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@hacks4pancakes Not just LGBTQIA either. The US is just becoming an unpleasant place to live with a lot of disadvantages compared to other western nations. The amount of brain drain that the US might experience depending just how off the rails things get here could be extreme.

@jwz Yup, definitely the font from Signs.

@AnarchoNinaWrites Oh, I know the book on IBM. I meant the book on US companies, tech companies in particular, making stuff like "AI driven social risk calculator for denaturalization and deportation prioritization."

@AnarchoNinaWrites We're going to see a lot of "IBM made punch card machines for the Nazis" stories in the next few years. Who will write the book, I wonder?

@jwz @Daojoan A PayPal Bull(shit) - Whenever they change the terms of service and it's like 142 pages of legalese.

@awmwrites @TFFPrisoner @snigdha I think Buttigieg would have won this election. I'm less sure about Sanders given the age related criticism of Biden.

Sanders would have been my preference, though. He would have turned out progressives in huge numbers and has also maintained consistent vocal opposition to Israel's excessive violence.

@cstross @scalzi I think I experience some similar semblance to this sort of feeling when visiting mega cities in China in 2008. You look at the skylines and there's just nothing like them in the US. The amount of construction going was just off the charts. Everywhere, the future was being built and it was a more "futuristic" future than my American mind could conceive. All the buildings too fanciful and lit up neon. Fuck New York. Have you seen New Pudong?

@DEDGirl @samhainnight @hannu_ikonen https://www.propublica.org/article/nevaeh-crain-death-texas-abortion-ban-emtala

@DEDGirl @samhainnight @hannu_ikonen And we've got concrete examples of this happening in Texas, of hospitals refusing care and people going septic and dying.

@AnarchoNinaWrites The popular vote totals are looking much lower than 2020. I'm betting that Biden/Harris so alienated progressives with their ironclad support for genocide and Harris shifting to the right that they simply stayed home.

@EricFielding @RickiTarr To me, voting should be built to be extremely robust. I support representative governance, but imo polling mechanisms should be capable of polling the electorate at short notice any time of year in the event of emergencies or issues where things have clearly shifted. I support voter initiated recall of representatives, for instance.

@RickiTarr Exclusively by mail systems also result in disenfranchisement of people with certain disabilities as well as people experiencing homelessness (including veterans). I support a strong mixed system with low wait times for in person and extended hours/early voting (because not everyone works 9-5). If you want to vote at 3am a week before the election, you should be able to do so.

@RickiTarr It's one of many reasons I support robust in person voting with at least a week long voting period, as well as mail in balloting and not just one or the other. People need to be able to cast their ballots secretly and for that they need to be able to get away from abusive partners (and control and the taking away of choice is abuse) and vote.

So, Paypal has decided to mine your transaction history and sell it to 3rd parties. You can turn this off, but this is yet another example where no rational user would chose this as a default. There are a lot of services which have so violated my notions of acceptable behavior that I'm on the edge of deleting my accounts outright. Paypal is now very much there.

You can (for now at least) turn it off by going to two "personalized shopping" preferences under data privacy settings.

@augieray In King County (where I normally live) they keep weekly states for all the county's ER's, you're about 15 times more likely to show up with a Covid diagnosis than Flu and about 30 times more likely than RSV. If you're seriously sick, it's far more likely to be Covid than Flu/RSV. Covid is on par with Rhinovirus for lab tests.

@broadwaybabyto In addition, hospitalization is widely been shown to be an environment where people pick up infections and those hospital acquired infections are shown to substantially increase their risk of morbidity and mortality compared to people who do not get infected while hospitalized. This is well established in medical literature at this point. Your ER doctor there is frankly full of shit and practicing an extremely poor and unethical standard of care. Aerosol hygiene is v. important.

@broadwaybabyto In my county in WA state, about between 2 and 3% of the people in the county's ERs have been there because of Covid and that's been true for over 3 straight months, so the ER is EXACTLY the place to pick up Covid.

@thomasfuchs Did you see the thing where someone made an anaglyph 3d version recently?

Imagine Al Qaeda planted operatives in US cell phone stores in DC and offered a 10% discount on Iphone sales to people presenting military ID. On a particular day, 3K Iphones all explode. Some explode in the Pentagon, some at homes, some in the cars of fathers driving their children to work. Would we be calling that a targeted attack consistent with international laws of warfare, or would we call it a heinous act of terrorism?

Flip situations around and they look different.

#Israel #Lebanon

Russia appears to have hit a bulk carrier vessel carrying grain for export off the coast of Romania. The last such attack was November. Be interesting to see to what extent Russia feels free to attack Ukrainian shipping, especially if they hug Romanian territorial waters. Romania is a NATO member and the attack occurs at a time when the US has just approved the sale of a bunch of F35's to Romania amidst accusations that Russia is violating their airspace with military drones.

#russia #ukraine