runswithjedi

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runswithjedi ,

Wow, that's massive!

runswithjedi ,

DEI is about including everyone, white males too. If there is something that is excluding white males, it isn't DEI.

runswithjedi ,

“We have (and still do) traveled across our country standing up for our constitution, and have met most of you face to face. There's no time like the present to come together and organize our states, to build them stronger with true patriots (not people pretending to be Patriots and using groups for dating sites),” Demere wrote in a post last year.

(emphasis mine)

This part made me LOL. I just imagined the post "white male, 55, virgin, looking for white female, 25, virgin, no kids, will cook, clean, bear my children, support my will to overthrow the American government."

runswithjedi ,

I really wish my parents would have asked me before doing that.

runswithjedi ,

That would actually be really convenient and vastly improve cell coverage. Can they please do that?

runswithjedi ,

He's probably hedging that people who won't vote for him over this won't change their mind. But if someone is undecided, strong "law and order" usually helps the poll numbers.

Not saying it's moral, it's a calculated political move.

runswithjedi ,

This makes me uncomfortable.

runswithjedi , (edited )

But the law says that it's antisemitic to conflate Jews with Israel. So, according to this new law, isn't the assertion that "criticizing Israel is antisemitic" an antisemitic statement itself? Am I misunderstanding it?

Why can't we criticize a country's government?

Edit: wow did I take the bait on this one. Got me again Onion!

runswithjedi ,

Wow, people just want to be mad. That makes me so mad! 😆

runswithjedi , (edited )

That's how I feel when someone tries to tell me how great Reagan was. Y'all thought that was a... good idea?

runswithjedi ,

City police, run by the government, arrested people. They could have ignored the request.

runswithjedi ,

It's so their investments appear "risky"

runswithjedi ,

At least upload the whole thing in the post body.

runswithjedi ,

In Soviet Russia, Wikipedia forks you!

runswithjedi ,

Someone doesn't respect soil

runswithjedi ,

And provides funding for Ukraine. It's a big bill.

runswithjedi ,

The 'you might change your mind' attitude is the one that frustrates me the most. People make decisions they regret all the time and we don't prevent every little regrettable thing from happening. Let these people make the decision for themselves and if they regret it you can say "I told you so" and you can continue being the jerk you are.

runswithjedi ,

This is the problem with them making decisions that are way out of line with the general populace. Laws are just words on paper (and screens these days). The only thing that gives them meaning is people's willingness to follow them.

runswithjedi ,

She personified her puppy as a trained assassin and eventually shot it with a gun. WTF??

runswithjedi ,

I'd be more sympathetic to McConnell if he wasn't a major reason for the current state of Congress and the takeover of the Republican party by right wing fascists.

runswithjedi ,

It's more than just eating less. The drugs change people's relationship with food and it helps them control their impulses. This new class of weight loss drugs really are revolutionary.

runswithjedi ,

Weird, it loads fine for me using uBlock with Kiwi on my Android phone.

runswithjedi ,

Now they have to monitor, house, and care for her using the state's resources. Wouldn't it be cheaper just to pay her rent?

Gov. Reeves proclaims Confederate Heritage Month in Mississippi ( www.mississippifreepress.org )

Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves declared April 2024 as Confederate Heritage Month in Mississippi, keeping alive a 31-year-old tradition that began in 1993. Beauvoir, the Biloxi, Miss., the museum and historic home of Confederate President Jefferson Davis, announced the proclamation in a Facebook post on Friday, April 12....

runswithjedi ,

This is an excellent explainer of the mechanisms by which people have been limiting the 14th Amendment since it was passed right after the Civil War "ended". It's both a promising law and tragic how it's been abused.

https://www.npr.org/2025/04/10/1243870144/fourteenth-amendment

runswithjedi ,

Yeah, I had no idea until recently that Pogo is a misogynist and homophobe. He makes music videos from Disney movies ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pogo_(musician)#Controversies

runswithjedi ,

I say roll up those sleeves and become a jelly donut eating champion.

runswithjedi ,

Yeah, I'm impressed. There's less force and more technique than I thought there'd be.

runswithjedi ,

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/55b7f7c4-52dc-4ce5-af3a-61c5a2624585.jpeg

runswithjedi ,

Interesting, I like the concept of digital sovereignty. I didn't see anything about actually maintaining the software they use, though. Seems like that would be a good way to ensure success and they could influence the development to meet their needs.

runswithjedi ,

LLMs at their best: telling you exactly what you want to hear. They're scary good at that.

Redlib: Open-source, privacy-focused frontend for Reddit without Reddit's ads, trackers, and bloat. A fork of Libreddit. ( safereddit.com )

The purpose of this post is not to endorse the use of Reddit ( https://shields.tosdr.org/en_194.svg), but rather to inform users of a privacy-friendly approach in case they need to utilize the platform....

runswithjedi ,

I'm wondering the same thing. They don't mention how it functions besides some spoofing. Are they using the API or something else?

runswithjedi ,

I'd be surprised if a gray person with no ears and four short rounded fingers drove up to my window too. I do appreciate the tip, though.

runswithjedi ,

Trump has been the plug keeping it stopped up for years.

runswithjedi ,

What the actual fuck? Russia invaded Ukraine. How is Ukraine the aggressor?

runswithjedi ,

Never trust anyone, I saw it.

runswithjedi ,

I really enjoyed it when I saw it in the theater. I'll put it in the list to rewatch. Thanks for reminding me about this one.

runswithjedi ,

I'm still in disbelief that there isn't a rule against a judge overseeing a case that involves the person who nominated them for their current position.

runswithjedi ,

, the Clone Wars have.

runswithjedi ,

If those companies want to dump chemical waste they should be allowed to! It's helping people! Just look at me: I made $50 for saying this!

runswithjedi ,

This is so stupid. The economics of paying people to go to college is super simple. People who go to college make more money and pay more taxes, those taxes can pay for a program that pays for people to go to college. There, done, please vote for my bill.

runswithjedi ,

I just took a trip through Virginia a few weeks ago. The highway took me through a small town that had signs everywhere that said "Trump Town". I swear the only clean thing there was the charter bus that said "I'll be back!" on it.

But the thing is, most people just want the same thing: food, shelter, family, and stability. They've just had this asshole tap into their perception of exclusion in politics and society. I really wish we would work together to solve these problems instead of making up fictional bad guys to make us hate each other.

runswithjedi ,

This is why people need to focus on both the costs and the BENEFITS in a cost/benefit analysis. Benefits can include reduced cost!

Will MAGA Republicans Block Baltimore’s Rebuilding? ( www.nytimes.com )

Extreme partisanship, which took hold long before Trump took control of the G.O.P., is part of the answer. It was clear through most of the Obama years that Republicans wanted to prevent good things from happening on a Democratic president’s watch. Under Obama, G.O.P. legislators squeezed federal spending after they took...

runswithjedi ,

One of my favorite quotes:

The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then they get elected and prove it.

P. J. O'Rourke

runswithjedi ,

I know nothing about him besides the quote attribution. With that context, it sounds like he's just trying to be divisive.

runswithjedi ,

Please put an NSFW tag on this. I was on the train and when l saw this I had to start furiously masturbating. Everyone else gave me strange looks and were saying things like "what the fuck" and "call the police". I dropped my phone and everyone around me saw this image. Now there is a whole train of men masturbating together at this one image. This is all your fault, you could have prevented this if you had just tagged this post NSFW.

runswithjedi ,

Them: say her name!

Me: Anecdote!

In all seriousness, these people's deaths are absolutely tragic. Boiling them down to a political argument to support your racist beliefs is disgusting.

runswithjedi ,

This comment is shit

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