I just wanted to confirm from our meeting just now, did you want me to (some crazy shit that could cause problems)?
Still pretty much 10% 😢
That’s not the whole story; raw number of members has ticked up but since unemployment is real low now and the rise is pretty slight, the percent of membership is still dropping. I’d love to be able to tell you it’s different, but that is the reality.
This comes right after Israel sending a delegation to the US to “talk about” the war in Lebanon and the so called war in Gaza, too. Presumably to talk about hey you’re gonna bankroll those into the fall, like always, right?
It is just uBlock origin, not some crazy thing
But yes I actually paid for Premium for like a couple of years; it is actually one of the most impactful in my experience in terms of those little “give us $7/mo to improve your internet in some minor way” services
My software configuration is such that whenever I see a YouTube ad on some stranger’s device it is a violently disturbing event
Like wtf why does YouTube have ads now, these are really obnoxious
They also don’t bother to run retail locations or advertising or anything. Just phone + app for payments + cheap + good luck
I and friends have had Mint and on the whole it is great
But… why? I am honestly baffled as to the business reasons behind the decision. I don’t think people are sick of propaganda. People love propaganda.
But it’s hard for me to say you are wrong, also, simply because like I say I have no idea what the thinking behind it is.
That’s what I mean. It’s like they are trying to get at an honest presentation of the facts of the story.
It’s fuckin weird from ANY corporate US news outlet but from those two it’s like bizarro world
It’s a fairly impressive propaganda double dip
DON’T explain the context, beyond “synagogue” and “antisemitism” and some vague language about how violence “evolved” into existence. Thus, anyone who isn’t pro Palestinian sees the story in a very particular way that will reinforce a particular wrong perception of the protestors.
But DO bring Biden’s name into it for literally no reason at all, so that the people who support the protestors and are able to realize that there’s probably more to the story, will have their particular wrong perception, that quite a lot of them probably have, that he’s anti protestor, reinforced.
It’s a rare and cunning story that can simultaneously communicate “look at these scumbag anti semitic protestors” and “look at Biden thinking these protestors are anti semitic scumbags” simultaneously, with each population receiving the message which is exactly appropriate to misleading them and them specifically.
CNN and fucking USA Today have been doing quite a bit of actual complete and honest reporting recently.
I have no idea where it came from, but I’ll take it
Fair enough. I read your other comments and my current guess is abysmal cyber security coupled with clear indications that hostile state actors are trying to fuck it up, and showing no sign of having any more trouble than would an NFL team pushing past the volunteers who have signed up to work the door at the senior center social hour
In which case if that’s accurate I would say that yes that fits the brief
There are more than 2 people that know that Texas’s power grid is a teetering disaster waiting for the right event to crumble and break in unfixable fashion
(Or water, water’s probably even more sketchy. Look up the incident in the UK where they accidentally put a shitload of treatment chemicals in the main water supply and a whole bunch of people got poisoned. Harder to do off grid solutions for though.)
call recordings
your phone password
Can you explain more about this? You’re saying the bank app is grabbing this data from your phone, or what are you saying?
I’m not saying you are wrong, necessarily, I’m just surprised to hear it
I hadn’t fully been aware of the changeover, but yeah I saw season 7 and it was definitely more coherent and solid and less wandery and desperate than some of the middle seasons, absolutely there was an uptick in quality to me yes
I for real thought this was a programming post at first, about the supervillain software company, and thought oh shit oh fuck why do people have palantir packages installed what did I miss
They’re not being silenced or anywhere close to it. The prosecutors asked the judge to order the defendant to stop talking to them about some aspects of the case, I guess because they don’t want anything that might build any sympathy for the guy they’re prosecuting, and the judge (apparently, from all appearances, since they wrote the story and seem to still be talking to the guy uninterrupted) said no.
And then the guy wrote a story like “hey it seems like every single action these prosecutors are taking is like they want to put him in prison, what the fuck is that, that’s not balanced.”
FWIW it’s not a paywall; they just want your email address
It has yet to pass the Senate, and Biden said he would veto it.
Of course, Biden is still swearing to everyone that he is still sending shipments except for the one that he paused because of Rafah, and that he plans to keep doing it. And, his administration conducted an investigation which somehow managed to conclude that they “may have” been committing war crimes but that it’s not clear enough that we would have to stop shipping them weapons or anything which we would be legally obligated to do if they “conclusively” were doing anything criminal.
Fuckin assholes
In general, they get grants of cash from the US which they are required to use to “purchase” from US suppliers more or less any weapons (with few export restrictions). We’re giving them weapons but they still get to pick out what they think they need. This is a pretty good overview which seems like it’s mainly missing:
What’s with the all caps
If the Biden administration is serious about protecting press freedoms, officials from Washington might want to have a stern talk with federal prosecutors in Detroit.
Biden’s officials absolutely should not have a stern talk with prosecutors from anywhere; the DOJ’s day to day business is totally separate from being dictated by any political official for very good reasons.
If you told me the FBI and federal prosecutors were overreaching and being wildly way too aggressive, I’d agree with you, but that has not a lot to do with Biden and it bloody well should stay that way.
Even that being said, I don’t see all that much in this other than them aggressively investigating and prosecuting. That’s their job. There’s all this stuff like:
When Naser returned to the U.S. from the trip, he found himself subjected to intense FBI questioning and surveillance. And he wasn’t alone. Dennison was an unwitting pawn for the FBI. Anyone who communicated with him became a target.
In April 2023, federal prosecutors complained in a court filing that Naser “gleefully shared information” with me. My calls with Naser became a central focus of a hearing in June 2023, during which prosecutors admitted that the protective order did not prohibit Naser from talking to me about the evidence in his case.
“He did not improperly distribute this information,” said Assistant U.S. Attorney Dmitriy Slavin in the June 2023 hearing. “Because information that is general discovery which is still concerning this case, there’s no limit on him sharing that information with the media, and he has made it his mission to share that information with the media.”
So basically, they asked him questions and served him with search warrants, and then they charged him with a crime. When he talked to journalists, the prosecution asked the judge to make him stop (and from the fact that he didn’t stop, it kind of sounds like the judge told them no.)
And, while doing so, they cooperated with local law enforcement to do their investigation, which they had some ability to do because the guy pepper-sprayed his boss and took money (which he “believed he was owed”) from the cash register.
I am sure that it is not fun being questioned by the FBI or charged with a federal crime, but this guy’s using all this language like “Prosecutors appear to have subjected me to this attack” (their court filings). I mean it’s their job to attack the defendant. And then it’s the defendant’s job to defend themselves (which is often an unfair battle if you’re in a foreign country and the full weight of the federal government is trying to fuck you over). The prosecution doesn’t get to decide if you go to prison; that’s the judge’s job to sort out with the prosecution doing their best to attack you. I get that it’s an unfair process that needs reform but I don’t see what is so outlandish about them in this case doing a prosecution of the guy they’re trying to prosecute.
These are actually two different statements, with a very small, very subtle, but profoundly important difference between them.
“affiliated with”