their targets, I believe it's Nobara or maybe Bazzite. It's not emulated either and installers are also provided by the devs of Resolve themselves.

    Affinity have no plans to make a Linux version, so it's always emulated and has workarounds like that (github) but I haven't used their software even on Windows so Idk how the experience of using their products is. Coming to Linux, I got used to Inkscape for my vector needs and Krita\Photopea for raster gfx. I heard Darktable is a good Lightroom alternative if it's up your valley.

  • Be the change you want to see in Lemmy

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  • There'd probably arise a need of a default instance with only guest access for a test drive before they pick their own instance, with some pop ups pointing at the fact that the name nutomic@lemmy.ml means he is a part of some meta-subreddit lemmy.ml, that doesn't mean shit for he just helped andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works with a link to the source. Their likes are collected but never shown. When they'd want to stop lurking and finally press a login button, it shall instead invite them to see instances of people they liked before first, others next, with tips what lead some rank so high in their list. After the signup is confirmed, their likes may or may not be transported, but their temporal profile is deleted.

    I see the natural flow would be something akin to that: we start with a showcase of general content from different nearly-default instances and then get them recs about persons they did enjoy reading.

  • Be the change you want to see in Lemmy

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  • You and you being so nice made me switch to ad hominem faster than usual! How the person like you can be so terribly pleasant? Treat yourself, you fellow lemming.

  • Anyone Can Push Updates to the DOGE.gov Website

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  • I also wonder, with how progressive and dissenting American programmers and cybersec experts are, if our l33t h4x0r sk1llz could be turned against DOGE?

    What can hurt Musk? These kids are nobodies, his co-conspirators all depend on his will, and the only thing I suspect is probable to crush him is either a lone gunner or an oil\tech barron who got too pissed of from his plans ruining their business prospects.

  • Hate speech on X surged for at least 8 months after Elon Musk takeover – new research.

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  • I thought this rat made access for researchers difficult, just like on reddit, thus getting bulletproof evidence via data harvesting got complicated.

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
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    What would your favorite gamepade look like and have unlike other? What are the benefits?

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
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    How to contain ones's fear and anger if you live in repressive states?

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
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    Where to put a smartphone if you move fast and need it always at hand?

  • Lemmy Shitpost @lemmy.world
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    raw men cuisine

  • TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name @lemmy.world
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    A shitpost

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
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    What places are best for a first tatto in your opinion?

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
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    What's the most annoying non-violent curse to put onto someone?

  • Technology @lemmy.world
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    My opinion on Bone conduction earphones

  • TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name @lemmy.world
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    VR PORN

  • TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name @lemmy.world
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    Ferengi are love, Ferengi are life

  • TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name @lemmy.world
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    Whatever I'll find