Notices by Andreas K (yacc143@mastodon.social)

@dangillmor Dan you haven't noticed, US media (and big tech) are basically taking what they get from the White House, and run with it unfiltered.

And "allies" like European media, just copies like cheating students from US media the #Trump propaganda.

Personally, I'd recommend checking foreign sources (and yes, machine translation is fine for that), VPNs and see what the rest of the world sees.

Because US (and EU) media will be singing the glory of #trump .

@oldoldcojote @treleanor @mattsheffield @bmacDonald94
Well, the problem with the bible is, beside the little issue, which version of the bible, is that you can literally find a verse that can be interpreted to support almost any position in the good book.

@WarnerCrocker @davidtoddmccarty One of my early "jobs" as a freelancer taught me that.

Our direct boss was rather loyal to the people he brought over to the US, and who were in a vulnerable position (e.g. their work visa required them to leave the US after 7 days unemployment, so the CTO made sure that he took them with him when the VC made the startup implode).

Now the "corporate" promises were not worth the electrons used to communicate them.

@davidtoddmccarty
Sorry. Corporation are by definition not loyal.

They'll do what they have to do to optimise their bottom line. The question is only how short term they are thinking.
@WarnerCrocker

@treleanor @mattsheffield @bmacDonald94 Well, it's meant to show up the absurdity of the Republican position.

@br00t4c So I guess no US media will mention that German prosecutors have started an investigation "about using a unconstitutional symbol" (e.g. the Hitller salute would be such a symbol in Germany) in relation to #Naziboy awkward arm movement.

And don't worry, not against #Musk, but against an artist collective (Centre for Political Beauty) that projected a video of that gesture on Tesla's German factory wall.

@glynmoody
Yeah, I know. Everybody with basic statistics education can calculate the expected value of participating in a lottery, and yet there are enough idiots who pay the voluntary tax (read up on the history of lotteries they have been literally introduced to save bankrupt kingdoms' treasuries.)

@glynmoody
Yes, there is that little gem. He obviously promised many things that are contradictions to other things he promised.
(As some people have correctly pointed out, some chapters in project2025 read literally like an undergraduate summary of all options on a topic.)

But if he had promised things that are contrary to your interests, than you have to expect a certain probability that the stuff you don't like will happen.

@glynmoody So you mean his promise to pardon the Jan6 criminals who killed police officers if memory serves, would happen in an alternative universe without police officers thus no harm done. While in this universe where there are LEOs, Trump wouldn't do that to them?

You know, there is that irritating thing about reality, at some point Schrödinger's cat is either alive, or dead.

Literally like a sudoku puzzle, at some point the options for a cell narrow down to one possibility.

@glynmoody police union that supported the face eating leopards' party wonders about that new policy that all police officers have to submit to a daily face chewing by one of the local leopards.

We are back to "Nobody could have known that he meant what he was saying" and "Everybody was surprised that many if not most of Hitler's ugly policies were preannounced in his bestseller Mein Kampf".

Seriously, what did you think the felonious psychopath would do when elected?

@knittingknots2
Which is basically why the IOC gave up on trying to biochemically determinate the gender of athletes in the 1970s.

Yes there biologically 2 genders. And these last bit of odd outliers. Some even show outward oddities like both sets of genitalia, many are only odd on the genetic level while the outward expression is normal.
@RustedComputing

@finalstaticfox
Quite reasonable.

But the issue I do have is, people seem to identify this guy's problematic stance with pixelfed.

So is pixelfed the software racist?

It's pixelfed the community racist?

Because if your standard is that you only use software written by non racists, you should throw away your mobile. Quickly. Meta has right wing project2025 fascists at VP level.

And yes the past year hasn't been exactly fun for despite being a white guy too.
@tillshadeisgone

@glynmoody
But that's still not the point.

Opensource drivers/firmware is what one wants to be honest.

As nice or is that other manufacturers provide the feature in "free as beer", nowadays that means the feature can be gone any moment. It's not necessary even a genius idea of your manufacturer, they might be forced to such things by the courts. Eg AVM was forced to remove certain obscure WiFi features because of a patent ruling from their routers, oops.
@analogfusion

@glynmoody Well, one could argue, the USA's focus is freedom of speech.

OTOH, we have learned here (sadly the journalists have left out the legal details), it's actually illegal to confront somebody in public with a properly spent conviction in Austria. (A former politician mentioned that during an interview, cough, and nobody corrected him, and actually, the media actually stopped mentioning his former glory.)

But then we do give notorious criminals new identities so they can have a life.

@glynmoody Sigh, SLAPP suits are bad.

What I'm missing in this article is how the law dealt with King Vanga for his vehicular homicide. How was he punished? Was he found at fault for the accident? …

With all the beautiful formulations about protected talk, what the Juarez did was "snitch" on Vanga, obviously in an attempt of vigilante punishment, by making his uni punish him.

What I'm missing from the US system is the idea that after "you paid your price to society, the issue is done".

@WarnerCrocker Well, on that one I do have to say, I'm mostly with RFK.

Pharma products are for doctors or say more general "medical professionals" to chose depending upon what they consider relevant for me, it's literally a category of restricted products where the consumer cannot walk in to pharmacy and just buy them, but usually needs a prescription, so why the ads? So they nag their doctor?

@hgbruenker Die Formulierung ist

"we must all hang together or we will all hang separately"

um einen gewissen Franklin zu zitieren.

Aber unsere Populisten möchten uns einreden, dass die europäischen Kleinstaaten (in Europa gibt es kleine Länder, und Länder, die es weiterhin nicht akzeptiert haben, dass sie auf globaler Skala klein sind) besser alleine dastehen. Österreich mit einer Bevölkerung, die auf anderen Kontinenten eine "Metro-Region" darstellt.

@jeffjarvis "No, stocks surged entirely ignoring the fake scare the news media orchestrated about Biden's economy policies, to prevent Harris from being elected."

@WarnerCrocker Ah, the rest of the (“Western”) world that celebrates Christmas today.

Yesterday being in one of the two paradox days of the year here around, technically and legally a “normal work day” (parking zones and other traffic regulations apply with the full force of the law), but in the afternoon the country comes to an almost eerie halt, gas stations (outside motorways) & even fast food joints like McDonald's close shop.

On the 25th everything is “open” like on a Sunday.

@WarnerCrocker
Careful, domestic disturbances can be deadly.

And getting between your spouse and the family is a well documented suicide form.