No, but it clearly wasn’t the solution. They likely could have used some of those people they fired for that.

Is that the oil that Russia is now importing after losing infrastructure?

As long as javascript is running they can track your mouse movement, which is similar to people’s gait when they walk.

Gonna need a source or a reference for that second part. Yes, I’m very aware that your mouse movement can be tracked, so we can skip that part.

pushing people towards specific ideas using social media

I’ve been incredibly concerned about this for more than a decade. Watching r/the_donald in action was incredible and validated all of that fear.

And it’s still happening. On all social media, including here.

Certain narratives are pushed hard, and it’s effective. Some of it is fully genuine. Some of it is/was seeded artificially and picked up some genuine steam, and is still being reinforced. The stuff that’s fully artificial seems to be dropped fairly quickly most of the time these days.

After the artificial narrative picks up and gets genuine sentiment mixed with it, it becomes hard to tell the difference. If you can mix it in with existing emotions, like anger that we’re in this situation, and add in some seeds of truth it works even better.

Propaganda works. On all of us. And just by being here, we’re being exposed. But I’m afraid to leave, too. The more real people leave the easier it is to manipulate the remainder.

It’s just all so easy and effective and actually happening. And the alarm bells about it aren’t loud enough.

Sometimes you get a new dream machine that has internal ipv6 disabled by default and only your matter over WiFi lights stop working, but you think they’re thread, which shouldn’t leak ipv6 past the otbr. So you work on getting them reconnected to the Internet by removing your firewall policy that kept them local, but Ubiquity now has Zones as well, and your dumbass did a little of each. Plus, for some reason, they’ll negotiate an ipv4 and drop off the network, and there’s no easy way to identify a bulb by it’s IP or mac address. It’s not like the Mac addresss is printed on the bulb, so you try to judge by signal strength. But then your buddy who’s been helping you troubleshoot for the past couple hours tells you to link him the lights from your order history, so only then do you realize they’re matter over WiFi and not matter over thread, and enabling ipv6 locally does the trick. Now you’ve just got a set up your automations again, because you had the bright idea to put actual switches in the walls that depend on home assistant, and the automations don’t know the new entities so none of your wall switches work until that’s fixed. And eventually you’ll get around to reinstating that firewall policy to block them from the Internet, but not today because you’ve spent long enough for one day on fighting with your light bulbs.

Or so I hear.

Apple TV is what HBO used to be.

It’s the only Apple thing I use. I want to support the things I like and the people who make those things, but those prices are kind of obscene.

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Who says anyone is surprised? It’s still important to point it out.

Regardless of how bad it is, the lightning bolt is clearly intended as nazi shit.

They’re not good at making swastikas either, but no matter how deformed they still count as nazi shit.

I think part of that is true and part of that is that they just don’t get enough votes to actually do things.

Especially as just a Congressperson you can’t change everything all at once. You don’t have the same influence as a president. So you pick your battles.

People here get disappointed they didn’t get enough done fast enough and then vote red in the next election hoping for faster change.

Well, we got faster change. Never seen change as fast as this.

AFTER Obama got the nomination.

I need my Omnissa Remote Client (VMWare) to work on Wayland with multiple monitors and I’d be good to go.

As it is, I have to use Windows for work.

Ubuntu didn’t work, but PopOS with Nvidia drivers built in works great.

Apparently you don’t know JordanLund. If you did, you could base this entirely on your opinion of him and not at all on the facts themselves.

Would someone wanting to avoid US specific news want to see this article?

There are other communities to post it to, like !politics

Yeah, I am on .World which for some reason still federates with .ml. I’ve moved over to Piefed on Desktop, just not on mobile yet.

Just read these 14 books from 1930 if you want to have an opinion. No, I can’t summarize anything from them. They can only be understood in their entirety.

All hail Putin, Xi.

If you want to find out if they’re an actual tankie, just look for anything related to Russia or China. They out themselves pretty quick, usually.

You should leave any instance that is federated with the Triad, imo. Lemmygrad, Hexbear, and ML are all Russia sponsored/supported instances that should be shunned by Lemmy as a whole.

You’re encouraging people to “stay home in well-earned disgust”. That serves the fascists.

End of story.

There are ways to say what you want to say carefully. But in my opinion stopping the Nazis needs to come before any other priorities.

I think some of it is intentional, and some are just taken along by that.

Also it’s always easier to throw rocks from the sidelines than to actually lead. It’s so much easier to find something wrong with everything than it is to try to figure out the right thing to do.

Plus nuance is always difficult. Better to just treat everything as back and white.