kent_eh

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kent_eh ,

Meanwhile the mis/dis-information campaigns continue to roll along at an ever accelerating speed around the world.

kent_eh ,

Kind of stands out to me more than the Canadian bit

After being in the US for 20 years, they can keep him.

kent_eh ,

Matryoshka diaper

kent_eh , (edited )

How arrogant of those American governers to assume they can just dictate how other countries deal with people smuggling weapons into their country (even if those people claim to have done it as a casual accident).

kent_eh ,

Assuming it works the way Google says it does,

There was a time when I trusted Google to be open and honest.

But that time is long in the past.

kent_eh ,

Being able to operate at expert level in one area of endeavor doesn't guarantee that you will be at that same level in all things you do.

kent_eh ,

How do they attempt to argue that the existence of fossils contradicts evolution by natural selection?

The usual claim is that because fossils don't show every single intermediary step that they can't possibly be showing evolutionary change.

Yes, that arguement is as stupid as it seems.

kent_eh ,

because hype is an ever moving goal post.

That's it exactly.

Nothing ever lives up to its hype because the hype is setting unachievable expectations.

kent_eh ,

There were a bunch in my areas last school board elections as well.

Most lost by a large margin, but a couple actually got elected. Both have since been suspended by the boards they are on for violating multiple policies and governance oversight regulations.

kent_eh ,

Plus, it's where the future national candidates typically get their first experience in elected office.

If you want better candidates in the future "big" elections, make sure to encourage the good ones and ensure the crap ones don't get on school boards and other local elected positions.

kent_eh ,

Presumably books that describe themselves as fiction is part of the criteria.

Being promoted as fact while clearly not being is disqualified

kent_eh ,

I am constantly baffled how refusing to futute-proof the company meets the definition of "fiduciary responsibility".

"Let's spike today's profits by destroying tomorrow's profits" doesn't seem very responsible to me.

kent_eh ,

My solution is to just watch less in general.

Not like there's a ton of new stuff worth watching at any given time anyway.

That was one of the main factors in my cutting the cord in the first place.

kent_eh ,

perhaps deterrence being a goal of punishment isn't all that effective.

It really isn't. Most people who plan their crimes tend to have convinced themselves that their cunning plan means they won't get caught.

And (at the other end of the criminal "mastermind" spectrum), crackheads who don't plan their crimes are also not thinking about the possibility of getting caught.

And if you beleive you won't be caught, the potential punishment is irrelevant to you.

kent_eh , (edited )

Prevention. Education.

Fixing the core societal issues that have been proven many times to reduce crime.

Poverty, addiction, hopelessness, desperation.

Obviously dealing with those on a societal level is not fast, easy or cheap, but it does actually work. Eventually.

kent_eh ,

I'm seeing several of these as campaign slogans from some American politicians.

kent_eh ,

Does the guilt lie with the police for the murder, or with the person that put him in the path of the cops?

Both is an acceptable (and accurate) answer.

Most situations aren't entirely binary.

kent_eh ,

Maybe not totally different. Both discussions are about self-righteous people being assholes to others.

Microsoft is testing Game Pass ads on the Windows 11 Settings homepage ( www.ghacks.net )

Microsoft's announcement: "We are introducing a new Game Pass recommendation card on the Settings homepage. The Game Pass recommendation card on Settings Homepage will be shown to you if you actively play games on your PC. As a reminder – the Settings homepage will be shown only on the Home and Pro editions of Windows 11 and...

kent_eh ,

Penguin therapy for the win

kent_eh ,

People like how Trump sounds certain and sure and strong,

He's telling them whatever lie he thinks they want to hear.

And for reasons I can't explain, far too many people are comforted by that blatant lie. Even when it contradicts the lie he told yesterday.

kent_eh ,

. I don’t doubt for a second he’s going to do away with trans protections on “day one”.

His bluster includes months worth of things he plans to do "on day one".

But, if he actually manages to get elected, his highest priority is going to be trying to pardon himself, despite that probably not being possible. Trying to cover his own sorry ass will absorb most of his attention for many months.

Of course, he first has to get elected.

kent_eh ,

To me, the first 3 do look the same.

But I have a diagnosis that explains it.

kent_eh ,

Gaza should not be nuked.

I'll even be so bold as to say nobody should be nuked.

kent_eh ,

Is actively being thwarted by Republicans at every turn.

Plus, things take time to happen, even under ideal circumstances.

kent_eh ,

If your happy with Biden you've given up.

Given that either Biden or Trump will be the president after the next election, voting for the obviously less harmful one is still a positive move.

Not voting only gives the votes of Trump's insane clown cult more power.

kent_eh ,

I only take offence when others are forced to be exposed to it.

People such as the staff who have to work in the smoke filled environment?

kent_eh ,

whatever "monster of the week" they pick as an enemy

Right wing outrage farmers have been doing exactly that for my enture life.

D&D was the biggest evil ever, back in my teenage years.

And before that it was the Satanic Panic.

There's always something they want us to be scared of.

kent_eh ,

Trump is only too happy to repeal that shit so fast. Not only that, but big boi Trump also has alluded to glassing Iran

I'm convinced that he really doesn't care one way or another. He only cares about telling his base whatever he thinks will get them worked up.

He wants power, and will tell people whatever he thinks will cause them to give it to them.

kent_eh ,

The problem is that there isn't a left to vote for

In the current American political spectrum, there isn't really anything that most other countries would recognize as "left".

But given the current binary reality, whatever the Democrats are is viewed as left of the GOP rightwingnuts.

kent_eh ,

It's like half of the general population supports him, and the other half supports Biden.

Less than a quarter support Trump.

The bigger problem is that almost thalf of the population doesn't vote at all.

kent_eh ,

"it's tradition" isn't much of an explanation

It's not a moral answer, but it is an accurate answer.

kent_eh ,

He also said he did not do anything wrong and planned to appeal his conviction.

That's a pretty common thing for people in prison to say.

kent_eh ,

It does also show Russia that Ukraine is capable of bypassing their defenses and successfully attacking infrastructure (or military installations/encampments) several hundred kilometers inside Russia.

And doing it multiple times.

‘We will fight with our fingernails’ says Netanyahu after US threat to curb arms ( www.theguardian.com )

Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed that Israel will stand alone and “fight with our fingernails” in defiance of US threats to further restrict arms deliveries if Israeli forces proceeded with an offensive on the southern Gazan city of Rafah....

kent_eh ,

Thats something that a lot of people seem to forget. This fight has been going on in one form or another since the creation of the modern state of Israel. And there is an almost unlimited amount of blood on the hands of both the Israelis and Palestinians. (As well as the colonial countries who set up the borders in the first place)

kent_eh ,

It sure would be nice if we lived in a country where policing was actually a civil service and not a damn street gang.

The cases you hear in the media are the ones that provoke outrage.

On a day to day basis the police have hundreds of interactions with the public that aren't remarkable or noteworthy.

kent_eh ,

Unable or unwilling?

kent_eh ,

They had intense disagreements about how to build the country, and no single design or designer had enough influence to get exactly what he wanted.

The difference is they were willing to give-and-take to eventually come to a mutually tolerable compromise solution.

Contrast that with today's "if you are from the other party, I will thwart you even if it is a good idea"

kent_eh ,

Oh goodie, you did the bare minimum and voted.

Have you involved yourself in actually improving the process?

kent_eh , (edited )

As a citizen of one of those "more Northern countries", that is one of the things that concerns me.

kent_eh ,

The good things about his campaign promises is you know it’ll never happen if he gets elected.

Except you don't really know what he will actually do. Some of it will be even more crazy than this idea.

kent_eh ,

Want to go farther? Fine! DC fast charging is, in fact, fast

Sure, but those need to exist at the appropriate locations, and be maintained in working order - neither of which is the current reality in a lot of places.

Add to that the lack of availability of affordable EVs and you are going to have the slow adoption we currently see.

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I was planning to get an EV of some sort the last time my vehicle needed to be replaced, but there were none available at the time that fit my budget and my needs.

I still intend to have one relatively soon, but the practical realities are still an impediment.

Transgender activists flood Utah tip line with hoax reports to block bathroom law enforcement ( apnews.com )

Transgender activists have flooded a Utah tip line created to alert state officials to possible violations of a new bathroom law with thousands of hoax reports in an effort to shield trans residents and their allies from any legitimate complaints that could lead to an investigation. ...

kent_eh ,

Not only "trans activists".

It's also just average people who are frustrated with the stupidity of these kinds of discriminatory laws.

kent_eh ,

What's your point?

Just because someone else is being bad doesn't obligate us to do nothing about our own contribution to the problem.

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Pull your weight and set a good example for others.

kent_eh ,

We could have both.

kent_eh ,

Cars are far from the only product that is actively destroying individual privacy in the name of corporate profits

Reducing the number of cars doesn't fix the root problem.

kent_eh ,

but complicated since most jails don't have remotely the capacity or security of a real prison and you've still got to figure out how to work his Secret Service detail into the picture. And also the protests from his cult if/when that happens.

Which are all things the judge acknowledged in his statement ashen he handed down the most recent contempt ruling.

Like it or not, there's a lot more considerations to this than simply "lock him up".

kent_eh , (edited )

Google is laying off more employees and hiring for their roles outside of the U.S.

That is the double edge sword of remote work: if your job can be done from anywhere, it can be done by someone else in another country where wages are lower.

kent_eh ,

If I can do my job entirely from the comfort of my own living room, there's nothing that would prevent the company from hiring someone to do my job from the comfort of their own living room, in India or the Philippines."

That's one of the reasons I went into a field of technology where the work is mostly hands-on.

Hardware maintenence, troubleshooting, installation and repair isn't something that can effectively be done remotely.

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