But err, protesting never accomplishes anything and just drives away us genuinely good people who want some Starbucks. You need to find a better way to get your point across without leaving your designated spot.
This bullshit is a long time coming.
No, this is going to be cops and other feds using a different charge code.
Where is the us army ?
Something something Posse Comitatus means that they are actually heroes for doing nothing about a violent uprising and you are a bastard for not supporting the troops in their hour of need. I hope you’ll think about your words and deeds while you get shipped off to a concentration camp.
This isn’t piracy since you are legitimately-ish getting stuff but:
If you are actually in the US, check out your local community colleges. Depending on the college (and state), that may range from free to “you only need to sell a kidney once every four years”.
A scumbag cousin of mine has been doing that for probably coming on 20 years now. He signs up for a course every other year, never attends it, and then drops it. Keeps his dot edu email active for “free” software and I think he also flips laptops and the like.
That said, also consider actually attending the course. One night a week to learn a new skill or just keep the (questionable science of) neuroplasticity going.
I mean, this pope is still all about protecting priests who got behind small children.
The “funny” thing is that trump/musk/doge could have had SO many “easy wins”. Because… the US government is ridiculously bloated and inefficient. Even just “Development of Military Weapon X has been terminated due to being over budget and no longer fulfilling the requirements of the contract. Boeing or whatever the fuck has been instructed to terminate all R&D into Weapon X and to instead focus on continued maintenance and optimization of Weapon Y for the next N fiscal years”
Same with government oversight. SO many policies are basically built around covering their asses ten times over (cough cough Challenger cough). And while there are very good reasons to do that (again, see the fucking Challenger), there is also a lot of room to reevaluate that and make things kind of worse but a lot cheaper in a way that most of the actual employees would love.
Instead? It was just “let’s immediately gut everything while we decide if we want to just become a full president for life dictatorship”.
Its not even that.
It is throwing away your jacket because you don’t want to go out for lunch in the middle of the day. And then realizing you still need that jacket to get to and from work and having to buy a new one. And THEN buying lunch anyway because you are hungry.
A few articles have done a great job of documenting it but it boils down to the problem being the fundamental argument of WHY they are doing this. Officially their stance is to move fast, break things, and then repair what they actually needed. Except those repairs cost a LOT of time and money.
And… to add on to the brutally beaten metaphor: It also costs money to get rid ofy our old jacket because you can’t just throw it in the trash. You have to drive down to a good will to drop it off. Because government employees have PTO that needs to be paid out and so forth.
I always want to think the worst of bezos et al but:
If the plan was just to jack up prices they wouldn’t make this distinction.
So… you blame that on “scholars”?
Because you seem to think that people weren’t talking about exactly that for close to 50 years. You just weren’t paying attention. And now are apparently criticizing people for continuing to talk about it.
Again, THAT is what the legacy of reagan et al is. We all grew up on media that makes us immediately want to complain that “Scientists said eggs were good for us then bad for us then good for us” and all the other crap that encourages people to just get angry when they hear “common sense” and actively ignore anything that isn’t.
Language matters. And understanding that language is how you understand what biases have been ingrained into you.
Just trying to function under capitalism while providing for their family? Often both immediate and extended since many of our scholars and scientists are immigrants who came here for a higher wage to send money back home to their parents.
And mostly being increasingly annoyed at how almost all media attacks intellectuals and paints us as “out of touch” and “having no common sense”. All while acknowledging that the entire world is shifting authoritarian but not expecting the US to speedrun a decade or two of erosion of civil rights.
But hey, good on you for continuing to demonstrate just how ingrained anti-intellectualism is into the cultural zeitgeist. Because this shit has been going on for a lot longer than 24 years. Most people attribute it to reagan. But the end result is that basically everyone grew up on (national equivalents of) nickelodean sitcoms where the protagonist kid proves they are smarter than their teachers because they understood a pun or knew one tidbit of trivia.
Yeah. I have a lot of problems with Kamala The Cop. But she lost what might be the final election in American History. That takes a lot out of you
Assuming this is actually true:
trump was just angry that there was a meeting he wasn’t invited to. Which… he was, he just ignored it.
He literally tried to have the senate (and house) murdered by an angry mob.
But yeah, that is definitely going to be the one line he won’t cross. Ignoring their disapproval.
Oh. And he’ll say “Oh no, you got me” and walk away? I mean, he did exactly that on Jan 6 that one time, right?
Like, just to check: he is going to ignore The Law if it is written law or a ruling from a judge or the supreem court. But hey, if the people he tried to have fucking murdered (and worse) say not to do something, he’ll definitely listen to them, right?
How does one judge what is false hope in a struggle that never ends?
When people are celebrating an action that will accomplish absolutely nothing so that they can continue to “get on with their lives”?
And that applies to the rest of your rant. If an action doesn’t move the needle in the slightest and just highlights how little hope there is then it is pointless. Unless you somehow believe that enough court orders will pile up that the guy who engaged in a little violent insurrection last time is going to say “You know what? I get that I am not wanted. I’ll abdicate power peacefully”. Especially when he only failed last time because he acted “too soon” and has been speed running making sure that he controls every gun in the government for this time.
We literally did exactly this last week. People were terrified of what would happen with the tariffs. trump “backed down” and… still bumped up the percentage against basically every country and is still doing everything he can to make xi jinping notice him. But people have “false hope” and are now happy and going back to their days.
Pessimism is indeed a cancer.
But so is false hope. Because countless people will just say “See, there is push back. It isn’t that bad”. We saw exactly that happen last week (and the week before (and the week before (…))) with the tariffs. trump did something stupid to destroy the economy and livelihood of the country, he backed off a bit, and everyone praised him while ignoring that he still made things worse.
And same here. Yes, it is great that any judges are willing to throw their careers away and make themselves a target of the fascists. But nothing will change if those rulings aren’t enforced and all signs are that they won’t be.
But it still gives people a way to just keep ignoring it because “I am valuing my mental health”
And what happens if Congress impeaches him?
It is the exact same problem. Laws that cannot/will not be enforced aren’t laws.
We THINK they are based in the Netherlands. Maybe they are, maybe they aren’t (VPNs and shell corporations are a thing). Either way, we don’t know if they’ll insist that Netherlands/EU law will protect them or if they’ll just hand over everything the moment they see the kind of headache they don’t want to deal with.
Again, OPSEC.
Friendly reminder that we are looking at a government that is likely going to imprison political dissidents and you do not know who the admins of lemmy.world are or what they will and won’t turn over before and after getting a call from the secret police.
Just like the rest of us don’t know who you are and don’t know if you are that “protester” with a very visible body armor and gun bulge under your shirt.
The Internet is a beautiful thing to make disseminating information and organizing protests MUCH easier. But it is also a great way to release insane amounts of personal information to bad actors. Practice good OPSEC and understand who you are communicating with AND who is listening.
Because Jellyfin et al are all still very much “open source projects” in terms of UI/UX and it is still “missing” so many features.
For me? The big reasons why I just use plex boil down to:
My personal opinion? For something that only “tech savvy” people are using more or less locally, Jellyfin is fine. For something that “just works”? There is no competition with Plex. And considering how many of the Jellyfin workarounds end up being “just download a copy of the file locally and watch it in VLC”… why would I use Jellyfin at all in that case when I could otherwise just mount a samba share or use Kodi (that is the latest incarnation of XBMC or whatever the samba share frontend we all used to watch porn on our playstations was, right?).
To be clear. I check in on Jellyfin probably every other year at this point? I WANT an alternative to Plex. But… Jellyfin ain’t it.