EldritchFeminity @ EldritchFeminity @lemmy.blahaj.zone

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People have already died from their actions. 2 plane crashes and counting.

To add to this, the FBI has been trying to prove his connections to Russian crime organizations forever. I wanna say since the 70s. Russian criminals have major stakes in Trump Towers - including actual real estate - and he's been "gifted" everything from private planes to yachts by them. The FBI has never been able to get anything to stick, however.

It's a good point. Another good link is the Reuters article linked in the paragraph I grabbed, but I didn't think to link it in the original post.

How about an ongoing summary from one of The Onion's accounts on BlueSky?

https://bsky.app/profile/bencollins.bsky.social/post/3lh5ab2coi22e

Or The Wired article I posted elsewhere about another government agency where the same thing is happening:

https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-lackeys-general-services-administration/

Edit: Not to say that that isn't a valid point, but this is happening reported elsewhere, and I've seen people talking about multiple agencies who have been locked out of their offices by Musk's goons.

The cops, most likely. Several government agencies, such as the FBI, have been ousting people involved in other incidents (like those involved with anything to do with Jan 6th). Musk's agents have also been physically locking people out of their own offices and going through their personal stuff.

Taking over all agencies of the government to fill them with sycophants and loyalists. Somewhere between Russia and 1930s Germany imo.

There's a major bit from the other article where they talk about leaked documents about turning the structure of the GSA into the same as X (Twitter).

The OPM gives them the personal information of every government employee in the country. It's a purge at all levels of the government.

Fines have always been code for "you must be this rich to play."

It's even closer than that. Check out the other post I made about him taking over the General Services Administration as well.

I found out about both from BlueSky, where people were reporting that multiple other government agencies were reporting similar things - all the way to the financial wing responsible for 6 trillion dollars annually had been fighting against Musk's attempts to gain control of the office.

I am not a government employee (or a lawyer), but I would say contact your representatives immediately. Both phone calls and letters, and doubly so if your representatives are Republican. The more they get, the higher the chance of them having to do something, and getting Republicans to oppose the coup in any way will weaken the effects.

Also, make as many people aware of the situation as you can because this is largely going unnoticed by the general public, it seems.

If the world is united against the US, why would they go to war with each other? They would all have a common enemy in a belligerent country run by an egotistical maniac.

Nothing unites people like a common enemy. Just look at how the Republicans get voted in and how Trump got elected again.

Back then the game felt much bigger

You might wanna hook your phone up to a TV then.

This kind of stuff has always been an endless war of escalation, the same as any kind of security. There was a period of time where all it took to mess with Gen AI was artists uploading images of large circles or something with random tags to their social media accounts. People ended up with random bits of stop signs and stuff in their generated images for like a week. Now, artists are moving to sites that treat AI scrapers like malware attacks and degrading the quality of the images that they upload.

As the saying goes, "I don't like to get political is a weird way of saying my rights aren't up for debate every 4 years."

Although in the past decade, it's been closer to being up for debate every couple of days.

My favorite was how German spies in WW2 were easily caught because they'd just show up in beachside towns out of nowhere (right off the u-boat) in suits and carrying briefcases stuffed with cash.

The issue with AI isn't the tool, but the ethics of its creation (and the greed of those trying to put it in anything and everything, but that's another matter), and this is so often lost in these conversations. Like pro-lifers arguing with women's rights activists. Two completely different concepts being argued past each other. Your use case is exactly the kind of thing that AI could be great for - if it wasn't made by stealing the work of others.

That out of the way, I think you're going to have to look for lists of campaign donators, shareholders in companies Musk owns, and as somebody else said, those rolling back DEI programs and the like.

It'll probably be easier to find lists of which companies oppose the horrors, honestly.

We're also surprisingly resilient compared to many other species. We can recover from wounds that would be lethal for other animals in weeks or months - such as broken or even lost limbs. We grow scar tissue at a pretty rapid pace as well, allowing us to heal wounds quickly. And our pain tolerance is high enough that other animals would drop dead of shock from some of these things. We invented surgery at least 200 years before painkillers, and things that we consider minor surgery would outright kill other animals. Hell, we were punching holes in our skulls to "let the bad light out" in the Neolithic era. Our mouths grow too many teeth, so we rip them out and graft metal onto the rest to force them to grow in alignment.

Our endurance is so high that the only other species that can keep up with us is dogs, and even then, they can only sort of keep up. We used to have a hunting strategy where we'd follow an animal at a walking pace for hours on end, never letting them rest, until they eventually couldn't run anymore or simply dropped dead from exhaustion. We have a pretty wide range of temperatures and climates that we can survive in thanks to our ability to sweat off heat and shiver to burn extra calories for warmth. We can go 3 days without any food or water, and a full week with only water to sustain us.

There was a great sci-fi short story somebody wrote once about how humans were some of the most beloved crew members for spaceships because while we may not be the strongest, fastest, or most intelligent species out there, our ability to pack-bond with literally anything - including inanimate objects - and crazy endurance meant that we were the most dependable and capable species in a crisis. A human would jump into Hell itself in order to save a crewmate and simply walk it off like it was nothing afterward.

They're horny for Roxanne, the wolf animatronic from Five Nights at Freddy's: Security Breach - the character on the console screen on the right.

I didn't mean that as my personal mindset, but that of our American culture. When I said "hardened criminals," I was using the cultural sense of the phrase that refers to those guilty of more serious crimes and repeat offenders, nothing more.

The vast majority of people in prison are there for stupid reasons, and most would never be there in the first place if there were better social safety nets and support programs in the first place. And of those who do end up in prison, everybody would be far better served by rehabilitation programs than punishment for the sake of punishment. That serves no purpose other than to be cruel.

There are, of course, those very few people who are better off locked away from the general populace, like CEOs. But even then, the point is to prevent them from doing harm, not inflicting pain and misery on them.

The American prison system is good at 2 things: creating profit off of slave labor and creating repeat offenders who are likely to turn to things like theft, drugs, or dangerous forms of sex work (prostitution, becoming human trafficking victims, etc.) out of desperation after they get out.