I appreciate that Pete has a contingency plan (I am known to switch over to colonial warfare rations when pressed for cash myself).

However let’s also not pretend like reporters get paid enough by corpo employers so to me, Pete, passing you a fistful of ones on kofi is more akin to supporting FOSS or artists than any sort of “charity” or even mutual aid.

Oh thanks

Hey Pete, you have to hang in there, champion. You are literally a fact based local reporter in what is about to be confusing and bad times, my dude. You’re Peter Parker, basically, except you are doing it analog. Do you have a kofi account or something?

So the student population around Stanford are gaming the study fee economy with Poe dot com eh? That’s pretty funny.

if this wasn’t copypasta, it is now

(edit: intended as a compliment)

He does VA too I guess

that’s the spirit! I will join you.

Have to say, I joined Beehaw after Lemmy.world became unusable, largely due to federation with sh.itjust.works which is hosting users like Early To Risa and the other rightwing propagandists. It ruins the ability to browse without a login, and those propagandists drown out real content to the point that people quit posting it.

Notice how low quality everything is on sh.itjust.works? Its all fascists and people who tolerate them.

“they’re just like you, you’re just like them. you have so much in common with the volk. maybe you are the volk or maybe you just aspire to be-” no, lol

why was there a sudden increase in building in games after minecraft

someone splain it

Oh so it sounds like we will be in good shape with some patches.

Sure. Here’s pair of examples as mentioned. Sorry if this bums you out, it bums me out.

Elon Musk article

RFK Transcript

STONE: It’s certainly a strange, almost dizzying moment for the public health field. Kennedy is well known for questioning the scientific consensus, pushing inaccurate information about vaccines. He’s founded an antivaccine advocacy group and is generally antagonistic toward mainstream medicine. As NPR has covered, he’s promoted unproven treatments for COVID and made other basless claims related to health.

At the same time, there’s no denying that on chronic disease prevention, there is some real overlap between what he talks about as his priorities and what you hear from scientists who work in this field. One of them is Barry Popkin, a professor at UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health. He says, he would welcome meaningful action on nutrition and the food supply.

BARRY POPKIN: If it comes, I’ll support it, and I’ll be super surprised, and academia will be behind them and so on. But I do not see that. I fear the worst.

More RFK Credulity

AUBREY: RFK Jr. puts food- and diet-related policy changes at the top of his agenda, getting rid of a host of food additives and dyes and reforming the SNAP food assistance program, formerly known as food stamps. Kennedy says beneficiaries of the program should not be allowed to use their benefits to buy soda or processed foods, and points to the need for change. Dr. Mozaffarian agrees there’s plenty of room for innovation in this program.

MOZAFFARIAN: SNAP is one of the biggest handouts to the food industry, including for lots of junk food and unhealthy food. I think it’s absolutely critical that states are allowed to innovate and try new approaches and test them.

Sad that it has happened to Vice but I am more upset about NPR. They have Nazified so quickly it makes my head spin. They have posted fawning articles about RFK Jr and Elon Musk recently that are so credulous and anti-social it hurts to read.

Imagine trying to call up Chappell Roan for a tiny desk after you’ve become a propaganda outlet for a nazi government.

Because the United States was founded as a loosely confederated colonial slave empire, and it benefits the caste of people who founded the empire and still control it to continue this form of government, I don’t think “shifting to state’s rights” is going to bring us any closer to freedom. Fascist slave empires shouldn’t exist. You shouldn’t contribute to them. Individually, if you are trapped in a fascist slave empire, you should seek to distance yourself from it in whatever ways you can. You should slow and stop spending money where possible. You should leave the country if you can, and remove yourself from the direct power of petty lords if not by moving out of their jurisdictions. If you are adamant about staying where you are at, you can build and contribute to a local mutual aid network, but understand that makes you ‘the local mutual aid network within a Fascist captured zone.’

Governments are not immortal. Fascist governments have risen and died before. Unfortunately fascists steal their people’s futures. I liked my future a lot better before I heard about Trump but he isn’t the first and he won’t be the last American Fascist.

Saved to watch later, does anyone know what he covers in this video?

Yes that’s somewhat true but it has mostly translated to less programming generally and especially fewer “bandcamp fridays”

the feeds are still pretty good and you can see what indie music people are actually buying

I suggest you check out the feeds on Bandcamp. I find a lot of great new music that way. If you like comedy, lots of comedy shows have musical guests. Late Stage Live for example has great musical guests that may be new to you.

Generally speaking, corpos like Spotify are more interested in paying Joe Rogan than helping you find quality music.

I have read some firsthand stuff from French resistance folks and artists in more similar situations to my own from this time period. I find their accounts easy to commiserate with and it is a very frustrating time to be alive. Foresight and historical knowledge have been so unhelpful to me.

Now, in small gatherings of your oldest friends, you feel that you are talking to yourselves, that you are isolated from the reality of things. This weakens your confidence still further and serves as a further deterrent to—to what? It is clearer all the time that, if you are going to do anything, you must make an occasion to do it, and then are obviously a troublemaker. So you wait, and you wait.

Hey, wow. Been there.

But the one great shocking occasion, when tens or hundreds of thousands will join with you, never comes. That’s the difficulty. If the last and worst act of the whole regime had come immediately after the first and smallest, thousands, yes, millions, would have been sufficiently shocked[…]

If you were seriously activated at a recent-ish point in America, ‘Occupy’ era until today, you’ve experienced situations where you field at a critical protest point only to find:

• most people actually don’t support anything progressive
• most people who claim to support you are committed to inaction under even very dire circumstances, they will always draw a new line in the sand
• representatives like politicians and nonprofits for causes are mostly there to diffuse energy and frustrate efforts, and at the very least tie action to money
• there actually are many people who are openly against things like feeding kids, racial equality, preventing climate change and they have more money than you
• there are serious, life altering costs to real activism

I guess a more positive way to look at it would be “wow, so stuff also sucked for this dude…” like hey another time comrade

PS: Most people don’t get which historical point in time we’re at because the camps started at the borders and most people don’t look there

😭 its the funniest joke they have ever made

What if suddenly living in Denver versus Austin or Charlotte versus Tampa start to come with very different sets of rights as an individual in terms of your family’s access to basic health care, what books your child gets to read in school, whether you can walk the streets without carrying your “papers,” whether your kid’s school requires basic vaccines, or even whether the public water supply is considered safe?

This is already the case in the Rust Belt. Default is you don’t have basic healthcare, your kid goes to some fake voucher school or an extremely underfunded school (books comment is weird, Texas decides most of the books already), you can’t get vaxed or operate in the economy without your “papers”, public water supplies are not safe by modern standards. This crumbling ramped up during Trump 1 and became the default in the pandemic and the region didn’t really recover.

Anyway the Fed isn’t my friend and the decline of that faction isn’t the part of this mess that has me worried. Has the Fed been really helpful or a positive influence where you are located? Mostly to me they are ICE and FBI offices and I don’t think those folks do good work.