The vote was 211 to 204. An additional 11 no votes would have forced 5 more republicans to go on record. They would presumably have been from 5 districts which are less safe from criticism of Hegseth than the 211 who voted yes.
Perhaps more importantly; those 11 votes would have showed that it takes more than 8 days for the DNC to wipe their ass with the will of the people.
Good on them! The kids these days are figuring out The Scam younger than I did. The powerful few prey on the weak many, until the weak many rise up.
The next part of the recurring tale is ugly.
WWII was really good at cleansing the global soul of fascism. But that deep cleansing gave us longer to forget. Longer to become complacent.
Not bad; even your office servers score a 10 out of 11 on a scale from 0 to 3. :)
Good callout, thank you! A tale as old as 56k: don’t feed the trolls.
Thanks, Lemmy folks! I have been, and intend to continue to be, intending to put up a server.
I’m sorry, in advance, for what is going to happen to all your hard work, as Reddit craters and all the oligarch bots start coming here to manipulate the populace / control the narrative.
As I’ve been saying since Usenet and Slashdot; it was good while it lasted.
Mike Myers on the stairs
Ohhh! They must have been referencing that! I haven’t seen Halloween. Thank you, for the enlightenment!
Solid format. Here’s a demo, using the most obvious examples I could think of.
I like your artwork, and I like the jittery pixels thing. But I can’t get this out of my head: Elwood Blues leaving the penguin’s office.
I agree - they do usually cite their sources well, even if they are presented in an over-the-top fashion. I appreciate the citations.
futurism .com links often seem like clickbait for people who are skeptical of the broligarchy.
I’m all for covering that side of the story - we need a lot more resistance against the oligarchy. But clickbait is sleazy no matter what story it’s pretending it can tell.
Coupling those things causes lock-in with little upside. My VPN and email provider have no symbiotic connection. Lift & Shift leverages the key value of the free market; competition. “Ecosystem” is marketing speak for captive customer, not customer value.
Diamonds are an excellent product with horrible labor practices. Decent people don’t use products made by malevolent companies. Moissanite is fine in place of diamonds for most uses, and it’s easy to replace Proton.
The US market is expected to drop because the US market is massively overloaded with bubble tech stocks. DJIA and VGK (FTSE Europe ETF) are up in extended hours. Even VUG (Vanguard Morningstar Growth; US growth stocks ETF) is up.
You can inflect them to imply all three things go in, but I prefer pausing after each comma, suggesting that the third item in the list includes “in the ass” as part of its identifier.
The machines of the oligarchs are not neutral to the oligarchy.
The majority are not in a position to understand that.
This is as dangerous, and more imminent, than runaway AGI.
It’s worth reading some of the comments, particularly the ones by OP (EpokK1). He had time to prepare the original post and polish it a bit; the comment replies had to be quicker to beat the time decay feature/problem of threaded discussions. His in-thread replies are less polished, and speak to his character.
Dear Proton Engineers,
He means they won’t do it yet, because the backlash is causing problems. Either because they fear the loss of customers, or because they fear the engineers leaving before getting their replacements trained.
I suspect some folks would poison the training while looking for another job.
They’re looking for authentic-looking projects that they can use to whitewash their LLM injection attack.
Two ways to leverage the projects:
Then they wait for the LLMs to suck it in and start spitting it out into corporations who have Proton’d their engineering staff.
To expand a bit: Aaron was a tireless activist who was harassed to death by the DoJ for doing a tiny fraction of what the broligarchs get away with every day. Carmen M. Ortiz, who pushed the relentless attack against Aaron, is an unrepentant monster.
Because extractive capitalism hates informed consent. When interacting with an extractive capitalist, keep one hand on your wallet and one hand covering your drink.