Phillip Winn @pwinn@social.cleverlibre.org

@agterrane @trinsec

I'm pretty sure qoto-no-tickers is exactly what you've been using sans the bright instance ticker bars.

@trinsec @agterrane

I thought the tickets were broken too, that’s why it took me a couple of minutes to remember what was being talked about

@adamkovac

On further reflection, it seems more likely that you do not believe that any of the $322 billion they have left are “ill gotten gains,“ in which case you disagree philosophically with the current head of the FTC. And less importantly, me.

@agterrane theme*, not them. Twice. Obviously. :)

@agterrane OH! I remember that from my first day or two. I switched themes to disable that. :)

The qoto-no-ticker them is, I believe, identical to the default them but without what you’re talking about.

I went with a completely different theme, so mine looks like this:

@agterrane I’m not even sure what you mean. My home feed seems easily readable, I think. What am I overlooking?

@adamkovac

I’m sorry, are you seriously suggesting that the lawsuits should stop because a $322 Billion company is facing competition it can’t easily eliminate by acquisition? So all past actions are irrelevant if they don’t ultimately succeed beyond all reason?

I’m trying to follow the logic. It seems like you are suggesting “no point in prosecuting those bank robbers now, they only have 30% of the ill-gotten gains left!”

@ceoln Okay, now *this* seems like what you're talking about: https://www.riffusion.com/about

@genewitch

I am so sorry you were involved in that horrifying story. I think that would screw me up pretty badly, too.

I do live in the US, and in a city that requires a minimum of a four-year college degree for cops, which you might think would help. And yet somehow when I search for my city name, I see a story about how cops arrested a Black teenager, a high school senior, who was walking home from work during a winter storm. Kid spent the night in jail because he didn't want to talk to the cops.

The city website suggests the last "officer-involved shooting" was in 2021, with three in 2020, one in 2019, two in 2017, and one in 2015. It says something that I think that's actually not too bad for a city of more than 280k people.

It's terrible, of course.

They've got a "Use of Force" report for 2021 that (surprise!) finds no "out of policy" events all year, with 41 "within policy" and 7 "under investigation."

I should be happy about the accountability, but I trust cops so little that I figure at least some of those 48 would horrify me if I dug into the details.