Notices by Andreas K (yacc143@mastodon.social)

@WarnerCrocker It cannot be classified, they discussed it on a public service not fit for discussing official work issues (e.g. no message retention as mandated by law), and invited him?

@tinydoctor
I don't want to point out that the USA observer for the USA IOC just commented to thee journalists about the Nazi laws that in his Chicago country club Jews are also banned. So what's the problem with the German laws?

And went on to make a career in the IOC till the 1970s.

The world is a surprising ugly place.
@karlykingsley.bsky.social

@GhostOnTheHalfShell
They wanted the EU to spend more money on its defense.

But not this way you say? Oops, too bad.

Perhaps then you should not ambush the Ukrainian President in the White House. Or deactivate the relevant functions on US equipment remotely.

That makes customers wonder if you are the right provider of high tech arms for them.

@Stefan___ @alexlunaview

@WarnerCrocker
He might have no authority to fire workers. He just does.

@Steve
The problem is, this time the hurt will be a war level disruption.

MAGA was quite capable to tolerate some small pain if their "enemies" get much bigger portions of pain

But this time it will hit many MAGA lemmings, even at livelihood destroying levels, and it's already visible after 1 month oligarch adminstration.

And that means for the #GOP party soldiers, especially the ones who have to stand for election every two years, to scratch their heads, @WarnerCrocker

@br00t4c
#Trump likes #Xenophobia
@LordCaramac

@Gargron
Nothing.

But to be honest, #Musk can also play stupid games with Ukraine's internet.
@EUCommission @briankrebs

@GossiTheDog @bert_hubert
It's only a question till somebody gets fired for buying Microsoft.

For the moment it's still "nobody ever gets fired for buying MS". (the current version of the evergreen of IT.)

The moment this starts to break, it's rather clear (and the rulings are here) that the USA, even in the "rule-of-law, democracy version", is not a safe state in the sense of the GDPR. You do have to close your eyes and do very fanciful interpretation to arrive at any other conclusion.

@BenBen @santiago @GossiTheDog
Especially as on Saturday he still sounded like Trump's lapdog.

After the election, suddenly the muzzle seems to be gone?

That's surprising, one usually expects politicians to get more moderate when they move from campaign into government mode.

@WarnerCrocker
Coup is fine. A coup does not need to happen by military shooting around in the streets.

It can happen from the top.

And let's be honest, #Trump has crossed a line by trying to change the constitution via an EO, ignoring courts, lying obviously to courts, ...

Another thought, an enabling law, does not necessarily be a law. The famous one, was actually a series of laws. And in the USA one could argue that a number of SCOTUS verdicts in the past years have

@Infoseepage
No it's "we are firing the low hanging fruits" you know the ones who have probably little legal chance to sue.
@mcnado

@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.