Carrolade @ Carrolade @lemmy.world

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Those trolls live off of engagement

Not anymore. Back in the day trolling was a recreational activity done for fun. Deny the fun, cut off the troll's food. Now it's being done for political purposes, so cutting off the fun no longer functions since it no longer strikes at the primary motivation.

... now that was not on my bingo card.

Kinda, not really.

According to the indictment, Hunter Biden engaged in a four-year scheme in which he chose not to pay at least $1.4 million in self-assessed federal taxes he owed for tax years 2016 through 2019 and to evade the assessment of taxes for tax year 2018 when he filed false returns. As alleged in the indictment, to further this scheme, Hunter Biden:

https://www.justice.gov/sco-weiss/pr/robert-hunter-biden-convicted-three-felony-tax-offenses-and-six-misdemeanor-tax-offenses

10 years is about right to clear him of all that, and prevent his political opponents from continuing to use him for their political propaganda going into the future.

Also somewhat amusing that my reply about the US Constitution, our founding political document, remains up. Discussing the Constitution is about as political as you can get.

At any rate, I didn't realize there was a new rule here. I get it though, election year and all.

That is not specified in the Constitution, and is an open question. Nobody has ever tried, to my knowledge.

Yeah it's fairly common on the internet for someone to take everything at face value.

Not exactly that rare irl either, for that matter. People even occasionally fall for Onion articles.

Yeesh. I knew the Abrams was outdated and has become really maintenance heavy, but I wasn't totally convinced it needed to be replaced.

I am now. These boys deserve a better tank.

Obama made this a goal of his second term, and while he achieved some success, the relationship between the west and the other major nuclear powers has significantly worsened since then.

It's an admirable goal, but I'm not sure it's going to be feasible any time in the near future.

It's not that surprising. Developing software requires a certain skillset, heavily based in logic. Understanding people requires a completely different skillset, and people tend to be more emotional than logical. Our brains just draw connections between different concepts that are, at their core, fundamentally illogical. A big business has the benefit of a marketing department, staffed by specialists who earn their paycheck by studying and manipulating people. Your average FOSS project doesn't have that advantage.

If you wanted some of that same advantage, you'd want to onboard some talented humanities or marketing specialist and give them the branding responsibilities.

This is an excellent idea. Did you happen to find any?