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Ecco the dolphin

@ echolalia @lemmy.ml

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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.

  • CAPTCHAs are 'a tracking cookie farm for profit that made us spend 819 billion hours clicking to generate nearly $1 trillion for Google

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  • I'm not a website administrator so I'm out of the loop. Other ways to manage bots? Like what?

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    Welcome ex-Redditors!

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  • Everyone knows those rules don't apply when youre dunking on the instances with opinions outside of the US state department's approved overton window.

  • Elon Musk has control of federal servers — and, yes, Hillary Clinton has something to say about that

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  • Hmm gee why would anyone post articles that are vaguely negative about the Democratic establishment. Right now they're fighting the blatent corruption going on in our country by doing:

    Don't forget all the things they did to protect federal workers like:

    But of course you can't forget the ways they got popular policy enacted when their man was in office. Policy like:

  • Democratic Senator Says He Will Stall Trump Nominees Until USAID Is Back | Schatz said he would hold up Trump’s diplomatic confirmations

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  • There's an avian flu epidemic forcing the culling of birds. Should we save the CDC/USDA/FDA? Nah, silence from the democratic party.

    There have been terrible airplane accidents. Should we get more staff for ATC and make sure the FAA has a director in a time of crisis? Nah, silence

    Should we allow anti-intellectuals and political agents police the language of science? Should we stop them from purging completed projects and scholarly papers? Nah, silence

    Should we do something about a madman firing 12 inspector generals without following process? Nah, silence

    Anything to protect career civil servants, keeping our government running and providing services to the people? Nah, silence.

    But the CIA front is where we draw the line.

  • surprise ending

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  • RFK Jr. and Bernie Sanders get into screaming match over Big Pharma

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  • yea honestly? it's funny as fuck, legendary prank. Oh no a dead bear in central park oh noooooo

    Hear me out: what actually troubles me is his opinions about vaccines. Strange take, I know.

  • Federal workers decry Trump attempt to force mass resignations as ‘cruel joke’

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  • These are public service workers who are having their jobs taken from them. People are losing pentions. Some departments will have all employees laid off and remain in name only (because it takes an act of congress to disband some departments)

    Think of who maintains your parks. Think of who provided nessisary demographics and statistics to businesses and universities. Think of who runs GPS and weather satilites. Think of who tests your water and air. Who tests your produce, meat and drugs. The IRS got this letter as well. Their "customer service" branch is probably getting the axe. Who will you call if your tax return is stolen?

    The reality is life will worsen for the average American due to these layoffs. This is a rug pull on the public by the billionaire class.

  • Federal workers decry Trump attempt to force mass resignations as ‘cruel joke’

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  • They didn't send it to the secret service or the boarder patrol or ICE. I think also the post office didn't get the letter.

    I wish there was some shaudenfruede to be had, but there is none.

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  • Multiverse

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  • huh

    isn't this just Russell's paradox

    wikipedia

    if I recall correctly Russell's Paradox was how ZFC set theory became the standard set theory

  • Gimme some evidence that anyone at all in the government is pushing back on Trump with any effectiveness at all. Someone throw me a bone here. 😬

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  • The first day of his inaguration, Trump put forth an executive order that will attempt to make all federal employees Schedule F, basically, the same protections as a political appointee instead of a civil servant. This will make them basically at will employees.

    DunkinCoder is correct they are also making it really awful to work for the federal government with RTO and freezing of funding. And the hiring freeze. But it's not the complete picture, its actually much worse.

    There will be court cases with federal employees trying to keep their jobs. I suspect they will fail, due to how the courts are republican controlled right now. The firings haven't started yet. Expect them soon. There will be loyalty tests. There's an email floating around asking federal employees to rat on "DEI hires", whatever that is. Are minorities that are actually entirely qualified for their federal position a "DEI hire"? Do you get fired if you don't pretend that they are?

    Edit - article: link

  • how

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  • Sorry, I left the door open and it got out.

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  • All federal employees have been reclassified to political employees instead of nonpartisan civil servants, meaning they are closer to at will employees.

    This has never happened before.

    All federal employees now serve at the will of the party in power. There will be loyalty tests. There will be entire departments defunded and dismantled.

    They are reviewing social media posts as we speak to decide who to keep. That's right, that includes folks at the CDC, FDA, EPA..... every paperwork jockey, no matter how minor their position, is now subject to the whims at the party in power in a way they were not before.

    All these firings will be contested. They'll go to the courts. Say... Who owns the courts right now?

    You have no idea what is happening. The purges begin 90 days from now.

  • How do/would you stream from Jellyfin to a TV?

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  • This is how I do it. I don't recommend roku though, its covered in ads and it crashes sometimes and requires reboot (Amazon app, not jellyfin)

    I'm not purchasing another.

    Yes I have a pihole for the ads. The thing is always trying to radio home.

  • This is the most insidious yet obvious expression of US propaganda for a hot second

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  • Everyone is saying this is propaganda. I think its possible there's an even stupider reason.

    Trump is so nakedly easy to manipulate sometimes. This might be the ego fluffing he needs to reverse the ban.

  • Proton is dead (for me). Let's collect and discuss alternatives! ✊🛡

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  • Trump's terrible politics aside:

    1. the Republican party is pushing legislation which requires you to identify yourself to view porn
    2. you can get around this with a VPN
    3. proton is a VPN (nonprofit, but still).

    I'll be switching email providers when I can... I can't remember when my subscription ends.

  • SEC Writes Off $10 Billion in Fines It Can’t Collect

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  • If I stole $62 million dollars (fta, Bilzerian owes this as his original amount), I'd be thrown in jail.

    They've let this guy dick around for 31 years and haven't gotten the public's money back.

    The USA has extradition with St Kitts and Nevis as far as I can tell. Running away to a tax shelter island (a British commonwealth, for fucks sake) shouldn't be enough for the USA to shrug it's sholders and give up.

    The capitalist class plays by different rules. Don't let them get away with excuses like this.

  • These dames wanting inclusivity

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  • Do you fuck dudes?

    I don't, I'm married

  • Instance banned from awful.systems for debating the groupthink

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  • I didn’t check the instance rules

    Mistakes happen, but it is on you.

    I don’t care enough to beg for readmission.

    But you do care enough to type words and words and words somewhere else, no?

    I’m just pointing out that they are being weird

    I politely disagree. What you're viewing as mechanical censorship is just community curation to them. Part of "power tripping" implies they are abusing power, and I don't see them preventing you from participating with anything you appreciate. There's plenty of other AI communities on lemmy.

    In summary, a comic: