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  • Mamdani's youth support goes beyond New York. For many, he's now a national leader

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  • You CAN make a difference if you get involved on a local level and get active in your community.

    And this is the VERY key part. Local organizing almost always makes larger impacts, because most people, to be perfectly honest, don't give a shit about any form of organizing in their local community. It's easier to cast a ballot for a federal candidate, "chip in" (as all political fundraising emails love to overuse so fucking much while setting the default for every donation to like $50 or some bullshit after asking 20 times a week) a few bucks, and be done with it, than it is to walk down to every house over a few block radius and have a chat with any person who answers the door about a local candidate or policy.

    To use Zohran as an example, he's already gotten hundreds of thousands of votes, but as of one of his campaign's emails yesterday, got just 1,000 people to canvass today (a day they were trying to break the record for most doors knocked in a single day, which is meant to attract a large swath of anyone who wants to canvass for him).

    One person in a thousand canvassing for him is infinitely more impactful to the end result than one person voting by ballot.

  • Trump Is Very Confused About Nuclear Weapons | The president says he wants to resume nuclear testing but doesn’t seem to know why.

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  • "It's just a hurricane! What could it take to stop it? One nuke?"

  • Half the Country Sues Trump for Using Shutdown to Slash SNAP Funding

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  • I think what they're rightly pointing out is not that veterans deserve more than anyone else, but that veterans are often centered in political discussions on the right when discussing people that "deserve" anything for "free" that could help improve or even just maintain their lives, and that it's hypocritical to then effectively backtrack on that.

  • Got my invite

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  • I fucking hate that emojis of all things are now a sign of AI-generated text.

    Like come on, the ONE thing that's meant to better pass on human emotion and visually represent things in a more fun format just HAD to be co-opted and become so generic and AI-related that people, including me, don't trust it anymore.

  • LEARN YOU PIECE OF SHIT

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  • It's been doing it more and more for me on Futo as well as time has gone on, but I keep the app disconnected from the internet (GrapheneOS setting) so it shouldn't be impacted by anything other than training.

    It was happening even when I went a while without updating it.

    Something makes me think it might be a little self-reinforcing. You get a bad suggestion, you don't instantly correct it (e.g you press space and then go back to correct it), the app originally assumes you wanted the faulty change, doesn't backtrack after since you already pressed space)

    Maybe I should just turn down the effect or just disable training entirely and see if that changes anything.

  • "You exist to make money for us"

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  • This is what's so infuriating to me. There are so many policies we don't implement not because it would be a net negative even for the economy, but just because some people are too afraid of giving anyone a "handout" that they "don't deserve" or something.

  • a16z-Backed Startup Sells Thousands of ‘Synthetic Influencers’ to Manipulate Social Media as a Service

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  • And even if it's never political, so what?

    Someone uses it to promote a dangerous supplement, with thousands of fake, AI-generated videos of people taking it without issues, and suddenly a bunch of people buy it, take it, and suffer severe consequences, or even die.

    But good thing it's not gonna manipulate who you'd vote for amirite? Totally harmless! /s

  • Trump Administration Won’t Use Emergency Funds for Food Stamps During Shutdown

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  • And if they do, I have no doubt in my mind Trump will hold it up as an example for why we "don't need food stamps because private individuals will donate anyways" or something stupid like that.

  • Trump Administration Won’t Use Emergency Funds for Food Stamps During Shutdown

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  • "Fuck them poors" - Trump, probably

  • Load bearing Tupperware

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  • I can see why your account is marked with two red marks on PieFed for low reputation, because man do you come off confrontational.

    How many banks didn’t work? Which ones? You have a source?

    Search engines exist. Use them before acting as if I"m making shit up.

    The list of financial institutions that had issues, as far as I can tell from industry reporting and downdetector graphs, is Navy Federal Credit Union (15 million members), Truist (15 million customers), Chime (8-9 million customers), Venmo (60 million users), Ally Bank (10 million customers), and Lloyds Banking group (30 million customers).

    Assuming no overlap, that's nearly 140 million people that lost banking and money transfer access.

    Sounds like you’re just trying to exaggerate around an edge case that frankly isn’t the end of the world even if it were common for 4 hours a year

    The outage lasted for 15 hours in some cases, due to many AWS services recovering after the outage, yet having a backlog to work through, which took many more hours. Many services also depend on AWS in a manner where AWS coming back online doesn't instantaneously restart service. These systems are complex, and not every company that relied on them could instantly start back up the moment the main outage was resolved, let alone when many services were still marked as impacted for hours and hours later as they worked through their backlog.

    Why aren’t you blaming the bank for having redundancy outside a single DC? How many banks do you know if that were out susessfully using other providers that have a higher SLO/SLA?

    I also blame them for not having additional redundancy. I blame both them for not having a fallback, and AWS for allowing such a major outage to happen. Shockingly, more than one party can be at fault.

  • Load bearing Tupperware

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  • The outage also took down people's banks, which stopped many of them from doing things like buying groceries 💀

    I don't think saying it's good for us "touching grass" is a good argument here when AWS hosts such a substantial portion of all online services.

  • Talking to privileged people is often frustrating

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  • Oh no, it's actually almost always ignorance.

    And it's not even that they have everything handed to them in a literal sense (e.g. "here's a credit card with no limit") but that they are handed opportunities others would not get (e.g. "let me introduce you to my friend who's high up in x company/industry that could land you a job") and assume that it's due to their skill and not zip code and social circle.

    There is still something to be said for malice, and general unrelated entitlement though.

  • Asking the real questions

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  • And honestly, I'm sure it could be made less gaudy after the fact, and used as something other than a fucking gold-encrusted room to flaunt Trump's wealth and influence.

  • Judge tells Homeland Security that Chicago agents wearing body cameras was "not a suggestion"

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  • "b-b-but you don't understand! My system wouldn't publicize the data and would only keep it visible to a small group of... trusted employees, who could only see it with a court order! It's only a coincidence the people in charge of that team are also being paid by me!"

  • Pretty much every day someone parks their car on the tram tracks and blocks our city's tram network from operating

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  • Well obviously they shouldn't just ram it before even checking, but if someone goes up to it, sees nobody inside, knocks on the window, and nobody responds, they should absolutely have the ability to forcefully, even if it causes damage, move the car.

    Whether that's by ramming the tram itself into it (which I assume would require changes to the front for safety against damaging the tram itself) or by using some sort of tool that can push it (e.g. something that hooks onto the rails for grip and uses hydraulics to push the car out of the way), damage is acceptable if you decide your bad parking decisions are justified over every single tram rider's ability to get around, and a ton of money spent to move your car.

  • Pretty much every day someone parks their car on the tram tracks and blocks our city's tram network from operating

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  • Not controversial at all.

    It's already established law that firefighters can shatter the windows of your car and drag the fire hose through it if you park in front of a hydrant.

  • Pretty much every day someone parks their car on the tram tracks and blocks our city's tram network from operating

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  • Usually because otherwise there wouldn't be much space left for parking at all.

    In some places, these trams are gonna run through every major route, leaving no room for parking on smaller streets, and barely any parking that isn't next to tram rails on larger streets.

    If you want to have both trams and cars, then depending on the city, you might have no choice but to put parking spots there given the size of the inner-city roads.

  • Republicans mostly silent as millions of Americans protest Trump on No Kings day

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  • It counts as protest, but not sustained protest, which is usually a decisive factor for if a protest will succeed in affecting anything. Even if every employee of a company left for a day, if they all came back the next day and resumed working, it wouldn't be hard for the business to get back up and running, then just put systems in place to account for that in the future, but if those employees strike for months, suddenly all the business's systems begin to fail without maintenance, customers leave because of no service, and the business goes bankrupt.

  • Judge tells Homeland Security that Chicago agents wearing body cameras was "not a suggestion"

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  • If there's any one group of people in our society I'd support having always-on cameras, (like Larry Ellison, soon to be part owner of TikTok claims all people should have) it would be law enforcement agents.

    You do not get to wield that much power over people without personal sacrifice.

    "It's a violation of my privacy!"- you're on the job and have the power to ruin or even end someone's life. Deal with it. Privacy for the governed, not for the wielders of government power.