@nprofile1q... So I was just thinking about this and what I think was the perfect metaphor just popped into my head.

Those in power mandating that people not be allowed to use encryption is the same thing as if they were mandating that we not have locks on our doors. They don't want us to have encryption so they can break into everything we own without a warrant and it's absolutely no different from requiring no locks on houses so they can break in to our houses without a warrant.

@nprofile1q... Without the mass media (and most social media platforms) working so hard to prop up the hatemongers I wonder if they even could have reached the level they have even in these times.

They certainly did an awful lot to help ensure the Trump/Project 2025 regime could come into power. I really wonder if Trump ever would have gained power over the US that first time without Facebook, Fox, and etc falling over themselves to help.

@nprofile1q... It simply is amazing how when it was discovered that COVID-19 was cutting into profit margins for the rich the whole world was forced to not only ignore it, but to have to go hard in the opposite direction because any acknowledgement that it exists could potentially make people realize that, you know, it exists, so even already existing mitigations had to be stomped out.

And the world just goes along with this and just nevermind the human cost.

This is not sustainable.

@nprofile1q... @nprofile1q... I don't think it's lack of public recognition — he got too much of a very wrong sort and I have little doubt he managed to get a few awards one way or another *cough money.*

Well, I haven't exactly done a deep dive into the man's life (in the same way I haven't done a deep dive into Hitler's life because vomit) but I'm under the impression his biggest problem was probably his family. They were probably like him to his kids.

@nprofile1q... These days I almost wonder if someone just gave him a blatant emolument and he's just bragging about it since he already knows he can directly break such laws now without consequence.

@nprofile1q... @nprofile1q... There is a third way.

3. Trump is arrested and tried for war crimes, the illegal war stops by default.

Albeit it's very very unlikely even though in a timeline where the world wasn't insane it would actually be 100% likely instead. (Of course if we were in a sane timeline Trump would be in prison or even hanging at the end of a rope for having committed high treason against the U.S. government.)

I guess it won't happen, but it's not quite 0%. Just... like 0.1%.

@nprofile1q... The craziest thing to me is that there is no way a thing like this wouldn't ultimately hurt children far more than anything they are *claiming* it supposedly prevents.

Like how does that not just automatically become a deal killer for all these bills?

@nprofile1q... "The major cost of most corporations is labor."

*HARD* disagree.

The cost that they perceive as "disposable" is labor. The highest actual cost, by far, is the people at the top, most of whom do practically nothing (or even make willfully bad decisions like integrating fake "AI" into systems that shouldn't be using a LLM and will ultimately present a huge loss later) while being paid many many millions...

And those are the positions most disposable and that a LLM could fake best...

@nprofile1q... I'm still reeling that he effectively just said "a bunch of your kids will die. I'm ok with that."

Like he's saying the quiet parts that even MAGA don't like out loud now. Have things gotten so far that he can do that?

@LisPi @nprofile1q... The people in charge now actually want slavery to be a thing again...

@npub1efvh0... Seems to be par for the course for Jeep though. They started focusing on appealing to the worst sorts quite some time ago. Frankly I'm just shocked it doesn't have smoke stacks and easily removed catalytic converters for really wrecking everything.