if you have a car, lift up the windshield wipers before it starts snowing/freezing rain

I’d say spend the $10-$20 and get a windshield cover. It will change your life, never having to scrape again.

Speed up before going up an incline, getting stuck and sliding back down is not fun

Do not stop on an incline either. If there’s a red light, run it. (safely of course.)

I don’t use LLMs for anything creative for the express purpose of avoiding generic tone, haha.

“Social permission” is one term for it.

Most people don’t realize this is happening until it hits their electric bills. Microslop isn’t permitted to steal from us. They’re just literal thieves and it takes time for the law to catch up.

As if we weren’t going to figure out how shitty LLM’s are organically.

The difference is that in China, people are generally getting a good standard of living with their authoritarianism. If Donald were giving us prosperity along with his Gestapo, his poll numbers would be sky high.

Here in the US, they’re getting poverty. (Morally though, you’re right, we’re as bad as they are.)

I hate that there even have to be martyrs in this sick, fucking world.

Honestly have no idea how that would work out legally.

Closest thing I can think of is Governor Wallace’s stand at the schoolhouse door, when Kennedy called in the national guard to escort a black child to class after integration and for all the theatrics, there was no violence. (And if a state/federal confrontation can achieve that in this case, I think that’s the best case scenario.)

I’m sure others in this sub-lemmy know way more.

I’m also pretty sure that most law enforcement agencies require all shootings to be investigated. (Not that it always happens of course.)

No troops deployed.

So does this do anything meaningful?

A real civil war wouldn’t last longer than three weeks here in the US. A small group of whacked-out people love the idea of it, but they certainly have not thought it through. It’s just a fun thought for them because they have never cracked open a history book and don’t have any real perspective regarding what war actually means.

This is the country that couldn’t go three weeks without a haircut or toilet paper in 2020. People would walk into their first empty grocery store, toting their big impressive AR-15 rifles, and then demand that the war be ended.

I get why this would bug people.

It’s a small act of legitimizing the domestic Gestapo, but we’ve already seen that the corporate social media is a-okay with platforming terrorists, Nazis, and the worst.

That’s why we’re on Lemmy instead.

I’m not 100% sure it’s that simple at that level, especially if you belong to the generation that’s been online since birth. Those footprints can be easily tracked and verified.

That’s so weird.

I guess I’ve just programmed myself to hold that power button long enough.

Do people not just hold down the power button anymore?

The problem here is that, even for entry level positions in Donald’s administration, one had to affirmatively concede that conspiracy theories are real. They were asking 20-something kids wanting to paper push if they believed the 2020 election was stolen. Then they allowed DOGE to purge all of the people who believe in traditional, functional government after that. This isn’t 2016 where Donald surrounded himself with grownups.

I don’t know that there’s anyone left willing to go out on a limb and pull a Chelsea Manning or an Edward Snowden, and that’s who you need if you ever want the unredacted files out in the world.

Hopefully someday someone proves me wrong, but I can only assume that this is an Eyes Wide Shut situation where the names in those files are so terrifying that it’s inconceivable for anyone to ever release them in full.

Hope someone doxxes these bastards. Presumably they had to take the masks off to eat.

I hope she gets a yeast infection that never goes away.

Bleak.

He wasn’t named Genocide Joe for nothing.

And nor did they fight tooth-and-nail against Zohran’s candidacy for nothing.

These fuckers are fascist too, and probably furious that Hochul is cooperating with Mamdani on universal child care.

Use O&O ShutUp to delete Copilot if you’re on Windows.