awww, well I hope things worked out for you okay in the end. :)

Can we not.

https://archive.ph/nUXB4

or Turkey Sub Week

…what? That’s totally a thing. …shutup!

Just came to say that the headline doesn’t narrow it down…

The University of Michigan said in a statement that it was investigating “a possible act of self-harm”, after a researcher’s fatal fall from a campus building on 19 March.

So… autodefenestration has come to the US.

can’t won’t

Well, there is this from the linked article:

Some of the accumulated fees would also be presented to Oman, though how the nation would use them is unclear.

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WTF? Lemmy collapses excessive exclaimation marks. You assholes! lol

Lana!

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WHAT!?

^{Danger Zone!}

I assume you’re not serious, but in case you are: President doesn’t have that much power. Especially not if Congress and SCOTUS and the oligarchs aren’t all behind him.

What we need is many progressives running for smaller offices and getting experience to run for larger offices. We need 10,000 AOCs and the like.

Well, considering that Trump is a small part of the problem, which includes:

• Oligarchs heavily funding politics, corrupting the entire system and most (but not all) politicians
• Decades now of propaganda supporting extremist right-wing propaganda and pushing centre-right propaganda
• Control of SCOTUS
• Republican party is essentially fascist
• Large support base thanks to the propaganda

When Trump goes, all of those problems remain. And the people who “woke up” to the problem of Trump will go to sleep again, and the number of people caring to resist fascist will drop again.

So we’re basically fucked.

The peaceful solution:

• Continue to talk online and convince people of the problems, which should help encourage:
• Protests, which by themsevles accomplish little - except to show how many of us are willing to stand up, and how many realize the problems exist, and also the online talk helps encourage:
• People need to run for office who are progressives - little offices, so they can build up to larger offices. We need more AOC and other similar types.
• We need to increase the protests and demand change. We need to shut down the nation and force change. Which means we need a plan / demands, and people to run for office.

The less peaceful solution:

• Well, I won’t go into details. I don’t like it because it means even more people die, and as someone who believes this life is all we have and is therefore precious, I’d prefer not to see this happen.
• I will suggest that guillotines are not a bad place to start, though.

(Then again, how many are dying from fascist policies already? Healthcare, poverty, violence… thanks to Republican making things worse)

Completely offtopic, but I always misread your username as WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot and have to correct my brain. heh

Dems and indies are already in the bag.

Yeah, except for all the “both sides” and “Democratic genocide” ones that loudly proclaim that Harris would have been no better than Trump. And all the ones who are like “Dems do nothing, no reason to vote for them”. There’s a LOT of those.

We need to start spreading the word to our less-techie friends and family: Ignoring those warnings for some random site might be fine if you’re not entering in username/password used anywhere else (because a lot of people do reuse passwords)… but especially if they pop up on well-known sites, like… google, microsoft, your bank, et cetera - in those cases, do NOT click through. At least ask your techie friends about it.

That’s probably good enough for this, if they’ll actually listen. So at least there’s some potential good news.

They need to be making the case to the public t

Using oligarch controlled media. Just don’t forget they’re playing with that huge handicap. In addition to all hte other problems like being centre-right and pandering to the oligarchs. I’m just saying that even if they were perfect, they will still face a huge uphill battle.

Nakes sense, though - you want the pretend person to be somewhere reasonable but not TOO close. lol

Well, this caused me to learn something today. One of my favorite musicals is Avenue Q, which has an entire song about a girlfriend who supposedly lives in Canada. And I keep seeing this reference - but I keep thinking there is NO WAY that THIS many people know about Avenue Q (which is a pity).

And sure enough, TIL that this trope dates back to at least the 70s and is references in multiple TV shows and movies and such.

So Avenue Q was using an existing thing. Ah, well.

At least I know not to make Avenue Q references since there’s little chance they’ll be gotten. lol

“Broke containment” to me means two things:

1. Doing things against the safeguards
2. Doing things externally - like sending that email

The former is a big nothing. They just need to obviously build stronger safeguards. That’s what they’ll do and eventually release it, or other models or whatever.

The latter is also a big nothing because people who know nothing about tech will say “OH SHIT IT ESCAPED” but it requires running on large hardware, it can’t “get into the internet” like those people might think, and if it’s doing things you don’t want on the internet, you just remove its access to the internet.

So in both cases, the “containment” issue is really not a big deal.

I agree with those who basically say this is an attempted ad trying to sell it as super-capable-oh-shit-amazing.

[x] Doubt