@sun @apropos @Arkana @Hoss @nerthos Trump and his brain trust to the extent he cultivates one had a bit less than five years after, say, 2015 to figure it out.

The last triggering point would be when he realized Obama and the Deep State were not got to accept a peaceful transfer of power, the "succession problem" which is the biggest advantage of "democracy" AKA republics.

Until it's not and they've dead, unless your kill enough traitors to right things, maybe. Not sure if that's ever worked, didn't for Sulla for example.

The very latest for that was when the head of the NSA told him in so many words, "get the hell out of Trump tower, you are being spied upon" after the election. Trump didn't get it until I'm not sure how long or ever, see again the Flynn affair.

On the other hand, at least until March-April 2019 and the end of the "Mueller," actually (((Andrew Weissmann))), country's most evil criminal prosecutor's "investigation." See also his not replacing post turtle Sessons, only to hire Deep State slug (((William Barr))) as his second AG (the sort of guy who'd defend the FBI death squad's sniper who killed Vicky Weaver).

First impeachment attempt because public mid-September 2019, and was still going on when COVID hit.

So we have something of a leadership failure in dealing with existential threats to his administration, he failed to set up an effective group with a remit to "get us out of this Deep State mess!" which assumes it was possible.

And we should never forget that if Trump has the slightest clue, he knows he's walking a tightrope of impeachment conviction, since it's obvious to anyone with eyes there's a sufficient Democratic and GOPe majority for that in the Senate if they're given enough of an excuse.

Arresting Hillary might have done it. Nuking Iran would certainly do it, although why not go out in a blaze of glory by definitively ending that threat? Except the officer corps wouldn't implement a strong enough genocidal or thereabouts attack for that, and Trump's too soft.

(Yes, I don't hate the Iranian people, but the threat they've allowed to fester for almost half a century often comes with such Bad Ends.)

@AbandonedAmerica
Get well soon. I from Germany celebrate with you. Exciting indeed!

We've hired 2 quality assurance engineers who are now working on testing pull requests and releases for our apps to far more catch issues prior to our Alpha channel releases. They'll also be helping with OS testing. It should help improve the quality of GrapheneOS even further.

Thanks, that helps clarify the differences between Lemmy and PieFed. My concern isn’t mainly who can see vote records. It’s that votes can influence which posts and comments people see.

My main issue is that people often use votes as likes and dislikes, even though they’re also meant to help moderate content by handing some of that responsibility to the user base. In practice, that can be abused. I’m not exactly sure how Lemmy calculates scores or how much they affect visibility, but if downvotes were purely cosmetic, I wouldn’t have the same concern. Mass downvotes can bury good posts, while mediocre posts can get boosted simply because they’re popular.

Users can choose how votes factor into their feeds, and disabling downvotes locally won’t stop other instances from using their own votes. I’d still want reactions to be cosmetic, or at least never used by the protocol to rank or suppress content.

The topic and flair idea overlaps with what PieFed already does. The part I’m still trying to work out is whether spaces should be entirely local to each instance or whether instances could optionally share directory entries. I don’t want the largest instance to control the organization, and smaller instances should be free to organize things differently. A shared directory, if there is one, would need to be optional and not authoritative. I haven’t figured out the governance for that yet.

A 24-year-old man vandalized Donald Trump’s star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame using a hammer.

He was arrested and released on bail set at $20,000.

However, the person who paid his bail was another man who had also vandalized Trump’s star in 2016.

The man said he understands the young man’s intense anger toward Trump.

so close oh god so close to being done with this nightmare

Elon Musk’s empire was built on billions in government subsidies and contracts.
He then used nearly half a billion of his wealth to elect Republicans in the midterms.
It is time to cut off the taxpayer cashflow to his companies.
We don't need federal dollars making billionaires wealthier or giving them more power.
Whether or not billionaires should exist, taxpayers shouldn't be forced to subsidize the wealth and political power of the 1%.

I think it's important to think about this in a careful way. These results are confusing, and we should try not to get confused.

Two facts: The anti-trans attack on Democrats failed utterly; and America *is* getting more transphobic, and transphobia-by-itself largely succeeded at the ballot box.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:2aebn3xk5t63net43eeepire/post/3mzhglkzrrk2p

A nearby USB 3 device can interfere with Bluetooth, Microsoft warns

https://lockergnome.com/windows-bluetooth-stutters-usb-three-interference/

#tech

Always be acting, forcing your opponents to react. That's the key. That's the mantra.

@diz

But run the numbers. Anti-trans Dems won last night. Pro-trans Dems *also won*. In other words, *no one cares*. Folks vote anti-trans on a line by itself, but *that's it*.

What this tells us is the public is *movable*. Majority transphobic, but their transphobia is not a deep, important conviction.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:m65ifh7vn5zdgs7izcmht4gy/post/3mzi4ikue4c2y

@augieray

Let the SpaceX Hearings begin

I wrote a lot of stories about the bureaucracy around superweapon administration in my 20s.

good luck with no nvidia november

Investigations & accountability? Yes. Structural reforms like growing the court & nuking the filibuster? Yes. Restoring federal scientific institutions & research? Yes. Building the shit out of clean energy? Yes. Taxing the rich? Yes. Do it all, at once, push on every front, always be pushing.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@sjvn/117559345459821255

It warms the cockles of my heart to know that a young pissed-off Latina is going to be Elon Musk’s biggest problem that he can’t solve with money.

@ben that's okay i forgive him. this time

@davidrevoy I love your work but this is going into my library! Yes!!!