Archangel1313

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[–] Archangel1313@lemmy.ca 55 points 11 hours ago (3 children)

This is what the internet is for.

[–] Archangel1313@lemmy.ca 30 points 11 hours ago

Russia has no one to blame but Putin, for NATO getting so close to their borders.

[–] Archangel1313@lemmy.ca 132 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (8 children)

“But you have a governor who let the city burn down, didn’t want water to be sent down to him,” Trump complained about Newsom and January’s wildfires. “I mean, I sent billions of gallons of water. I wanted to do it in the first term. He wouldn’t do it over. I don’t know, they have environmental reasons, but there were no environmental reasons. It’s, I think it’s just a political philosophy. But it’s lucky for the people in Los Angeles and in California that we did what we did.”

They dumped an entire reservoir full of water designed for agriculture purposes, into the fucking ocean! That reservoir didn't even connect to LA's supply.

[–] Archangel1313@lemmy.ca 100 points 12 hours ago (11 children)

Did Trump declare martial law while I was asleep? Because last time I checked, he can't deploy the military on US soil unless the country is in a state of emergency. And peaceful protests don't count.

[–] Archangel1313@lemmy.ca 8 points 15 hours ago

AI consumes more resources than Bitcoin, at this point. We are accelerating our own demise, all for the spectacle of watching a computer hallucinate on command. There is nothing more decadently bourgeoisie than that.

[–] Archangel1313@lemmy.ca 66 points 1 day ago (24 children)

I can't even imagine the mental gymnastics required to be both "pro-labor" and "pro-AI". I mean, yeah I'm all about workers rights...but imagine how much money my boss could make if he just replaced us all with robots?

[–] Archangel1313@lemmy.ca 24 points 1 day ago (2 children)

...but, did it work?

[–] Archangel1313@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago

Well...the Saudis do pay more. /s

[–] Archangel1313@lemmy.ca 61 points 1 day ago (1 children)

There is an implied contract between the States and the Federal government regarding taxation. The Federal government cannot cut funding to a State and still expect them to keep their end of that agreement.

[–] Archangel1313@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 day ago

For all the alarmists acting like this is going to pass...it won't. This is part of the normal process that all new legislation goes through. Politicians propse a bill, which contains everything they can think to include...throwing it all at the wall, just to see what will stick. Then it gets torn to shreds during the debate session, by legal advocacy groups and human rights organizations, who know exactly what kinds of legal challenges they can see coming a mile away. Anything that's garaunteed to get tossed out in court is discarded from the legislation.

Why? Because there's no point in passing legislation that can't actually be legally enforced. Law enforcement has been trying to get these kinds of "tools" implemented for decades. And the courts have all said, all the way along...no. You need a warrant for that kind of intrusion. They need probable cause to look at these things. They need a reasonable justification beyond, "I want to look, just in case". None of the shit in this bill is going to pass the legal smell test. Period.

[–] Archangel1313@lemmy.ca 43 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] Archangel1313@lemmy.ca 76 points 3 days ago (1 children)

"Any rebuttal is shut down by these drones." Proceeds to complain that their whataboutism isn't respected as a valid "rebuttal".

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