Notices by Greengordon (greengordon@spore.social), page 3

@Gargron

Thank you, I’m on 2.9.3 and it looks like the current release is 4.3, so I’m way behind!

I assume it should be auto-updating, so I’ll have to look into why that’s not happening. I had to go into Play Store to update.

Thanks again! I left a 5-star rating and a good review!

@Gargron

It would be easier to leave a positive review if Devs would stop breaking Mastodon. A few weeks ago I started getting the error 'No application exists to open the link,' or words to that effect. I have to copy and paste the link into a browser, so half the time I don't bother. That's on Mastodon for Android. Works fine on my Macbook.

$169,000 Canadian for it and it can't handle snow. Of course other members of the cult blame this owner for being too picky...

"Tesla Cybertruck Owner in Canada Says the Truck is “Dangerous” After Experiencing First Drive in the Snow; Forced to Slow Down to 25 Mph on the Highway & Stop Multiple Times to Clean the Headlights"
https://www.torquenews.com/11826/tesla-cybertruck-owner-canada-says-truck-dangerous-after-experiencing-first-drive-snow-forced

American executives may be the best in the world at enshittifying an entire industry in very short time.

"Less than a third (31%) of Americans said they have a positive view of the healthcare system, compared with 51% who said the same in 2020"

#capitalism #EatTheRich #health

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/21/healthcare-trust-accountability?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

@philip_cardella

No such thing is possible. It's been tried, more than once. Capitalism creates rich people who then use their money and power to corrupt democracy. Every. Single. Time.

"A healthy capitalist system..."

#capitalism

Michael Moore on the #unitedhealthcare CEO murder:

“The anger is 1000% justified. It is long overdue for the media to cover it. It is not new. It has been boiling. And I’m not going to tamp it down or ask people to shut up. I want to pour gasoline on that anger.”

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2024/dec/16/yes-i-condemn-michael-moore-responds-to-luigi-mangiones-manifesto?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

@GuyDudeman

Great post, thanks!

"And you are an alarmist. You are saying that this must lead to this, and you can’t prove it. These are the beginnings, yes; but how do you know for sure when you don’t know the end, and how do you know, or even surmise, the end? On the one hand, your enemies, the law, the regime, the Party, intimidate you. On the other, your colleagues pooh-pooh you as pessimistic or even neurotic. You are left with your close friends...

"But your friends are fewer now."

@mycotropic @xenotar @godpod

I actually have a very relative who had polio as a child and was crippled for life - she has one dead leg, basically. She is an anti-vaxxer because her preacher tells her so. 🙃

@godpod

To be fair, not all humans forgot about polio and vaccines.

@inthehands @GottaLaff

I believe Laffy is right - I hold similar views. Basically, none of those people have any integrity and will be looking for a chance to stab someone else in the back to improve their own position. No honour among thieves is true.

I think there are multiple, partially conflicting power groups. Some actually do want to destroy the US, some want to remake it in their own image, some just want to hurt people. They're all sociopathic grifters.

@bespacific

WaPo should change their slogan to 'Democracy Died in Darkness - and we helped!'

@persagen

I can answer this one:

"Why does he demonize reporters rather than answering their questions?”

Because he doesn’t have any answers, and his goal is to create mistrust of everyone except him among conservatives.

@ned @FantasticalEconomics @Wileymiller

@pluralistic is calling us to work toward a general strike in 2028....

"Unless our entire system is overhauled of course, but that would require even greater concerted effort from the masses, unlike any Union strike or wildcat job action we have ever seen."

Reagan and Gorbachev: “A nuclear war cannot be won,” they jointly stated, and “must never be fought.”

What this article omits is that Trump and all around him are sociopaths - and that Trump asked repeatedly about using nukes. I'm pretty sure that this time he will nuke someone.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/nov/14/nuclear-weapons-war-new-arms-race-russia-china-us?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

Greta is not wrong...

"During rapidly escalating climate and humanitarian crises, another authoritarian petrostate with no respect for human rights is hosting Cop29 – the UN’s latest annual climate summit that starts today and is being held after the re-election of a climate-denier US president.

"Cop meetings have proven to be greenwashing conferences that legitimise countries’ failures to ensure a livable world..."

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/nov/11/greta-thunberg-cop29-authoritarian-human-rights-azerbaijan-greenwashing?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

@awmwrites @TFFPrisoner @snigdha

It would have made more sense for Harris to say she’ll have Sanders or lefties at her cabinet, not a Republican.

@dyckron

Some wise internet wag suggested replacing ‘the economy’ with ‘rich people.’ I’ve updated the quote below:

"One unnamed blue-chip manufacturing executive told the FT that there was 'a complete unwillingness' among workers to understand the sacrifices needed to help the country’s *rich people* prosper."

@leemeade @pluralistic

"all those other platforms, the ones where I unwisely allowed myself to get locked in, where today I find myself trapped by the professional, personal and political costs of leaving them, they were all started by people who swore they'd never sell out."

Wonder if propaganda works? I was in an Uber today in Cali, Colombia, South America. The driver has friends working in Canada and they are complaining that Trudeau has buried them with new taxes. While I do not like Trudeau, he has not added any new taxes to the working class that I am aware of.

Propaganda works, folks.

@georgetakei

"No matter the reason, even if Trump just brings his C game as he currently appears to be doing, the right-wing media, streamers and influencers, billionaires funding pro-Trump super PACs, and bad faith operatives backed by Russia are all working overtime to prevent a Harris victory. So even with a lazy and dispirited Trump, we have to work as though Kamala Harris remains the underdog."