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Cake day: June 23rd, 2023

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  • And it has nothing to do with the expiry on the special appointment coming up where Trump will either have to make him a real federal employee with all the legal exposure that confers or let him go.

    As others have pointed out, he’s already compromised systems, downloaded what data he could for Peter Thiel/Palantir, broken those organizations to the furthest extent he is able, and likely will have continued access to the data through illegal means in the future for himself/his handlers.

    He’s not ‘leaving politics’ because those mean liberals, he’s leaving because as a useful idiot, he’s fulfilled his use and maybe realized he was being used as an idiot, but likely not.



  • I bear the same name as my father and his father. They both died when I was a young - over 30 years ago. I sometimes still get texts asking me if I’d like to “sell my house at [the address of my grandfather’s house that sold when he died in 1989].”

    If the best that data miners can do is text me because they think I’m a 100+ year-old, then Musk’s sloppy efforts are going to be even worse.
    Waiting for the day I get arrested for not having paid my own child support.






  • It helps because just like all the things Reagan destroyed, the American people will never be able to get those things back. Even when they do vote in politicians that pretend to represent them, the U.S. political system is too easily swayed with donor money to allow in things that truly benefit people again.
    And if the government can close or sell facilities by the time sane policies prevail again (if they ever do), then it still benefits ‘them’, because the government can’t just create land and buildings from nothing. The only places they would be able to do that are new towns and rural areas. (White flight areas and conservative areas) So, you know, destroyed government services can’t even be reliably recreated in population-dense areas. (Cities - liberal areas)

    I mean, it doesn’t help normal people, but it sure helps all the businesses that trade well-being for dollars. They’re going to do great.






  • MonumenttoRantI hate reachability of smartphones
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    10 days ago

    All of the red ‘notification’ dots on my apps give off a nice warm glow that makes the screen feel homey.

    Silliness aside, it’s an act of self care to only do what you have the desire and capacity to do. Don’t make yourself unhappy for an expectation that you get to set.


  • MonumenttoAsk@lemm.eeWhat was your school's scandal?
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    13 days ago

    Senior English teacher was having an affair with a student. She disclosed this to another teacher who, herself, was rumored to be at our school because she slept with students in her previous school district. (The second teacher was very friendly with the senior boys.) The second teacher reported the first, and the entire school believed the first teacher got caught giving a blowjob to the boy she was sleeping with. When confronted, the teacher and the boy admitted their relationship to administrators.
    I know this because I read it on the report our school principle had written up after a virus took down our school’s network and they accidentally put it back up without all the ‘walls’ in place.