Admiral Patrick @ ptz @dubvee.org

I'm surprisingly level-headed for being a walking knot of anxiety.

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I rarely go to Walmart. This is from the local Kroger (grocery store).

Good. May other retailers and grocery chains follow.

I hate those things - they treat you like a thief by default. I rarely use them and prefer to wait in line for the 1-2 cashiers, but I did the other day because I only had a few bottles of water to check out, and it was unsurprisingly horrible.

Scanned and bagged all my stuff. More slowly than I'd have liked, but otherwise uneventfully. I unpocket my wallet to get my shopper's card and debit card out. "Oh no, you didn't!" the machine said as it called for backup. Cue waiting 3-4 minutes for the attendant to get to me.

The machine asked the attendant if I was stealing and showed a replay of what it assumed must be me trying some Ocean's 11 level of grand larceny. In the video? It was me getting my wallet out to pay.

Absolutely no time was saved. Nothing was more convenient, and to top it off, I was once again accused of stealing by a bathroom scale with delusions of grandeur.

For those of you unwilling to actually read the article, it's not money.

The pool of blue-collar workers who are able and willing to perform tasks on a factory floor in the United States is shrinking. As baby boomers retire, few young people are lining up to take their place.

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For some companies, remaining globally competitive involves the use of sophisticated equipment that requires employees to have extensive training and familiarity with software. And employers cannot simply hire people right out of high school without providing specialized training programs to bring them up to speed.

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“We spent three generations telling everybody that if they didn’t go to college, they are a loser,” he said. “Now we are paying for it. We still need people to use their hands.”

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The country is flooded with college graduates who can’t find jobs that match their education

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The Trump administration’s aggressive cuts to training programs for blue-collar workers have also hurt efforts to train a new generation of factory workers.

Not blocked, but my instance is fully de-federated from lemmit.online.

And yes, I consider all the re-post instances/bots to be spam.

It's a blunt instrument, but I've been temp-banning any new account that posts to any of the various "ask" communities. When I check back on them a few days later, 99% of them show up as "ERROR" when I view them on their home instance.

The upside is that with them being banned at the time they nuke their accounts, the delete request is not accepted and the content/replies remain available.

I'm to the point I'm considering patching the server to ignore federated account deletions since they're being abused by a small number of people in a way that affects the majority of users.

Yep. Check your profile settings. Apparently it varies by app, but Lemmy-UI, Photon, Tesseract, and a few others have full support.

Need to shop in behind him congressional republicans plus Thomas and Alito. He may have done that, but he didn't do it alone. Not to mention, it would take very few congressional republicans to put a stop to this, and they've done nothing.

I don't think it was the NSF directly (though their research could have been utilized), but the US did try to do something about it (at least with COVID misinfo). But then the whole "ConSErvaTivE voICEs aRE beINg SilEncED!" peanut gallery whipped themselves into a frenzy.

• ‘Facebook Files’: Fact-Checking Jim Jordan’s Claims Biden Pressured Facebook
• Mark Zuckerberg’s letter about Facebook censorship is not what it seems
• Content Moderation At Scale Is Impossible: Some Republican Politicians Are Indistinguishable From Neo Nazis
• Research Finds Conservatives Vastly More Likely to Share Inaccurate Articles Without Even Reading Them

Assuming he's out and replaced tomorrow (makes the conversion easier), he'd be in position for 88 days.

That's 8 mooches (or 2 Trusses for our friends using the metric system).

• 1 Mooch = 11 Days
• 1 Truss = 44 days (or 4 Mooches)
• 1 Hesgeth = 2 Trusses = 8 Mooches

How could we forget about the makeup bag?

Joke aside, the access badge can be revoked immediately (unless Elon somehow fucked that up too). Locks can be changed (and she can probably have that done quickly by a security detail as well as a sweep of the apartment). Blank checks can be canceled at the bank (basically a bulk stop payment on the range of check numbers).

Passport may be a bigger concern, but for someone in a cabinet-level position, anyone attempting to use it would probably be questioned pretty thoroughly.

Don't gain faith. (Is that correct when I'd typically say "don't lose faith"? lol)

It's just a cult, albeit a big, loud, obnoxious one. Nothing supernatural / biblical about it other than a coincidental resemblance.

Do normal people routinely carry around $3,000 in cash? (Granted, that could just be the original Picasso that I swear was in the trunk of my Geo Metro when it was stolen).

That's an awful lot of cash to have. What do you need that for? Better "arrest" that money and take it down to the station.

(Not condoning civil asset forfeiture but def making fun of it).

The cringe was just too much for them to handle.

What???? Got a link? I must share this on Lemmy. The people must know about this, and I'm the only one who can tell them.

it seems like we've got a lot of royalty on lemmy

To them I say:

The must be The Convergence the fortune teller warned me about all those years ago.

Lol, you know society screwed up when there's a "Student Parking" section at your local elementary schools.

Poisoning AI with junk info and sabotaging with specific misinformation in order to spread it are different things. This is describing the latter.

Parents in Montgomery County who object for religious reasons want to pull their children from elementary school classes

Well....we're waiting. They're just disrupting everything for everyone else with their bigoted pearl clutching.