Notices by OddOpinions5 (failedlyndonlarouchite@mas.to)

@sarae

I am old enough to remember the 1960s

and the lesson was: the Police will spend extra ordinary amounts of time and money to infiltrate left wing groups

special red flag: anyone who takes you aside for a private conversation and says that they know where to get illegal materials for a bomb - almost certainly a police/FBI infiltrator trying to entrap ypu

RUN

@seanbala

so if an AI story in July 2026 almost passes muster, one suspects, given how software often shows dramatic improvement over time, that in a year or so only the most carefull reader will be able to tell

@nswigger

today's wall str journal

3.4 trilion in revenue would be about , roughly, 1% of world GDP

this sounds absurd to me, but
we shall see what happens when reality meets expectation

@ryanc I dont really understand this post, which appears written for people way more tech savvy then me

but I recall this from maybe 15 years ago

adding a "privacy" extension* to your browser makes you way easier to track cause . . .so few people install privacy extensions

*eg
microblock or privacy badger on FF

@viviansequeira

If the image is just text, do I also need to add alt text ?

sorry
:)

@lonelystone well, yeah, I did use social media hyperbole

must be my timeline, but the avg quality of lemmy posts is , IMO, just my timeline, really bad

@lonelystone ah, sorry . .
I have never *really liked Harris, but my strong, very strong feeling is that to defeat Trump/MAGA/billionaires, we need all the allies we can get

heck, eve Liz Cheney, tho I hate saying it, but any port in a storm

:)

honestly, every single post from a lemmy is bad

@ATLeagle

This may be true

but it isn't relevant to what I said, which was a critique of liberal takes

also, the US economy is very large and very complex; it is true rents and groceries are up (that is why I used the word meh in my op)

but things are not, on average, for many people, that bad

but there are 325 million odd people in the US; many are doing poorly, that is always true

Liberals in Winter/Spring 2025:
Trump's insane "policies are going to crash the economy, cause the stock market to crash, and everyone will be employed

Reality:
Trump may cause economic disaster, but, so far, the stock market is near record territory and the economy is meh - not good, but not bad

Of course, who knows what tomorrow will bring
But AI companies are spending so much on data centers, that data center spending alone is propping up the American economy !!

@ryanc

Dear Ryan
I really appreciate your using the "read more >" so that you long post doesn't take up to much space in my time line - thank you

is there a way to filter out long posts, say > 1,500 characters, that don't use this ?
or to get the mastodon programmers to force this in the code ?

again, thanks

If you look at political mastodon, say for example posts with the #USpol and #politics hashtags, what percent are reacting to something Trump did, and what percent are celebrting something liberals did ?

my rough guess is about 20:1 which is kinda sad and pathetic, Trump living rent free in everyone's mind

#Trump

@ATLeagle if you say so, I know nothing about this

but as I indicated in my other post, if enough people actually bother to call, I will be very surprised

boycotts are way harder then just poasting on social media, and no one wants to deal with that reality

Before all the mass media drank the Ed Murrows kool aid of being neutral and just reporting the facts, newspapers and radio were partisan

did boycotts happen ? were they effective ? can we learn anything from history ?

@RobertDaleParker

far as I can tell, academic twitter is thriving on bluesky

or at least economics and the snarkier political stuff

@PamelaBarroway @kamalaharrisforpresidentnews

is there any data on how effective postcarding or similar activities are ?
given the amt of money spent every 4 years you would think there would be solid data
iirc, David Shor thinks postcarding doesn't actually do much ?

@goatsarah everything has 1% waste; it is called being human

@goatsarah

saw someone assert
who ? was it some medium size organization that does a lot of work measuring corruption vs your anecdotes ?

UK GDP is about 2.3 trillion pounds
UK Gov't spending about ~1.2 trillion pounds

so if this waste you are talking about is 12 BILLION pounds, that is ONE PERCENT of gov't spending

@darrellpf @actuallyautistic I'm not autistic, and neither is anyone in my family

but when I read a post like this it strikes me that "autistic" is a more extreme example of something common

(more is doing a lot of work here :) )

eg, I, and I suspect others, would, when doing an everyday task like vacumning, try to do it efficiently; the difference is I would forget which electric plug to use

but maybe I am really wrong

@NeonPurpleStar

In the 1960s, Bertrand Russell, world famous intellectual, wrote a book that tried to offer advice about how to live when a thermonuclear holocaust could occur at any moment

I forget which book, which is bad, cause he wrote dozens

maybe the "conquest of happiness" ?