IIRC about 2/3rds of americans are living paycheck to paycheck. That is not an economy that is working for the people.

We need dramatic overhauls that Biden, and especially Trump will never deliver. We need employee ownership of companies for starters.

[-] Olgratin_Magmatoe@startrek.website 32 points 10 months ago

The only reason a single mother and baby should ever be flash banged is if they are shooting at the police. With the technology today, they should be aware of who is going to be hit by a flash bang before it’s even thrown.

That, and there isn't ever really a need to do raids in the first place.

[-] Olgratin_Magmatoe@startrek.website 39 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Don't worry! WW3 will be preceeded by the Bell Riots, a collection of revolts by people treated inhumanely and stuck in slums. It will be a fun little distraction before the fireworks. It's even got it's own count down now!

[-] Olgratin_Magmatoe@startrek.website 56 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

According to Star Trek lore, WW3 will begin in 3 years, and last for 27 years.

Buckle up.

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[-] Olgratin_Magmatoe@startrek.website 45 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)
[-] Olgratin_Magmatoe@startrek.website 71 points 11 months ago

Keeping users siloed in Facebook’s garden shouldn’t be seen as a win for us.

Sometimes the only winning move is not to play. If people hadn't federated with google's XMPP back in the day, google wouldn't have had the same level of control it had to kill XMPP as a competitor.

We need to learn from the lessons of the past, and the past has resulted in the deaths of services when federating with corporations.

[-] Olgratin_Magmatoe@startrek.website 62 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Embrace extend extinguish

Don't federate with corps, it will only end badly

[-] Olgratin_Magmatoe@startrek.website 65 points 11 months ago

Enshitification isn't solved by voting with your dollar. If it did, the printer market wouldn't be the shit show that it is. You can't vote for the good if all the manufacturers mutually agree to only produce shit. Only regulation will keep them in line.

(inb4 "brother is better", I am aware that brother printers are generally better, but they are far from good.)

Like it or not we are stuck with a two party system. As fucking awful as Biden is, and he is, Biden is the lesser of two evils by far. And that applies to democrats/republicans as a whole.

Both parties/candidates are to some degree cool with genocide and privatization, but only one of the two stands out as the worst, and the worst by a lot.

Don't like it? Vote for local candidates/congressional candidates in primaries that will fix the two party problem. But in the mean time the better presidential option will be anything with a D next to their name.

Things aren't tough yet. Wait until the effects if climate change absolutely destroy our shore lines, food and water supply, etc.

[-] Olgratin_Magmatoe@startrek.website 124 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

As to why a Scientology-owned group would care about such a matter, 404 Media suggested that it could have to do with Scientology E-meters, or electropsychometers. The Church of Scientology describes the machines as an "electronic instrument that measures mental state and change of state in individuals and assists the precision and speed of auditing" and that only a Scientology minister or training minister should use. 404 Media noted that some people collect the devices and, oddly enough, you can find E-Meters sold on eBay.

"My hunch is that the Scientologists think granting the hacking community permission to dig into their E-Meter software will expose the whole operation as snake oil. The request is like so many other anti-Right to Repair arguments: Manufacturers are afraid that access to repair materials will expose some of their other dirty secrets," Chamberlain said.

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