volkris @volkris@social.cleverlibre.org
Since I guess everything is political these days, I'll identify as extremely liberal but without a home in US politics.
Mainly, there's so much misinformation out there that people in society have trouble even organizing into coherent political groupings. So I'd rather not talk about politics but instead focus on information and education. Nothing else matters until the bedrock of fact is buttressed.
So: Old man yells at clouds is a famous joke from The Simpsons, and it probably fairly describes what we do when venting on social media.
Joined Dec 2022
The law provided this waiver authority, for better or worse.
https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/5334/text#d2766e2559-intro-1
That's part of the point, though: when Israel once again fails to punish settlers after investigation their culpability is even more undeniable.
In their worldview the international observers are corrupt, so they would contribute to the fraud.
Not saying that's correct, but from their perspective it's consistent.
@mhjohnson well, at this particular juncture the judge isn't mad over the historic park but over the administration more or less breaking a commitment it made in court.
These commitments are so core to legal practice in the US, so it's a Big Deal that Trump's folks keep breaking them.
Well sure, there are a hundred different things that contributed to us being in this shit now, but how do we move forward to get out of it?
This is my point: the US was designed to anticipate and deal with this shit without the need for emergency nuclear options against a malfunctioning president.
Those conventional mechanisms run through Congress so we don't have to wait four years for another presidential election. The people we elect to Congress can restrain a president but so far aren't using rules at their disposal to do so.
In the US system these midterms are not about opposing Trump but about supporting candidates who will. But we won't get that by voting in candidates who won't.
We can't get out of this shit by electing candidates who won't take those actions.
@obot50549535 I think the MAGA crowd is grumbling a bit about the economy and interest rates not going as they thought they would, but with their mode of thinking they don't consider the possibility that maybe they were wrong, so they're looking for someone to fight.
The Federal Reserve is a great scapegoat and target since they generally don't know how it works, how any of it works, and they're scraping the bottom of the barrel to find something specific to attack.
They can't come up with something else to lie about to fight because there just really isn't anything.
The MAGA crowd was obviously wrong from the beginning, and this is their best option to pick a fight to avoid facing that.
If you want to go down that road, there's a debate to be had over which is the bad and which is the really bad, the one engaging in incompetent corruption today or the one enabling it, profiting off of it, and helping to shape the future so that we'll keep getting more of it.
Don't vote fascism OR fascism enabler.
That's how we just get more of this going into the future.
You do have a choice. You don't have to vote for either "bad" or "really bad," and we can leave the argument over short term vs long term weight as purely academic.
The alternative to actively going out of your way to reward a candidate that promotes doing bad things is... not to do that. You don't have to give them your support.
You COULD go farther and work to promote representatives that would actually oppose all of this, instead of profiting off of it. But that's extra.
The simplest alternative to voting for crap is not voting for crap. The alternative is to just not join in the complicity by actively empowering the bad candidates.
@dropdrip you're making a leap to central identities being rooted in surveillance.
A simpler explanation is that they are just more user friendly so users appreciate them.
Anyway, this is an enormous drawback of the ActivityPub foundations that Lenmy and the Fediverse more broadly are built upon. They emphatically do not put us at the heart of the architecture, relying instead on instances.
It was an engineering decision, not one I personally would have gone with, but I think there's value in raising awareness about that design.
@jaykuo I'm curious as to what you mean.
Do you mean Bezos promotes traditional ideas of bead earning in families, or something else?
We'll see if it's an important step based on what's in the legislation. Chances are, no, it will not be important.
Details are scarce, but it doesn't seem like the problem is Trump buying Russian oil. Rather, it's about other actors buying the oil, not Trump.
This looks like just another empty political stunt.
Democrats have well-proven themselves to be a completely ineffective opposition, from not bothering to use the legislative and legal tools that they have to counter his efforts through campaigning with themes that actually support and affirm his rhetoric.
In short, Democrats basically got the guy reelected and were then complicit in all the crap he's done.
Voting Democratic is to reward them for that.
Exactly.
But unfortunately we as a society give them SO MUCH incentive to engage in exactly that blame.
Those stories get attention and clicks, those reporters get invited to be interviewed, those tech bros get celebrity, those companies get free advertising... and on and on.
I think at the core it's rooted in myths about how computers work that have existed for far too long.
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@Nonilex I know you're reporting what the NYT is reporting, but it's getting so tiring hearing the #AI #aitechbros or the media blame AI agents for going rogue. No, they set them up, they let them loose, and they act all surprised when they did exactly what they were asked to do.
If the instructions were "go and try to do shit, see how far you can get" why act surprised when they get places they probably shouldn't be.
It's like encouraging a teenager to break rules - of course they will try.
Seems like it says more about the donor and the culture the donor comes out of than Paxton.
Yeah, lots of religious folk let their faith guide a lot of their spending.
@freemo, cool. These may be two separate but related issues:
1) The people we follow aren't sending their posts to us.
Maybe a manual auto-fix by re-sending whatever ActivityPub calls subscription requests.
2) The people who follow us don't know the domain moved.
Maybe this is handled by the alias and move functionality within Mastodon? It wasn't triggered upon the domain change?
I'm sure this isn't new to you since you've administered this, but maybe a reminder if it's been a while since you really poured into the ActivityPub backend stuff.
Or just a little insight for any other watchers interested in the tech behind Fediverse.
Do you realize that court rulings and orders are ignored, not just by this president but by legislative and executive branches throughout history?
The concept of contempt of court exists in recognition that folks can and do ignore the courts, and at the moment there are significant judicial processes ongoing as the courts struggle with their lack of authority to enforce their own rulings.
I never once said the Roberts Court has just been calling balls and strikes as that's beside the point, that all they can do is issue opinions. That is the limit of their authority in the US system.
Whether any court is right or wrong in any ruling, whether they are angels or the most corrupt evar, their authority remains limited to the opinions that do get ignored by the other branches as they see fit.
Yeah, over the years Totenberg has occasionally shown herself to be pretty overrated.
One of those figures who became mythical, as "everyone knows" she's the best court reporter out there... without many stopping to ask, but is she?
If you listen to her closely, she often botches reporting about court procedure and what justices are thinking in their opinions.
In the US system this is allowed.
The president's pardon power is his to wield as he sees fit, as we would rather see guilty people go free than innocent people face punishment. We're to err heavily on that side.
Since I guess everything is political these days, I'll identify as extremely liberal but without a home in US politics.
Mainly, there's so much misinformation out there that people in society have trouble even organizing into coherent political groupings. So I'd rather not talk about politics but instead focus on information and education. Nothing else matters until the bedrock of fact is buttressed.
So: Old man yells at clouds is a famous joke from The Simpsons, and it probably fairly describes what we do when venting on social media.
Joined Dec 2022
