burn it all down.

we don’t need these cameras and tracking systems everywhere all the time. they don’t make anyone “safer”.

you can also tag people on Lemmy, or at least I can. look for the About User menu then “Add Tag” or “Tag user” from their profile

I’m extremely skeptical corningware contains lead which can come off… it’s sealed, ultra hard ceramic. that’s not how people have historically gotten lead contamination. there’s probably more lead in the soil in their front yard than in every piece of corningware in the house…

please don’t destroy these, just donate them to a thrift shop so sensible folks can use them as intended. many of those vintage ceramics are collectibles, more importantly they are infinity reusable.

i think tik tok might be in a position where they must sell in order to continue serving content to American users

https://apnews.com/article/trump-tiktok-china-bytedance-social-media-tariffs-665e46fd5bb555e97c4d7301e07230df

The order was announced as White House officials believed they were nearing a deal for the app’s operations to be spun off into a new company based in the U.S. and owned and operated by a majority of American investors,

the extension only happened because after the TikTok CEO, Shou Chew, threw a big party for right wing influencers during Trump’s record breaking $200M bribe acceptance party inauguration, Trump mysteriously halted the order (despite being signed into law) to ban the app.

from the article:

Top TikTok executives reportedly rubbed shoulders with American tech leaders and handed out business cards at an elite pre-inauguration donor event on Sunday featuring members of the Trump administration, as the app’s future in the U.S. remains uncertain.

Tiktok executives including CEO Shou Chew and vice president Michael Beckerman were reportedly on hand at the event, which President Donald and First Lady Melania Trump hosted at the National Building Museum in Washington. They joined a reported guestlist including Vice President JD Vance, Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, and conservative megadonor Miriam Adelson.

geeze, it’s almost like the tech oligarchs told Trump to pause the ban until they could negotiate a way to profit more from acquisition of TikTok (or a newly created US based subsidiary that Bezos is trying to invest in) than by outright banning users access to it, cold turkey.

so much for trusting the food we eat, the water we drink, the air we breathe!

life expectancy was already backsliding, this will almost certainly reinforce the downward trend

yeah! with penalty fees and interest! and make him do it every year, again and again, forever. we could have it be due before April 15 or smthg.

while we’re at it, make all his billionaire pals pay too!

it’s a novel concept I just came up with… I’m calling it “taxes”. doubt it will ever catch on though, at least not in America.

not to mention the millions of man hours wasted responding to all these contradictory instructions across every federal office - having meetings, writing memos, discussing communication plans, notifying private partners and businesses, travel cancellations, etc etc etc…

in other words, tens of millions of taxpayers dollars in LOST PRODUCTIVITY… all because a petulant incompetent nazi oligarch thinks he knows better how the entire government should be run.

those Vance eyes 👀

welcome! it ain’t perfect here, but at least it’s decentralized and harder to manipulate in favor of the oligarchs.

Will policymakers continue to ignore the signs and force the planet to face the devastating consequences?

yes. yes they will.

my only hope is rapid socioeconomic collapse caused by short-sighted fascist mismanagement, leading to spiraling declines in life expectancy (and therefore drastically lower global population and consumption levels). that’s probably overly optimistic though.

this is a brilliant observation honestly. every accusation or criticism levied against the fascists gets reversed in a “I know you are but what am?” sneer. it works for many reasons, and it’s part of the right wing playbook.

• accused of nepotism? flip it around and prosecute Hunter.
• accused of Jan 6 violence? bring up the George Floyd riots or antifa.
• accused of sexual scandal? point out Bill Clinton’s many accusers and Bidens hair sniffing.
• greed? bring up Pelosi’s insider trading.
• coercing abortion? they point to vaccines/mask mandates.

obviously none are equivalent in scale or scope, but they have truthiness to them at first glance. and just as importantly, like in your purse thief example, they redirect attention and create doubt… just long enough to avoid getting caught or face the wrath of the crowd.

it also works, esp in America, partly because the so-called opposition party is actually kind of a piece of shit and has been for generations. Dems profess to hate the extreme consequences of capitalism, but love capitalism itself and benefit from it. so they ultimately can’t condemn it or offer long term solutions to the problems it creates. conservatives at least offer simpler solutions which all boil down to “hate who you’re told” and “obey your God King and you’ll someday be rewarded”.

threats to federal workers across the entire government - ‘you have 10 days to turn in your colleagues or else you’re fired’ - went out January 20th. Remote workers were threatened with firings the day or so after. people currently being hired but not yet finalized were given notice the same week, and people hired but on probationary status (doesn’t mean what youre thinking it’s just a designation for people in good standing who haven’t secured permanent position) - were told to fuck right off around January 23rd.

the amount of chaos and fear generated in the first week alone was staggering. but you’re right, the actual FIRINGS took a couple more days. the threats came IMMEDIATELY.

not saying it caused the crash entirely, but there’s reasonable evidence the administration at least contributed to the high levels of stress ATCs already experience. especially since they’re nationally short staffed from retirements linked to Reagan.

better question is, why the fuck should military helicopters be doing exercises right the fuck beneath flight paths of commercial airlines? there’s literally thousands of military bases where they can pRaCTiCe and do military shit. gtfo civilian air space.

TIL

based af

idk, I don’t think it will be as swift as some imagine/want. this will be a long road ahead. the wealthiest 10-20% aren’t going to vanish overnight because food stamps got scaled back or national parks sold off to real estate developer or groceries become more expensive.

total collapse is going to take a few generations. we should plan accordingly and start building micro communities decoupled from capitalism and moderately self sufficient within a small region. small enclaves of survivors may have a chance at a life less destitute.

instead of buying a new gun… get a used one! better yet, simply wait to inherit one from a dead relative! even better, steal one from a conservative!

arms dealers hate this one trick!

if only we lived in a time where we had to worry more about kids shooting up Tesla dealerships rather than schools… where did we go wrong?

that’s the problem with KidS tHeSe dAyZ! they furget which country they’re livin in!

if they wore Official Donald J Trump Stars & Stripes Underwear every day like I do, they’d NEVER FORGET!

< salutes flag >

they’re shutting down offices and programs in order to begin selling off the real estate. get ready to see anything that’s not bolted down auctioned off to the highest bidders. this the looting of America, in overdrive.

thank you! you get it.

people with decades of experience responding to communicable illnesses have been getting fired without cause or driven out of government just for some conservative publicity stunt precisely when they’re needed (which it turns out, is actually all the time). even when no diseases are breaking out, they are developing plans and strategies for the next event. we need these experts.