TimLovesTech (AuDHD)(he/him)

Meta/Zuck have been far right for years, they are just wearing their hoods now because Trump is looking to the big tech companies to be his State Media.

Is there any actual evidence that CA has had aid going to places it wasn’t allocated (aka someone pocketing it), or is this just continuing to push right wing talking points? What are the chances that the real estate companies that wanted to buy up all of this “discount real estate”, and perhaps large financial companies funding them, just might be in the ear of Rights mouth pieces?

And audit afterwards should certainly be conducted as they should for all aid responses involving emergency funds, but we shouldn’t be withholding aid based on it. If something is found during the audit is when any issues should be addressed, not during a disaster. This is just Trump and his minions trying to make CA bend the knee, just like he did with NC during the hurricane/tornadoes spreading fake FEMA info.

Lucky for CA that soon Trump can deploy national guard to rake their forests like you’re supposed to if you don’t want fires like this. It’s just forest 101. /s

The problem with extremism is that today they may be on Trump’s/GOP’s side, and the Trump and the GOP think that’s great and look to exploit these individuals. The problem comes that at some point -

1. he (Trump) won’t live forever.
2. when a rabbit hole takes them in another conspiracy theory fueled direction.
3. someone covets the power enough that they make a move to remove/replace Trump.

This is just a few, but there are so many more bad outcomes that I’m certain the GOP has no plan on how to counter them.

Yes, but my point is that having empty units runs counter to the interests of landlords. Unless they can talk Trump’s regime into subsidizing them unhousing whole areas of people landlords still have a limit/ceiling on the amount of churn they can have and still rent units (make money).

It’s similar to the stories on Amazon not paying warehouse workers and working them like slaves, now their churn is so great they need to get robots because they are beginning to run out of bodies in areas.

Being a federated platform also gives admins of each instance control over how big they get and how fast. It also means that if someone goes wild and opens an instance to bots/Nazis in mass they will be de-federated by most instances cutting off the damage they can do.

I understand that, but at some point they will hit a number where people in the area can’t afford the 1st month (or more) down or even monthly payments. And landlords aren’t going to just start waiving the down payment or rent up front as this whole thing is about them using algorithms to maximize income. So there is a ceiling, but they can of course collude on what that is and all match that ceiling so that it’s the only option (which I assume is what happened here). If they can then cause turnover once tenants are in place by prices breaking that ceiling they can keep down payments for breaking lease, then drop the price back to that ceiling for the next victim, rinse and repeat.

Trump’s son in law and his father are slum lords, so no doubt this will only get worse.

Although at some point landlords have to realize the ceiling so that they can continue to rent units, because empty units is them losing money.

But we either need caps based on median income of the area, or some kind of renter collective that says nobody is going to pay rent on units in this area over $X price.

Ah good, about time we relaxed restrictions on hate speech directed at topics (groups) like immigrants and “gender” (aka LGBTQ+ and women). /s

This is doing what Zuck wanted anyway I’m sure, but also getting ahead of the GOP coming for all the “unfair to conservatives” deluge of shit coming at social media platforms very soon.

The largest issue in the US is that empathy is dying, and is constantly used as a weapon against good people as the Right condemns them for being “weak”.

The sad part is that they see being a bully and putting down others that should be allies as “strong”, all in a futile grasp for this dream of power unattainable for 99.999999% percent of people. They are never going to get the carrot, but are also determined to keep down as many like them as possible. If they could just come around to the idea of strength in numbers against those using wealth as a weapon to suppress the masses, we could fix a lot of issues more easily/quicker.

It’s Tim Apple you moron’s, duh! /s

Probably for most of the same reasons that IRC isn’t mentioned for fediverse chat, the main one being that they don’t use one of the newer federation protocols. They don’t talk the same federation protocol language, so you can’t really group them under the same category.

After being greeted by boos and yells of “loser” as he arrived at PubKey, a Bitcoin-themed watering hole near New York University in Greenwich Village, the former president was met with heavy applause from a mixture of self-identified Bitcoin enthusiasts and Trump supporters when he entered the dimly lit bar.

Trump @ NYC crypto bar

I would be curious if a commercial reminding people it’s flu season, or that the new COVID boosters are out would fall under this. As I don’t think banning reminders without a specific drug push is in the spirit of a ban like this, but then looking at who is proposing it gives me pause. And I know that the article mentions seniors seeing vax commercials to remind them, but it doesn’t 100% say if those are included or not.

Trump’s sons only had to explain the possibility to launder money and bribes through crypto for him to go all in and even create his own platform he has zero understanding of. The video of him trying to pay for a burger with crypto was amazing, the 2 owner guys had to essentially take his phone and do it themselves to make sure it was done right.

But the data mining is off the charts Bob! More AI! More server things! We must be ready for our robot overlords!

Stories like these make me lose all faith in men as a whole. We are just the worst. And distressing that this reminds me of the groups of dudes that have conferences all over the world where they tell each other “molestation stories” of little boys, which they say they “totally don’t do”. I forget their name and no way I’m going to Google it.

I feel bad for the kids of these antivax monsters that are going to allow their kids to get measles, or even worse Polio, and potentially suffer a lifetime of health issues based on junk “science”. That’s of course if they don’t die and/or spread it to others.