I think it’s a symptom of Lemmy’s core premise - where do I direct funds as the “common” user (read as less technically sophisticated)? To access and engage with Lemmy I…

1. use an app…
2. that channels a specific server…
3. contained within are individual mods that maintain communities and curate content…
4. and all of that lives within the larger “world” of Lemmy as an idea

There are many hands in that chain. Your dedicated users can handle negotiating that decision maybe, but the “common” user cannot - and this post is trying to discuss Lemmy at scale, so you’re talking about that “common” user.

Again, it’s counter to the founding spirit of Lemmy, but we’re missing a centralized path to supporting all of the distributed hands doing work on this idea. Not an easy problem to solve, but one that should be acknowledged.

Not sure who was making that value projection, but if it was a trump-involved party, you can definitely count on that being over inflated bullshit.

We all need to stop regurgitating trump headlines/talking points verbatim without attempting to add some context.

"its future is fraught with uncertainty. Digital World’s former CEO Patrick Orlando and former Trump business associates Andy Litinsky and Wes Moss have separately sued to ask for more shares for their previous work on the deal.

It is unclear how and when these cases will be resolved. Even if the deal gets completed next week, Trump will not be allowed to sell any of his shares in the combined company for six months or borrow against them, based on terms he previously agreed."

I wouldn’t apply if my prospective employer was the equivalent of a trump appointment unqualified, unethical “judge” - again not sure you’re getting the fact that she was a known quantity when they applied for the clerkships.

I wouldn’t apply to that position because of my own morals, but also because of know that it would be poison to my resume - unless I was of course content to work for a series of the same broken assholes for the rest of my career (and in that scenario, I’m also a broken asshole).

Are you just being a contrarian for the sake of it? because you don’t have an argument here.

That’s apologist cynical nonsense. cannon was recently appointed by trump and known to not be fit for the position from GO. Human beings have autonomy.

“Yeah, I knew the factory ground up babies, but you don’t understand… You see I wanted the career advancement towards the top of my field so you just have to go with it”

Wtf, bud?

You’re missing the point, I didn’t say full autonomous control. There are thousands of intermediate steps that could be involved - from escalating light/audio warnings, to auto lowering of the Windows or popping doors slightly to relieve pressure when significant water is sensed within car’s internals for a sustained period of time to maybe even a temp limit of a vehicle speed/control while it’s moving under a certain speed towards a sensed danger and not on a road/highway.

The bigger point is that musk snake oil cars are sold with the vapor of “smart” and this did nothing smart to help save this woman’s life, in fact it sealed her into her avoidable death due to poor design and profound lack of several basic and easy to implement potential “smart” features that could have attempted to warn or intervene.

They don’t “bible follow” the “bible title mention”. Imagine a trump voter sitting down with the patience and focus to read a whole book?

Alright Wikipedia editors, please make so that these shit apples don’t fall far from this shit tree. These clerks knew exactly what they were doing working with her. Probably taking jobs at the Heritage Foundation now

Parts of this country are so profoundly broken.

Because they are exploitative trash.

A funny part of this whole thing that isn’t discussed… Why isn’t the “intelligent robot car” equipped with anything to stop you from doing any of the shit that led to this? Fucking snake oil bullshit.

Including those 6 previous bankruptcies, he’s demonstrably the actual biggest loser in history - Like measurable. If any of you are starting to have your memories fade, here’s a quick refresher to read this morning and then copy and send to your aunt karen in Missouri.

• 0 re-elections won
• 1 term president
• 2 times impeached
• 3 marriages
• 4 inch lifts in his shoes
• 5 kids, from 3 different mothers
• 6 bankruptcies
• 7 US Capitol police suing him for Jan 6 terrorist insurrection and murder of police
• 8 trillion + dollars added to the US debt in a single term
• 9 trump lawyers sanctioned by federal judge for lying in frivolous election fraud lawsuits and ordered to pay defendant’s legal fees
• 10 years that trump paid $0 in income taxes between 2000 and 2015. ($0 to cops, teachers, roads, prisons, disaster relief, etc)
• 11 trump associates charged with serious crimes over the past 5 years
• 12 million votes (the big lie) - trump claims he won the 2020 election by 12 million votes when in reality, he lost by about 7 million votes.
• 13 of August, 2021 - one of multiple days that trump was supposed to magically become president again according to Qanon and a crack addicted pillow salesman (the two most respected information sources in the gop)
• 14 year old girl in a youth choir that trump approached in 1992 to say, “Wow! Just think - in a couple years I’ll be dating you.”
• 15 originally confirmed cases of COVID in the US trump said would soon be, “down to close to zero.” followed by, “like a miracle, it will disappear.” - over 1,000,000 Americans have since died of COVID as it continues to kill hundreds nearly 3 years later.
• 16 years old - age of daughter ivanka when she hosted “miss teen” pageant and, according to long time trump associate Noel Casler, “trump called her over in the middle of a rehearsal and had her give him a lap dance while he leered at the crew.”
• 17 known trump and russia investigations from local, state and federal prosecutors
• 18 gop senators that ignored trump threats / warnings and supported Biden admin’s infrastructure bill.
• 19 as in COVID19 - trump was verified as the single largest source of disinformation on the virus, with a Cornell study claiming that 38% of the “misinformation conversation” originated with trump
• 20 the day in January, 2021, when Biden was sworn in despite trump inciting a violent insurrection to stop election verification at the US Capitol.
• 21 gun salute that trump ordered for himself when he left office after a humiliating defeat, even though he never served in the military, famously called military members “losers” and “suckers” and actively avoided the draft with a cowardly “bone spurs” excuse.
• 22 date in August, 2021, when Alabama hate rally crowd booed trump for finally saying people should get vaccinated, only after over 700,000 Americans had died due mostly to his failure as president
• 23 as in wrestlemania 23 in 2007 where trump, a cartoon level failure with no other prospects, participated in a fake bet that a proxy wrestler would win a fake fight on his behalf or he would shave his wig and hair plugs off.
• 24 day in August, 2021, when trump actually filed a lawsuit in Florida court against YouTube, a private company, demanding that they reinstate his YouTube channel like a desperate, irrelevant embarrassment with no platforms left to abuse.
• 25 plus credible sexual assault allegations against trump, spanning decades and with accusers starting as young as 13 years old at time of assault.

What is that?

Find a purple voting district, move there and vote blue - the republicans need more social services to use regularly while they complain about people expecting “handouts”

This is a childish view… You can TECHNICALLY do a lot of shit with a snap of your fingers, but there are major consequences if you don’t prepare for major shifts in the status quo gradually.

For example, say a child’s parent dies in a car crash, you can take them away from the hospital to get some ice cream, have their grandparents there, and say together, “So mommy isn’t going to be coming home now, Billy. She was very sick and the doctors tried to help her get better but she died today. She loved you very much and I still love you and your grandpa and grandma are here and they love you and we’re going to adjust together and remember mommy as a family” or the doctor can just come out of the operating room covered in mommy’s blood and say to the kid, “your mom had her head chopped off by a train, kid. You need to get out of the hospital now. This isn’t my problem”

Both are technically the same action of informing the kid of some significant news/change.

For the, “why are you doing it now, convenient!” crowd - first of all yes, that’s how politics works. Trump is a constant heartbeat of bullshit and you need to have strategically timed news and events to stay in people’s short term memories for voting impact - especially the committed stoners :)

But also, Biden admin has been working towards this for years. He is not the most progressive anything, but he’s doing more than his predecessors on either side (and the pathetic gop alternative) and that’s progress.

You don’t make major legislative change by firing a cannon at the front door - you set several small fires at all the other exits on the building and then when all that is in motion, you just knock on the front door to warn everyone about the fire and they walk out willingly.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/10/06/statement-from-president-biden-on-marijuana-reform/

https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/06/politics/marijuana-decriminalization-white-house-joe-biden/index.html

https://www.npr.org/2023/12/22/1221230390/biden-pardons-clemency-marijuana-drug-offenses

On December 2, 2022, Biden signed the Medical Marijuana and Cannabidiol Research Expansion Act - “the first standalone marijuana-related bill approved by both chambers of the United States Congress”

Biden approved the Viktor Bout–Brittney Griner prisoner exchange work Russia on December 8, 2022 which involved an American WNBA athlete being convicted of cannabis possession on Russian soil and being held in Russian prison.

“Done nothing about it” are you an actual child or do you just have a child’s perspective on life? We can’t have nice things if some of you don’t put in the basic effort to think a bit. Biden is not the most progressive anything, but he’s doing more than his predecessors on either side (and the pathetic gop alternative) and that’s progress.

You don’t make major legislative change by firing a cannon at the front door - you set several small fires at all the other exits on the building and then when all that is in motion, you just knock on the front door to warn everyone about the fire and they walk out willingly.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/10/06/statement-from-president-biden-on-marijuana-reform/

https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/06/politics/marijuana-decriminalization-white-house-joe-biden/index.html

https://www.npr.org/2023/12/22/1221230390/biden-pardons-clemency-marijuana-drug-offenses

On December 2, 2022, Biden signed the Medical Marijuana and Cannabidiol Research Expansion Act - “the first standalone marijuana-related bill approved by both chambers of the United States Congress”

Biden approved the Viktor Bout–Brittney Griner prisoner exchange work Russia on December 8, 2022 which involved an American WNBA athlete being convicted of cannabis possession on Russian soil and being held in Russian prison.

“Thought I got out unscathed… But looks like a damn liberal SHIT my pants again!”

Is that because of price gouging and hollow games stuffed with microtransactions?

The strategy here is to keep the trial going long enough until she can take a big swing like this close enough to the election that they won’t be able to retry the case in time before election day.

Right?