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[–] givesomefucks 1 points 5 minutes ago

Still convinced it's the same single person making these posts on a perpetual churn of new accounts.

It's weird, but I guess it's a hobby

[–] givesomefucks 56 points 1 day ago (4 children)

The cops aren't going to be able to explain how they found him and the "mystery tipster" who called the worker Luigi had a bounty isn't going to hold up.

They had a reason to suspect him, but that reason wasn't obtained thru legal means, so they have to invent a plausible second reason and call it a parallel investigation if they want to keep any evidence gained since he was apprehended.

[–] givesomefucks 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah, but the people who do go on to do that shit, would be the most likely to seek it out, and history shows people still would do those crimes without online video.

And a non zero were given treatment because those videos leave a trail and some get caught.

The answer to this stuff is rarely simple, and the actual findings are often counterintuitive.

Basically:

We have no idea until we study, and we can't really ethically study this. We'd have to force a control group of impressionable kids to watch those videos.

[–] givesomefucks 43 points 1 day ago (5 children)

would send Texas 2,000 doses

Yeah, that actually sounds reasonable for a small localized outbreak when most are already vaccinated...

A total of 164 measles cases were reported as of 27 February across Alaska, California, Georgia, Kentucky, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York City, Rhode Island and Texas, information from the CDC showed. About 95% of those infected were unvaccinated people, including children whose parents did not follow CDC recommendations to get them immunized with safe, effective vaccines providing protection against measles as well as other easily preventable diseases. Another 3% were from people who received only one of the two required shots for immunity, CDC data showed on Friday.

These cases were reported in nine jurisdictions, including Kentucky, marking a near 80% jump from 93 cases reported a week ago.

Too bad it's fucking everywhere and spreading insanely quickly...

[–] givesomefucks 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

If someone chooses to use their social media as a haven from the real-world issues they encounter everywhere else, then

I would advise them to curate a specific feed for that explicit purpose rather than browse /all and complain other people are paying attention to real shit

[–] givesomefucks 84 points 1 day ago

He knew why he was there, and even if you couldn't figure it out, his messages after should've cleared it up...

There was no chance of trump going against putin.

And Zelensky turned it into international outcry and Europe's public support increasing. Then went on Elmo's own social media to thank a shit ton of European leaders for their public comments of support in response to the media storm.

The only criticism I had was I thought it was gonna be too obvious, but a lot of people still don't seem to realize what was happening.

He just showed the world that the US isn't there to help, and they won't help the next country either. So especially for Europe, it is vitally important that Ukraine doesn't lose. Putin won't waste time in moving to the next.

Zelensky just forced the world to acknowledge that Trump's election has global consequences and redraws a lot of lines.

[–] givesomefucks 25 points 1 day ago

We used to have laws against this sort of thing...

The primary goal of the law was to "let anyone enter any communications business – to let any communications business compete in any market against any other."[2] Thus, the statute is often described as an attempt to deregulate the American broadcasting and telecommunications markets due to technological convergence.[3] The Telecommunications Act of 1996 has been praised for incentivizing the expansion of networks and the offering of new services across the United States.[4] At the same time, it is often criticized for enabling market concentration in the media and telecommunications industries.[5][6]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecommunications_Act_of_1996

But then modern neoliberalism showed up and put an end to that....

Like, are you mad Sinclair Broadcasting bought up local TV stations and force them to read identical scripts?

They couldn't have done that until 1996, and there was a reason those regulations existed prior.

[–] givesomefucks 23 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (6 children)

You can.

You can subscribe to every stupid brain rot meme sub you want, and when you're ready to turn your brain off just switch to only viewing subscribed communities.

No one is saying not to do that, burnout is real and what fascists hope for.

So by all means, take your breaks. Check out and don't think about it for a day or two. But come back and care about the important shit again.

But when viewing /all and seeing the top post be actual discussions on serious topics it's a good thing.

It means right now more people are choosing that over the brain rot. Hopefully it becomes the norm, but we still need to rotate off for a break, it's not gonna be a short fight against fascism. No one is going to make it to the end without some breaks.

[–] givesomefucks -2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Can you do me a favor and reply with your alts?

I've blocked at least 3 so far but it's like playing fucking whack a mole

[–] givesomefucks 22 points 1 day ago (11 children)

What happened?

People pay attention to memes more than news...

I blocked all the stupid meme communities as soon as I started using Lemmy, glad to see actual discussion is replacing brain rot tho.

It's a good thing.

[–] givesomefucks 0 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

And ignoring why they got the megaphone to say it on cable news?

Faux News legally couldn't exist until neoliberals removed fair broadcast regulations...

Because that was the only way to convince people neoliberalism was working.

We had laws against propaganda until neoliberals got rid of them

Now you want to blame anyone except the people who made that propaganda legal.

This is like if I gave a baby a gun, the baby shot you, and then you listened to me when I told you the baby was the problem.

Instead of questioning why we gave a baby a gun, it even addressing the problem that I'm still giving baby's guns...

You realize we could have fixed this when Biden had the House and Senate...

Or when Obama had the House and Senate...

Are you waiting for Republicans to reinstate the regulations against propaganda?

Neoli erals won't fix this, republicans won't fix this, can you guess who that leaves?

 
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Vest Patches? (self.socialistra)
 

So after the last couple years of seeing how protests get treated based on how much larping they're doing, I bought some plates and a carrier.

I'm fully aware the only thing it does is stop me from dying immediately from a body shot, and only covers like 10% of me.

But the only reason I got it was because cops have been showing for decades they won't start violence against protesters when even just a few are plated up and holding a rifle. And I got a feeling there's gonna be some protests again.

My issue is I look like a nazi's wet dream even when I'm not geared up, and it's not like someone can read a Tshirt under a plate carrier.

I wanted to grab some patches from SRA, but all they sell is stickers, and Etsy just has vague slogan patches you wouldn't be able to read from five feet away.

I did see some links where the reddit sub had been doing mass patch orders over the years. Is there any community not on the big social media doing the same?

Or any other methods to show you're an ally besides just facing the right way?

I'm also a little hesitant to slap something like an antifa rose on because I can't see trump not declaring them a terrorist group at some point.

 

Somewhat satire, somewhat actual investigation.

Pretty much same vibes as the Daily Show

 

But Gemma is dead.

I think the car accident left Gemma either braindead or with serious brain damage. She's not really "severed" like the main characters, or possibly when not she goes back into a coma. But the Gemma who was married to Mark is gone for good. This season will be about finding that out.

Then season 3 (just began filming) will have Ms Casey becoming her own person while Mark and Hella ride off into the sunset.

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