pivot_root @ pivot_root @lemmy.world

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The people who are either reveling in the changes, the ones who don't care because it doesn't effect them, or the ones living paycheck to paycheck that can't afford to get a criminal record for protesting and lose their job?

A critical mass of people won't do anything until it becomes an imminent matter of their own life and death, and this ain't it.

Oh, I'm calling it now. This one is going to be used as an attack of trans people. Throw out the archaic and manual process of updating names in federal databases, and keep it simple by making the records immutable. Then hit them with a lovely

"You MUST use your REAL NAME (MAIDEN NAME) on government forms. If the name does not match, you will be denied."

In contemporary language, that word (among others) is almost entirely used as an insult by way of equating somebody's intelligence with those who have intellectual disabilities, which creates a negative connotation. Similarly, this is why we don't say things we dislike are "gay" anymore. It's disrespectful to the people who actually fall under the definition, and it proliferates negative associations with traits that people are stuck living with and had no choice in acquiring.

The only reason "idiot" hasn't followed suit is because it's much more culturally ingrained, and there's hasn't been as significant of an attempt to change it as with other words.

I've never seen anyone use or interpret the r-word as a slur outside of lemmy

It's not exclusive to Lemmy, but it is mostly left-leaning spaces or gen Z individuals who see it that way. Center and right-leaning spaces see treating the word as a slur to be censorship (as opposed to being respectful of others) and keep using it or actively push back by saying it more.

Democrats in Congress are pushing legislation to curb his access to federal systems and slowing Trump’s executive confirmations.

Legislation? Musk doesn't give a single shit about legislation unless it benefits himself, and Trump has openly stated he "might" ignore judges' orders. That's a great whole lot of nothing you're proposing there, guys.

I have no idea how the execution of such an order would play out.

It wouldn't. The order would get appealed, the appeal would be slow walked so it wouldn't be executed in a timely manner, and eventually, it would find its way to the supreme kangaroo court and be deemed unconstitutional to seize the assets of the acting president for life.

A fine like that will last about as long as it takes for Donvict FElon to sign an order making training AI fall under "fair use," unfortunately.

Or, just as likely, the individuals will be the ones found responsible rather than the corporation.

Slight correction: to beyond the full extent of the law.

My takeaway from this is that the entire thing was performative.

The racist shit keeps unfettered access to government information without a security clearance (and the 25 year old, too), Trump and Co spin a narrative of "the past is the past, 'mistakes' should be forgiven and forgotten," and nobody is held accountable for anything. Sounds about right.

But it's so much work writing emails to tell your underlings what they need to spend the next 2 years struggling to accomplish without overtime pay, flying on a private jet between public appearances with known criminals, and spending hours a day reposting misinformation on Twitter. It's so hard! Nobody understands how hard he works!

(Obvious /s)

Abolitionist*

Especially since they can be disconnected from the network at Nazielon's will.

Thank you for adding more detail.

Yeah, I'm running under the pessimistic assumption here that incorporating Canada into the United States would not be done fairly or reasonably if it happened. I suspect that they would get a pittance in terms of political representation, justified by the xenophobic and nationalistic guise that "all those Canadian immigrants shouldn't be influencing American politics." Probably using talking points like,

• They haven't been here the whole time.
• They don't understand our politics.
• They have a different (read: socialist) culture.
• They're the newest State(s)

I see your point, but as someone who prefers my home folder be my home folder, I prefer they put it under ~/.config regardless of what operating system is being used.

No. Hiding files is still just an attribute.

Actually, technically, it's two. Files marked as system files are treated as hidden as well...

They can influence the popular vote, but that legitimately means nothing as far as presidential elections are concerned. For example, if they give the entire country 2 electoral college votes as a state, it's voter base is effectively irrelevant to the outcome of any future election.

Should Canada be turned into a state and not just controlled as a puppet, they would more likely be given one vote per province, which is 13 votes. With a couple of their provinces being heavily conservative already, as far as shifting things left goes, that would be more like 10 votes. And for context, the state of Florida has 30.

It's not going to shift things left if Canada was annexed. Even if they were given voting rights (which is doubtful), their population is both a magnitude smaller, and Alberta exists.

There is always some sort of fucking child throwing a tantrum about some shit. Has it always been the case?

Petty much. The big difference this time is that there's a common enemy (Rust) instead of relatively isolated petty crap.

I think trusting Meta's (or Google's) E2EE at any point would have been a bad decision. Facebook thrived on collecting user data, and end-to-end encryption of private conversations spits in the face of that. If it's antithetical to their profits, there's incentive to bypass the intent but still technically be implementing it (on-device keyword scanning, maybe?).

Musk, who was being investigated by USAID for the funding given to Starlink to assist Ukraine, was trying to abuse his unelected position to dismantle them? Interesting.

Oh? He used Twitter to promote and signal boost conspiracies about USAID, too? How coincidental!

It's not like the rich fuck has a vendetta against anyone trying to hold him accountable. Definitely not trying to cover up his crimes or anything.