BertramDitore @ BertramDitore @lemm.ee

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Hahaha I totally identify with this. My cat 100% knows my recurring meeting schedule like the back of his paw. Right on the dot he trots out and demands my undivided attention.

My cat freaks out when my controller rumbles.

rumble rumble….scratch punch! hissssss

Or so my scars tell me.

I really don’t know what to do with this response. You seem to have injected a bunch of stuff I didn’t say.

First, I’m a pacifist, always have been. I have never advocated for violence against anyone, even the worst people in the world. It’s one of my most deeply held beliefs.

Second, there are between three and four thousand billionaires in the world. That’s total. There are more than 8 billion people alive right now, and of that number there are between three and four thousand billionaires. If there was ever a group of people to lump together, billionaires are probably the only group I’m completely comfortable doing that with. As a whole, they have caused more damage to individual people, society, and the planet than any other group of people that have ever existed.

Thirdly, as a Jew whose family is much smaller than it should be because of the actual Nazis, I know what a Nazi is. I’m not sure how anyone could have read my comment as a “literal hitler speech,” but it’s possible I’ve completely misunderstood your characterization since I’ve had trouble parsing your comment.

For sure, I agree. Many of the sentences could probably have been longer. But clearly some were enough to make a difference for people like this woman. People can change and understand the wrongs they’ve committed if they’re given the opportunity and empathy to do so.

To be clear I’m not making excuses for any insurrectionists. But everybody, even them, deserves a genuine chance to understand the harm they caused with their crimes. If even a few of them can do that, then maybe this whole ordeal wasn’t a complete quagmire.

It’s pretty inspiring, really. If there’s one thing the orange assface is right about, it’s that our prison system is horrendous. Now, I’m sure he doesn’t actually care since he’s above the law and will never see the inside of a cell, but I’m willing to bet at least of few of the insurrectionists (many of whom had relatively privileged backgrounds) took their guilty verdict and prison sentence very seriously. It’s probably the first time many of them were ever properly held responsible for their actions, which makes the pardons that much more egregious.

Not that it’s the same thing, but murderers have some of the lowest recidivism rates amongst convicted criminals, because people are first and foremost human, and when given the time most people are capable of understanding the impacts of their actions.

Our justice system does a pretty terrible job in general, but the Jan 6 cases were a rare example of the system working properly.

Thank you!

I'll elaborate. Clearly the part of the story that matters is that an important resource providing information on reproductive health was taken down for what seems like absurd and petty partisanship. Nonchalantly discarding resources that were built with our taxpayer dollars bugs the shit out of me, especially when it's such critical information for a government to provide.

I was just pointing out that a huge chunk of government work like designing, building, and maintaining websites for all the agencies, programs, departments, etc. is done by federal contractors, whose contracts are funded with our taxpayer dollars. And by taking down the website like it's nothing, the administration is just tossing our money down the drain.

These things are also expensive as all hell, way way too expensive, but that's a different problem.

That definitely sounds concerning, do you have a link or anything? Any company would have to comply with a legal court order regardless of their preference or ideology, so how they comply comes down to the amount of information they store and for how long. Just saying, the fact that they helped the cops (as much as I hate the cops in general) doesn’t necessarily mean they handed everything over or volunteered anything they weren’t legally obligated to provide. But I don’t know the specifics of the case you mentioned.

While he certainly comes across as one of the more virtuous billionaires, his company Berkshire Hathaway, has massive investments in some of the worst and most damaging industries in the world, in terms of labor exploitation and ongoing contributions to the climate disaster. For example, his company owns 6.6% of Chevron and 27.2% of Occidental Petroleum, two massive exploiters of fossil fuels. That’s no good in my book.

And so they banned his accounts, right? Right??

Most if not all non-paid options will have privacy concerns similar to gmail, so you’ll have to pay. I pay for Proton, and though I’m not thrilled about some of the political bullshit their CEO has been up to recently, I think I’ll stay with them for now since they’re still good for privacy, and their other services are solid. They’re also very upfront about what they charge and why, and I think they still plan to transition to a non-profit.

Yup. Show me a billionaire who has paid their workers fairly from day one, followed every single law and regulation by the book, never spent a single dollar on lobbying Congress or contributing to political campaigns for quid pro quos, and never used underpaid contractors or foreign slave labor. You can’t, because there’s no such thing as a good billionaire.

While this isn’t really the part of it that matters, in all likelihood that site was designed and created by a federal contractor, who probably billed tens of thousands of dollars (probably more) to build it, and most likely continued billing to keep it maintained. He’s just throwing our tax dollars in the trash.

Also ADL: if you’re a Jew criticizing or protesting Israel or Zionism, then you’re an antisemitic self-hating Jew.

The ADL lost their moral high ground years ago, if they ever even had it.

I know it’s an investment, but for the sake of stability and out of box simplicity I recently switched to an Apple TV with Infuse player. I run a Jellyfin server on my desktop PC and browse it through the Infuse app on the Apple TV. It plays everything natively and smooth as butter (including Dolby Vision), and the interface is polished. I wish the app was little more customizable, but it just works.

I think rescheduling was pretty clearly a political football from the start. I never believed there would be the will to actually follow through on it properly. Such cowardice.

Loved him in that role.

Any time I’ve brought it up everybody glazes over the first time I say the words “instance” or “federated.” I’ve tried the email analogy, but they lose interest immediately.

“Come study with us! As a pillar of academia, we'll hide knowledge from you whenever it suits our political and financial interests. Higher education is all about close-mindedness and conservatism after all. We promise none of our students will be taught anything that makes them feel uncomfortable about reality. Welcome to college!”