IMF slashes 2025 U.S. growth forecast to 1.8%, citing trade tensions
IMF slashes 2025 U.S. growth forecast to 1.8% from 2.7%, citing trade tensions
The Washington-based IMF, in its World Economic Report, cited intensifying downside risks as it lowered its growth projections.Hakyung Kim (CNBC)
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US tariffs will weaken global economy and trigger inflation but not a global recession, IMF says
US tariffs will weaken global economy and trigger inflation but not a global recession, IMF says
Surging U.S. tariffs will weaken the global economy and push up inflation this year, according to projections to be released next week by the International Monetary Fund.Christopher Rugaber (AP News)
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Announcements like this are the equivalent of police saying "everybody remain calm!"
They are the institution. It's not like they're ever going to say "Yeah, shit's fucked, guys. Pull all your money out and invest in canned goods and ammunition."
Right, because what else are they going to say?:
RECESSION INCOMING!!!!
???
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Politically Connected Firms Benefit From Trump Tariff Exemptions Amid Secrecy, Confusion
Trump Tariff Exemptions Benefit Politically Connected Firms
The administration’s lack of transparency about tariff exemptions has experts concerned that some firms might be winning narrow carve-outs behind closed doors. “It could be corruption, but it could just as easily be incompetence,” one lobbyist said.ProPublica
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Wow ..... amazing .... it's a good thing stuff like this didn't happen in previous administrations.
No, I don't like Turnip, he's an idiot.
My point is that big business directly connected to government always benefitted to insider knowledge or in even shaping which direction the government should go ..... the difference is that it is worse and far out of control now.
Info Pete Hegseth shared with wife, brother came from top general’s secure messages
Hegseth has denied the information he shared was classified, but it was given to him on a system for sensitive and classified information, sources told NBC News.
Minutes before U.S. fighter jets took off to begin strikes against Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen last month, Army Gen. Michael Erik Kurilla, who leads U.S. Central Command, used a secure U.S. government system to send detailed information about the operation to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.
The material Kurilla sent included details about when U.S. fighters would take off and when they would hit their targets — details that could, if they fell into the wrong hands, put the pilots of those fighters in grave danger. But he was doing exactly what he was supposed to: providing Hegseth, his superior, with information he needed to know and using a system specifically designed to safely transmit sensitive and classified information.
But then Hegseth used his personal phone to send some of the same information Kurilla had given him to at least two group text chats on the Signal messaging app, three U.S. officials with direct knowledge of the exchanges told NBC News.
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“There’s no dysfunction.”
Definitely the kind of quote you get from a functioning administration at the annual Easter egg hunt.
Imagine if this was democrats, with a democrat presidency.
Just fucking imagine.
Conservatives are the epitome of hypocrisy.
” There’s no dysfunction.”
Ron Howard: There is.
That’s a dereliction of duty they can only be treasonous or intent or so negligent as to be indistinguishable.
Hang him by the neck until he’s dead.
I sent the first news story about the signal chats to my parents ands in-laws in a big group that said "I had better never fucking hear another one of you dumbasses say a word about 'HeR eEeEeEmAiLs' ever again"
Not a single one replied, both parents have (according to my wife) started taking Facebook posts they've made in the past down, and my in-laws have not said a political word in over a week. It's been refreshing.
They clearly aren't ready to accept they may have been totally wrong all along, but it's nice to see they might be self-aware enough to recognize when they might be potentially maybe SOMETIMES be less than correct about specific things.
You need a microscope to see it, but i consider it a step up.
Either bragging or laundering information to enemies of the US through close family and legal relationships so they are less likely to turn on him.
That’s it. There is no other reason it could be.
I’ve only run docker containers with their own db. It sounds more logical to run one db, right? My only concern would be if that db corrupts then they all do.
Why do you like that over postgresql
mydatabase.db3 or myappdata.sqlite). And each app has its own file/database. If the file corrupts, then it's only affecting that specific app. (However, SQLite is pretty robust.) And since these are just files, you can backup them together with the application. No need to export data or shutdown the database first.
What do you mean by lightweight? Like lightweight on the client, requiring less javascript? Or on the server hoster, because the server-side is more efficient?
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* a sample instance
* project documentation
I like it. Its worked well for the last year or so.
I like the look of phanpy on my own little machine.
I think that the lightest you can get is SNAC: written in portable C, it requires only an ngix server, and no database.
It's ideal for single used instances or automated projects
Here some background and how tos:
encrypted.tesio.it/2024/12/18/…
And here the description of fedimeteo, that provides forecasts for thousands of cities on the fediverse using a slim low cost vps'
it-notes.dragas.net/2025/02/26…
FediMeteo: How a Tiny €4 FreeBSD VPS Became a Global Weather Service for Thousands
How a simple idea turned into an international weather service on the Fediverse.Stefano Marinelli (IT Notes)
ICE denies detained Mahmoud Khalil temporary release to meet their newborn son
Mahmoud Khalil, the Columbia University graduate who has been in immigration detention in Louisiana for more than a month, was barred from attending the birth of his firstborn child Monday, after immigration officials denied him permission to attend the birth in person, according to emails reviewed by CNN.
On Sunday morning, attorneys for Khalil wrote to Melissa Harper, director of the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office in New Orleans, requesting that Khalil be released from detention for two weeks so he could travel to New York and be with his wife when she delivered their son.
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/04/21/us/mahmoud-khalil-denied-ice-release-son-birth/index.html
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I don’t get it. Why do they even care about protesting on campus? It’s what students do, and is protected by the first amendment. The entire over reaction feels like a spite move but even so, who is that emotionally invested in it to feel spiteful? I’m having a hard time wrapping my brain around the investment in this campaign. Rubio even spewed vitriolic rage on the topic. Again, it makes no sense.
The appropriate disagreement response, in Old America, would be: who cares? Maybe in tandem with an eye roll.
It's about exerting power.
These assholes pretty much control their base. Their base plugs their ears whenever facts are presented to them.
The question that I raise is "then why care about what factual news people say? Why care about any protests when you can spin it effortlessly?"
Because fascism and authoritarianism is primarily concerned about flexing their muscles, their power. Demonstrating their reach.
It's a dick measuring contest, so that their followers can see how big and thick their leaders can punish "others".
"Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect."
Universities have often played a role in being where protest movements begin and grow.
There’s a lot of reasons for this, you have a lot of students in one place, most students on scholarships and with loans have time on their hands to discuss issues of the day, most students aren’t constrained by work and family and property that would give others pause from participating in protest.
From the anti war movement in the 60s to the communist overthrow of China, mass political movements get their starts in universities.
So if you can set a precedent of criminalizing speech and make the punishments as cruel as possible, you make students think twice about protesting.
That’s what this is about, sure America is happy to do Israel’s bidding, but don’t think for one moment they actually give one flying fuck about that. They found a brown person with a foreign enough name that they could destroy for stepping out of line as a not so subtle way to say to every student, “shut up, keep your head down, and we won’t come after you”
It’s the same thing they are doing with Kilmar Abrego Garcia. They don’t care about these two individuals, they don’t have any special interest in harming them (though I’m sure they delight in it) they want to send a message to everyone else.
We have the power, shut up
That’s the message, step out of line and find out. Due process, free speech, that shit is over. You are welcome to pretend it still exists but challenge us and we are one clerical error from you enjoying a lifetime of free room and board at CECOT.
For this to work it has to be punishing, it has to be dehumanizing, it has to be spectacular. The goal is to make you think when you go to resist, “I don’t want to end up like that one guy…”
The point is to make this as visible and memorable as possible so when your personal breaking point is hit and you think to resist there’s a voice in your head that says “no I better not”
Scott stays silent as his minority business legacy crumbles under Trump
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"My Dinner with Adolf": Larry David roasts Bill Maher's meeting with Trump in satirical NYT essay
Bill Maher has come in for tons of criticism since he opted to have dinner with Donald Trump, but none of it was as biting as a recent takedown by "Seinfeld" creator Larry David.
In an essay for the New York Times called "My Dinner With Adolf," David took Maher to task for attempting to soften the image of a fascist strongman. While David never mentions the "Real Time" host by name, the timing of the piece and its main character's need to hear out all sides past the point of ludicrousness make the target clear.
David's fictional meeting with Adolf Hitler echoes many of the points that Maher has made in the days since he dined with Trump. Maher, a crochety liberal-leaning comic who has grown more crochety and less liberal as societal norms have passed him by, marvelled at the fact that he could make the commander-in-chief laugh.
"My Dinner with Adolf": Larry David roasts Bill Maher's meeting with Donald Trump in satirical NYT essay
The comedian wrote an essay about a fictional dinner with Adolf Hitler for the New York Times.Salon.com
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For those interested here is the letter.
It is a good read and not that long.
Opinion | Larry David: My Dinner With Adolf
When a private meeting goes unexpectedly.Larry David (The New York Times)
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Text for those that do not have nytimes subscription
Larry David: My Dinner With AdolfImagine my surprise when in the spring of 1939 a letter arrived at my house inviting me to dinner at the Old Chancellery with the world’s most reviled man, Adolf Hitler. I had been a vocal critic of his on the radio from the beginning, pretty much predicting everything he was going to do on the road to dictatorship. No one I knew encouraged me to go. “He’s Hitler. He’s a monster.” But eventually I concluded that hate gets us nowhere. I knew I couldn’t change his views, but we need to talk to the other side — even if it has invaded and annexed other countries and committed unspeakable crimes against humanity.
Two weeks later, I found myself on the front steps of the Old Chancellery and was led into an opulent living room, where a few of the Führer’s most vocal supporters had gathered: Himmler, Göring, Leni Riefenstahl and the Duke of Windsor, formerly King Edward VIII. We talked about some of the beautiful art on the walls that had been taken from the homes of Jews. But our conversation ended abruptly when we heard loud footsteps coming down the hallway. Everyone stiffened as Hitler entered the room.
He was wearing a tan suit with a swastika armband and gave me an enthusiastic greeting that caught me off guard. Frankly, it was a warmer greeting than I normally get from my parents, and it was accompanied by a slap on my back. I found the whole thing quite disarming. I joked that I was surprised to see him in a tan suit because if he wore that out, it would be perceived as un-Führer-like. That amused him to no end, and I realized I’d never seen him laugh before. Suddenly he seemed so human. Here I was, prepared to meet Hitler, the one I’d seen and heard — the public Hitler. But this private Hitler was a completely different animal. And oddly enough, this one seemed more authentic, like this was the real Hitler. The whole thing had my head spinning.
He said he was starving and led us into the dining room, where he gestured for me to sit next to him. Göring immediately grabbed a slice of pumpernickel, whereupon Hitler turned to me, gave me an eye roll, then whispered, “Watch. He’ll be done with his entire meal before you’ve taken two bites.” That one really got me. Göring, with his mouth full, asked what was so funny, and Hitler said, “I was just telling him about the time my dog had diarrhea in the Reichstag.” Göring remembered. How could he forget? He loved that story, especially the part where Hitler shot the dog before it got back into the car. Then a beaming Hitler said, “Hey, if I can kill Jews, Gypsies and homosexuals, I can certainly kill a dog!” That perhaps got the biggest laugh of the night — and believe me, there were plenty.
But it wasn’t just a one-way street, with the Führer dominating the conversation. He was quite inquisitive and asked me a lot of questions about myself. I told him I had just gone through a brutal breakup with my girlfriend because every time I went someplace without her, she was always insistent that I tell her everything I talked about. I can’t stand having to remember every detail of every conversation. Hitler said he could relate — he hated that, too. “What am I, a secretary?” He advised me it was best not to have any more contact with her or else I’d be right back where I started and eventually I’d have to go through the whole thing all over again. I said it must be easy for a dictator to go through a breakup. He said, “You’d be surprised. There are still feelings.” Hmm … there are still feelings. That really resonated with me. We’re not that different, after all. I thought that if only the world could see this side of him, people might have a completely different opinion.
Two hours later, the dinner was over, and the Führer escorted me to the door. “I am so glad to have met you. I hope I’m no longer the monster you thought I was.” “I must say, mein Führer, I’m so thankful I came. Although we disagree on many issues, it doesn’t mean that we have to hate each other.” And with that, I gave him a Nazi salute and walked out into the night.
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i watch Real Time with Bill Maher regularly and watched his monologue about his meeting with Trump (it disgusted me). this essay is beautiful because it hits many of the same points Maher made and i just know that Bill must be embarrassed and livid.
Bill Maher owes us all (his viewers) an apology. but of course we will never get it.
i watch Real Time with Bill Maher regularly and watched his monologue about his meeting with Trump (it disgusted me). this essay is beautiful because it hits many of the same points Maher made and i just know that Bill must be embarrassed and livid.
Bill Maher owes us all (his viewers) an apology. but of course we will never get it.
I'm a life long New Yorker. Donald Trump was also born and raised in New York.
I can tell you that getting 90 percent of New Yorkers to agree on anything is an amazing feat. You couldn't get 90% of New Yorkers to say something nice about the Yankees, or the Metropolitan Museum of Art, or Central Park.
Donald Trump lost his home town by 90% of the vote.
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i know. it's the rural/urban divide the capitalist class has used to divide us for as long as we've told stories about the subjugation of the people to the will of the kings, emperors, and pharoahs. they convince the rural worker they have nothing in common with those high fallutin' city folk that benefit from the fruits of the farmer's labor. never mind that the city folk are just as destitute as the rural folk, and are simply trying to survive their material conditions as well. the rural worker hates the taxes they pay, and sees construction in the city and thinks their money is being funneled to benefit the urban worker. the truth is though that the capitalist would stop maintaining the city immediately, but it's cheaper for them to keep making sure the city folk don't revolt from strictly necessary aspects of city life to maintain their workforce of cleaners, cooks, and planners.
but none of this stops the capitalist from funding propaganda to tell the field worker it's the city's fault they're poor.
it's all a great big joke when you peel back the layers. a painful, cruel, and twisted joke
oh i know. i'm speaking on this as a rural citizen who's seen how my neighbors are manipulated. per capita, rural tax payers get more back from their taxes as benefits than city dwellers. the rural voter sees that it's not enough though and seeths with anger. being isolated by the land around them, they're easier to manipulate into blaming someone in an apartment than in a penthouse or mansion. the best way to resist fascism is to go out into the world and talk to people. the rural voters who fuel fascism are less able to do this thanks to their material conditions, making them more vulnerable to bullshit propaganda. urban voters meanwhile, are not immune to fascism, but are far more likely to encounter perspectives other than their own by the nature of their lived experience in a large community.
the most terrifying in all this are the suburbs. the places where people actively choose to tune out of being connected in favor of a 1950s vision of america that would be easier to manipulate a la brave new world and 1984 into working against their own best interests.
fuck. i'm gonna have to go listen to nazi by chumbawamba now…
Something you don't hear much about is the death of the 'small town rich.'
Back in the day, a town would have a local bank and a local newspaper. The factory owners kids would go to the local high school. Sure they were capitalists, but they saw the town as their home. Those days are over. Even if a rich person lives in the town, they send their kids to a private school and would love to move out.
The locals can go hang.
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Same with California. They watch all the movies and TV shows produced here, buy all the tech Silicon Valley develops, and hate us.
Not to mention take our tax dollars for their welfare states.
"Favorite son" has been a standard American politics term for decades.
When Rudy Giuliani won in his second term, he was considered a massive winner, and he got less than 60% of the vote.
I can't tell you how many times I've had MAGA Morons tell me that HitlerPig has always been worshipped in NYC, even claiming that he's ALWAYS been the "King Of New York City."
I've always told them that its obvious that theyve never set foot in NYC, nor ever spoken to a New Yorker, because there isnt a single person who would ever have a good thing to say about him. He has been reviled since he first became a public figure.
Literally EVERYONE in NYC despises him.
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Oh, I'm well aware.
The destruction of that building facade was even worse than that. When it became clear that he wouldn't preserve the facade, there were many that were willing to pay to remove iconic architectural/ 1sculptural elements and send them to museums, but he ordered his construction crew to simply destroy them.
As a person whose job partially consists of brand marketing, I see that as a great marketing opportunity for his brand image that he absolutely blew. He could have played along, let those architectural elements be removed to museums on someone else's dime, as he stood out front, bloviating to the media that he is so proud to be the leader in preserving the iconic architectural history of the great city that he loves so much, and improving his standing with the city and its citizens. Instead, it was just "Fuck it, just destroy it all."
And yeah, I'm well aware of his past, like his demand that the "Central Park Five" be executed, and when they were fully exonerated of the crime, he STILL insisted they be executed. It was then that I knew this psychopath could never be allowed to hold public office.
Now he's sending innocent people to a torture gulag in a 3rd world country without Due Process, and people are surprised that he won't lift a finger to correct their "administrative mistakes." History rhymes again.
forbes.com/sites/michaellisick…
Good article that details the whole story.
As an added bonus, John Baron makes a cameo
How Donald Trump Took Down Bonwit Teller, A Fifth Avenue Landmark
When a young Donald Trump wanted to locate his Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue, he targeted and purchased the famous Bonwit Teller apparel store.Forbes
Ron Varo.
snopes.com/news/2025/04/09/pet…
This shit is turning my hair white.
Just when you think that they can't top Four Seasons Landscaping, they strap on a jet pack.
Trump adviser Peter Navarro and 'economics expert Ron Vara' are same person, NYT reported in 2019
"Ron Vara" happens to be an anagram of "Navarro."Jack Izzo (Snopes.com)
forbes.com/sites/michaellisick…
Here's an entire article, including Trump using Polish immigrant workers like slaves, and a guest appearance by John Baron
How Donald Trump Took Down Bonwit Teller, A Fifth Avenue Landmark
When a young Donald Trump wanted to locate his Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue, he targeted and purchased the famous Bonwit Teller apparel store.Forbes
Harris won nowhere near 90% of NYC. The city itself voted 68/30 for Harris/Trump. Manhattan hit 80% as the “bluest” borough. Staten Island and Hasidic Brooklyn voted overwhelmingly for Trump.
abc7ny.com/election-2016-nyc-r…
In 2016 Trump lost by 80%. So I was a bit off.
Borough breakdown: How NYC voted for the president (hint: Clinton didn't win them all)
The overall results for the five boroughs overwhelmingly picked Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton with 79 percent of the vote.Mike Waterhouse (ABC7 New York)
Bill Maher is a textbook reactionary centrist: he'd sell out any minority for the sake of his own influence and pocketbook.
From the constant digs on trans people to the time he was ready to scab (until it became clear that it would diminish his influence), he'd step on every person he views as beneath him to get powerful people to think he's smart.
And he's not half as smart as he thinks he is— he ends up platforming the absolute worst people and letting them run rhetorical circles around him.
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I don't listen to the show very much, but I was tempted out of masochistic curiosity.
Dude is like a boomer Joe Rogan— he buys into the dumbest bullshit because he thinks being a contrarian is a cheat code for the truth.
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Wait. The "we get it. We happily moved to the right like we always do, and we totally get it, that sucks, but..." podcast had the only person other than Joe Manchin that typifies all they have ever been about as a guest?
How many ads per ep are they up to by now? 20? 30?
I was watching a clip of Tarantino talking with Maher, he was telling him about how he thinks Toy Story is one of the best trilogies and how much he loves Toy Story, and bill maher interrupts with “this Toy Story is a cartoon?”
Like how pretentious do you have to be to pretend you don’t know what Toy Story is?
Those are the kinda things that make Bill Maher insufferable, that he strives to be a pretentious fuck who thinks he’s smarter than everyone
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That has been his persona for over two decades.
I've said it before and I'll say it again: Bill Maher is the definition of smarmy. He personifies the concept of that smug asshole who pretends to not know common media because he thinks it makes him appear more dignified. When in reality it just makes him look like an idiot to anyone who doesn't buy his act.
Yeah! I dunno what a Taylor Swift is either....
Edit: fat thumbs = ? not !
Paywalled, but here is the piece:
Imagine my surprise when in the spring of 1939 a letter arrived at my house inviting me to dinner at the Old Chancellery with the world’s most reviled man, Adolf Hitler. I had been a vocal critic of his on the radio from the beginning, pretty much predicting everything he was going to do on the road to dictatorship. No one I knew encouraged me to go. “He’s Hitler. He’s a monster.” But eventually I concluded that hate gets us nowhere. I knew I couldn’t change his views, but we need to talk to the other side — even if it has invaded and annexed other countries and committed unspeakable crimes against humanity.Two weeks later, I found myself on the front steps of the Old Chancellery and was led into an opulent living room, where a few of the Führer’s most vocal supporters had gathered: Himmler, Göring, Leni Riefenstahl and the Duke of Windsor, formerly King Edward VIII. We talked about some of the beautiful art on the walls that had been taken from the homes of Jews. But our conversation ended abruptly when we heard loud footsteps coming down the hallway. Everyone stiffened as Hitler entered the room.
He was wearing a tan suit with a swastika armband and gave me an enthusiastic greeting that caught me off guard. Frankly, it was a warmer greeting than I normally get from my parents, and it was accompanied by a slap on my back. I found the whole thing quite disarming. I joked that I was surprised to see him in a tan suit because if he wore that out, it would be perceived as un-Führer-like. That amused him to no end, and I realized I’d never seen him laugh before. Suddenly he seemed so human. Here I was, prepared to meet Hitler, the one I’d seen and heard — the public Hitler. But this private Hitler was a completely different animal. And oddly enough, this one seemed more authentic, like this was the real Hitler. The whole thing had my head spinning.
He said he was starving and led us into the dining room, where he gestured for me to sit next to him. Göring immediately grabbed a slice of pumpernickel, whereupon Hitler turned to me, gave me an eye roll, then whispered, “Watch. He’ll be done with his entire meal before you’ve taken two bites.” That one really got me. Göring, with his mouth full, asked what was so funny, and Hitler said, “I was just telling him about the time my dog had diarrhea in the Reichstag.” Göring remembered. How could he forget? He loved that story, especially the part where Hitler shot the dog before it got back into the car. Then a beaming Hitler said, “Hey, if I can kill Jews, Gypsies and homosexuals, I can certainly kill a dog!” That perhaps got the biggest laugh of the night — and believe me, there were plenty.
But it wasn’t just a one-way street, with the Führer dominating the conversation. He was quite inquisitive and asked me a lot of questions about myself. I told him I had just gone through a brutal breakup with my girlfriend because every time I went someplace without her, she was always insistent that I tell her everything I talked about. I can’t stand having to remember every detail of every conversation. Hitler said he could relate — he hated that, too. “What am I, a secretary?” He advised me it was best not to have any more contact with her or else I’d be right back where I started and eventually I’d have to go through the whole thing all over again. I said it must be easy for a dictator to go through a breakup. He said, “You’d be surprised. There are still feelings.” Hmm … there are still feelings. That really resonated with me. We’re not that different, after all. I thought that if only the world could see this side of him, people might have a completely different opinion.
Two hours later, the dinner was over, and the Führer escorted me to the door. “I am so glad to have met you. I hope I’m no longer the monster you thought I was.” “I must say, mein Führer, I’m so thankful I came. Although we disagree on many issues, it doesn’t mean that we have to hate each other.” And with that, I gave him a Nazi salute and walked out into the night.
This is a work of art, genius level.
And will go completely over the head of almost every average American.
"Wait, I don't get it..." They will say as they read the ChatGTP summary, which will be shorter and easier to read. "Is Hitler still alive then? Why did this guy have dinner with him? What does this mean? So like, Hitler ain't so bad?"
They will try to ask these questions on Reddit or Facebook but the question will get shadowbanned because the topic is too controversial for advertisers. Or the only ones who answer will be bots programmed to deliver specific replies.
i watch Real Time with Bill Maher regularly and watched his monologue about his meeting with Trump (it disgusted me). this essay is beautiful because it hits many of the same points Maher made and i just know that Bill must be embarrassed and livid.
Bill Maher owes us all (his viewers) an apology. but of course we will never get it.
I stopped watching Maher when I realized all the anti-religous humor was soley directed at Catholics and Jews and he reserved actual vitriol for Muslims. Then the mean spirited dismissive language about women and just constantly talking over them. And then he got twitter...
slate.com/human-interest/2014/…
Bill Maher Tweets Horrible Thing About Women, Is Gross
Bill Maher reminded everyone Thursday evening that no matter how progressive he claims to be, when it comes to women, he’s an old school misogynist....Amanda Marcotte (Slate)
the political opinion of a famous person is worth dog crap
no?! because they have influence
Bill Maher is a cheap comedian and at his core he is an arrogant snob who has no clear idea of the essence of what he is talking about. He advocates for the abolition of woke culture (which I agree with him 100%), and has never once condemned the genocide that Netanyahu is committing because "it is not fashionable to condemn anything that comes from Israel". He always condemns and mocks Donald Trump (with great jokes) but when he was at dinner with him he "twisted his tail" and suddenly "the monster is actually a cartoon character, funny and harmless".
I used to look forward to his shows with pleasure, now I can't watch even 5 minutes. I guess you can't be good all the time.
MAGA Republicans get ready to gut Medicaid to help Trump
“Millions” of people will lose health insurance if Republicans push these plans through.
Republicans are quietly pushing to slash Medicaid to fund Donald Trump’s tax cuts and immigration spending.
The effort has been subtle and behind the scenes, and disguised as a way to eliminate Medicaid fraud and protect the program’s most vulnerable recipients.
But several Republicans, including House Speaker Mike Johnson, are desperately trying to revive a yearslong fight to eliminate the expanded Medicaid eligibility requirements included in Barack Obama’s Affordable Care Act, which gives millions of low-income adults health coverage.
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What could be worth more? American lives, or more money that billionaires could never spend in a lifetime?
The choice is clear.
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Your point is very valid.
But even just one billion is more than a whole family could spend in multiple lifetimes!
The difference between a million and a billion dollars is basically a billion dollars, while at the same time a million dollars is more wealth than a VERY large majority of Americans will ever see.
If people hoarded cats, or junk cars, or Hummel figurines, or beanie babies, etc., the way these people hoard money, theyd be diagnosed with mental illness, and get psychiatric help.
But if a zillionaire has the unquenchable compulsion to destroy EVERYTHING to get just a tiny bit more, he's worshipped as a "job creator."
Its time to start framing this behavior as a mental illness, which should no longer be indulged or tolerated. It needs to be treated, and just like a cat hoarder's cats are removed by the authorities, confiscating much of their financial hoard is the first step.
I would thoroughly be in favor of a max money or max wealth concept. Congratulations. You win! There is no more money to collect.
You are now free to do something else.
Every year, take the richest person and redistribute 50% of their wealth.
Working hard or smart doesn't make you that kind of money.
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Someone made photos of Donald Trump being a hero on 9/11.
I happen to have been working in lower Manhattan at that time. During the recovery efforts, there were some restaurants and hotels that gave free food and/or lodging to the volunteers working at Ground Zero. No Trump property gave anyone so much as a bowl of soup.
These photos don’t show Donald Trump and Obama on 9/11
Where were you on 9/11? According to an image shared on Facebook recently, President Donald Trump was helping first resp@politifact
they HAD to cut it don’t you know?
because BIDEN was such a bad economic manager they just didn’t have the money!
no the economy wasn’t doing well! the price of eggs!
bird flu epidemic due to lax regulations? NO it was BIDEN
global cost of living crisis that wasn’t isolated to the USA? pft if biden wasn’t horrible he’d have fixed it for us because the USA is better than everyone else
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When people and their loved ones are dying cause they have no access to healthcare, these same people are gonna start shooting those they think are responsible.
Nothing more dangerous than someone with nothing to lose.
Fuck around you maggots and find out.
So is this “woke” in Canada PP?
MAGA Republicans Get Ready to Gut Medicaid to Help Trump
“Millions” of people will lose health insurance if Republicans push these plans through.The New Republic
American vision care non-profit moving to Manitoba as U.S. tariffs drive up costs
American organizations that help people in need are now among those facing the sting of U.S. tariffs — and a non-profit that provides eye care to people in 68 countries is planning to move its production to Manitoba because of the uncertainty the tariffs have created.
The organization says in the last seven years, it has helped nearly a million people in Africa, Asia and South America with vision issues, but earlier this month, decided it would be challenging to continue to work out of the United States.
The non-profit is able to keep the prices of glasses at roughly $5 a pair by sourcing raw materials like frames and lenses from China. Once the materials reach Global Vision's warehouse in the U.S., the organization packages and then ships the glasses to local clinics and distribution centres in countries that include Ghana, Malawi and Laos.
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Advice to shell-shocked Americans from Brexit Britain
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/28555034
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Advice to shell-shocked Americans from Brexit Britain
Britons are skilled at navigating the humiliation unleashed by political and market chaos — allow us to give you some tipsKatie Martin (Financial Times)
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Any fediverse like discord clones?
I'm wondering if anyone made a fediverse like (aka multiple instances talking to eachother) for discord?
I know matrix exists, but it's only rooms instead of servers with channels, etc...
Matrix has spaces, which are collections of rooms.
There's also XMPP. It's not quite the same as discord, but it's another federated chat protocol.
It's not federated, but revolt.chat is probably the closest open source discord alternative.
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There are "servers" on Matrix. They are called communities
Here is the relevant part of the documentation for that: matrix.org/docs/communities/ge…
Getting Started
Everyone can start their community on Matrix by creating a Matrix Space. Community Managers can then tweak the Space to their needs.matrix.org
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Dansup of Pixelfed and Loops fame is working on an IM app called Sup. Info seems sparse on it though.
In that case matrix also doesn't federate because its not interacting with the fediverse like here on lemmy.
But revolt, matrix, and rocket.chat are all deployable by end users to connect to the platform and interact with people.
Matrix definitely is federated.
You ran into the trap of taking "fediverse" at face value. It neither invented nor monopolizes federation. E-Mail is federated and has nothing to do with the fediverse. Wikipedia's page on federation lists the very internet itself as the prime example.
Not implementing ActivityPub doesn't mean Matrix isn't federated.
actually implemented the matrix protocol, so it’s interoperable with matrix.
They originally planned this, but realized along the way that the Matrix specs are overly complicated and change at the wim of Element, so they ended up only supporting a link to Synapse via the appservice system, which isn't great as it means you have to run both Rocketchat and Synapse on the same server for it to work.
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Does it have voice channels?
EDIT according to documentation Screenshots it does!
Getting Started
Everyone can start their community on Matrix by creating a Matrix Space. Community Managers can then tweak the Space to their needs.matrix.org
Look my edit I created at the same time
It doesn't? What's the telephone icon then on the linked screenshot? Or is it like only 1to1 calls instead of multi user rooms to join like discord/teamspeak u mean?
I guess they are being creative on marketing with having implemented a small part of the matrix protocol via their appservice bridge.
The disadvantage is that it is just a bridge like many others and totally dependent on Synapse, which is a resource hog and open-core.
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it's only rooms instead of servers with channels..
Literally the same thing but with different names. I use Matrix with Element, and it is exactly the same as Discord. Laid out the same, functionally the same (actually better since it encrypts everything), and even the UI is nearly identical.
Do people not use discord for voice chat? Hop in hop out permanent voice channels that show if your friends are already in or not?
Last I looked you have to use Discord, Teamspeak, or Mumble for this
From a chat standpoint, the two are near identical - yes - but Matrix lacks the "voice/video calls as persistent rooms" feature that Discord has. This was planned a while back, but has recently been pushed on the backburner^[1]^ as they work on Element Call.
Early on Matrix was sort of being built up as an IRC/Discord alternative, but recently they've pivoted more towards a WA/Telegram/Slack alternative as most of their financial support comes from European governments and companies looking for strong and secure internal communication solutions they can manage themselves.
So, TL;DR you probably won't see the exact Discord like features you want land in the spec any time soon as they're not being funded.
So that means, right now:
- No persistent voice/video rooms (but they are on the roadmap!)
- No push-to-talk or "game friendly" settings like voice auto-detection (also not really on the roadmap)
Having said all that, Matrix is brilliant and I highly encourage people to check it out. I use a Matrix <-> Signal bridge for most of my comms with my friends, and we voice chat on Mumble. Not ideal, but you get to avoid Discord and you get a very similar experience! Bonus points for Mumble as it's super lightweight.
~[1] It's not really on the backburner so much as it's something that will have to be worked on after the new VOIP stack - Element Call - is integrated in the wider Matrix ecosystem. There is an experimental "video rooms" feature, but that really isn't the same as a native, persistent voice-only room.~
She felt like she was being watched. Then she found a hidden camera in her bathroom
A young single mother looked up and felt her privacy evaporate when she noticed a tiny camera in the bathroom ceiling of the basement apartment she lived in with her toddler.
She said it looked like a screw, no bigger than a pinky nail.
"But I had a feeling it wasn't a screw. I was shaking, I was in sheer, utter panic," she said in an interview from her mother's home in Digby County, N.S.
The woman, who CBC News cannot name because her identity and the identity of her son are protected by a court-ordered publication ban, said finding the camera turned her world upside down.
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These things happen.
Yeah, I just accidentally added a camera to my neighbors bathroom too.
WTF?
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Sexual assault trial of 5 ex-world junior hockey players begins in London, Ont., with jury selection
Jury selection is set to begin today in the trial of five former NHL players accused of sexually assaulting a woman at a hotel in London, Ont., after a gala celebrating Canada's world junior hockey win in 2018.
Michael McLeod, Cal Foote, Dillon Dubé, Carter Hart and Alex Formenton are charged with one count each of sexual assault and will be at the Superior Court proceedings. They're expected to plead not guilty. McLeod faces an additional count of being party to the offence.
The trial, expected to last eight weeks, is a culmination of a years-long process that included a civil lawsuit, parliamentary hearings about how Hockey Canada handled the original allegations and investigation, and a reckoning with what some called a toxic culture in the game.
An unethical guide to 100.000 citations
An unethical guide to 100.000 citations
“”A number of leading researchers have published their research contributions at this Journal among them Zhanhu Guo, Zhanhu Guo, Zhanhu Guo,….”For Better Science
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ICC asks Hungary to clarify failure to uphold arrest warrant against Netanyahu
ICC requests clarification from Hungary over failure to uphold arrest warrant against Netanyahu
CEASE-FIRE TALKS: Report: Hamas rejects Israeli proposal for hostage deal ■ GAZA: Defense Minister says IDF to remain in seized Gaza buffer zones, no humanitarian aid will enter ■ U.S.Haaretz
Trump exempts phones, computers, chips from new tariffs
Trump exempts phones, computers, chips from new tariffs
Financial markets have been roiled since President Trump imposed stiff tariffs on China, where Apple and other tech companies make many of their products.Erin Doherty (CNBC)
Dude acts all tough and then caves under pressure.
If you can’t handle it then don’t start it.
“They” negotiated a “deal”.
It’s all you need to know ok. Tariff on and tariff off. Art of the deal. Shazam.
How Trump's tariff moves are undercutting his 'drill, baby, drill' oil push
It's an example of how tariffs hit parts of the economy not directly facing levies, as rising costs for materials and falling oil prices amid broader uncertainty have affected the industry.
Oil industry executive J. Nelson Wood was close to starting a multimillion-dollar drilling project in Illinois. Then came President Donald Trump’s tariffs.
Now, the cost of the pipes he will need for the project has doubled following Trump’s tariff on steel imports, while the price for his oil has fallen around 17% this year amid fears that the levies will slow economic growth — and with it demand for oil. Between the higher costs and lower prices, it doesn’t make financial sense for him to drill for more oil, he said.
“It’s very hard for people to have the confidence to invest when markets are in a state of flux and panic, and that’s where we are now,” Wood said. “There’s a lot of uncertainty, and that uncertainty prevents development of a lot of projects — from people my size all the way up through the majors.”
How Trump's tariff moves are undercutting his 'drill, baby, drill' oil push
Oil producers across the country say they are thinking twice about taking on new drilling projects and looking to cut costs after Trump’s trade war rhetoric has driven down the price of oil and his tariffs have driven up the cost of drilling.Shannon Pettypiece (NBC News)
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