Upton Sinclair is spinning in his grave because we’re still dealing with so much of the same shit he wrote about in The Jungle.

The mugshot is… something, lol. Droopy dog levels of eye bags.

We’ve already seen people fraudulently pretending to be ICE.

He was actually older than college age. Like way older. He was like 60. If he was college age, yeah that’s pretty funny but it’s also a problem and don’t do it again, but 60?

No it’s not. The paper is the WaPo sports section from a day or two ago and the lettering matches well with that and the crunchy pixels. The newspaper might be photoshopped into an old pic or there’s some other fuckery but the text on the paper matches. (Also that kind of check pattern on Mitch’s shirt is hard for current commercially available LLMs but wouldn’t put it past them to have access to something fancy.)

I think as it is now leftism is an intellectual position, but historically I don’t think that’s always been true, when leftist movements saw more broad popular appeal like during labor organizing there were definitely dumb leftists.

The reason it’s in Republicans best interest to keep people stupid is that stupid people are much easier to propagandize to. Analyzing the information you’re receiving helps make you less likely to fall for blatant lies. (Leftists know we need better propaganda, but it’s also deeply cynical to think we need it.)

Space shuttle launches. I’ve seen basically every one that’s happened in my lifetime since I grew up like 30 miles from Cape Canaveral, we’d watch the initial launch on TV then run outside to watch the shuttle rise over the trees in the yard. The solid rocket boosters glow and you could see them separate and fall back down.

The first time I drove out to the coast to watch as an adult my friend and I were sitting along the intracoastal and some dolphins came up to say hi while we were waiting.

I’m not sure we’re respecting extradition within the US anymore. Ross used to live in Minnesota but after he murdered someone other agents were seen moving stuff from his house and he’s been disappeared to somewhere else in the country - if Minnesota prosecutors decide the video evidence they do have is enough to convict and they bring charges, do you think the Confederate States of America will return him to face justice?

I hate living in a place the US government is invading for natural resources.

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MAMDANI WON!

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/democrat-zohran-mamdani-wins-new-york-city-mayors-race

I’m trans and originally from Florida. Rick Scott getting elected in spite of the Medicare fraud was enough for me to realize Florida would continue to get worse, so I left.

Florida is a sunny place for shady people.

So I’d been considering getting a used smart watch with fitness tracking stuff and audio controls (I listen to audio books at work but have to pause fairly frequently), what should I be looking for to keep my data away from the ghouls? I know about the PineTime, how ready for less techy consumers is that right now?

The US congresswoman in question is, of course, Ilhan Omar.

JUNE 13TH WOO! 🎂

I lived in that county for a bit, you forgot all of the poor conservatives that live in the swamps there too.

I’m glad it’s not a thing here because as a “positive” incentive I feel like it drives some users to vapid karma farming over actually interesting and new content. That said, I occasionally miss it when there’s some unpleasant commenter douchenozzeling all over a thread and it’s an easy way to see if someone is always an unpleasant ass or if they’re having a bad day and otherwise make valuable contributions to Lemmy.

Yup. I live in Minneapolis, can I just stop paying federal taxes now?

Although 420698008 isn’t bad…

The appendix is a vestigial organ that doesn’t actually do anything in humans. (It might still fit the definition of vestigial, but it’s far from useless and we keep learning more about how valuable gut health is.)