One thing I’ve wondered about is if the police that were part of the maga following have come to their senses AT ALL after having hundreds/thousands of people threaten them, beat them, etc when they were supposed to be “on the same side” during the January 6th nonsense.

So much of that uprising, protest, whatever you think it should be called, would’ve normally been squashed before people ever made it to the capital building if the police would’ve responded in a similar fashion to the many much smaller protests that came before it.

Fuck it we’ll fix it in the future.

I keep hearing that violence isn’t the answer but I swear it feels like… FOR LEGAL REASONS THIS IS SATIRE

The US government doesn’t care when its own citizens are being killed, why would they suddenly spring to action when Ukrainian citizens are being killed?

Maybe Ukrainians should start wearing kippah so Congress gets confused and sends them money and weapons.

/s but actually /exorcistvomit

Meanwhile, LOTR nerds:

The US is already fractured and much closer to a civil uprising and maybe a civil war than most people want to admit. Mass shootings that are often politically motivated happen nearly daily, as close to a non functioning Congress as you could get, and apparently anyone can say anything and claim they are correct regardless of facts.

Extremism has been ramping up for years, there’s nothing sudden about it. Welcome to ‘Who’s Country Is It Anyway?’ where everything’s made up and the points don’t matter.

He’s just pissy he wasn’t chosen as god emperor of the smoothies.

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Interesting.

First of all apparently ublock, no script, or some combination of my add-ons kept me from seeing the message and I’m able to view the entire article.

Even more interesting is this text at the end of the article-

This story was originally published by Grist, a nonprofit media organization covering climate, justice, and solutions.

So this source basically spun an article from Grist and put it behind their paywall.

Following the link from Scientific American, the first line of the Grist article is-

This story was co-published with WIRED.

It’s clowns the whole way down, yaaaaar.

You’ve been hacked. Pay 500 BTC to regain control of engines and landing gear.

Does anyone know what kind of timeline there might be before the pilots are trained to fly them? Is it something that might have an impact within days/weeks or is it going to be months before they can be used effectively?

My dyslexic ass

Next time just use your eyes, it’s faster.

I completely understand but normalizing and downplaying this behavior is how we got where we are now.

the government is really really sorry

What gives you that impression? They aren’t sorry, they’re upset people said “fuck you” just like prohibition.

We have a great tool to automate the automation.

We have the idea of a great tool. Right now we’re kind of square wheeling our way through it.

If it does I’m not aware of it but I’d love to learn of one.

It would be nice to have the option to not just block your data from being accessible to a 3rd party but also feedback junk data into the system. Pollute the data stream until it’s no longer useful to the powers that be while still retaining functionality for the user.

One can dream.

If I did that I’d feel obligated to remove the user accounts I’ve blocked from my list before posting it and frankly that isn’t worth the time or the trouble since I’d have to manually recheck all the accounts to see why I blocked them. No thanks lol.

I think it’s pretty easy to replicate what I did with minimal effort though. All I really did was change the ‘all’ page in my Lemmy app (Boost) sorting to the newest posts. It becomes obvious pretty quickly when a couple communities have 4+ most recent posts, by the same accounts, etc. Most of the bots that exclusively repost reddit content are very obvious with just a couple clicks.

Once I had the worst offending reddit reposters blocked I noticed certain community/instance/users were either spamming content I’ll never care about or were NSFW bots, or were too region specific, etc. so I blocked them too. I spent a day or two doing more blocking than browsing.

After that I changed the sorting on the ‘all’ page to active posts, which at that point was mostly posts by real people again. From there I’ve only had to block the odd account here and there like I would on any other social platform. Every so often I’ll notice a bot post that’s slipped through but if the community is active someone else has usually posted something similar that’s getting more interaction anyways, so I don’t feel like I’m missing out on much I’d be interested in or the stories that are actually newsworthy.

It took a couple weeks but I’ve found that blocking some bot accounts and adjusting the sorting on the app I use has plenty of fresh content with active posts. It isn’t exactly the same as reddit in its prime, but I shouldn’t expect it to be either.

It’s causing me to branch out into other topics and conversations that I probably would’ve missed on a gigantic platform like reddit. I think reddit made it easy to see interesting content because of how long it had to develop into a community. Lemmy is still a bit jumbled and fragmented, but the community seems to be sticking around and forming a new identity apart from reddit.

THERE ARE FOUR LIGHTS!!!