This is very much it.
I'm not trying to dismiss OP either. I'm glad they finally notice. But for a huge population of the world, it's ALWAYS been there. There's been a lot of evil shit. It's just it was never on their doorstep until now.
But this isn't a "The world is all doom and gloom".
There is a significant amount of positive upswings. Looking in the past 10,000 years, we are absolutely in a better era. We can make jokes and shit post about it, but the average person's quality of life back then no where matched what we are doing today. We tend to be relatively safe. We can get a variety of food anywhere.
Humans unfortunately only have a small window of time and don't see it, but there's a lot of good in the past hundred years.
Salute you. It's about letting people know there's resistance
"DEMANDS"
Allies and friends don't make demands. US can fuck right off.
Very cool. Now it just needs to drop in price.
I'm willing to wait for it to hit under $20
I have friends who are in scientific research and 100% of them from multiple institutions are affected by Trump. Every single one.
One is out of a job in early Jan. The others over the next 3 months. It's really bad.
I held onto Windows 7 even a year or two past so-called the EOL. I had a pretty powerful rig and I wasn't going to pay money to upgrade. Then I think Microsoft just gave Windows 8 for free?
I finally got on Windows 10 when I bought a premade gaming computer. Still not upgrading.
I blame all the satire.
It didn't just go over their heads, they took it as truth and ran with it.
You know, I didn't pick up that he was pointing that out too. George Carlin still hitting us from the grave.
American here. Maybe I'm going through the five stages of grief and now I'm at acceptance.
Everything in your first paragraph sounds accurate and maybe something that probably needed to happen. America as the World Police is/has been a problem. There were some positives, but a lot of negatives.
The sooner America gets off the stage, the better. We don't deserve the recognition. We can't even feed our own people and yet wield tremendous influence internationally, and maybe it's a positive thing that it ends soon.
At age 17, I remember running 2 miles to school and then back home so I can save my bus money. I was also playing sports, doing some heavy lifting then repeating it over and over again.
Now I walk a few blocks and I'm like "Enough exercise for today!"
I went to a small town recently and this was it.
The small "boutique" shop absolutely has a Karen-looking gal who was selling things from Temu but with her sticker on it.
Real sad state.
Well I mean, it's usually one company making 23 bagel flavors. Look at toothpaste. There's Colgate and then 15 Colgate variants. But if we go higher, the parent company owns 2-5 toothpaste beands, and those toothpaste brands have multiple variants.
And then we go even higher, and those parent companies are actually owned by the same group of people.
I mean if we want to get real about it, do we really want that fake choice either?
I like that a lot. Don't know if it was a expensive concert but I like going to shows where the ticket price is cheap, and the musicians tell people it's a work in progress.
It's weird. I saw Wheatus perform recently and he did a bunch of songs I wasn't familiar with. Then he played his most famous song, "Teenage Dirtbag", that they made in like 2000.
The band is like grandparents age, singing a song about teenagers. And it was incredible.
I'm sure it's some psychology name to it.
Thinking through it from my perspective, it's because we put up barriers with anything new.
First thought: "Does this fit with what I know this musician for?"
Second thought: "Does this hit the vibe or energy I want?"
Third thought: "What is the hook or thing that makes it memorable?"
If any of them fail, I immediately feel disgusted. Not to say I won't change my mind.
I like this comment because you can put it under anything.
It's such a nothing comment; the only side it picks is that the commenter posting it is better than everyone else, and wants to invite argument for arguments sake.
Can't put my finger on it, but it's very "Twitter bot"-esque.
Serial “swatter” behind 375 violent hoaxes targeted his own home to look like a victim - Ars Technica
He now faces four years in federal prison.
Summary
Alan Filion, an 18-year-old from California, was sentenced to four years in federal prison for orchestrating 375 swatting incidents between August 2022 and January 2024. Operating under various aliases, Filion charged clients for making false emergency calls that prompted significant police responses. His hoaxes included threats of school shootings and bombings, targeting institutions across the U.S., U.K., and Canada. Despite being questioned by the FBI in July 2023, he continued his activities until his arrest in January 2024, where he pled guilty to multiple charges.
A project called "Remove-DEI" shows the tweaks used to remove "forbidden words" from a database about childhood school readiness.
A project called "Remove-DEI" shows the tweaks used to remove "forbidden words" from a database about childhood school readiness.
The updates, shown in Github commits, are to a database for the Department of Health and Human Services’ Head Start program. They show a project called “Remove-DEI,” which reveal some of the back-and-forth that is happening behind the scenes to align federal agencies with Donald Trump’s executive orders that forbid almost anything having to do with race or gender within federal agencies. The Github pages show software engineers discussing amongst themselves how to best remove all instances of “forbidden words” from a specific database, and the code updates they used to do it. The changes also show that, while thousands of government datasets are disappearing from the internet, even ones that remain are having parts of their utility deprecated or broken in a way that may not be visible to those outside the government.
Far-right users of X (formerly Twitter) are singling out individual Activision Blizzard employees for comments made in support of DEI and inclusion at the company.
Amid ’90-hours work week’ row, GenZ employees are opting ‘career catfishing’; here’s all about it
The new phenomenon involves Gen Z employees accepting job offers but not showing up on their first day without informing their employers.
Georgia reports measles case in metro Atlanta patient who’d been traveling in U.S.
An unvaccinated metro Atlanta resident has tested positive for measles, the first case in Georgia this year of one of the most contagious vaccine-preventable diseases.
