cowpattycrusader

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"Stalin starved his population!” in c/memes@hexbear.net
Taylor Swift endorses Kamala Harris in c/politics@lemmy.world
[–] cowpattycrusader@thelemmy.club 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Probably because they feel aligned with her values and see her success as an indicator that she is smart. Therefore, she is someone worth emulating.

The MAGA plan to stop forest fires: Remove the forest | Project 2025 plans to increase commercial logging to fight wildfires. Ecologists and fire experts say this will make fires worse. in c/politics@lemmy.world
[–] cowpattycrusader@thelemmy.club 7 points 2 weeks ago

I can't help but think of Gulag Archipelago when Stalin had all the engineers arrested for "wrecking" because they could not make nonsensical orders lead to the desired output. In any industry.

Any ideas? in c/microblogmemes@lemmy.world
[–] cowpattycrusader@thelemmy.club 66 points 2 weeks ago (11 children)

Better question... how do we find our own self-esteem without denigrating others for making choices that are absolutely none of our concern?

Signal Is More Than Encrypted Messaging. Under Meredith Whittaker, It’s Out to Prove Surveillance Capitalism Wrong in c/privacy@lemmy.ml
[–] cowpattycrusader@thelemmy.club 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

This is really interesting. It brings two questions to mind.

  1. Don't all messaging apps use phone number as a primary metadata value?

  2. Are you suggesting that Signal could either not use this metadata or not collect it and yet they choose to collect it and can therefore lose it to exfiltration or warrant?