doubtingtammy

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[–] doubtingtammy@lemmy.ml 3 points 18 hours ago

That can't be it. Of course the foreign intelligence headquarters were built with all sorts of security in mind.

[–] doubtingtammy@lemmy.ml 25 points 1 day ago

Rabbi Shay Tahan, the Rosh Kollel of Shaarei Ezra in Brooklyn, NY, graciously opens the gates to understand them.

White dude from Brooklyn: "God promised me Lebanon"

[–] doubtingtammy@lemmy.ml 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

just think this is an incredibly irresponsible and flagrant way to phrase the title specifically. Data doesn’t support it, the sheer numbers don’t support it either. Like the actual number is 0.000004% percent of the US population have been sentenced to death, and executed in the US since 1976.

You've completely lost the plot, mate. Nobody is saying that a significant percent of the population is being executed.

How many people have been executed on Putin's orders? A hundred? So that's only like 0.00007% of the Russian population. no big deal then.

The VAST majority of that coming from the south.

I wonder why.

because we’re talking about a specific state, exercising independent rights over capital punishment,

Independent rights granted by the supreme court. AKA the federal government. The 9 robed, tenured individuals are part of the regime. You're just uncritically accepting the federalist society's position here.

Did you know there was once a moratorium on all executions in the US? But you seem to think of it as a natural law that Missouri has the right to execute whoever they please.

The title reads as if the “US government” (an entity, which is not an appropriate description) solely and single handedly murdered a guy

You're inferring way too much here. Nobody said or implied that the US federal government was solely responsible for this execution. When a headline reads that the Russian regime assassinated a political dissident, do you take the time to point out the federated nature of the Russian government? Would it matter that the evidence points more to an official act of the Dagestan government instead of a direct order from the Kremlin?

Obviously this isn't a perfect analogy. But the "US government" (the entity, which is an appropriate description) has given the greenlight for these executions. The supreme court has approved these punishments, and the executive and legislative branches have done nothing to prevent it.

[–] doubtingtammy@lemmy.ml 5 points 6 days ago

suddenly, that lone state speaks for an entire population of 330 million people.

When someone calls a government a "regime" they're usually implying that the government doesn't accurately reflect the will of the people.

[–] doubtingtammy@lemmy.ml 14 points 6 days ago (3 children)

this wouldn’t even be a regime at all judging by modern contemporary definitions.

I'd like to see the definition you're talking about. The dictionary definitions definitely fit. Sometimes the definition doesn't even have negative connotations. You're just offended because someone used a word reserved for enemies of the US to describe the US.

[–] doubtingtammy@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

This. (although I follow the directions here, which is a little more than apt install). The only thing I couldn't get on Debian stable is the latest gnome. But when I tried debian testing, it was slightly broken anyway. And gnome extensions could get most of the functionality missing in my older gnome version. Debian stable + flatpak + anaconda + adding repositories (like for firefox) is a perfect compromise.

What's nice about a stable distro is you can update the things you want to update, and your OS isn't constantly changing a million packages a week that you don't even know the function of.

[–] doubtingtammy@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I think that's why they included the "fuck you, official act" part.

[–] doubtingtammy@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Are there seriously no lemmy users on a Mac? Lol.

I use Debian.

[–] doubtingtammy@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 week ago

Gotta wonder how many state actors have been using it for years.

[–] doubtingtammy@lemmy.ml 91 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (4 children)

The passive (or exonerative) voice in that article is infuriating. Police tackle the suspect, but the bystander was just "shot in the head". By whom? Hard to say when you're licking boots.

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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by doubtingtammy@lemmy.ml to c/politics@lemmy.world
 

I did not have 'Pelosi takes on the gerontocracy' on my 2024 bingo card

One Pelosi ally said it was possible she would press Biden publicly to give up his spot atop the Democratic ticket.

“The speaker does not want to call on him to resign, but she will do everything in her power to make sure it happens,” this person said, referring to Biden quitting the race.

[Edit] changed the title to Politico's after reading this community's sidebar

 

Biden has done more to undermine the US empire in the last 8 months than Trump did in 4 years. Biden is exposing the contradictions of US empire in a way that Trump could never.

If Trump was president, then the mainstream narrative would be that the genocide in Gaza was simply because of Trump and Bibi's leadership. And you know what? Given how past presidents were able to rein in Israel when polite society started sympathizing with Palestinians, it would be believable. Instead, we get to see front and center, how a man that's been at the top echelons of us foreign policy for decades approves and supports genocide. This is the establishment's genocidal war.

In other words, Trump is perceived as an aberration, even when hes just continuing the same US foreign policy that weve been doing for decades. Moving the embassy to Jerusalem is still framed as entirely Trump's decision, even though he was just enacting a policy that Biden voted for in the 90s. And of course Biden did nothing to reverse that move, or even try to extract concessions to move peace talks forward.

Biden is damaging the "international rules-based order" in a way that would make Dick Cheney blush. Bush at least tried to put a veneer of international law on the criminal invasion of Iraq. But it appears the US and Israel are ready to burn the UN to the ground in order to carry out this genocide. Trump would be doing the same exact thing, except he would also serve as a scape goat for the liberal order (just get trump out of office, and we can go back to rule-following)

Don't get me wrong, they're both excellent accelerationist candidates. The world is watching two senile, hateful, egotistical vile men fight for control of the empire as the world burns.

 

I recently got a Sony prs 600 e reader from 2009. The battery is at the end of its life (It lasts about 3 days with heavy reading, and a couple weeks without reading). No backlight, no Wi-Fi, just an SD card that I can load epub files and small PDFs. The screen is slow and the contrast isn't the best. The "touch screen" is the old resistive type where you really need to press with your nail or a stylus. Despite all those flaws, it's fantastic. It's just good enough for reading books.

I read with large text so I don't even need to put on glasses, and it's easier to read than an actual book. Combined with Anna's archive, I'm reading more than I ever have before. No Wi-Fi nd slow screen make the experience feel closer to an actual book than a smartphone. It's great to just have a device do one thing without distractions popping up every minute.

It's all old technology, but it's so rare to see anyone with an e-reader. Probably because they're still expensive and designed to microtransact the fuck out of you.

So do you think there could be a simple open source e reader? I see pine64 is making the "pinenote", but it's still just the developer version, it's expensive, doesn't have an sd card, and looks like it's trying to be a lot more than an reader. Maybe it'll come down in cost, or they'll release a simpler version? The biggest obstacle for making an e-reader seems to be the screen, so maybe the pinenote's screen could become something of a standard.

Or maybe I'm overthinking it, because there's already so many old Kindles and nooks out there that could be improved with a new battery and maybe new firmware too.

Thoughts?

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Democracy rule (lemmy.ml)
submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by doubtingtammy@lemmy.ml to c/196@lemmy.blahaj.zone
 

I need y'all to understand: Biden isnt losing votes from the far left. He never had those votes, and could never get them.

He's losing the votes of Muslims and Arabs in Michigan and Philly. He's losing the votes of moderates who are watching Israel's final solution in horror. He's losing the votes of Latinos and Haitians who see the southern border is getting more militarized and more violent every year

[Edit] to be 100% clear: If you oppose Israel's war on Palestine, but plan on voting for Biden this November,this post isn't about you.

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