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reverendsteveii

@reverendsteveii@lemm.ee

Solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short

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reverendsteveii ,

a year is a year to a rich man and a poor man alike. but a $50,000 fine is several years to a poor man and only a moment to a rich man. fines that don't scale with income are a sneaky way to make things only legal for the rich while pretending that there is equal protection under the law.

reverendsteveii ,

"I never told them to commit fraud. I just set goals, and every time those goals were met I increased them until they had no choice but to commit fraud or be fired for not reaching their goals. I'm not responsible for their illegal behavior, and I shouldn't have to bear the consequences. I am, however, still responsible for their profitable behavior and should absolutely bear the consequences for that."

reverendsteveii ,

the wells fargo paddy wagon is coming down the street

reverendsteveii ,

can confirm. source: did this 3 separate times

reverendsteveii ,

Desirule path

reverendsteveii ,

https://lemm.ee/pictrs/image/c9618d2e-6df9-4416-ab9b-f5735b8a39ab.webp

reverendsteveii ,

The polyamory will continue until we can form a ska band.

reverendsteveii ,

what do you think ska bands do when they're done pickin' it up?

After announcing increased prices, Spotify to Pay Songwriters About $150 Million Less Next Year (www.billboard.com)

When Bloomberg reported that Spotify would be upping the cost of its premium subscription from $9.99 to $10.99, and including 15 hours of audiobooks per month in the U.S., the change sounded like a win for songwriters and publishers. Higher subscription prices typically equate to a bump in U.S. mechanical royalties — but not...

reverendsteveii ,

Alexa, play John Mellencamp - Ain't That America

reverendsteveii ,

https://www.xmanagerapp.com/

Patch your spotify install to get free premium. If they're gonna raise prices and lower what they pay musicians, there's no valid reason not to.

reverendsteveii ,

https://www.xmanagerapp.com/

*Steal Spotify

reverendsteveii ,

HOT GIRLS FROM {{US_STATE}} WANT YOU TO NOT VOTE FOR BIDEN

reverendsteveii ,

who picks what habits are good and what are bad? who decides what happens to data beyond this? can you going to mcdonalds twice a day be shared with your health insurer? can you going to that rally be shared with the local police? with your landlord? are you comfortable with everyone knowing everything? because there's two things you do with data: analyze, and sell.

reverendsteveii ,

you think that I'm in favor of everything I'm not currently talking about?

reverendsteveii ,

10 more whistleblowers

My condolences to their family in these trying times.

My condolences to their family in these trying times.

My condolences to their family in these trying times.

My condolences to their family in these trying times.

My condolences to their family in these trying times.

My condolences to their family in these trying times.

My condolences to their family in these trying times.

My condolences to their family in these trying times.

My condolences to their family in these trying times.

My condolences to their family in these trying times.

reverendsteveii ,

The CEO of Bumble's parent company, Richard Pictograph, pushed for the feature

reverendsteveii ,

The problem, from the government's perspective, is that there's no way to only see some of the fnords. If we teach people to recognize Chinese propaganda, they'll start to recognize American propaganda too. Better to keep us stupid and then control who's allowed to talk to us in the first place.

reverendsteveii ,

once again - not a ban, a seizure. Steve Mnuchin is heading a group of government insiders who want to buy TikTok, and this bill bans it if and only if they don't sell. The government has decided that TikTok is a dangerous propaganda and espionage network and intends to steal it and run it themselves. Even if you think that TikTok is that dangerous you have to ask yourself: why is it legal for everyone else and why does our government want so badly to do it themselves?

reverendsteveii , (edited )

source?

First page when you google 'Steve Mnuchin'

the npr interview I heard

source?

reverendsteveii ,

if this thing is being sold because it's a propaganda and data mining risk, selling it to a cohort of government insiders doesn't make me feel better.

reverendsteveii ,

I mean, there's a third alternative where manipulating us is illegal for anyone

reverendsteveii ,

Neat, ty!

reverendsteveii ,

if they were rights everyone would have them.

reverendsteveii ,

this happened to be back in the 90’s & 00’s when biden et al. spearheaded non-dischargeable student loan debt; anti-gay marriage; and a ban on gays in the military and now i’m permanently anti the party that rolled back don't ask don't tell, embraced marriage and healthcare rights for queer people and have forgiven tons of student loan debt. I'm definitely not a psy-op. Pay no attention to the fact that no one calls them 'the democrat party' except people who have 1000+ hours viewing fox news.

Instagram Advertises Nonconsensual AI Nude Apps (www.404media.co)

Instagram is profiting from several ads that invite people to create nonconsensual nude images with AI image generation apps, once again showing that some of the most harmful applications of AI tools are not hidden on the dark corners of the internet, but are actively promoted to users by social media companies unable or...

reverendsteveii ,

I guess it's really in whether you use it with consent. I used one on my own picture just to see how it worked. It gave me huge tits but other than that was scarily accurate.

reverendsteveii ,

I'm a dude, it's just a clever name. It'll do dudes, it's just gonna give you huge tits. What you're into is, of course, your business.

reverendsteveii ,

How do you think it came to be that most Americans believe that in China you can have your home seized for being impolite?

reverendsteveii ,

your conclusion doesn't follow from your premise. the ability to live indoors is going to be important to people even if they think the system by which we decide who is allowed to live indoors is kinda shit.

reverendsteveii ,

what did tiktok do to deserve being banned, and why is it okay for other companies to do that?

reverendsteveii ,

they aren't even banning tiktok, at least they're trying not to. What they're trying to do is force a sale specifically to US government insiders. They're seizing it. They want that sweet, sweet propaganda and data mining for themselves.

reverendsteveii ,

you've failed to answer my second question, which I believe was the important one: why should this behavior be perfectly legal for everyone other than tiktok?

reverendsteveii ,

I agree with you, but I'm assuming malice because I don't think that stupidity adequately explains their behavior. I think that, to them, the problem isn't propaganda and espionage, it's Chinese propaganda and Chinese espionage where American propaganda and American espionage should be. That's why they're not making what tiktok does illegal, and that's why they're trying to force a sale rather than actually banning it.

reverendsteveii ,

twitter is for food trucks to tell me where they'll be today, and anything else is a misuse of the service

reverendsteveii ,

okay, so for tracking food trucks and lifted, heavily-financed trucks

reverendsteveii ,

If you'd stop attempting to play victim on Musk's behalf long enough to google it, you'd see that that's actually getting plenty of coverage.

https://lemm.ee/pictrs/image/0e1a0c1e-bab9-449e-8209-bb73f03d1527.webp

reverendsteveii ,

https://lemm.ee/pictrs/image/9cb7cc8d-8050-417e-b3be-02c6934b1d22.webp

reverendsteveii ,

when I like a creator I give them a dollar instead of giving google a dollar so they can give a penny of it to the person who actually makes the thing I want

reverendsteveii ,

Luckily i built a home office and gym with all the money I saved not paying for 2 hours of commuting, parking and getting lunch 260 days/year. I've never been in better shape mentally or physically!

reverendsteveii ,

I'd rather zombies in a sealed pit contributing to the spawn cap than zombies where they can wreck my shit

reverendsteveii ,

Tim Apple be like "We've tried charging more money. Have we tried charging more money and delivering less stuff in exchange?"

reverendsteveii ,

I really like my macbook for dev work, and I think that now that macos is essentially a linux distro it's quite nice, but it's not that much better than the free distros and it's getting worse while they get better. Right now the only thing keeping me on a mac at work is that they gave it to me and the only thing keeping me on a mac at home is that it's already paid for.

reverendsteveii ,

because I can pop a terminal into zsh and beyond that I don't really know the taxonomy

reverendsteveii ,

okay

reverendsteveii ,

because you use the root account on linux occasionally to do one thing but when you've got a rooted phone everything is done with the root account

reverendsteveii ,

But humans being kind to humans means everything

reverendsteveii ,

Why would I fix something when I can bitch?

reverendsteveii ,

I'd be curious to see some actual source on that. Shit like that happens all the time and I find it fascinating.

reverendsteveii ,

I agree, it's what you do with the money. Jesus tells you what to do with the money, and either you do that or you don't.

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