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[–] _cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

How do you even misspell things, when every device you have has spell check and autocorrects you?

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 4 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Auto Correct causes me a lot of grief tbh

[–] NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I hate autocorrect, but I at least still have spellcheck with it's funny lil red lines.

[–] _cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 days ago

Ain’t that the ducking truth.

[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 85 points 3 days ago (12 children)

We need to stop being in shock and awe at how stupid these people are and start understanding that they are our enemies. They work in direct opposition to the welfare of average Americans. They're also stupid. But more importantly, they are our enemies, and we need to start framing it as such.

[–] Delphia@lemmy.world 18 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Intelligence and Cunning are two different things.

If I'm walking through the woods and I'm being stalked by a predator the fact that it cant do long division doesnt matter for shit.

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[–] LillyPip@lemmy.ca 40 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

If the US was actually a meritocracy, I’d be rich. I built my career in comp sci and UXD from nothing. I left school in 9th grade then taught myself programming in multiple languages – BASIC then Perl, Java, C, and on to C++, C#, ObjC, JavaScript, and markup languages, – and UXD including related important fields (psychology, sociology, philosophy), and worked my way from a delivery driver to cook, to assistant mgr in retail and restaurant to manager (to make ends meet whilst learning) to programmer, to assistant lead, to PM assistant, to project manager, to designer, to lead designer at a company where I had more than 10 million users and was submitted for an Apple design award for my design.

Then I got sick with a genetic disease for which there’s no treatment or cure. Now I can no longer work and as a result, I am destitute, my savings are gone, and I have nothing but social security and Medicare, which is horribly broken. I can’t afford housing, and have to choose between medicine and food.

This is in the US, obviously. I have plenty more to contribute – my mind still works fine – but I can’t contribute in this system because I can’t reliably work.

I am fucked. I can’t afford to live anymore and, regardless of what I could contribute in a system that might allow me to, I am stuck doing nothing and slowly dying because this system is designed to fuck me as hard as possible.

This is not a meritocracy. If it was, I would not be in the position of choosing whether to eat or buy medicine.

e2: and we wouldn’t have a complete moron making billions by stealing the work of others (people like me) then just casting them aside like they’re nothing. Yes, I mean that absolute shitbag poser, you all know his name.
Sorry for all the edits, this pisses me off.

e: I also wrote a scifi novel that I can’t market because I’ve been too sick. Because I’m so desperate, I’m going to mention it here – I could use a couple of reviews. Based on current reviews, it’s not bad: Blue Are the Hills by Lilly Piper on Amazon, if you’re into dystopian fiction. I’ve tried to market myself as much as I can, but it’s hard. That’s why my Lemmy icon is my face – not because I’m a boomer, but because it’s my branding.

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[–] doingthestuff@lemy.lol 15 points 2 days ago (1 children)

She has, uh, other qualifications.

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 3 points 2 days ago
[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 168 points 3 days ago (4 children)

She didn't get her job by knowing how to spell or read

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[–] Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] NickwithaC@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago
[–] yournamehere@lemm.ee 9 points 2 days ago

go watch idiocracy again. and again. i think they were on to something.

[–] jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works 98 points 3 days ago (2 children)

There are certain things which are required of those who wish to serve in the Trump Administration. None of those things happen to be intelligence.

Covfefe

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Left-Wing: Diversity, Equity, Inclusion

Right-Wing: Deathcamps, Extermination, Invasion

[–] Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 24 points 3 days ago (1 children)

What's even fucking worse is that we live in an era of autocorrect and autofill.

[–] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 11 points 2 days ago (2 children)

"Corespondent" is a word, though. It just has a totally different meaning.

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[–] Maggoty@lemmy.world 32 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

One of the top people they've appointed to OPM, (yes that OPM sending scam resignation deals to civil servants), graduated high school in 2024.

When they say Meritocracy they mean Aristocracy.

[–] TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.zip 42 points 3 days ago (6 children)

It's written right there on the tag: "Escort"

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[–] AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

To be fair thats a hard to spell word but im not steering a country of 340 million people so i get to spell it wrong.

[–] frostysauce@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

Did she have the squiggly line turned off or did she ignore it?

[–] jaybone@lemmy.world 61 points 3 days ago (1 children)

She’s a core respondent. Get woke libtard.

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[–] postmateDumbass@lemmy.world 24 points 3 days ago

Local radio fired their news department and brought in cheap new talent.

Last night they mispromounced Potomac and i shook my head.

But a few weeks ago when the news reader mispronounced Orwellian, a canary died somewhere.

[–] Zink@programming.dev 33 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Going for some Ivanka resemblance, perhaps?

This journalist is going to have the nuclear codes in the tabloids before long.

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[–] czardestructo@lemmy.world 31 points 3 days ago (1 children)
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[–] quink@lemmy.ml 38 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (6 children)

Also, looking past that spelling mistake, what the hell is a War Room White House? Is that meant to refer to the situation room? The briefing room? Is it that she's in two places at once, the White House and a virtual War Room of whatever media organisation she represents?

Or is it, as I may be forced to suspect, a perpetual state of mind, a designation not in conflict of course with any of the above, but indicative of someone who not only cannot spell their job but is just there to, as the phrase goes, perpetually and obsequiously stir shit?

[–] SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 50 points 3 days ago (2 children)

War Room is a podcast of Steve Bannon. So she's the White House correspondent for that podcast.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 23 points 3 days ago (1 children)

White House correspondent for a fucking podcast. Look where we've arrived at.

[–] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That’s not inherently a bad thing, imo. They should be meeting people where they are, and if people listen to podcasts more than watching broadcast news, then they should have correspondents for that medium.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That people are getting their so-called news on a fucking podcast by an asshole Trump manipulator is part of the problem.

[–] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Sure, that podcast sucks, but podcasts are generally more accessible than broadcast news. If you don’t have a TV and don’t want your data mined, the big news stations of the 20th century aren’t really an option. The medium itself isn’t the problem imo, there are lots of great news podcasts

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

How are they more accessible than literally any legitimate news website?

[–] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They don’t include cookie paywalls, which most news websites do

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Most newspaper websites do that. Pretty much all the TV-based ones, including Fox News, do not.

[–] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

NBC requires them, and neither ABC nor fox has a banner for me (in the eu, so either they automatically collect nothing or they break the law and don’t tell you- at least for fox, I suspect the latter is more likely, given that the UK based Murdoch news network, news.co.uk, does have a banner). CBS does not require them though, so I guess there’s that.

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[–] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 47 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (12 children)

The term meritocracy was originally created as a satirical joke. It was never meant to actually be taken seriously

[–] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 43 points 3 days ago (6 children)

Maybe sarcastic people should stop inventing shit ideas ironically for a minute while we clean up this mess.

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[–] fox2263@lemmy.world 46 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Elon is a DEI hire because of his Asperger’s that causes sudden nazi salutes.

[–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 26 points 3 days ago

As someone who was diagnosed with asperger's syndrome when I was like three, I want to skin him alive for that piss poor excuse. The South African Nazi is just a maladapted sub-human who incapable of owning up to the fact that he is aggressively mediocre. Also im calling him sub-human cause je thinks he is better than anybody, its meant to be demeaning to his ego.

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[–] VolumetricShitCompressor@lemmy.dbzer0.com 31 points 3 days ago (1 children)
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[–] MothmanDelorian@lemmy.world 13 points 3 days ago (4 children)

Is there any reason this person should he seen as a journalist? Im only seeing an IMDB page

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[–] DogPeePoo@lemm.ee 42 points 3 days ago

<Al Pacino’s voice>

“Uh-oh… we’ve got a moron.”

[–] marshadow@lemmy.world 12 points 3 days ago (1 children)

It doesn't count as DEI if you're hired to be a sex object (disgusted sarcasm)

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[–] TheBat@lemmy.world 35 points 3 days ago (4 children)

$10 says she'll speak out about sexual harassment like that cunt Megyn Kelly.

Don't get me wrong, Megyn Kelly is a victim and is also a fascist.

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