I can’t even remember them all, but it’s usually one of the following, in no particular order:

– Someone who started well but whose channel is now just ads for paid content elsewhere, OR whose content is clearly only there to serve as a vehicle by which to present all their merch, affiliate links, new products, paid collaborations, etc., and/or where the content itself is merely a series of reminders about “check the link in the description!” every two minutes to the extent that even Sponsor Block can’t keep up (the art communities tend to have these more than others do)

– Someone who is casually cruel, or if they mock others in a way that could even be remotely considered serious (Cam Anderson of Blacktail Studios is my sole exception here: mouth like a flamethrower but it’s hilarious and clearly not meant seriously except in regard to his ex-roommate, iykyk)

– Someone who draws me in on content but turns out to have an incessant whine or series of gripes or is embroiled in unending conflicts

– Someone who leans heavy on religion, or uses voiceover to deliver extended essay-like monologues on some unrelated subject

– Someone who turns out to be right-wing/fascist or strikes me as a propagandist, and/or delivers propagandistic content that seems to rely on emotional interaction or visceral response from the viewer

– AI content: I can live with a splash screen/intro or other minor bits, but otherwise I don’t want to see it or hear it

I am genuinely envious. My senator is one of the most widely reviled.

(Even more unfortunate is the fact that I can say that without even coming close to doxxing myself.)

Trump escaped from serving in the Vietnam war by claiming he had bone spurs. Avoiding getting a sexually transmitted disease, he told Howard Stern on his radio show, “is my personal Vietnam”. He described women as “landmines”. “I feel like a great and very brave soldier.” He told Stern: “You know, if you’re young, and in this era, and if you have any guilt about not having gone to Vietnam, we have our own Vietnam – it’s called the dating game … Dating is like being in Vietnam.”

Ron Wyden is one of a handful of senators who has spent his many years on Capitol Hill actively working for the betterment of his constituents and the country. His report is the result of several years working to get access to Epstein’s financial records, not just for the public but to investigators who already have the legal right to see the full, unredacted versions but are actively being blocked by Blanche at the DoJ and Bessent at Treasury.

Meanwhile, Bari Weiss is a person whose resume does not begin to support her appointment, who seems to have failed upward, and whose tenure at CBS has been marked by the departures of veteran reporters and producers all saying she has no real interest in reporting news and uses her position to scupper anything critical of the administration.

Who to believe, hmm. 🤔

I dislike how disenting opinions get downvoted on Lemmy/technology probably more than even on reddit.

That almost makes it sound unfair, but the technology on Lemmy is doing exactly what each one of us tells it to do every time we cast a vote. It is, as far as I can tell, an exact representation of our own individual votes cast.

I could almost see your point on Reddit because of all the vote fuckery that goes on there, but here on Lemmy blaming a mass downvote on the tech and not on the users casting the votes is a misdirection of blame.

Yup. And it’s an embarrassment to see. At this point anyone who has done the bare minimum in actual security work can run intellectual rings around any of these tech bros.

They’re not geniuses when it comes to real-world application, just moneyed dreamers so immensely out of touch with the real world they don’t even know the basics of the industry they claim to be innovators in.

Meanwhile, those of us who are even superficially acquainted with the basics see it immediately, like you did and so many in this thread. It’s the same old thing of peddlers of tech not actually having to know their tech as long as they know just enough to sell it to those corporate IT decision makers who also don’t know their tech.

I cannot wait for this tower of shit to collapse under its own weight.

Yep. It’s rich given that the article says she “strongly objected” when WaPo publicly identified her as the founder behind the Libs of TikTok account in 2022. Just like all bullies, she can’t bear even a fraction of what she dishes out on the regular.

No problem. Thanks for taking the time to do these, much appreciated.

You’re probably right about the “stable after resuscitation” thing. I assume that means independent breathing and heartbeat. I don’t know much about emergency medicine, though I have always heard a body can maintain independent life support with only minimal brain health. (This is probably before your time but I was around when the Karen Ann Quinlan thing was going on with all its endless debates.)

But it’s not just that. In an interview with Katie Couric last month, Gov. Andy Beshear said,

Well, Mitch McConnell’s boss are the people of Kentucky. There are constituents which deserve honesty and transparency. It had been a month before anything had been put out, not even an official statement from Senator McConnell. In fact, I’d gotten two calls from different agencies, not state agencies, suggesting he’d passed. So, this rampant speculation that was out there, it needed to end.

That’s McConnell’s governor himself saying he got calls “suggesting” that McConnell was already dead, not from individuals but unnamed and “not state” (presumably federal) agencies.

Most importantly, McConnell himself still hasn’t ended the speculation when to do so would be easy enough if he were conscious and alert. Instead, AI press releases come out of his office with “proof of life” photos that are both problematic in their own right, strongly suggesting that his people are already going to extreme lengths to keep his actual condition a secret, already remaining silent on the truth, already creating false evidence to support a fraudulent pretense of not just life but ongoing improvement. Yet he personally never shows.

So for me, I don’t think it’s a stretch to consider that people already committing that kind of fraud on the public would stop short of a job well done. But that’s not a slam on someone that doesn’t want to go there; I can understand why anyone would want more proof. It’s not like a hearty set of lies has never come out of the US govt before, lol.

If a friendship will be over because one party to it is pursuing a goal they genuinely believe in, that is not only to the betterment of their community but because of who they are as a human being, I think it’s safe to say there was never actually a two-person friendship there.

Or to put it another way, I am certain that of the two, Alice Wade was a real friend and thought she was in a real friendship.

Link to actual Newsweek article (original source, more readable):

https://www.newsweek.com/judge-rules-ice-coerced-legal-migrant-to-sign-deportation-papers-12285581

Lol he is

He’s not even the first. Tom Kean, a Republican rep from NJ, stayed absent for just under four full months earlier this year without explanation and then blithely explained it as “treatment for depression.” But he’s still running for reelection in November.

McConnell announced his retirement in February 2025 and was not seeking re-election this year, meaning that Kentucky was always going to elect a new senator for his seat this November anyway. Otherwise your point is well taken, and it was McConnell himself who pulled that “too close to an election” shit with Obama’s Supreme Court nomination.

Same here. When the video by his DC neighbor came out showing the ambulance, the EMT was standing in the back with the doors open, McConnell’s feet clearly visible behind him on the gurney, and the EMT was casually doing something else in no hurry to get going. Other witnesses also mentioned that when it left there were no sirens.

So yeah, dead or brain dead like you say, but clearly not coming back.

Personally I think his people are gonna give it a bit of time, anywhere from a couple days to a month, and then announce some kind of downturn that has now resulted in his “sudden and unexpected” death. But he’s been gone all along, IMO.

JD wants to grow up to be president one day, but he’s bothered by fat, he thinks it’s a personal failure, and he’s too sensitive to hear criticism about Iran, lol.

I hope the Iranian Lego guys drop a new video on this, because he just handed them his insecurities on a platter, lol.

One notes he still has not been personally seen or heard from, yet if he’s well enough to travel to go “home” – “home” still remaining carefully undefined – he’s certainly well enough to appear in a 30-second video, IMO.

Factually speaking, whichever way you choose to interpret it, this brief ChatGPT-sounding press release from his office comes just after the deadline for calling a Kentucky special election to fill McConnell’s Senate seat; he still has not offered any kind of live evidence that he is compos mentis or even conscious; he is still just as personally absent in every way as he has been since June in an unbroken streak of total non-verifiable communication; and his Senate seat is now legally and permanently locked until its new occupant is elected in November and sworn in later in January.

My personal take, and it is just my opinion, is that he is not expected to live, never was, and this is what we were all expecting to see. Instead of being a death notice it’s a pre-death notice, if you will. He has been moved to a longer-care facility, wherever that may be, and his handlers don’t want to deal with the rightful backlash of the rest of us knowing the truth.

Or, you know, he could just get up and do a happy little jig for TikTok and prove us all wrong, lol.

That’s funny because I usually do and for whatever reason this time it never even occurred to me, probably because the article mentioned it twice. But they did not call it by name – they just refer to it as the Epstein “transparency law” or “transparency act” – so your point is well taken. Apologies for the omission.

Yes, absolutely. There’s even a name for it. That certainly played no small part in the choice of venue when the plaintiffs were deciding where to file.

EDITED to add: I hadn’t known who the judge was when I wrote the above comments, but it turns out that this judge, who is a Trump appointee and a member of the Federalist Society, has now granted the emergency stay.

This is the order:
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.flsd.703382/gov.uscourts.flsd.703382.116.0.pdf

Hah, yeah. Today, anyway. Tomorrow it’ll be something else. It’s the magical $10 billion: if you skim through the linked filing what it amounts to is the BBC pointing out that for all the twisting and turning and various statements on the part of the plaintiff, they can’t or won’t produce the first bit of evidential documentation. He sued over this and that claim, but now everyone is just supposed to take his word for it.

At this point the plaintiff’s case basically comes down to, “Well it’s not this anymore but it’s still that so we don’t have to produce evidence for this, and we thought it was caused by this but no it’s really that so you don’t need to see that either, and we thought the harm was this but no it’s absolutely that, we mean it this time so you should just take our word for it,” but that magical $10 billion damage amount mysteriously stays exactly the same throughout. It’s a shell game on paper played by his lawyers.

In reality, if Mar-a-Lago lost $10 billion dollars, it’s just because it’s management was just that extraordinarily shitty. Same goes for the rest of that putrefying fuck’s “businesses” he’s managed to turn into black holes that suck cash with zero return. He did that to a fucking casino, lol. I think it’s his superpower (that, and clearing out the Oval Office with a shart on demand, no other president has shown that skill). He made the White House look like a goddamn Taiwanese buffet (nothing against Taiwanese buffets, just not what one wants to see in the halls of government). Dude can’t manage his own way out of a greasy Mickie D’s bag – but sure, it was all the BBC’s fault, lol.