Ulvain

joined 2 years ago
[–] Ulvain@sh.itjust.works 9 points 4 hours ago

There we go, fixed that for you

[–] Ulvain@sh.itjust.works 84 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Aah, yes BUUUUT, Aaron did it to help his fellow humans, whereas Yuckerberg is doing it to enrich billionaires, it's not comparable!

[–] Ulvain@sh.itjust.works 7 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Well, if they wanted their ad campaign to go viral, it is one way...

[–] Ulvain@sh.itjust.works 9 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

Reiterating what i wrote in another thread:

"She's the daughter of Robert Maxwell, who was believed to be a spy (and apparently potentially a double or triple agent), so I wouldn't be surprised if she's trained in spycraft, in which case she likely has a dead man's switch folder, to be released upon her death to various newspapers, which would explain why she hasn't been murdered yet..

Just my speculations!"

And

"[IMO] they're just negotiating the list of names she'll drop? It'll likely be Trump's equivalent to Saddam Hussein's 1979 Ba'ath Party Purge"

[–] Ulvain@sh.itjust.works 1 points 19 hours ago

Certainly wasn't meant to be obnoxious, I just wanted to point out the underlying issue... 🤷‍♂️

[–] Ulvain@sh.itjust.works 19 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Pretty big miss to not include Quebec in the "essence" category, or at least to do a striped pattern

[–] Ulvain@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 day ago (3 children)

It's not suburbanization and the automobile, it's a political system based on money-for-access and lobbying, where whichever entity has more money always gradually gets laws and habits changed in a way that advantages them, inexorably.

Large scale long term societal enshittification as a mathematically unavoidable by-product of unfettered capitalism.

[–] Ulvain@sh.itjust.works 30 points 1 day ago

I'll take "Trump related suicides that arise suspicion" for 500, Alex

[–] Ulvain@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago

Lol ok ok i might start being paranoid 😅

[–] Ulvain@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Dude, the user above might be a person, but that answer they gave you looked ai generated af. It even has the infamous long dash...

[–] Ulvain@sh.itjust.works 24 points 1 day ago (12 children)

You're forgetting something: laws and constitutions don't matter unless those in charge of enforcing it agree with it.

Enforcing laws, the Constitution, judgements from judges - all that is done by the executive.

When there's a fascist corrupt executive function, you get selective enforcement and convenient ignoring of parts of the law, serving the double effect of 1) keeping the corrupt executive in power and in control and 2) discrediting the institutions, furthering the corruption.

Yay.

[–] Ulvain@sh.itjust.works 26 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I remember reading a fascinating article (or Reddit post, at the time when those were sometimes awesome) from this guy interviewing his mom, a COBOL programmer... Wondering if it's related...

Update: found it but it was deleted

Update: found it on the waybackmachine: https://web.archive.org/web/20160719020302/https://medium.com/@Svenskunganka/interviewing-my-mother-a-mainframe-cobol-programmer-c693d40d88f7#.kiw240b6p

 

It looked a bit bumblebee-like while flying, but much less so once it landed.. black and orange abdomen, but black and yellow thorax (a bit fuzzy). A good 2cm (almsot 1 inch) long.

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