Yes, you are correct, that's a very relevant correction. "Soon," they say.
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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.
“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.
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
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.
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.
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.
100% agreed. In my experience the two possible outcomes are:
- 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
- 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.
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.
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.
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.
Doom was actually a little before the 350nm era. Doom was like 386 and 486 timeframe; the first Pentium machines were being made when it was released, whereas 350nm was the Pentium Pro. So if they're working on 350nm, they're already ahead of Doom level hardware, hopefully.