A long time ago in my country there was a minor scandal with a mid-level government employee sending about $1 million dollars to an obviously fake firm to purchase equipment. The website was made earlier in the year. The site was a thin veneer, with a few incomplete product documents.

The money was never recovered. Nobody was ever held responsible. A million dollars of tax payer money disappeared into somebody’s pocket just like that.

Every major US network was showing the return splashdown. Just cause you’re not looking where others are looking doesn’t mean it’s not there.

Anyone remember Dr. John Campbell on Youtube. He got popular by posting videos during COVID. Then veered off into full blown anti-vax conspiracies.

He’s a “doctor” because he has a PhD in making Youtube videos. No, seriously. His doctorate thesis is based on using Youtube as a teaching method. He’s not a real medical doctor.

His bullshit antics prompted actual doctors and scientistics to regularly post their own videos response.

I’m in one of the data annotation projects for this. It’s a dumpster fire.

It’s one of the reasons I still keep a few reddit accounts but I’ve come to the same conclusions. Nobody listens. They’d rather mental gymnastic their way around the contradictions before their very eyes than see the plain truth that reddit is a hive of right wing troll jobs.

The last point hasn’t actually happened.

Academia is rife with bigots. This is an example of Horseshoe Theory in real life. They’re pigeonholed into their narrow track in life that they haven’t spared much thought for other topics. Not all that different from someone who is uneducated and ignorant.

They over-estimate their proficiency in other areas by assuming because they’ve studied hard at one thing, they must be good at anything. At best they know of the concepts of the -isms and repeat the right words when prompted to do so. But catch them in a moment such as this and all is revealed.

The internet is historically like this on account of it leaning towards the academically privileged classes of the world. People conflate socially maligned behaviors with education and professional status.

All you’ve done is reinforce that point. Because she is a scientist or because another person is a lawyer they are less deserving of this behavior??? As if a less privileged woman would be. You conveniently weaved your narrative around this. Education and class are inextricably linked.

This could be a blessing in disguise. He called Biden a retard on Monday. He’s now upped the threats a notch.

Could be he got some very bad health news from Walter Reed medical over the weekend.

The internet is and always has been toxic. At least on lemmy, there’s some people who remember what trolling is and recognize it. On reddit and the other platforms, the traditional internetisms are non-existent. People seem to be born yesterday. They have no concept of trolling or flamebait and the like. They take everything at face value and respond to bait with naivety.

The revolution doesn’t start until the internet comments are just right.

Boomers no longer have the majority voting power. You can stop this any time.

Standard US tech industry. Copy and steal in a mad dash to monopolize the market. Sue everyone else into oblivion. Crown yourself the inventor and the winner.

America was isolationist until they were dragged kicking and screaming into the war. Churchill was regularly crossing the Atlantic to beg Roosevelt to try to garner enough support to join the war. The American people did not care. The majority were against joining the war.

All the same today, The majority of Americans either support MAGA or are indifferent. Short of some great personal injury such as a Pearl Harbor type event, Americans will continue to be as they are.

The idea that Americans were anti-fascist heroes is propaganda. They were only angry that they got got by Japan.

Search public housing projects america. You’ll find similar photographs.

The difference was hundreds of MB, but when you’re working with 8GB every bit counts. At that time KDE had an edge over Gnome. At some point the difference wasn’t there anymore.

I was rationing what software I had open so as to avoid hitting swap because that’s when there’s a noticeable lag. Gnome was worse at recovering from that.

It hasn’t been for at least 10 years. the_donald was some how memoryholed. The chuds broke r/all 10 years ago.

Nobody remembers. Maybe anybody who knows has already washed themselves of the reddit mess a long time ago. All that’s left are the chuds acting in bad faith who lie their ass off to craft their alt-reality.

8GB was barely enough 10 years ago. That’s when I switched to Arch+KDE. Then KDE started using more. memory.

The difference in attitudes from a decade ago is 180 degrees backwards. Young people and academics are where revolutions begin or end. Those people have been demoralized and pacified.

He’s not leaving in 4 years.

The damage is done. Unless there’s a sudden reversal of cultural attitudes, the US has given up. The only way I see this happening is if the space race sparks another push for STEM.

Like, actual STEM. It seems like nobody has noticed but all anybody has cared about anymore is watching the stock market go up. It’s no longer about the pursuit of science and technology but how that can be used to make money.

They need to land some people on the moon again. Make it a big deal about sci-fi type shit. Orbit space stations around the Earth and the moon. Make it a daily life kind of thing that the population can get engaged with.

It’s apparent that people are weary of technology anymore cause all we’ve had is brain rot designed to extract value from us. People need to see science and technology as something hopeful again.