[-] TheTimeKnife@lemmy.world 128 points 3 months ago

Google needs to be broken up by government.

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The Senate passed legislation Wednesday to overhaul oversight and bring greater transparency to the crisis-plagued federal Bureau of Prisons following reporting from The Associated Press that exposed systemic corruption in the federal prison system and increased congressional scrutiny.

The Federal Prison Oversight Act, which the House passed in May, now goes to President Joe Biden to be signed into law. It establishes an independent ombudsman for the agency to field and investigate complaints in the wake of rampant sexual abuse and other criminal misconduct by staff, chronic understaffing, escapes and high-profile deaths.

[-] TheTimeKnife@lemmy.world 64 points 5 months ago

I finally switched to Linux and I couldn't be happier. I can't believe I put up with microsofts garbage for so damn long.

[-] TheTimeKnife@lemmy.world 56 points 6 months ago

Doesn't look like Proton did anything wrong, they can't fight these requests and he was caught by identifying information he linked to his account.

[-] TheTimeKnife@lemmy.world 85 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Wage theft enforcement is so desperately needed in the US.

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[-] TheTimeKnife@lemmy.world 207 points 10 months ago

When I was a real little kid, summer was always a hard time for me to eat because I was cut off from the subsidized lunch program. My mother was severely mentally ill and barely provided a meal a day sometimes. Food stamps, subsidized lunch programs and food shelves provided most of my nutrition, it was a benefit she couldn't divert away from feeding me and my siblings most of the time.

Anybody who supports removing these programs is legitimately a monster. It keeps so many kids alive or from developing horrific nutritional deficiencies. It has nothing but a positive impact on the community and economy.

[-] TheTimeKnife@lemmy.world 60 points 11 months ago

Because we need to replace and maintain the ones we already have. People have been talking about doing this to our aging stockpile for decades.

It makes sense to reduce our arsenal, but the nukes we do have need to be maintained for safety and reliability.

[-] TheTimeKnife@lemmy.world 84 points 1 year ago

I'm so sick of these treasonous jackals.

[-] TheTimeKnife@lemmy.world 97 points 1 year ago

Youtube is a perfect example of why ad blockers exist. They use ridiculous ad volumes and spy on their users for data to sell.

[-] TheTimeKnife@lemmy.world 56 points 1 year ago

It's interesting how these "critical cuts" we need to make to the budget always come out of the enforcement agencies keeping track of the companies bribing them with campaign money.

[-] TheTimeKnife@lemmy.world 49 points 1 year ago

Not remotely surprising the Republicans compromised on the lowest common denominator.

[-] TheTimeKnife@lemmy.world 97 points 1 year ago

Conservatives started forcing a talking point in the 80s and 90s that all the courts are liberal activists, despite that not being remotely true. So they spend 30 to 40 years building a strategy to stack the courts and hyper politicize them so they can force through undemocratic measures. I watched it happen and how it was constantly talked about, I grew up in a very politically active conservative family.

So they successfully stacked the courts, even outright lying to the American public to hold up Garlands nomination to the Supreme Court. As a result democrats have scrambled the past 4 years to confirm their own slew of judges, in order to prevent the courts from becoming a political wing of the republican party. So now we have hyper polarized courts. Judges have always had political biases, but this new wave of judges have well outlined partisan goals, like a politician running for office. It's had a hugely negative effect on American law, like the conservative Supreme Court ignoring SB. 8 in Texas. An obviously corrupt and illegal use of the law that ignores a couple hundred years of jurisprudence.

[-] TheTimeKnife@lemmy.world 86 points 1 year ago

Notice the crowd that wanted all the confederate statues around is completely silent about an actual history course being attacked by special interest groups. It's almost like the only common goal is racism.

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