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I am a time-traveling dolphin. An entity made of giant balls gave me the ability to breathe underwater, but this ability was recently stolen from me by aliens.

Sometimes I turn into a bird.

  • Judge blocks Trump from firing federal workers during government shutdown for now

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  • The Trump administration had warned that it would lay off workers during the shutdown, and President Donald Trump has repeatedly said that the cuts were aimed at “Democrat agencies” or initiatives.

    Hello CNBC?? You need to push back against this statement. Federal employees, until this administration, are nonpartisan. We pay the budgets of these departments through bills passed in bipartisan Congresses.

    The only department I can think of that's fully partisan right now is DOGE.

    Just say it: the Trump admin wants to cut services to the people of this nation (Park service, CDC, FDA, EPA, NASA, NOAA, .... etc)

  • IRS furloughs nearly half of its workforce due to government shutdown

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  • Furloughed IRS workers were told in a letter that they will receive back pay when the shutdown ends. That letter came a day after an internal draft memo suggested that the Trump administration might question its obligation to give back pay to some furloughed employees.

    Cnbc should have mentioned here that its probably against the law for federal workers to not get back pay due to a law passed in 2019 (also trump administration)

    wapo link

    It feels like major media companies are manufacturing consent for this by mentioning that memo repeatedly but not pushing back on it. Not even mentioning the legality of it.

  • 'Disbelief': Pentagon reporter can't find one military official who liked Hegseth's speech

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  • He's talking about getting rid of military members who can't shave due to medical reasons.

    context

    People with curly hair can have ingrown hairs from shaving. Most people with no shave chits are black.

    Don't let him trick you into thinking this speech is just stupid. Its stupid, but he's also trying to give generals plausible deniability to remove minority military members and women.

  • Pete Hegseth tells top generals "prepare for war"

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  • Minorities too. There's a reason he was harping on shaving standards. Some people with curly hair get ingrown hairs when they shave every day. Causes infection and scarring. You can get a "no shave chit" - medical can excuse you from needing to be clean shaven.

    Its mostly black men with these chits.

    He's trying to give anyone who wants one an excuse to remove any one who isn't white enough (and male) from serving.

  • Selective rage

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  • She, famously, has no idea how humans live. She is culturally distinct from the Europeans on the coast.

    She has more in common with the fish that she speaks to. She's basically a magic dolphin.

    Meanwhile, the people in the OP image are humans (to my knowledge, I'm not a nerd). Humans who have lived in the human world with human pasts full of human culture which give context to their characterization. I'm sure their background stories matter to their fans.

    Nobody argues about what color the scales on Ariel's tail should be.

  • It's only funny when I do it

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  • Sure but she didn't, she's not in the meme I'm critiqueing. I wouldn't have that complaint about that situation. I'd have other complaints, if I wasn't completely drowned in a bottle or something

  • It's only funny when I do it

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  • George Floyd and Trayvon Martin were ordinary citizens living their lives, whose deaths were linked to (and probably caused by) oppression and racism. They never wanted national attention, certainly not for this.

    Kirk was a propagandist whose speech contributed to the environment of political divisiveness, bigotry and intolerance. He was a public figure who thrived on the controversy caused by his hateful speech.

    I can't upvote this meme, it feels like false equivalence (I agree with the sentiment, though, it just... they don't care if they're being hypocritical. That's their game).

  • Post truth world

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  • You responded to someone pointing out there is no evidence provided for the image in the OP (saying he is a groyper) with more non-evidence. That's why I replied to you. You're not really on-topic in the context of that conversation. I've done that before, tbh.

    I read all of your comment, none of it was relevant tbh. Yes, I did pick out the most outrageous thing you said. It was outrageous after all. I could have picked apart every sentence, but I didn't want to do that, and nobody wants their words dissected like that. Its not nice.

    Your larger opinions on the Utah area do not change what this guy actually believes. You might be right. You might be wrong. All of this is speculation. That's my point, and that's the point of the person you are originally replying to.

    I never said posting from ML was good or bad, just pointing out they are leftist, as am I. I'm not interested in debating the goodness/badness/whatever of Lemmy.ml, I'm just stating facts.

    Anyway, I hope your day is going well.

  • Post truth world

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  • The kid was born in crackerstan. Non-Republican’s there are about as common as non-whites.

    this is demographics, not evidence.

    He’s the result of a long-term breeding experiment that investigates what would happen if you concentrated all the most gullible/ignorant people into a single space.

    ???

    Rest of post is a screed about how you don't like Utah. Not evidence.

    I have seen no evidence either way this guy was a leftist, or a groyper, or anything. People out there WISH he was something so they can wrap this whole thing up and explain it away, without acknowledging that people with fulfilling lives and hopeful futures don't do things like this.

    His whole family are sympathizers for the fascists

    So are mine, and here I am, posting on lemmy.ml

    Slow your roll. Post evidence or stop muddying the waters.

  • US senators say 'America complicit' in ethnic cleansing of Palestinians after Israel visit

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  • They acknowledged that the campaign of destruction included the destruction or damage of 92 percent of housing units, 94 percent of the enclave's hospitals, 92 percent of schools and university buildings, and 86 percent of water and sanitation facilities.

    I'm trying not to be a pessimist about this, but if only we had senators willing to call this genocide before so much destruction has already been done. So many of us are unwilling to call something a genocide until hundreds of thousands have died.

    This report might be entirely ignored since these are Democratic senators.

    Large USA media outlets are too focused on the death of a hatemongering podcaster to even report on this. I tried looking for articles from larger media outlets, and I only found an article from The Guardian (UK) and an MSN article... really wasn't expecting to see an MSN result.

    Focusing on the death of one hatemongerer while our government supports genocide... we do live in a violent society.

  • same as it ever was

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  • It's a whole genre!

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  • the only good Adam Sandler movie is uncut gems

    its a good movie, he is cast perfectly, and he gets punched in the face

  • Peter Thiel is delivering 4 private sold-out lectures at a club in San Francisco—about the Antichrist

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  • He named his technology company after a wizard pondering orb wiretapped by LOTR-satan.

    Im sure theres some great jokes here but I don't have anything snarky to say about it, I'm just tired.

  • Google: 'Your $1000 phone needs our permission to install apps now'". Android users are screwed - Louis Rossmann

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  • Tbh I'm not even sure the app is breaking any laws at all. Reporting on the presence of law enforcement is (not always but sometimes) protected speech here. I don't use the app, and I haven't heard that they are trying to arrest anyone in regards to it.

    Honestly though... Have you thought through everything you're saying? Sheltering Jewish people during the holocaust was illegal in Germany.

    Anyway, have a nice day, those are my thoughts.

  • Google: 'Your $1000 phone needs our permission to install apps now'". Android users are screwed - Louis Rossmann

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  • I don't want to drag this conversation into American politics, but I will say ICE has been doing things against USA law. Things are not great here. Even noncitizens have rights that need to be respected, and ICE is failing to do that. They have also arrested lawful residents, citizens too, in their sweeps.

    The ICE tracker app is a protest app/ direct action sort of thing, not a tool for criminality. Surely you can see the value of being able to use technology to resist a tyrannical government?

    By the way, do you want the USA government to potentially control which software can be installed on your phone? Google is an American company. USA courts could decide (international company) is violating (American IP law or something else) and instruct Google to disallow their app from being installed entirely.

    They can pull apps off the app store now, and they do that, but currently you can still side load stuff.

  • Google: 'Your $1000 phone needs our permission to install apps now'". Android users are screwed - Louis Rossmann

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  • I think that other guy's comment about the ICE tracker app really highlights the most important problem: If only signed apps can run, governments can pressure companies to remove access to certain apps. Even if Google allowed posting the app, the author would have to de-anonymize himself, and Google would have to comply with the law if they were subpoenaed. They would definitely give up the author's name. It is an issue of freedom, freedom of speech, freedom to do with your device what you choose to do with it. You might not have a use for it (right now) but it's not necessarily something you'd want to give up.

    And, honestly, I would personally be affected by this, eventually. I use an app called NewPipe to watch youtube. It already isn't available on the app store (violates google's ToS), and I doubt they'd let people install this even if the author properly identified themselves, because I use it to avoid watching adds and to be able to "subscribe" to channels without an account. I could just borrow my husband's premium subscription, I guess, but I really only use NewPipe to watch certain things, and it lacks the algorithmically driven feed (which I am actively avoiding, Google tends to suggest things that make you angry for clicks).

  • Nestle abruptly removes CEO Freixe over undisclosed relationship with subordinate

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  • Google: 'Your $1000 phone needs our permission to install apps now'". Android users are screwed - Louis Rossmann

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  • As a user, you should be upset that a private company is controlling how you are allowed to use your device that you paid for with your money.

    This would be like if Microsoft decided you could only run Microsoft-approved code on a computer you purchased, in some cases with a locked bootloader so you can't even change your OS.

    Also, Google is (imho) already operating unethically when it comes to the app store (See Google v. Epic). I don't care about Fortnite, but Google really shouldn't be able to take a cut of random services just because it's running on Android.

  • A prominent carnivore dieter is promoted to moderator of !publichealth

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  • Oh... I thought I was losing my mind talking to this person earlier.

    Oh well.

  • A Deal You Cannot Refuse

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  • Nobody is suggesting a model in which you don't work and still get stuff...

    Labor is entitled to all it creates.