From the post:

Every time Trump says or posts something bizarre — whether it’s a typo, a wild conspiracy theory, or an AI-generated image of himself as the pope — social media explodes. Critics mock, journalists fact-check, and late-night shows run with it. But what if that’s exactly the point?

Trump’s daily “blunders” aren’t random. They’re part of a deliberate strategy to dominate the news cycle by triggering predictable outrage.

Don’t brexit yourselves

1. Send them links to posts they would like
2. Goto 1

Organic Maps is a good app that also lets you do some editing. I like the interface better than osmand

Good to know! I don’t think I deathgrip them, but I’ll try to be conscious of it on my next ride

Thanks <3

It took roughly 3 hours and the total cost was $250 for:

• New tire (this was already something I needed)
• Bike fit eval
• New stem
• New handlebar
• New brake cable
• New grip tape
• Installation of all the above

Not cheap, but having the mechanic’s expertise was pretty valuable. I could have spent much more time and less money by watching a bunch of youtube videos, buying the parts myself, and figuring it out. But I want to actually ride this spring lol

Mint comes with a few desktop environment/window manager options: https://www.linuxmint.com/download_all.php Cinnamon, MATE, and XFCE. It’s also capable of running KDE and basically any other option, you just have to install it in a slightly more manual way.

They will try to fill instances with bots, propaganda accounts, etc. They’ll DDOS them. They’ll try to get them shut down at the hosting level or cut off their donations by having credit card companies blacklist them

I think mine was gentoo, waaaay back in the day. It didn’t go great lol.

I’m loving opensuse rn though!

I would never trust a billionaire to do anything for us. If he doesn’t just carve out an exception for only people like himself at first, he’ll still lobby to have new restrictions on sharing if they threaten his business model.

It’ll end up being a back-and-forth between him and the IP companies, so if he has enough leverage, they’ll just find a way to give him what he wants without doing so for regular folks.

Very cool! For the user scores, are you using monthly active users, total registered users, or something else?

Thanks for this list! There are some fun suggestions here that’ll help me get into peertube, but Russel Brand is a conspiracy theorist and far-right pundit, recently charged with rape & sexual assault. Suggesting you delete him from this list.

Pandoc can convert many kinds of files to docx, pdf, and lots of other things. Use the text editor of your choice!

Haha I sympathize. Glad to help!

There’s also this mega list that overall leans libertarian-socialist, but contains authors from many perspectives

The Srsly Wrong podcast mixes and explains ideas about socialism (from a number of sources) in a lighthearted way. Use the suggestions in the “Start Here” sidebar on their site.

Anark is an anarchist youtuber, with clear explanations of ideas, strategies, and concepts for anarchist and libertarian-socialist (not at all like right wing “libertarians”) forms of socialism. He disagrees heavily with authoritarian socialists (who are apparently a big part of lemmy.ml).

Zoe Baker is a youtuber who is a PhD-level scholar of anarchism, who also has a lot of videos about Marx’s thought.

The quotes are not there for their accuracy, but to illustrate Musk’s outlook and intentions. He sees all entitlements as a bad thing per se and will break whatever norms and rules he can get away with to get rid of them, citing great replacement lies as a justification to the far right and citing “efficiency” as a sop to the less-far-right. Whether he can get away with it remains to be seen, but my original comment was an off-the-cuff “Musk is trying to destroy social security”, not a detailed argument about what has happened so far. I think, given the experience of so many other government agencies with Musk and DOGE, that this is a fair statement for casual posting.

Process counts as much as benefits. Difficulty making payments is a form of sabotage. Even delaying payments counts as a cut because some ppl will die before having received a payment they would have.

Why else would Musk be messing with SSA? “Efficiency” ? Why not take him at his word? A couple choice quotes from that article:

• “Most of the federal spending is entitlements,” Musk told the Fox Business Network. “That’s the big one to eliminate.”
• "Musk said Monday that federal entitlements are “a mechanism by which the Democrats attract and retain illegal immigrants by essentially paying them to come here and then turning them into voters.”

Ofc Musk is trying to destroy social security as we speak

It often takes a personal crisis to get people to doubt the cult/white supremacist group/multilevel marketing scheme they’ve been a part of for a long time