BertramDitore @ BertramDitore @lemm.ee

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Monorail!

Yeah, I forgot how many states are so damn creepy about age of consent. I think the alleged rape happened in Florida though, so the issue is moot, but still worth pointing out.

But also, our national definition of an adult is 18, so how the hell can the states be so different on consent? Federalism has its downsides I guess…

Curious if the downvotes are because I wasn’t totally right about the law, or something else?

Yeah he’s always been a beast. Doesn’t eat very much either…

Yeah this bugs the hell out of me. A 17 year old is not capable of consenting to sex with an adult. That’s how our laws work. Sex with a minor is by definition rape, so they should absolutely call it what it is: a credible rape allegation.

Reminder: It Is The 'Democratic Party,' Not 'Democrat Party'

That is one gorgeous fuzzball. Damn. Look at that profile!

Time to put the Capitol Switchboard on speed dial, gonna be calling them a lot these next few years.

For those who don’t know, here’s the switchboard number:

202-224-3121

Call, tell them where you live, and they’ll connect you to your representative’s constituent services. It’ll only take you a few minutes, but they keep track of every call. It matters.

I get what you’re saying, but internal company communications (especially for publicly traded companies) still should be accessible to valid legal inquiries, otherwise there is absolutely no hope for any kind of accountability. Having IMs between end-users be off the record by default seems totally reasonable and good to me, but internal communications should not be deletable at all, let alone manually by executives. The US Government has record retention schedules, through which non-records (water-cooler talk or the digital equivalent) are kept private and real records are identified and preserved. This is the kind of thing that Congress needs to regulate for private companies. Google blatantly and actively deleted conversations they knew would be relevant to the case, that’s unacceptable.

Trump is a lame duck president on day one. You can interpret this one of two ways: he has no political capital and will be running on authoritarian fumes for his whole term, or his political capital is limitless because he can’t run again and has unshakable blind loyalty from nearly half the country. Since it’s Trump, the worst option is almost certainly correct. Trump will never run out of political capital.

So, to Trump it’s because: wrestling was fun in the 90s, she has a famous last name, she’s a woman and most teachers are women, she enabled the sexual abuse of countless children, and she has absolutely no experience. She’s clearly his perfect pick. I honestly can’t imagine him naming anyone better than this terrible person.

As an act of civil disobedience someone should remove the gender signs from every single bathroom at the capitol.

Also, grow up Mace. You're the weirdo for caring so much about where people shit.

Calling my supervisor a dirty little pussy is usually a no no, but in this case…

Seems like the perfect outlet to discuss Chinese participation in Japanese sex tourism.

“But now we are seeing a lot more foreign men,” he said. “They come from many countries. They are white, Asian, black – but the majority are Chinese.”

This is not the right place to advertise your investing app. This is gross.

Edit: also a pretty brash, reckless, and crappy use of an AI image generator. If your app is so great, couldn’t you afford to pay an artist?

Mark Zuckerberg and Nick Clegg are bad people. There is no ethical way to give militaries this kind of tool. They will use it to kill innocent people, while disingenuously touting its ‘ability’ to save lives.

If you still have any kind of Meta account or use any of their products, you are helping to legitimize them and give them more power. I’m tired of “it helps me buy junk in my neighborhood” or “but event invites!” excuses. Nope, they’re bad people, running a bad company, that causes real harm to real people every day. If you care at all about the health of society, you must stop giving them the ammunition they turn around and use against you. Stop. Using. Meta. Products.

Same, Syncthing is amazing. I use it with Mobius Sync on iOS and have it synching my keepass, Obsidian vault, photos, and a folder for random file transfers between devices. It’s so much better, faster, and more stable than all the most popular corporate cloud providers.

She is a master of language. I love her style.

I imagine CFPB is at the very top of the hit-list to get fully doge’d. Because fuck consumers, why would they ever need protection from anti-union, discriminatory billionaire oligarchs like Musk?

US Presidents are limited to two terms, it doesn’t matter if they are consecutive. Grover Cleveland is the only other president who has served two non-consecutive terms.

Term-limits are a relatively recent addition though, the 22nd Amendment to the Constitution was only ratified in 1951 after Franklin Roosevelt served four terms.

For real. Academics are some of the most prolific pirates I’ve ever met. Usually out of necessity because we don’t pay them reasonably or value their work.