The timeline is set around 5 years after the Dominion War ends.
The timeline is set around 5 years after the Dominion War ends.
Star Trek: Resurgence is relatively new. The graphics are pretty janky at times and it performs somewhat strangely, but it does feel like a 10-hour episode of post-TNG Trek, so I enjoyed it.
You know what else far exceeds average Canadian wage increases? Average Canadian CEO wage increases.
“fuck-arounders” is great, I’m stealing that.
Their plan for any given crisis will be: “pay corporations more money”.
These are business people pushing the same old trickle-down agenda. Why they continue to be able to convince so many poverty-stricken people to vote against their own best interests is beyond me, but there is no magic in the platform.
Corporations > people, and if the people just gave them a little bit more, all the problems will go away. They promise.
Well, that kicked my ass.
The GOP seemed like it might have been turning against Trump (since, you know, he lost). And then it didn’t, and everyone was back to groveling at his feet. They had his name in lights at the RNC as if he was Roxy from Chicago.
They deserve the candidate they ran with.
Every single conservative comment I have seen about this has claimed it is made up by the DOJ. That is the extent of it.
As an American, I get it. Personally I’m very weary of being out in large crowds at this point, which sucks because, you know, life.
It may ultimately be a subset of our population which has directly or indirectly caused this situation, but make no mistake: we put ourselves in the hole.
The goal was always that the user would be the product. It was less clear at the beginning, because the advertising was far less intrusive (if you even saw an ad at all, in the early days), and the service was “free” at a time when the internet was comparatively young. So it gained a lot of popularity from novelty and being an actually useful communication tool.
But the communication tool portion was always a side effect of data collection. Any “free” service is ultimately just getting value from you in different ways. In the case of Facebook, once it had amalgamated enough data, the flood gates opened and the enshittification was extremely rapid. It will never go back to the way it was for many reasons, not the least of which being: it was designed to be the cesspool it is now.
Ultimately, all these seemingly random posts are an attempt to get you to continue to interact with the platform. If you read through comments on such posts, they do tend to drive engagement, even if it is just a user going “why is this in my feed?”
Like a nesting doll. A Nazting doll.
“Vance Reinforces Image as Spineless Yesman”
Fixed the headline.
How in the hell is this race so close? If misinformation were factored out, would it be close at all?
Lemmy is definitely tech heavy, but I’d say that is to be expected given the nature of the platform. Many people in tech are also enthusiasts for open source projects.
After seeing a lot of the recent online discourse and with the amount of overt misinformation out there, I’m not convinced they can see anything anymore.
I’m aware of that. I actively try and skip political stuff as quickly as possible. I understand how the algorithm is supposed to work, but in my experience, it isn’t working that way. On a fresh account, the first video it ever served me was a MAGA post.
Edit: I also considered that maybe it was location based. My TikTok has no overt permissions (unneeded if you never post), no contact sharing, and I always access through a VPN. Does not seem to matter which VPN server/location I select.
I’ve never interacted with a single post, nor is the account tied to an email which is used for anything else.
Related: anyone been on TikTok lately? I know misinformation is all over social media in general, but holy fuck is it bad on TikTok. Even after using custom filters to try and avoid election stuff altogether, it seems like every other post is some ridiculous MAGA BS without sources making some outrageous claim about Democrats.
Case in point: according to multiple posts I saw earlier today, both Kamala and Tim Walz have dropped out of the race.
Empty land doesn’t vote. But it can get you extra representation per capita, somehow.
Boot times on AM5 are soooo slow due to some memory training feature of DDR-5, even after following many suggestions for settings. It appears to be a general issue with the platform, so hibernation is very much back on the menu for me.