[-] ploot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 36 points 1 week ago

I hope you're right, but I'm not convinced we can draw conclusions yet. Starmer's government is not popular and while Farage has been a joke at home among many, he never drops out of the picture because he has a lot of international far-right support and consequently a lot of money. Brexit was obviously stupid and happened; giving Farage power would be similarly stupid and I'm not sure it couldn't still happen. In Germany the AfD is still too strong, though not quite as strong as it had hoped. In Canada I hope people have finally seen through Poilievre, but again Canada underestimates the Trumpist/convoy/PP people at its peril, and while Carney is sending a lot of good messages the kind of liiberalism he represents has not traditionally done well in holding off the fascists.

[-] ploot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 26 points 1 week ago

In the USA, sitting peacefully while calling for an end to killing Palestinians is terrorism, but attacking these peaceful protestors violently for several hours because you want Palestinians killed and their sympathizers intimidated into silence is not.

[-] ploot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 27 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Right now Conservatives like Doug Ford are much more ready to cave to Trump's demands than Carney. Pierre Poilievre would be the same way: talk big talk, but cave. And in the end what even would be the point of PP speaking for Canada, when PP's agenda is to replicate some of the worst aspects of Trumpism in Canada anyway?

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These guys are more predictable than a clock.

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Last week’s executive order targeting Perkins Coie represented an unprecedented abuse of executive power to punish lawyers for representing political opponents. The court’s swift rejection made clear just how far beyond constitutional bounds Trump had stepped. But rather than accept those bounds, Trump has decided to test just how many law firms he can threaten before someone stops him.

Good times.

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"American Pie" actress Jasmine Mooney, a Canadian citizen, was detained by ICE while attempting to renew her work visa at the U.S.-Mexico border on March 3.

She described the experience as a "deeply disturbing psychological experiment," including sleeping on a mat with "aluminum foil wrapped over my body like a dead body," being transported in chains, and receiving inedible food.

Officials allegedly told her she was "unprofessional because I didn't have a proper letterhead" on her paperwork.

After her release, Mooney credited media attention and her support network for securing her freedom.

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"American Pie" actress Jasmine Mooney, a Canadian citizen, was detained by ICE while attempting to renew her work visa at the U.S.-Mexico border on March 3.

She described the experience as a "deeply disturbing psychological experiment," including sleeping on a mat with "aluminum foil wrapped over my body like a dead body," being transported in chains, and receiving inedible food.

Officials allegedly told her she was "unprofessional because I didn't have a proper letterhead" on her paperwork.

After her release, Mooney credited media attention and her support network for securing her freedom.

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[-] ploot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 21 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Even so, endless fascism is still even worse. They won't go willingly, and they won't respect election results. Leave it too long and it will be as difficult as overthrowing Hitler or the USSR. Actually more difficult, because those regimes faced actual opposition from abroad, whereas now it feels like the whole world is going fascist.

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“You wake up one day and discover you’re dead,” Johnson told me. “It’s been truly surreal.”

That’s the biggest difference — my deceased guy turns out to be very much alive. Musk is contending that hordes of dead people are listed as alive in the Social Security databases, and are fraudulently still drawing benefits (which the Social Security director disputes).

Johnson is 82 and still kicking. Yet sometime last month, someone or something led Social Security to both tag him as dead and start clawing back his benefits.

Archived copies of the article:

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Yesterday, the West Virginia House of Delegates approved an amendment from Del. J.B. Akers (R) to allow a child’s “treating health care provider” to examine a child’s genitals without the consent of their parents.

The amendment was actually an improvement over a previous version of the bill, which, state Democrats argued, would have allowed teachers to perform the genital examinations.

Akers’ amendment was the Republican response to one proposed by Del. Kayla Young (D), which would have banned child and adult genital examinations altogether.

“It’s unconscionable that Republicans would support legislation that authorizes intrusive visual inspections of minors without parental approval,” Young said. “West Virginians should be alarmed and disgusted by this invasion of privacy.”

It also says that all intersex people are “either male or female” but does not give a basis for assigning a sex to them.

[-] ploot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 20 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The only question is whether he knows he's a Russian asset. Trump may be working for them without realizing it. All Putin would have to do is convince him he was just giving him advice, one wise ruler to another, because Trump is special and brilliant, and provide a few incentives. Trump would believe that taking the advice was all his own brilliant idea.

[-] ploot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 24 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

They are evidently trying to destroy the USA's traditional alliances and weaken its historical allies. The most immediate benefit is to Russia, but China also benefits while North America and Europe lose out. Their motivation seems to be that turmoil offers billionaires new opportunities to make more money, and they may also hope to strengthen their dealings with Russian oligarchs.

[-] ploot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 26 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I have never seen this happen, and I don't know what tools would confuse the strings "null" or "Null" with NULL. From the comments in this thread, there are evidently more terribly programmed systems than I imagined.

[-] ploot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 22 points 1 month ago

Asking the big questions: why doesn't he walk around barefoot or in flip flops?

[-] ploot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 30 points 1 month ago

Unless Musk actually has two left feet, it's AI.

[-] ploot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 27 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

What are the chances the hard drive would still be readable, I wonder?

And keep backups, folks.

[-] ploot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 28 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

But how can techbros get rich from bees? Bees just make themselves for free then serve the greater good, the little buzzing communists.

[-] ploot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 25 points 2 months ago

Ah, American trains. Outside of the USA and Canada, trains are fast.

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