BreakDecks

They’re claiming that the Black mayor of Baltimore was a “DEI hire”, which is an absolutely bonkers thing to say about an elected official.

Obviously it’s not “too soon” for a 9/11 joke, but what made you think this was appropriate to say to someone who has one degree of separation from this tragedy?

Republicans say such stupid things you don’t need any real qualifications to prove them wrong. Usually, you don’t even need to address whether the claim is true or false, you can just use basic logic to conclude that the claim is fallacious.

There is no logical connection between this bridge collapse and border policy or COVID response. The burden of logically linking these things lies with those making the claim. We have no burden to prove that no connection exists, we can simply point out that the claim has no logical explanation for connecting these things.

Originally it was just a modified Mastodon instance with federation removed. They hired Alex Gleason who maintains a fork of Pleroma called “Soapbox” to make significant changes to the front and back ends of the site.

Gleason also runs a handful of federated Soapbox instances, all of which are dedicated to far-right “free speech” content, mostly Nazism (Poast) and Trans-hate (Spinster). He also helps admin many other instances dedicated to hate speech.

Gleason has indicated that Truth Social and Poast run on basically the same codebase.

Quite disturbing to see the microblogging equivalent of The Daily Stormer with a multibillion dollar market cap on the stock market…

Why would you need permission from Google to mirror the Internet Archive? Google doesn’t own IA.

You mean the 14,000kg “big piece” that required two separate attempts to retrieve (by the same guy who piloted the doomed Oceangate sub)?

The floation bags were only necessary because the piece was on the bottom of the ocean beyond where any crane could reach. In some respects this seems to make the bridge cleanup a bit easier, but it wasn’t the floatation bags that caused the first attempt to fail, it was the weight of the piece itself making it hard to capture with the class of tugboat they were using.

The second attempt succeeded only because they used this massive tugboat:

While the weight of the Key Bridge is not publicly known, it is likely thousands of times more massive than The Big Piece. For comparison the Golden Gate Bridge has a similar length of 1.7 miles (to Key Bridge’s 1.6 miles), 6 lanes (to the Key Bridge’s 4), and weighs 382,000,000kg. Assuming the Key Bridge only weighs half of what the Golden Gate does, it would weigh about 13,500 times more than The Big Piece. On top of that it is collapsed into a tangled mess and needs to be cut into pieces small enough to remove while it is underwater.

The resources needed to make this happen are going to be insane. It is going to take months before there’s enough clearance to safely let more cargo ships through safely.

Google never did make backups of the Internet, why are we pretending like they ever did? Cached webpages were a basic workaround for third-party website downtime; a guarantee that you could reliably see the information you searched for, even if the linked site was down. It was nothing more than a snapshot of the webpage their crawlers saw, where older copies are permanently deleted with every new crawl of the page.

It was never an archival effort, it was a rotating cache. If you were under the impression for all these years that Google was preserving Internet history, I don’t know why, because Google never claimed to be doing that. Maybe it’s time to reevaluate any other altruistic things you’re assuming that mega corporations are up to…

Well, in that case you’re being too vague because I have no idea what you are talking about.

half a mile long

I think you mistyped this. It was a mile and a half long.

some buoyancy things

I get the distinct impression that you have zero engineering knowledge or experience.

I’m not defending the state, I’m defending its people. You need to learn the difference.

And whatever fucking instance you’re on, you’re clearly confusing lemmy.ml with lemmygrad.ml.

Unfortunately, people say shit like this in earnest all the time.

I remember when Nazi Germany said they didn’t want to harm Jews, they just wanted them out of Germany, then they decided that all of Europe should belong to Germany, and then blamed the Jews for forcing their hand to violence by continuing to exist.

most American jews do not and have not supported Israel since its inception

This is something I wish more people understood. While most American Jews do consider Israel important to them, it’s generally a broad cultural connection to the Levant. A minority of American Jews back the Israeli government, the apartheid they impose, or the violence they bring to Palestinians.

Similarly to how most American Muslims consider their ancestral homelands to be important to them, in addition to SA/Mecca, while not generally supporting the oppressive governments associated with those places.

Even many self-proclaimed American Zionists tend to define Zionism as merely agreeing with Israel’s right to exist, and aren’t endorsing the current wave of oppression against Gaza and the West Bank. Imho these people don’t know enough about what Zionism really is, but that’s more ignorance than malice.

America’s allegiance to Israel is less about what American Jews want, and more about what Israeli lobbyists want.

I’ve been using OpenWRT as a hobbyist for over 15 years, and as a professional for over 6 years. Extremely underrated OS.

A vanilla install beats any stock router firmware by leaps and bounds. From there you can add pretty much any functionality you desire.

I currently use a Turris Omnia router made by CZ.NIC, who also maintains their own OpenWRT based distro called Turris OS.

$10,200,000,000 net worth when he died in 2011.

It would take Woz 4 million years to make that much on what Apple currently pays him

This makes sense if rich people get themselves in trouble doing something petty. Why sabotage your freedom if you’re already rich? What do you have to gain that you don’t already have?

The real issue here is that when you have money already, you can use it to exert power over people to get the things you want in life. A good person would hire people at a fair wage to help run their lives so they can spend their time only doing what they want to do, and invest their money so that they can live lavishly off of it for their whole lives.

In this case, Combs, who is not a good person, wanted sex slaves, and so he used his money to traffic women.

Imagine getting upset because a joke wasn’t factual enough.

Fair enough. Please explain the efforts you are taking to influence the DNC to do this, and I’ll happily join you.

The primaries are over. You’re too late to be making this point. You either fight like hell for a second Biden term, or you’re going to get a second Trump term.

I don’t like Biden. I think that despite passing some much needed domestic policies, he’s a mediocre president. But everything will get worse if Trump wins again. Being anti-Biden at this point in the game is just carrying water for fascists.

Literally the most you can do electorally that doesn’t count as sabotage is to vote third party to make a point in a state that has no risk of swinging right. Outside of that, if you actually care about stopping this genocide, you should focus on things other than whether Biden is the right person for this moment, because while he might not be, he’s definitely not worse than Trump.

Under Biden, the IDF might lose a lot of funding. Under Trump, the IDF will be dipping their bullets in pork blood.