I feel like we could do this with 4 tech oligarchs right now and it would still be accurate.

If they haven’t figures out how to weaponize incompetence yet, then they’re…in…fuck then they’re incompetent at that, too. Jesus Fucking Christ.

I looked over this EO, and it’s not surprising but is disappointing how this is being called “Trump bans mail-in voting!!!” when it very much does not.

Beyond the fact that it’s 100% unconstitutional (Article ONE, Section 4, friends), it demands the creation of lists and lists and lists and USPS managing some lists and all that within 90 days of a Federal election, then everyone gets their mail-in ballot mailed to them at their address of record so they can mail it back. Which is hilarious - what aged Boomer retirement homes full of GOP voters are going to be this organized?

It’s stupid^stupid but all it really tries to prevent people from going to get a last-minute mail in ballot. So if you don’t know where you’ll be 90 days before the election, you’re going in person or not voting at all - IF your state follows this clearly not legal EO. So some hard-red states with nothing to lose will do this and absorb the fallout and then quietly ignore this once it gets problematic, while swing states will likely have voting rights activists that help people do this 90 days early.

This follows some of the stickier GOP conspiracies about boxes of mail-in ballots showing up during the counting process in places they lost and have feels about. So this is MAGA theater at best, just like the EO that undoes the 14th Amendment. Courts can invalidate this easily.

100% yes.

Better than my name for it: The Tarditron 3000

Which I’m sure he would rent out at a profit to MAGA goons for income.

Wonder if 10 floors of the plans are dedicated to the Epstein files.

This seems like it should be in a 90’s music video.

Sure they have - Baby gets what Baby wants. If baby wants the objectives of a war to be Iran sends him a cool fire truck to play with, that’s how he defines “winning” the war that day.

I’m not stopping you.

The question isn’t if you’re useful to Lemmy or not. We don’t deserve to exert any weight on your heart with opinions and upvotes.

Are you doing something you think is worth your time, with or without external validation? Is this something you would do if you thought it was basically the internet version of putting messages in a bottle?

When you are old and on your death bed, what will the value of your reddit karma be? What is the value of it now?

Do things that matter to you. Do things that help you grow and be a better person.

To be fair, the anti-malarial drug Meflaquine/Larium does the same thing to people a bit after you take it.

There are bioaccumulative toxins, but nothing over the counter sold in a plastic tub by some guy in a tank top will get rid of them. And some, like lead, have symptoms that are not reversible. Lead poisoning is a lifelong condition. So a magical “detoxifying” shoe insole or smoothie additive isn’t going to do much. I think @nightshade@piefed.social 's point remains that any toxins that stay in the body are either gone for good after a short time, or there to stay.

Black flies (Simulium vittatum) is the actual name of the species.

Also, not new - here’s a brochure from 2014 about them.

As a lifelong Independent, this post can F all the way off.

Yes, this is my civil, indoor voice.

Don’t you MFing tell me not to have opinions and free will, and that I should change who I am so I don’t make a bunch of establishment Dems that genuinely don’t care if I’m alive or dead have bad feels. Maybe the Dems should Fing field people that don’t gobble billionaire scroat like they invented it.

And Democrats can maybe, just once in a while, not happily fundraise and capitulate and do the policy strategy version of pump and dump schemes around the central point of “hey, we’re not the Nazis, we’re the mildly annoying guys that whimper when Nazis do Nazi shit, but do eventually give them everything they want. So it’s Nazi shit FAST or Nazi shit less fast with some of us around :D”

“Both sides suck” posts should encourage anyone with guts to see how much of the country wants a god damned set of independent candidates or even, (shudder) another MFing option between Shibag A and XXXL Shitbag B. People need to shed the chains of both parties and run at the local level. Give both sides a fucking scare.

STOP CALLING IT PARANOIA! FFS, This stuff is being used to track people that go to protests.

404 needs to shove their paranoia and normalize using truth and real words and not hedging like CNN or something.