Creating wealth is not building value
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Visikde@beehaw.orgto Politics@beehaw.org•Tim Walz says he and Harris were too ‘safe’ during 2024 presidential campaign11·4 months agoI vote for the candidate that would do the least harm for the most people, just like I always do, nearly always the Dem
I believe there is a mandate Since the largest group of voters did not vote, they apparently thought everything was fine the way it was They passively voted for the Status Quo There is a clear Mandate for the Status Quo! Winning by less than 1% & losing seats in the house is no mandate to become a Monarchy, to be ruled by Royal decree
Making it all seem like shyt is the GOPux brand
Proving government incompetent by their actionsThe Dems keep running on We Suck Less!
In general we would rather critique the bad faith arguments of conservatives than talk about policy, which is mind numbingly boring…
As long as the donor class calls the tune it’s gonna continue Third Way, Neo Liberal…
Visikde@beehaw.orgto Technology@beehaw.org•Google binning SMS MFA and replacing it with QR codes • The Register7·4 months agoQrs don’t seem safe to me
Scanning a Qr allows the installation of malware apps so I can look at a restaurant menu, & ding my card for recurring charges?
Visikde@beehaw.orgto Technology@beehaw.org•Meta’s new content policies risk fueling more mass violence and genocide2·5 months agoI got an email from Meta a couple of days ago about an account I had been locked out of for a several years, after logging out, trying to recover my password, which they wouldn’t allow without me providing a copy of my drivers license, which wasn’t going to be possible, since I made up all the details other than the throw away gmail account
I had been restricted & banned for posting meme’s or trolling magats on several occasions prior…I’m guessing, there was a mass unlocking of previously blocked accounts
Visikde@beehaw.orgto Politics@beehaw.org•Is Elon Musk's government efficiency drive legal?2·5 months agoNo We have several systems find waste, fraud & abuse
Inspector General
Government Accounting Office Office of Management & Budget
All of which are routinely ignored by both houses of Congress
If a mandate actually existed the Congress would have no problem actually doing their job & writing some law
It’s no coincidence that every system Elmo is hacking is investigating illegal activity within his companies/government contracts
Another tell tale sign is that DoD, the traditional home of waste, fraud & abuse isn’t the primary target
Visikde@beehaw.orgto LGBTQ+@beehaw.org•Trump signs order to bar trans women and girls from female sports | LGBTQ News13·5 months agoWomens sports is an accommodation so men don’t have to compete & lose to women
Gender is an imprecise way to classify athletes
Weight & skill level are more sensible
Visikde@beehaw.orgto Programming@beehaw.org•We need better moderation tools for taking better control on how we use internet4·5 months agoModeration for adults is gonna be tough
Who is going to submit to being under someone else’s control
There are lots of tools available
All require discipline to use consistentlyI have my own organizational scheme to reduce distractions
No notifications on the desktop, Three hidden panels: Time/calendar/weather, Launchers, Virtual desktops/window switcher/system tray Different browser & email for different tasks
Virtual desktops Money, doctors, work
Music, books, games [no email or browser] News, critique of peoples opinions,
Forums & sites I’m testing, repair info, linux stuffAll the tabs on the different browsers relate to the purpose of the VD
If I miss, I move whatever it is to where it “belongs”
Keeps me from being stuck doing one thing too long or ignoring things I should spend time on
Visikde@beehaw.orgto Humanities & Cultures@beehaw.org•The snippet generation: Long-form entertainment is out and snack-sized media is in for the next generation of kids, teens and young adults.1·7 months agoI notice what used to be a 90 minute movie is now a 10 part series
I don’t remember being assigned entire books in grade or middle school [70’s]
The assignments were a chapter or two
Visikde@beehaw.orgto Literature@beehaw.org•17776: What Football Will Look Like in the Future3·7 months agoOr we could stop encouraging our children to concuss each other
When the Ends Justify the Means
Anything is Possible
Visikde@beehaw.orgto Politics@beehaw.org•It can happen here: Everyone who realizes with proper alarm that Trump’s reëlection is a deeply dangerous moment in American life must think hard about where we are -- [Opinion]6·8 months agoThere is only Corporate media
Very early we started allowing the parties to administer the the primaries to avoid having to raise taxes to pay for elections
We outsourced elections to the Fan(atic)s because they cost less, They still get paid in proximity to power
Having the occasional binary popularity contest to decide who should be in charge may not be the best method
Visikde@beehaw.orgto Politics@beehaw.org•Timothy Snyder: What does it mean that Donald Trump is a fascist? - We should expect him to try to cling to power until death, and create a cult of January 6th martyrs6·8 months agoIt been all over since the guy[shrub] who lied us into two 20 year wars & brought us the Patriot act, got re elected
Haliburton won, the DoD who can’t pass an audit continues to have an open checkbook & ever increasing budgetThen we moved to Hope & Change, that turned out to be great for banks & insurance companies
Every cycle is portrayed as vitally important with a platform of
We Suck Less
The Donor Class calls the tuneAllowing money to overtly be speech removed the pretense of representation for the rest of us
The expectations have changed
Avoiding the appearance of impropriety
Degraded to Maintain Plausible Deniability
Eroded to
Prove it in a Rigged Court of Law Beyond any Conceivable Doubt no Matter How AbsurdEnabling all this is a solid 1/3rd of the population that have reduced empathy
Energized by the various corporate media that have been consolidated into unanimous support for our not so benevolent overlords
Visikde@beehaw.orgto Environment@beehaw.org•Greening Concrete: A Major Emitter Inches Toward Carbon Neutrality2·8 months ago“German Research Centre for Geosciences in Potsdam, says that “carbon capture and storage” (CCS) can be done safely in the saltwater and limestone pores at 600 to 1,200 meters below the seabed. “It will either dissolve as carbonic acid or bind with the limestone,” she says. Injection sites in the North Sea are the German government’s main solution for so-called “unavoidable emissions,” like those from the cement and other industries”
Basically another subsidy harvesting scheme
There isn’t even the expectation that the co2 will stay in porous limestone, but instead end up making the oceans more acidic, which is already a problem with elevated atmospheric co2 levelsA crisis of excess consumption & growth can’t be solved, by growing in a slightly different way
Visikde@beehaw.orgto Jokes and Humor@beehaw.org•Please suggest good right-wing comedians6·8 months agoBill Maher is libertarian
Ron White
Kathleen Madigan
Bill Engvall
Dennis Miller Not really right wing as old & whiney
Joe Rogan thinks he’s funny
Visikde@beehaw.orgto Politics@beehaw.org•'Stop being stupid!' - Ex-GOP official rips anyone considering a vote for 'idiot' Trump4·9 months agoSometimes when trolling conservatives I’ll exclaim
Stop It
You Know Better
At that point they’ll either shut up or lash out with an ad hominum
Visikde@beehaw.orgto Technology@beehaw.org•Logitech has an idea for a “forever mouse” that requires a subscription1·10 months agoMy wrist will not tolerate using a mouse for more than a few hours
You use a mouse on your phone?
Visikde@beehaw.orgto World News@beehaw.org•Israeli extremist settlers rapidly seizing West Bank land: A Palestinian grandmother says a man pointed a gun at her head and told her to leave the place she had called home for 50 years10·10 months agoIsrael is an extreme example of colonization, formed with the barrel of a gun under the guise of returning to homeland. Somehow being at the wrong end of a genocide entitles Israelis to commit their own? Why does the USA continues to support & fund an overt theocracy?
Visikde@beehaw.orgto Politics@beehaw.org•"Even former Trump voters exhibit opposition to many of these policies:" U.S. citizens widely oppose Heritage Foundation’s ‘Project 2025’, poll finds5·11 months agoProject 2025 = Powell Memorandum 2.0
Conservative after having their wildest dreams come true packing the supreme courtThey needed new dreams
The result a 900 page dream journal
Complete with their very own self induced Armageddon/purgeConservatives over played their hand
Playing for the tie only works if it’s closeWe should all make sure it isn’t, Again!
They lost interest after finding out it was going to be expensive, complicated requiring work.
GOPux Weird, Lazy & Mean