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PhilipTheBucket

@ PhilipTheBucket @ponder.cat

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  • All of you in this thread are fucking psychopaths

    Kalamata olives and similar little food objects are fine, they are often delicious

    Eating the rest of these unflavorful little saltpellets on purpose is a ridiculous thing though

  • Trump hopes to align with Netanyahu on Gaza war endgame during visit

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  • "Endgame"

  • Americans overestimate the size of minority groups and underestimate the size of most majority groups

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  • People just have no idea what numbers mean. And, look at how education works here, who could blame them?

  • Idaho bans ‘Everyone Is Welcome Here’ classroom signs, calling them ideological

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  • Q: What about that massive photo of Trump and the backpack checks for DEI literature

    A: That's fine why do you ask

  • Several in custody after North Texas police officer shot in neck outside ICE facility

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  • You can just read the article.

    ICE was doing their thing as they do, a group of people were doing something outside the facility, ICE called the local cops, and then someone from the group shot at the local cops when they came up to investigate.

    That's the official statement right now. Who knows whether it's accurate, but if it is accurate, then no, he wasn't acting as an ICE officer.

  • Elon Musk says he has formed a new U.S. political party, the 'America Party'

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  • Honestly this is a great and perfectly realistic outcome. Of course, assuming ICE doesn't just seize all the voting machines for the next election and Trump wins by 104% (which I think is a lot to ask at this point).

    If, somehow, we have free and fair elections coming up, then a splintered right from the bullshit Musk and Joe Rogan put together or whatever, and a splintered left because their constituents want them to stop making it legal to hunt Palestinians for sport, makes it perfectly sensible that the dinosaurs who run our government could declare that some form of post-19th-century voting system that would enable a little bit fairer outcome than FPTP is what's needed. And, when the dinosaurs want something to happen, it usually actually happens, without all this molasses speed when it is merely because of people dying or whatever the problem the regular people are having is.

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    Anyone fancy themselves a new community for those times when you need to appeal a wave of disapproval?

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  • Elon Musk announces plan to make 'America Party'

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  • Democrat politicians

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    We need a leader

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  • Elon Musk announces plan to make 'America Party'

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  • The problem is that with any type of FPTP system, any compelling leader outside the existing power structure will produce the opposite effect as their stated policies are.

    Something like Bernie Sanders trying to drag the Democrats over to some kind of human policy matrix is actually a realistic possibility, but it's definitely an uphill battle... but there is plenty of precedent on the right for a successful leader just hijacking and overriding the existing power structure and taking it in his own direction, it's definitely possible.

  • Anyone have the experience registering a domain name with false personal information?

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  • They definitely do check. I don't know how detailed the checks are or how major a crime it is to use someone else's info, but there are enough checks in place, you can't just type in Porky Pig or made-up nonsense or anything.

  • Elon Musk announces plan to make 'America Party'

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    1. Publicly funded elections
    2. End FPTP and enact a parliamentary system
    3. Better media that lets everyone know what's going on

    Lots of luck with any one of them, but that's the answer

  • ‘It’s too late’: David Suzuki says the fight against climate change is lost

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  • It's never lost completely. The sheer scale of the devastation means that every fraction of a degree might be a million people, or a whole species or ecosystem that survives into the rebuilding, versus dies off and gets replaced.

    But yes, it's going to be bad. Real bad.

  • The Mayor of Calgary, Canada, just received this warning letter

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  • Fixed ty

  • So someone put vertical text in a post title...

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  • For what other purpose does vertical text exist I ask you.

    "Forget your perfect offering. There is a crack, in everything. That's how the light gets in."

  • The Mayor of Calgary, Canada, just received this warning letter

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  • I hope she crumpled it up, then reconsidered, uncrumpled, took the photo, and then presumably recrumpled it before throwing it away.

    Edit: Regendered

  • Young Europeans losing faith in democracy, poll finds

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  • I knew it. I strongly suspected that the actual feeling "We love democracy and our country is losing its democracy and we don't like that" was being summarized as "we don't like democracy anymore" for whatever bullshit reasons, I guess I am sad but not surprised to hear it confirmed.

  • did my carrot turn into a sunflower

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  • Plants just do weird shit sometimes.

    I currently have a flower plant that is growing about a foot-and-a-half-long... tentacle out of the middle of one of its flowers, just hanging in space. What is it? I have absolutely no idea. It's just there.

  • Should Lemmy add a Modmail feature similar to Reddit's?

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  • Yeah, probably. The other side of "this is so badly needed why haven't you done it for us" is "if this is so badly needed why haven't any of the server admins or mods implemented it yet."

  • Should Lemmy add a Modmail feature similar to Reddit's?

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  • I feel like this is an example of how the core dev team running on an instance that basically just has 3 of the admins do more or less all the moderation for the entire site is not ideal. This type of feature is probably one of the most-requested pain points for most people who run most servers, but my guess is that it’s basically completely invisible to the .ml team why it would even be needed, because their model works fine for them, so why would they.

    Of course they’ve got a right to work or not work on whatever they want, but if their goal is success and good moderation for most servers this type of scalability and teamwork enabling thing is super important.

  • US News @ponder.cat
    PhilipTheBucket @ponder.cat

    Several injured, possibly with burns, in a Colorado attack the FBI is investigating as terrorism

    apnews.com /article/boulder-terror-attack-colorado-8af1b11734cbbe75c9945820a9b6684c
  • Trump Watch @lemm.ee
    PhilipTheBucket @ponder.cat

    List of 'sanctuary jurisdictions' removed from US government website

    www.independent.co.uk /news/trump-washington-department-of-homeland-security-kristi-noem-fox-news-b2761675.html
  • Trump Watch @lemm.ee
    PhilipTheBucket @ponder.cat

    As Trump comes after research, Forest Service scientists keep working

    grist.org /politics/as-trump-comes-after-research-forest-service-scientists-keep-working/
  • privacy @lemmy.ca
    PhilipTheBucket @ponder.cat

    A dystopian surveillance fear has become reality in Texas

    www.theguardian.com /commentisfree/2025/may/31/a-dystopian-surveillance-fear-has-become-reality-in-texas
  • US News @ponder.cat
    PhilipTheBucket @ponder.cat

    Billowing smoke from Canadian wildfires wafts into the U.S.

    www.npr.org /2025/05/30/nx-s1-5417913/canadian-wildfires-emergency-smoke-us
  • Trump Watch @lemm.ee
    PhilipTheBucket @ponder.cat

    American science put on starvation diet

    go.theregister.com /feed/www.theregister.com/2025/05/30/american_science_put_on_starvation/
  • Trump Watch @lemm.ee
    PhilipTheBucket @ponder.cat

    Inside the scramble to keep FEMA alive ahead of hurricane season

    www.nbcnews.com /politics/rcna209547
  • privacy @lemmy.ca
    PhilipTheBucket @ponder.cat

    A Third Party Travel Broker Is Selling Airplane Ticket Records To DHS, DOJ Components

    www.techdirt.com /2025/05/30/a-third-party-travel-broker-is-selling-airplane-ticket-records-to-dhs-doj-components/
  • Fuck AI @lemmy.world
    PhilipTheBucket @ponder.cat

    The Gmail app will now create AI summaries whether you want them or not

    arstechnica.com /google/2025/05/the-gmail-app-will-now-create-ai-summaries-whether-you-want-them-or-not/
  • Fuck AI @lemmy.world
    PhilipTheBucket @ponder.cat

    OpenAI Can Stop Pretending

    www.theatlantic.com /technology/archive/2025/05/openai-nonprofit-pbc/682979/
  • Europe @lemmy.dbzer0.com
    PhilipTheBucket @ponder.cat

    Germany eyes 10% digital tax on tech giants

    www.ft.com /content/39d4678d-a7e1-4fce-b8d8-eb799cfed3e6
  • Fuck AI @lemmy.world
    PhilipTheBucket @ponder.cat

    AI video just took a startling leap in realism. Are we doomed?

    arstechnica.com /ai/2025/05/ai-video-just-took-a-startling-leap-in-realism-are-we-doomed/
  • Fuck AI @lemmy.world
    PhilipTheBucket @ponder.cat

    Civitai Ban of Real People Content Deals Major Blow to the Nonconsensual AI Porn Ecosystem

    www.404media.co /civitai-ban-of-real-people-content-deals-major-blow-to-the-nonconsensual-ai-porn-ecosystem/
  • Trump Watch @lemm.ee
    PhilipTheBucket @ponder.cat

    The Reemergence of Social Darwinism

    robertreich.substack.com /p/the-reemergence-of-social-darwinism
  • Europe @lemmy.dbzer0.com
    PhilipTheBucket @ponder.cat

    European Commission: Make Europe Great Again for startups

    go.theregister.com /feed/www.theregister.com/2025/05/29/european_commission_wants_tech_startups/
  • Cybersecurity @sh.itjust.works
    PhilipTheBucket @ponder.cat

    Thousands of Asus routers are being hit with stealthy, persistent backdoors

    arstechnica.com /security/2025/05/thousands-of-asus-routers-are-being-hit-with-stealthy-persistent-backdoors/
  • Europe @lemmy.dbzer0.com
    PhilipTheBucket @ponder.cat

    If Germany sends Taurus missiles to Ukraine, Russia has a major Crimean Bridge problem

    kyivindependent.com /sending-taurus-to-ukraine-end-of-german-fear-and-escalation-angst
  • Europe @lemmy.dbzer0.com
    PhilipTheBucket @ponder.cat

    Projects in ex-colonies should count toward EU climate goal, Portugal says

    www.eenews.net /articles/projects-in-ex-colonies-should-count-toward-eu-climate-goal-portugal-says/
  • Climate Crisis, Biosphere & Societal Collapse @sopuli.xyz
    PhilipTheBucket @ponder.cat

    A Seabird Chick With 778 Pieces of Plastic in Its Body Shows How Bad Marine Pollution Has Gotten

    insideclimatenews.org /news/27052025/todays-climate-plastic-pollution-seabird-health-ocean/
  • Cybersecurity @sh.itjust.works
    PhilipTheBucket @ponder.cat

    Don't click on that Facebook ad for a text-to-AI-video tool

    go.theregister.com /feed/www.theregister.com/2025/05/27/fake_social_media_ads_ai_tool/