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  • Naz@sh.itjust.workstoMemes@lemmy.mlIn Authoritarian America...
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    1 day ago

    I live in NYC, and I read this story yesterday, and they didn’t shoot the guy for hopping the turnstile / not paying the $2.90, they chased him and tried to give him a $100-150 fine; but the guy lunged at them with a knife.

    The cops panicked and began firing because they don’t have H2H training, and their aim is obviously shit. It’s so shit, that I think they missed their taser shot as well before hitting random people in the crowd with their sidearms.

    Not defending the police but the meme’s a gross oversimplification. Those guys need more training and probably a suspension until they finish a full course of training, or a dismissal (or perhaps even up to and including manslaughter charges) depending on if the bystanders live or not.

    I wish shit like this wasn’t as common as it is. So many innocent people and dogs die each month due to police incompetence.









  • I voted for Jill once, and then she came out against vaccinations during the height of the Covid-19 pandemic and I realized she was an idiot.

    She’s as much green as she is dressed in green - just empty platitudes for people obsessed with the “sanctity of their body”.

    I’m still formally registered with both parties, but I get invited to vote in the Dem Primaries way more often

    We need actually competent third parties, just being on the fringe doesn’t make you competitive



  • Naz@sh.itjust.workstoMemes@lemmy.mlHow capitalism works
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    19 days ago

    they live like miserable gods preoccupied with escaping from reality

    It’s because they realize something as they age: For all their wealth, they are still mortal, their physical bodies will decline, and their egotistical, narcissistic lifetime will ultimately amount to absolutely nothing as they rot in the ground and cease existing like everyone else.

    Mortality puts things into perspective for those people because they’re driven by a philosophical imperative that’s borderline pathological in nature:

    Donald Trump watched the video of himself almost getting headshot on repeat, 9 times a day. Some said it was PTSD, but that’s assuming a lot.

    Elon Musk is quoted as saying in The Atlantic that he’s “rigged for war”.

    Well, what war? War against who? Against what?

    "Escaping from the matrix seems like “a war against reality itself”.

    We can only be so lucky that none of those fucks will ever attain apotheosis or immortality no matter how hard they try.

    Maybe that’s why they’re so bent on destroying the planet – if they can’t have it, so can’t you.





  • Yeah, it’s definitely a vibe. I took a wormhole (time travel) to 1991, walked into a blockbuster and keeled over from nostalgia.

    Nostalgia is such a complex/convoluted feeling – you can’t have it if you didn’t have a past to draw the experience from, but when you do have it, it’s almost like a religious or philosophical experience both acknowledging and becrying (or grieving) the passage of time.

    Unfortunately, even with a “time machine”, we the people who walk through the portals are ever changed. We won’t ever live in the past again. We can see those places and experience them in our present states, but…

    Just like a glass shattering on the ground and the pieces scattering: Entropy cannot be undone.



  • I learned this technique – we called it “cutting off the head of the snake”.

    Traffic moves like water, and becoming fluid and just rolling sometimes can kill traffic completely, I was on a stretch of bright red (5-10 mph) that began moving at 55 MPH after patiently rolling – there was no actual reason for the traffic jam.



  • Naz@sh.itjust.workstoFunny: Home of the Haha@lemmy.worldInteresting
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    1 month ago

    It’s funny because we’ve done this exact testing with the Facebook application on iOS by leaving my friend’s iPhone14 with the screen locked next to Telemundo (a Spanish only public television channel) for 24 hours. (Our primary language is Ukrainian)

    The next day, all of their ads were in Spanish.

    So I do think additional research is needed for certain, the polling rate might be not as granular as you mentioned, but intermittent anonymous data collection like “primary language” could very likely be done passively with minimal impact on battery life, and it may be permissions-based and operating system dependent.