xtr0n

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[–] xtr0n@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 month ago (2 children)

How else would you explain those companies that put a rainbow on their logo for a few weeks every year?

Perforative rainbow washing? 95% of those companies still donate to GOP candidates that fight gay and trans rights every step of the way.

[–] xtr0n@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 month ago

It’s really hard to know for sure. Some percentage of elective surgeries or procedures end up detecting something life threatening. If the canceled procedures were rescheduled promptly then the outcomes probably haven’t changed in a meaningful way. But in the US, stuff is booked out months in advance so it may be impossible to get everyone rescheduled for something in the next week or two.

[–] xtr0n@sh.itjust.works 19 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I read that they send the loser-winner shirts to poor countries. So you go to some random village and it looks like alternate reality sports land. Except no one there probably even follows the teams/leagues on their shirts.

[–] xtr0n@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Crowdstrike completely screwed the pooch with this deploy but ideally, Windows wouldn’t get crashed by a bas 3rd party software update. Although, the crashes may be by design in a way. If you don’t want your machine running without the security software running, and if the security software is buggy and won’t start up, maybe the safest thing is to not start up?

[–] xtr0n@sh.itjust.works 23 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

That Trump is giving Leatherface vibes image from Texas Chainsaw Massacre

[–] xtr0n@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] xtr0n@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I wish i knew of a good way to profit off of this bubble. I could work for a company in the AI space, but I think it would be well above my “executives hyping the smell of their own farts” threshold. And shorting Google and Microsoft is a dangerous game.

[–] xtr0n@sh.itjust.works 38 points 2 months ago (2 children)

But Ziklag is not a political organization: It is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt charity, the same legal designation as the United Way or Boys and Girls Club. Such organizations do not have to publicly disclose their funders, and donations are tax deductible. In exchange, they are “absolutely prohibited from directly or indirectly participating in, or intervening in, any political campaign on behalf of (or in opposition to) any candidate for elective public office,” according to the IRS.

This shit. Fuck. Why is the IRS not going after them?

[–] xtr0n@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago (4 children)

If we had any sense, there would be crazy high taxes on unoccupied housing. There could be short term exceptions for things like remodeling and finding tenants. But it should be prohibitively expensive to sit on empty houses and apartments while people struggle to find affordable housing.

[–] xtr0n@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 months ago
[–] xtr0n@sh.itjust.works 24 points 2 months ago (1 children)

He didn’t want to pack the court so I’m not holding out hope that he’d empty the court either. Obviously assassinating justices would completely fuck the country up, but one could argue that the current justices are slow playing us into a fascist dictatorship.

[–] xtr0n@sh.itjust.works 37 points 2 months ago (3 children)

The DNC has been snatching defeat from the jaws of victory my whole life. I’m so sick of this shit.

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