mozz

mozz, 8 days ago

“Army” is an overstatement; they assembled like 30,000 people for an attack on the (heavily fortified) second largest city in Ukraine.

Well, 30,000 originally; they’ve been losing 1,000+ per day at times so it’s probably less than that now.

mozz, 9 days ago

Russia: Sanctions aren’t doing shit, we’re actually better off without the outside world

Also Russia: Hey never mind about the toilets, let me show you how we’ve mastered Nintendo 64 technology

mozz, 8 days ago

Yes, you are correct, that's a very relevant correction. "Soon," they say.

mozz, 9 days ago

What I take away from this story is the pretty depressing realization that a corrupted political system in Georgia, and the tactic of delaying the two federal cases until he can maybe win the election and cancel them, means that this one might be the only chance to punish him for anything.

mozz, 9 days ago

Also:

Sentencing is on July 11th

The Republican National Convention is July 15th

Honestly, it scares me. That'd be great timing for them to go full Beer Hall Putsch mode.

mozz, 9 days ago

I think new posts just cycle off the main page pretty quickly (I actually like it being that way.) It seems unlikely that Lemmy admins would conspire to get rid of news about Trump -- you can try top last 24 hours to see if they're actually gone or something.

mozz, 9 days ago

We gotta break the seal. It has to be jail. He tried to kill the vice president, he stole classified documents and got dozens of CIA assets killed, he explicitly sides with the enemies of the US and against the American people. He wants to shoot protestors and have the military seize the voting machines.

I understand the reluctance. This particular thing, as weird as it is, wasn't actually all that bad. But you gotta break the seal. It's like when you're leaving an abusive partner; the idea of really pulling the trigger is terrifying, because what's gonna happen? And there's no going back. But we have to.

mozz, 8 days ago

I did some somewhat extensive investigation of voting on some propaganda-bot-adjacent posts, because I suspected they were doing some fake voting... I saw some suspicious stuff but nothing really all that incriminating. I didn't spend too much time on it though.

Is there one of these stories with a ton of downvotes that you'd like me to look into? I looked at a couple of the big ones about the Trump verdict that dropped off the page just now, and they actually only had a few downvotes each, which kind of rules out that theory.

mozz, 9 days ago

This whole thing of calling people on the phone and shouting questions like this at the ones of them who answer, and then reporting the result as if it was news relevant to how the election will turn out, is absurd.

It’s literally on par with calling people and asking them if they’re planning to get the flu this year, and then reporting that as a public health study.

mozz, 9 days ago

And because the random strangers he bothers tell him things like "Hey look, we don't want any trouble, okay?" instead of to go fuck himself and mind his business.

mozz, 9 days ago

The amounts of energy we use is never ever going to go down. It just isn't.

Not voluntarily maybe. But that’s not the only way. The only outcomes of any “realistic” course correction to the current state of the world and human behavior include widespread death and societal collapse once uncontrolled climate change takes hold for real, and at that point, it’ll go down quite a bit.

mozz, 9 days ago

I did this while driving to work once. Had time for a think on the way in, called up and quit, drove back home and went back to sleep.

mozz, 9 days ago

Two jobs after that, I got in a big argument with the CTO on a conference call in front of everybody my first month on the job, and they later tried to make me team lead when I was like 22 years old because I was the only one who could produce any useful (i.e. honest) information for them about what was actually going on with the project. I declined and quit instead to work at a startup with friends of mine. I was Peter Gibbons before Peter Gibbons was cool.

mozz, 9 days ago (edited 9 days ago)

100% agreed. In my experience the two possible outcomes are:

1. Everyone respects you more and you get to say your piece; whether or not anything you were saying gets taken on or acted on, is uncertain, but sometimes yes
2. The person you're talking to gets all huffy about one of the underlings talking to them like that, but nothing really happens

... and #1 is honestly more common than the other one in my experience. IDK, I also got fired from some jobs when I was young because of it, so maybe don't take my advice too wholeheartedly, but I found the result to be way better and the risks to be overblown compared to what they seem like they would be.

mozz, 10 days ago

“Our approach has driven customers away from American,” Isom admitted. “We’re unequivocally committed to getting those customers back.”

took responsibility for the corporate strategy misstep but insisted it was the right approach, despite its flaws. “We have driven some customers away. We have restricted customers from using our product. Those are the kinds of things we have to be attentive to,” he said.

“Now Robert Isom has taken full responsibility,” Tajer said. “He has come into the cockpit and said, ‘This is my airplane.’”

These people sound like aliens

mozz, 10 days ago (edited 10 days ago)

Holy shit man

TL;DW it's rare, there's no video apparently. They think they maybe do it to get away from predators but against all odds they can do a pretty good job at it for "short" distances.

mozz, 10 days ago

everything is made quickly

Like instantly

mozz, 10 days ago (edited 10 days ago)

A lot of it, honestly, might be just coming from a society where everyone hasn’t been ground down into a weird consumerist nightmare of uncaring existence.

Once you’ve experienced health care or restaurants or factories or more or less anything, in a location where people you are interacting with treat one another like interesting valuable human beings worthy of respect and human interaction, even if there’s some money involved, it starts to seem really weird the American way where everything has to be on a system and no one gives a shit.

mozz, 10 days ago

Yeah. The social contract used to be that the publisher would do marketing, editing, layout, and physical production, and the author would make the words, and they worked in partnership so they could both make a living.

Now, the author does marketing, editing, and makes the words, and bargain basement third parties do layout and physical production, and the publisher sits in their office chair screaming into their headset "MORE, MORE, I WANT MORE, IT'S NOT ENOUGH", thinking that if they can just shave the margins a little thinner and increase the already-bloated salaries they draw for doing literally nothing, then it'll finally fill the gaping chasm deep within them.