My counter for “they took our jerbz!” is “No one stole your job from you. Your boss gave it away.” It’s been surprisingly effective even in my very red state. Unfortunately, it seems to be a one-off as it only shuts them up and doesn’t seem to affect anything beyond that.

Still, it shuts them up (even if it’s more like hitting the snooze button lol).

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Two bullet points toward the end of the article:

• Trump’s handling of immigration polls well in public surveys.
• But sending immigrants to El Salvador’s prison without criminal convictions or due process does not — about 60% were opposed in a recent YouGov survey.

The only conclusion is that the first group has absolutely no idea what’s happening. That, or the “surveys” were those bad faith, heavily tilted surveys that my Republican House rep would send out:

Not just Hesgeth.

The whole administration is comprised of conspiracy nuts and other big brains who will click on any crazy link they come across.

In college, I worked part-time at a convenience store. There were a handful of middle-aged regulars that were clearly spending money they didn’t have to spare on lotto tickets. Always wondered why they wasted that money.

I get it now.

With Tesla’s stock and brand reputation getting pummeled … many Tesla investors have called on Musk to scale back or end his government work entirely and return his focus to business

As long as he’s associated with Tesla, even if he steps out of government work, the damage is done. Even if the board boots him as CEO, it’s going to take a LOT of work, PR, outreach, and time to undo the stink Musk has left on the company.

Perfection. 👌

The bulk, yeah. But with Murkowski on record saying ‘We are all afraid’, I have to believe that there are others on that side of the aisle who would, given a brief moment of having a spine, stand up and do the right thing. I’d also hope those few would be enough, in both chambers, to form a veto-proof majority with the democrats.

Wishful thinking, I’ll concede.

I don’t see what people’s problem with this is. It’s not like it’s anyone can just buy a blue check (unlike X). It’s just confirming that the account belongs to who it claims to be (like old Twitter verified users). I don’t know if that requires any payment, but it’s definitely not “Here’s $5 – okay, here’s your blue check”.

• During this initial phase, Bluesky is not accepting direct applications for verification," the company said.
• “As this feature stabilizes, we’ll launch a request form for notable and authentic accounts interested in becoming verified or becoming trusted verifiers.”

If I remember correctly, that’s pretty much exactly how old Twitter rolled out its original user verification.

From a de-centralized perspective, I’m not sure how that would work. I guess each instance would be in charge of verification and setting the “verified” flag for the account? The alternative would be some kind of central authority. Granted, I know little of Bluesky (microblogging is not my cup of tea), so I may be way off on my guesses there.

Need to shop in behind him congressional republicans plus Thomas and Alito. He may have done that, but he didn’t do it alone. Not to mention, it would take very few congressional republicans to put a stop to this, and they’ve done nothing.

Lol, you know society screwed up when there’s a “Student Parking” section at your local elementary schools.

Poisoning AI with junk info and sabotaging with specific misinformation in order to spread it are different things. This is describing the latter.

Parents in Montgomery County who object for religious reasons want to pull their children from elementary school classes

Well…we’re waiting. They’re just disrupting everything for everyone else with their bigoted pearl clutching.

Black Mirror. Should. Not. Be. A. Roadmap.

Cunk on Earth also did a similar bit with Beethoven.

Does Charlie Brooker have some kind of enchanted typewriter that can influence the world or something?

To be fair, he said the same thing when someone asked him what he thought of Sesame Street.

Yeah, I don’t think the lack of a free ethernet port is their biggest obstacle here.

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