[-] _dev_null@lemmy.zxcvn.xyz 68 points 2 months ago

It's a vehicle for trump to accept foreign money, that's how.

[-] _dev_null@lemmy.zxcvn.xyz 68 points 3 months ago

Interesting.

If they've built an app that can target non-christian demographics, then they've also built an app to target christians.

I wonder if they've made that realization yet.

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I got an email from reddit to the address for one of my old Reddit logins. The text, in part, when visiting the URL they provided (had to be logged in, not all of my old handles could see it):

Yes, it's really happening this time, and as we take the next step toward becoming a public company, we're inviting all eligible redditors to participate in Reddit's IPO.

“Eligible” you note skeptically? Yes. Unfortunately, there are a ton of imposed legal restrictions defining when, who, and how we do this. So while our goal is to give all redditors the same access to stock as institutional investors (why should they have all the fun?), our lawyercats tell us we must follow specific rules listed below.

Our Directed Share Program (“DSP”) is set up to let eligible users and moderators own a piece of Reddit by purchasing Reddit stock at the same price as institutional investors when we IPO. We will offer this opportunity to as many redditors as we are able to accommodate, and the number of people who can participate is limited.

[-] _dev_null@lemmy.zxcvn.xyz 49 points 5 months ago

my conscience is held captive to the word of God, not to bureaucratic decree. And so I acted

You know what is going to be held captive by bureaucratic decree? Your felon status, fucker!

Can I have your AR-15 once you're convicted? Because you won't be allowed to own it after! And j/k about your rifle, I bet it's a PSA p p piece of shit (dumbasses like this guy tend to be poor whiskey tango).

[-] _dev_null@lemmy.zxcvn.xyz 61 points 5 months ago

In basic training our barracks would get "white glove" inspections, where the drill instructor would wear a literal white glove and run his finger over surfaces to detect anything that wasn't clean, dry, and serviceable. And I'm not talking about just the obvious places, but also things like under the benches in the showers, or up and in a wall locker ledge.

The ultimate goal wasn't to hand out demerits, it was to instill a sense of attention to detail in us. They asked us how could we be trusted to maintain nukes for example, when we failed to even find that stray clump of soap scum and pubes in the shower.

So that's all to say: If the boeing apparatus is so fucked that doors are falling off their aircraft mid-flight, what the fuck else have they missed?

[-] _dev_null@lemmy.zxcvn.xyz 63 points 5 months ago

In Arizona, the state GOP has just $14,800 left in the bank at the end of August, as reported by the Arizona Mirror.

They should be a lot more broke then that!

Remember the faux election audit in AZ, the one that hired fucking "Cyber Ninjas" to do the work, the company that had zero experience doing so?

Yeah that company was responsible for going over time and budget, grifting $6M from trump donors (good!), but also illegally corralling/storing/examining all of the largest county's voting machines (bad!):

Maricopa County also has sued the state to replace voting machines used in the audit, saying it would cost the county $2.8 million to replace the machines.

And that's just some of it. Here's a good timeline of how fucked up the AZ senate made things, and at the end of it all, the GOP ignored the results.

[-] _dev_null@lemmy.zxcvn.xyz 56 points 7 months ago

This whole article is a fucking advert for glorified vending machines.

[-] _dev_null@lemmy.zxcvn.xyz 79 points 7 months ago

"If conservatives become convinced that they can not win democratically, they will not abandon conservatism. The will reject democracy.” ― David Frum

Since the GOP couldn't win the vote and shoot down this state constitutional amendment, they're just going to skull fuck democracy right in an eye socket and do whatever they want anyway.

[-] _dev_null@lemmy.zxcvn.xyz 148 points 8 months ago

Yeah, I really didn't like my buddy's girlfriend. I could see right through her, and she was changing by buddy for the worse. She was convincing him that his image was shit, and it really damaged his confidence. He'd change his outward appearance for her, dropped his entire lifestyle, but she had abandonment issues so wasn't ever happy with any partner.

Turns out she was a narcissist, like bonafide. What went down next:

  1. She graduates college with a STEM degree, while having freeloaded in his house her entire senior year (his mortgage)

  2. She breaks up and moves out of nowhere, this several months after she insisted on all the other roommates get kicked out to "take it to the next level"

  3. He goes suicidal, makes two attempts, but finds another lost soul to have a fling with, which starts to bring him out of the depression

  4. Ex-girlfriend finds out about new fling, drops by house at 1am after having left the club (driving drunk, I'll add)

  5. Makes a huge scene out front of his house, I'm there for my "shift" on suicide watch, she ends up kicking me in my fucking kidney while I was squatting and smoking a cig

  6. He ends up depressed again, 3rd suicide attempt and he doesn't survive

  7. I'm a pall bearer at 25 for my best friend since 8th grade

Fuck that bitch.

[-] _dev_null@lemmy.zxcvn.xyz 54 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I think you skipped a step:

1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1

Edit: Ohhhh, math by tens, I totally missed it. In that case, my mind wants to break it down to (10 * 5) + 1, and I'd still totally miss 17 as a possible factor.

[-] _dev_null@lemmy.zxcvn.xyz 48 points 8 months ago

disposable capes

And they get away with it simply because they're super heroes, bastards!

[-] _dev_null@lemmy.zxcvn.xyz 83 points 8 months ago

It's not just chromium in and of itself. It's that it would be a browser that's unmodifiable by the user, so no unapproved extensions, no ad blockers, etc.

It's a way for google to tell its ad buyers that "hey, we can 100% guarantee the end user is seeing your ads if they're using this browser". And then all of the corporate websites cater only to that browser, or give a different user experience for all other browsers.

Personally, I find this problematic for several reasons:

  1. I wouldn't be in control of my browser and how it executes arbitrary code on my machine

  2. The system creates second class citizens on the internet

  3. It cedes control of the open internet to corporations, like google

  4. Privacy; I don't give a shit what google says about pseudonymous and group identities, researchers have found problems after problems after problems...

[-] _dev_null@lemmy.zxcvn.xyz 58 points 9 months ago

If you've got a murderous autocrat praising you, it should trigger an "I've made a huge mistake" response.

Not so for narcissists though - anything that boosts their ego is welcome, anything. Russia knows this, and plays the fuck out of it like a shit fiddle, Randy.

And useful idiots fall for it, like really powerful idiots. It makes me sad for humanity that such depraved sociopaths can still win out in this day and age.

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