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gAlienLifeform , 17 hours ago

“It feels a bit off-balance,” said Rogowski, who went on to point out that children already have many other damaging freedoms online where they are more exposed to danger and not protected.

So, there's a chance something could be getting lost in translation and I don't know the context here, but just taking this article's description at face value,

[Paraphrasing], "Kids can voluntarily be exposed to explicit content on the internet, so why do we need guardians around when I act creepy towards them (it's my job, no really)" seems like both a tellingly weird rant trigger for this guy and first line of argument in defense of it

gAlienLifeform , 3 days ago

I'd rather hear the "Trump is worse" arguments than listen to people try to gaslight us into believing Biden's been good, at least "Trump is worse" is true

gAlienLifeform , 3 days ago

They get worse every time they lose elections because they're able to sell their voter base on all the "we need to do these horrible things to win" arguments. Step one of solving our problems is electing shitty Democratic lawmakers, step two is primarying them for failing to do what they campaigned on (with community organizing and mutual aid throughout these two steps and just as a general ongoing thing).

gAlienLifeform , 6 days ago

Yeah, just as an example -

Marty "Big Iron" Robbins released a song in 1966 called "Ain't I Right" that said people who came down to southern towns last summer to show people a new way of life were actually a bunch of secret Communists who didn't care about America and just wanted to sow discord.

Some context: in the summer of 1964, a bunch of civil rights activists went down to southern states to register people to vote for an event called "Freedom Summer," which led to them being harassed by local police and eventually at least 3 of them being murdered by the KKK. This was a huge headline dominating story that made the American mainstream actually start paying attention to the civil rights movement and start looking at how bad racism in the south had gotten, so Robbins was totally reacting to and trying to push against that change in popular opinion when he released that song.

gAlienLifeform , 21 days ago

Mike Duncan seems like a pretty cool dude, and the Revolutions podcast is incredibly good

gAlienLifeform , 23 days ago (edited 23 days ago)

Transcribed accurately (thank you to spujb@lemmy.cafe for correcting my earlier attempt):

Thembo
@OnlyAWorldAway

Liberals: oh you care about palestine? stop tweeting and do something

*people organize nation-wide protests and actions at great personal risk*

Liberals: you swine. i hope the police beat you into a fine red paste. i hope they come after your families. how dare you

gAlienLifeform , 23 days ago

Thank you for this, updated my comment. I totally deserve a small bit of hate here because that was a disservice to people who need alt text and screen readers, but for whatever it's worth a) learning to format things properly for screen readers is just something I still need to learn (and if you could point me towards a good resource for that I would definitely be interested), b) I was reacting to a comment that had been in here earlier (seems to have since been removed) that was claiming to be a transcription but changed the actual text of the OP, so I really just wanted to get something more accurate in here, but I should have said that was my best attempt at a transcription instead of just saying it was one.

gAlienLifeform , 1 month ago

A: We're happy to work with a wide variety of organizations with different cash flow scenarios! We accept payments in precious stones and metals, narcotics, slaves, and human organs (sorry, no Discover)

gAlienLifeform , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

wrestle with jIMMY

gAlienLifeform , 2 months ago

https://invidious.lunar.icu/watch?v=t_lpSSTIbpM

gAlienLifeform OP , 2 months ago

They were taken for reasons that inmates had nothing to do with, they have not been replaced, and it's unclear when they'll be returned. Inmates who are enrolled in college courses are having to handwrite papers that are due soon.

gAlienLifeform OP , 2 months ago

Every prisoner who knew about that password

Meanwhile, back in reality

Wright confirmed no one incarcerated in Washington prisons had attempted to unlock their devices but said the decision was “made out of an abundance of caution.”

gAlienLifeform OP , 2 months ago

Not victimizing all of the student inmates because the prison invested in a poorly designed system that could potentially be exploited when none of the students have attempted that exploit or were likely even aware of it

gAlienLifeform OP , 2 months ago

The devices should be returned to inmates immediately, prison administrators should then slap themselves in the face one time for implementing them poorly to begin with, slap themselves in the face several times for overreacting to a viral story without having any reason to believe there was an active or imminent problem with any of their inmates, and deliver a tooth-loosening punch to their own faces for thinking they could punish these inmates by taking away their education to cover their screw up.

After that, hire a real IT person who knows what they're doing by paying them decently allowing remote work and not drug testing, and then listen to them.

gAlienLifeform , 2 months ago

Kelloggs CEO reading this comment section getting ready to drop another banger

gAlienLifeform , 2 months ago

I have never felt so seen by a piece of media as I did when I got the solution to this thought

gAlienLifeform OP , 3 months ago

Also, if something is technically possible but illegal for the CIA/FBI/etc to do, it just means they have to try to hide the fact they're still doing it

gAlienLifeform , 3 months ago

"Look, I get it, everyone has a story and contains multitudes and all, but the paperwork from the children's hospital clearly says he was officially contracted as an "Entertainer and Humorist," so that's the title we need to refer to this John Wayne Gacy with. It's just basic professionalism."

gAlienLifeform OP , 3 months ago

Maybe this mirror of it will?

https://archive.is/nB7Db

But I'm guessing it talking about the claim only ~9% of the time officers were able to confirm a firearm was present on the scene.

Don't think that shows up, this article is previously unpublished stuff I believe

For at least nine months, between October 2017 and July 2018, Scott DeDore tracked ShotSpotter’s accuracy in identifying confirmed gunshots. DeDore regularly shared his findings with Chicago police and ShotSpotter, and even attempted to hone the tool’s precision by working alongside the company to install additional sensors, documents obtained through public records requests show. Over the course of those nine months, according to the records, ShotSpotter correctly detected a gunshot in 63 of 135 instances in which a person was struck, an accuracy rate of about 47 percent.

One month after DeDore sent his last available report, then mayor Rahm Emanuel signed a new three-year, $33 million contract with ShotSpotter (the company has since rebranded as SoundThinking). It covered 12 police districts—100 square miles—and made Chicago the company’s largest customer at the time.

These records represent a look into a small corner of Chicago’s southwest side from more than half a decade ago. But they offer a unique window into ShotSpotter and its role in an increasingly surveilled city. And they came at a time when the city was reinventing its policing strategy. Six years later, Chicago is again at a crossroad, as a new mayoral administration “reimagines” public safety and mulls the fate of ShotSpotter when its contract expires in mid-February.

gAlienLifeform , 3 months ago

Well, so long as they're not migrants anyway

gAlienLifeform OP , 3 months ago

Yeah, this sounds like a really reasonable list

In terms of "most influential, in a positive sense," I feel like LBJ at least deserves a mention too. Lots of stuff people just assume has been around forever like Head Start and PBS/NPR and Medicare came from his administration (plus all the civil rights acts). If it wasn't for the whole ramping up the Vietnam war thing and all the sexual harassment he did he'd be an easy favorite for me.

gAlienLifeform , 3 months ago

I've kind of been completely absent for the past 3+ months

relatable tbh

gAlienLifeform , 3 months ago

I've only recently started educating myself them, so this group may have some ugly things in their history I haven't learned about yet, but -

There was/is a nationalist social democratic Palestinian organization that Hamas essentially chased out of town with support from Israeli religious conservatives, and I feel like people who want a free Palestine need to talk more about them, because social democratic sounds a hell of a lot better than whatever the hell Hamas' policies are

gAlienLifeform , 4 months ago (edited 3 months ago)

There's a good argument to be made he was the most evil president we ever had. Between

• prolonging the Vietnam war by five years through sabotaging the negotiations while he was still just running for president
• perfecting southern strategy campaigning and organizing all the neo-Confederates we're still dealing with as a new bloc of Republicans
• founding the DEA and kicking off the war on drugs to jail and destabilize anti-war protesters and the black panthers,
• all of the cheating he did during the 1972 campaign, which the Watergate break-in was only a part of
• Cheering on the genocide of Bengalis by Pakistani generals because "muh Cold War allies!"

the roots of a ton of our modern problems go back to this paranoid alcoholic racist piece of shit

e; had to add in the Bengali genocide

gAlienLifeform , 4 months ago

Yeah, I go back and forth all the time on who's the worst, one of those three or George "I knew Iraq didn't have WMDs and I killed 100k Iraqi civilians anyway, oh and you're welcome for ICE and warrantless wiretaps and extraordinary renditions and torture and Samuel Alito" W Bush

gAlienLifeform , 4 months ago

That was pretty much all Congress and a lot of great researchers and journalists throughout the 50s and 60s writing things like Silent Spring that got the general public to a place where they were demanding it. If Nixon hasn't done something to make it look like he'd dealt with the issue we would've likely ended up with something more powerful.

e; I should add though - the world did get a little bit better with Richard Nixon's EPA in it, just not as much better as it could and should have

gAlienLifeform , 4 months ago

Oh yeah, he was terrible too

Another horrible thing he did that video didn't have time to fit in - the re-enslavement of Haiti

gAlienLifeform , 3 months ago

Oof, that does deserve a more prominent mention

gAlienLifeform , 3 months ago

"Ronald Reagan? The actor?!"

gAlienLifeform , 4 months ago

Yeah, it's not just his supporters who will get hurt if he gets power again