Oh I agree, I just think it shouldn’t surprise anyone at this point. Anyone with two fucking braincells can see he is in bed with Russia and most assuredly does not have the US or our allies’ interests at heart. He’s literally sold the entire government to the highest bidder who is actively destroying the entire system without a single shot being fired.
I mean, didn’t the Mueller report heavily imply he received help from Russia?
There’s pros and cons to both systems. With so many positions being elected, it is supposed to make it more difficult for unilateral, systemic corruption to take root. In theory, anyway. But, hardly anyone pays attention to local politics and local journalism is virtually dead in all but larger metro areas nowadays. As such, propaganda is much easier to spread and corruption goes unnoticed in all but the most egregious scenarios in many smaller areas.
I highly doubt that it was the same judge and prosecutor after 30 years, so the present day judiciary personnel involved having personal stakes in the case seems unlikely. But I don’t disagree that certain bloodthirsty prosecutors and/or judges likely hate admitting the system is deeply flawed when it comes to convicting innocents they’ve already deemed criminals.
StumbleUpon started out being completely random, so it wasn’t driven by mining your cookies and feeding the data into an algorithm. I don’t know if it eventually became a nefarious advertising front, but I recall it being pretty innocent. Anyway, I really enjoyed that website before link aggregators rose to such dominance.
Yeah, I legitimately don’t understand it. I used to like his show back around 2016-2017sh time frame. Back then, he usually just had well known comedians on and shot the shit and it was funny. Hell, he’d even have cool scientists on discussing new research they were doing that he found interesting. He’d have the occasional fringe topic, e.g. UFOs, conspiracies, etc., but it was always done in an entertaining way and wasn’t overly political.
I don’t know what the hell happened, but around 2019/2020 he just went way to the far right and became a giant piece of shit. I haven’t listened to his garbage show in years.
I didn’t mean to imply otherwise, so I apologize if that was the interpretation. There are tens of thousands of commercial flights every day around the world (a quick search suggests around 100,000+ per day), so a couple of crashes is a fraction of a drop in the ocean.
I think the news highlighting the other non-commercial airline crashes lately is due to the US charter flight/helicopter crash, so it’s got higher attention traction. I also wouldn’t doubt it’s somewhat politically motivated, as the charter plane crash was attributed to underfunded, understaffed Air Traffic Control, while President Edolph Musk and First Lady Trump continue gutting agencies like the FAA.
Yeah I know, but it originated from Minneapolis and landed in Toronto Pearson Airport, which is very close to the US border (it’s literally across the lake from New York). Different country, but really not that different since the airplane is also from a US airline with a US pilot.
Anyway, it’s just uncanny how many planes have been crashing lately in a relatively short span of time.
Haven’t there been 4?
I just looked it up and yeah, there have been 4 in just a few weeks: https://www.fox4news.com/news/deadly-plane-crashes-2025-timeline
Right?? Even at my peak fitness, my fastest mile was about 4:10 and I literally puked after just doing one mile (and I definitely didn’t keep running afterwards). Here’s this dude maintaining that speed for 13 miles.
That’s simply insane. ~13.1 miles (~21.1 km) at <57 minutes is such an incredible pace. That averages out to about 4:20 minutes per mile, or 2:42 minutes per kilometer.
Amazing.
You also have to consider they have to get a contract and/or government employee team together to do the audit. If they go the contract route, that entails doing a Request For Proposal and the proper bidding process.
Government is slow because it’s supposed to be transparent with proper accountability along every step. DOGE/Trump/etc all comparing government to private business is extremely stupid for numerous reasons, because they both serve wildly different purposes and have vastly different objectives. Anyone that wants the government to be more like how a private business operates is a fucking idiot.
It’s apparent you all haven’t been auditors. These systems are massive, and a real audit (not the bullshit faux-audits that DOGE is supposedly doing) takes thousands and thousands of man-hours on massive systems. Yes, DOGE has only been around for less than a month, but they’ve setup unauthorized systems and servers all over the fucking government. I can imagine what they’ve done at the Treasury Dept is going to take a lot of careful work and study to trace everything and generate a full report with actual artifacts.
That being said, at my job, we’ve had to comply with spontaneous audits on our network of over 100,000 devices (servers, workstations, appliances, etc) and have had it all completed within 2 months with around ~50 people working full-time. August is a tad extreme, but I’m guessing with such a sensitive system, they’re going to want it to be extremely thorough.
Who the fuck, with any level of competence, would ever want to apply for a federal position after seeing this shit show?
That’s the point. Musk et. al. are foreign assets with orders to weaken NATO and the US at all costs. They are successfully accomplishing their orders. And once the US’s economy has spiraled and collapsed, the USD will no longer be a trusted currency used for global trade. Then it’s BRIC’s time to shine. That’s their dream, at least.
Content has to arrive first for users to consume. It really is a “both” type of response to some extent.
In my opinion, the solution is for content creators to simultaneously release on alternative platforms while also maintaining a YouTube presence so they’re still making money from that. However, they should start heavily advertising the alternative platforms on every video and transitioning to a different payment model (e.g. Patreon, Ko-fi, Indiegogo, etc). Content creators could organize with other creators to coordinate the transition. If you got huge channels like Digital Foundry, Linus Tech Tips, GamersNexus, etc (for the PC gaming scene, as an example) to agree, then that’s already millions of users. It begins a snowball effect.
That being said, as far as I’m aware, there aren’t any alternative platforms that can handle the bandwidth that supports millions of users simultaneously, along with thousands of content creators uploading and processing large videos regularly. There’s a reason YouTube has such a monopoly, and their vast wealth of pre-existing content is the main component, but not the only one.
And yet Gen Z turned out for… Trump? He’ll surely help the economy and enable a new era of magically plentiful high paying, stable jobs.
Worked for me. But it just brings me to a Zoom meeting, I’d rather it go to a website for some actual information before wasting time on a live event.
Google does in fact have a self-driving car. You may have heard of it: https://waymo.com/
But captcha is mainly about fingerprinting users versus using it to train self driving models. Google is primarily an advertising company, so being able to track users’ browsing patterns is more useful to their core business model.
Reviews on the Firefox one says it requires you to download and install another app for it to work. Screw that nonsense.
This is so depressing. I know that politics is cyclical, eras of progressive politics are always followed by periods of conservative regression. But, this is such a whiplash response, I don’t understand how so many people are being duped by this insanity around the world.