Share bud, there’s ladies living in tents in hotel rooms. I’m considering it.

Thanks for spelling out how to get started for me. I’ll give this a try later!

Thanks everyone for the responses!

Question: I do remember the days of those RSS buttons everywhere. But I never managed to see the value in it.

Can anyone share their experience with following feeds, and how they consume this content? Is there some kind of spam/tracker free functionality that people enjoy? Are there apps out there that organize this in a way that changes the game?

I’d like to give it another shot, sorry for all the questions.

People are still getting detained for what appears to be arbitrary reasons related to their skin colour, and these detentions have led to violent incidents carried out by agents of the state. Even if you survive the initial arrest, the detention centres also appear to be lawless. Detainees are subject to additional violence or sexual violence, and the conditions are inhumane.

Vegas offers to be a honey pot for a conflict zone. Any sane person would rather visit another civilization.

I think what you shared is relevant, not a hijack.

A government agent altering a photograph to render an inaccurate image of an accused person will raise serious questions of bias. But also, any defense will likely now include whether the government has also digitally altered any other evidence concerning the matter, and whether that evidence was developed for public consumption or otherwise. to generate bias.

I’d say more broadly this raises concerns about how the White House directly controls or damages the credibility of the Judicial Branch. But, for the world audience, this should raise red flags about the (in)stability of the US in general.

I like your point that any feature has to be informed by what’s possible with the data available.

I hoped that my proposal would take advantage of data already available from the Modlog, which is simply the number of actions taken by Mods/Admins.

I also wanted to rely more on a metric that didn’t depend on user input/feedback to resist bot or group brigading.

I suspect your workflow already is informally followed by Mods/Admins, and I’d like to refer to it as the Micro side of administration, when they go to a post in question trying to assess what’s going on based on comments surrounding a post. I too believe that helps spread the work, but also vibe checking’s negative cousin is essentially brigading.

I don’t think there are easy answers in the Micro side, and much of it would be driven by existing rules and terms which seem clear enough as it is. I suspect most of the problem with Micro is just the work of assessing posts and exercising judgment.

I’d rather explore the Macro side of the equation to focus on some available metrics, and what trends can be directed with what we already have.

I’m in the US as a failed state camp. Once the Americans can accept that position, there can be a proper rebuild.

I’d consider the label “competitive authoritarianism” as rather generous, and narrowly focused on just the internal processes of the US. I also believe that the current state of the US can be more defined once we expand the view to include the Americans have yet to fully explore the scope and extent of the Epstein files, along with the full collapse of the Supreme Court of the United States to corruption.

I have similar concerns for Canada: the lack of any check on the political party system itself. For the US, with only two functional political parties, the need for some checks is even more desperate. Originally I think the concern is that politicians are always the target of lobbying and potential bribery. They are technically the most fluid agents in the political system, and therefore one of the weakest points.

Perhaps what surprised both the Americans, and others abroad, is how there’s no check on SCOTUS Justices for what essentially amounts to the appearance of outright bribery and corruption. At that point, I would have expected a full audit of the suspect Justices cases should have been done and essentially a complete review of every case should have been committed. Maybe a temporary expansion of the number of Justices to include members of the American Bar Association and other Justice system participants should have been done to basically re-hear the compromised cases.

In any event, the damage to American institutions is far reaching, and deep. I don’t think the American public fully appreciates that even with the “frame” of what once was a democracy, the damage will probably take decades to recover from.

Interesting link, I’ll have to take some time to follow up on that.

@scoffinglizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com You may want to also look over some of Antonio Gramsci’s writings for additional framing. I’m not saying this is the only frame to take, but these thoughts are typically introduced to Political Science students early on.

Apologies for the confusion then, I was following the rule to keep the original title and my comments in the body.

I guess it doesn’t help that the site is one of those live updating types with the headline adjusting.

The US is next door, and any conflict that arises would directly impact Canada across the board. Canada can expect displacement, logistical disruption, and economic consequences. I’d say these challenges would require responses from all levels of government.

Maybe as a good thought exercise, Canadians should turn their minds to what does American displacement even look like for us? Perhaps this can be categorized as emergency preparedness and disaster response.

Canada’s accustomed to dealing with diplomatic spats, difficult trade deals, or bad US foreign policy. But I’d suggest escalation of conflict in Venezuela, and domestically within the US, goes against the so called “firewall” strategy that North America had with the notion that the Oceans presented a natural and strategic defensive barrier. If American displacement actually happened due to regional conflict domestically, this would overturn a lot of existing assumptions.

What does absorbing large numbers of refugees even look like, would winter serve as a natural deterrent and how long, how many people can actually be taken in on an Emergency basis? Do we even have a means or criteria for returning displaced folks to the US?

We should confront these scenarios instead of dismiss them because the Americans appear to be steps away from them.

Another example of the UCP using this power grab strategy by clearing the boards stems from CorruptCare itself:

After her firing, Ms. Mentzelopoulos was replaced by Andre Tremblay, who was then the deputy minister of health.
In her statement of claim, Ms. Mentzelopoulos alleged Mr. Tremblay had played a role in her dismissal, had put pressure on her to terminate purported critics of the government and had cancelled a scheduled meeting with the province’s Auditor-General.

Mr. Edmonstone’s affidavit reveals that the board took steps to limit Mr. Tremblay’s executive powers after his appointment because it was concerned he was in a position of conflict of interest. “I was the one who notified Mr. Tremblay that he was being recused of oversight and decision-making” when dealing with matters related to Ms. Mentzelopoulos, her lawsuit, the probes she initiated and interactions with the Auditor-General, the affidavit states.

Mr. Tremblay was also told he couldn’t deal with the termination or pay of employees who had been involved in those issues, the affidavit states. “Reprisal concerns arose due to senior AHS management and staff expressing concern about potential reprisal actions against them to independent members of the Board,” Mr. Edmonstone said.

On Jan. 31, Ms. Smith’s government dismissed the entire board and replaced it by a single administrator, Mr. Tremblay.

With some incredulity, after being outed as basically buddies with Sam Mraiche, and seeing each other at a hotel on the run up to her own election:

When asked last week about Mr. Edmonstone’s allegations, Ms. Smith said, “I know nothing about it. So that’ll be a question for the courts.”

https://archive.is/pB5HU

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-former-ahs-board-member-harassment-allegations-sandy-edmonstone/

For those thinking about the switch, and happen to game, I understand that plenty of users are going to CachyOS or Bazzite as well.

If this were a terrible cake of mixed motives, one would be to throw out or damage the Epstein files in such a way that no one involved with those allegations can be tried.

Second, obtain war funding (Venezeula) to secure a coup, or to at least hold a significant portion of the the US indefinitely.

Third, in the event of complete failure, extort and move as much money out of the country that can resist tracing or recovery. Exit planning to leave the US on emergency basis.

I keep these three points in mind while looking at the Trump Administration.

From what I understand, Venezuela, Canada, and Russia are the primary suppliers of heavy crude. Even after so-called embargoes against Russia for the Ukraine-Russia conflict, ghost ships are still able to get product to market.

As for Iran, I’m not sure the US can even hold Iran, given their track record in Afghanistan and elsewhere. As it turns out, occupying another country requires huge troop deployments over decades.

Also, China’s built out relations through the Belts and Roads Initiative, meaning they’ve diversified the markets they can access.

One alternative plan, from an outsider’s point of view, is that the US has engaged in a long standing strategy of wealth transfer from its middle classes to its wealthy upper classes over decades. They’re in the process of breaking down their country for sale to its billionaire classes. While on paper it looks like a coup, the structure of the US suggests that the whole thing comes down with a whimper instead of a bang.

I suspect the billionaires are just waiting to see if they can get away with stealing the US, without the American people rising up and charging them for treason.

I’ll point out that others say similar things about Reddit.

https://kopitalk.net/post/179329#comment_818579

I see X users these days as the frogs in the slow boiling pots.

I sense that some of the people who remain in X had some rationales. Those who liked what they saw in terms of abuse or bad behaviour would naturally stay for more.

Perhaps others felt their voices would resist mis/disinformation, or contribute to greater discussion. But, those who chose to stay, regardless of reason, ended up conditioning themselves to receive or disregard abuse beyond all sense.

Now the platform clearly violates its members, and Musk has once again affirmed publicly that he is a white supremacist. Users - including government accounts - who remain have unwittingly become members of an extremist, white supremacist website that peddles CSAM materials.

I think it’s the stuff of movies, and something a villain, like the Joker, would have done.

I’m going to jump into a Meshcore rabbit hole here, potentially converting a Raspberry Pi into a repeater if I get further in.

After reading some more experiences, and watching a few more videos, I’ll be trying a WisMesh Tag with Meshcore.

If I slip into the rabbit trail, maybe I’ll build a repeater for fun. lol

Anyone have any experience with that meshtastic idea? Issues and hype?