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TimLovesTech

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Hi I'm Tim.

I'm AuDHD - officially diagnosed ADHD and self-diagnosed (for now) with ASD. I also suffer from a great deal of Imposter Syndrome.

  • Extremism in US military is ‘sleeping danger’ says author of Pentagon report

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  • The problem with extremism is that today they may be on Trump's/GOP's side, and the Trump and the GOP think that's great and look to exploit these individuals. The problem comes that at some point -

    1. he (Trump) won't live forever.
    2. when a rabbit hole takes them in another conspiracy theory fueled direction.
    3. someone covets the power enough that they make a move to remove/replace Trump.

    This is just a few, but there are so many more bad outcomes that I'm certain the GOP has no plan on how to counter them.

  • Making America great!

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  • They have been on a mission to destroy the public's perception of public education so that they get less pushback replacing it with for-profit private schools. It's the reason trans rights and LGBTQ+ issues in general are centered around schools, they are used as a "wedge issue" to push people further away from their best interests and closer to those looking to profit off education.

  • US Justice Department accuses six major landlords of scheming to keep rents high

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  • Yes, but my point is that having empty units runs counter to the interests of landlords. Unless they can talk Trump's regime into subsidizing them unhousing whole areas of people landlords still have a limit/ceiling on the amount of churn they can have and still rent units (make money).

    It's similar to the stories on Amazon not paying warehouse workers and working them like slaves, now their churn is so great they need to get robots because they are beginning to run out of bodies in areas.

  • Facebook Is Censoring 404 Media Stories About Facebook's Censorship

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  • Being a federated platform also gives admins of each instance control over how big they get and how fast. It also means that if someone goes wild and opens an instance to bots/Nazis in mass they will be de-federated by most instances cutting off the damage they can do.

  • US Justice Department accuses six major landlords of scheming to keep rents high

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  • I understand that, but at some point they will hit a number where people in the area can't afford the 1st month (or more) down or even monthly payments. And landlords aren't going to just start waiving the down payment or rent up front as this whole thing is about them using algorithms to maximize income. So there is a ceiling, but they can of course collude on what that is and all match that ceiling so that it's the only option (which I assume is what happened here). If they can then cause turnover once tenants are in place by prices breaking that ceiling they can keep down payments for breaking lease, then drop the price back to that ceiling for the next victim, rinse and repeat.

  • US Justice Department accuses six major landlords of scheming to keep rents high

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  • Trump's son in law and his father are slum lords, so no doubt this will only get worse.

  • US Justice Department accuses six major landlords of scheming to keep rents high

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  • Although at some point landlords have to realize the ceiling so that they can continue to rent units, because empty units is them losing money.

    But we either need caps based on median income of the area, or some kind of renter collective that says nobody is going to pay rent on units in this area over $X price.

  • Firefox 134.0 Release Notes

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  • It's probably as simple as Ecosia pays more than Startpage was willing to. Firefox has been bleeding money and it's a little frightening to see what was the open source browser struggle to right the ship.

  • Meta to get rid of factcheckers and recommend more political content

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  • Ah good, about time we relaxed restrictions on hate speech directed at topics (groups) like immigrants and "gender" (aka LGBTQ+ and women). /s

  • Removed

    Facebook, Instagram dump fact-checkers in favor of 'community notes,' Zuckerberg says.

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  • This is doing what Zuck wanted anyway I'm sure, but also getting ahead of the GOP coming for all the "unfair to conservatives" deluge of shit coming at social media platforms very soon.

  • US staggers into 2025 buffeted by week of attacks and looming political violence

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  • The largest issue in the US is that empathy is dying, and is constantly used as a weapon against good people as the Right condemns them for being "weak".

    The sad part is that they see being a bully and putting down others that should be allies as "strong", all in a futile grasp for this dream of power unattainable for 99.999999% percent of people. They are never going to get the carrot, but are also determined to keep down as many like them as possible. If they could just come around to the idea of strength in numbers against those using wealth as a weapon to suppress the masses, we could fix a lot of issues more easily/quicker.

  • Apple CEO Tim Cook donates $1 million to Trump inauguration

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  • It's Tim Apple you moron's, duh! /s

  • Lesser known federated service?

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  • Probably for most of the same reasons that IRC isn't mentioned for fediverse chat, the main one being that they don't use one of the newer federation protocols. They don't talk the same federation protocol language, so you can't really group them under the same category.

  • Trump loses appeal of E. Jean Carroll $5 million defamation verdict

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  • I'm pretty sure the interest stopped when he was able to meet the unjustly gifted reduced bond he needed to file his appeal.

  • Trump loses appeal of E. Jean Carroll $5 million defamation verdict

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  • Not sure how a state level civil defamation case would make it to the federal criminal level without bending the whole criminal justice system.

    From the DoJ website:

    NOTE: The Department of Justice has no authority to intervene in matters of state law. The Department of Justice can assume jurisdiction only when there has been a violation of federal law.

  • Trump surrounds himself with a tight-knit group of right-wing tech barons

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  • After being greeted by boos and yells of “loser” as he arrived at PubKey, a Bitcoin-themed watering hole near New York University in Greenwich Village, the former president was met with heavy applause from a mixture of self-identified Bitcoin enthusiasts and Trump supporters when he entered the dimly lit bar.

    Trump @ NYC crypto bar

  • Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wants to ban drug ads on TV. It wouldn’t be easy - West Hawaii Today

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  • I would be curious if a commercial reminding people it's flu season, or that the new COVID boosters are out would fall under this. As I don't think banning reminders without a specific drug push is in the spirit of a ban like this, but then looking at who is proposing it gives me pause. And I know that the article mentions seniors seeing vax commercials to remind them, but it doesn't 100% say if those are included or not.

  • Trump surrounds himself with a tight-knit group of right-wing tech barons

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  • Trump's sons only had to explain the possibility to launder money and bribes through crypto for him to go all in and even create his own platform he has zero understanding of. The video of him trying to pay for a burger with crypto was amazing, the 2 owner guys had to essentially take his phone and do it themselves to make sure it was done right.

  • Donald Trump’s transition team seeks to pull US out of WHO ‘on day one’

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  • I also believe there is a waiting period as well. Because I think he tried the same thing last time he was in office, but because it doesn't take effect immediately it didn't actually happen.

    And according this NPR piece in 2020 it looks like the waiting period is a year, so Trump was out of office before it would have taken effect.