I would like to kindly invite this person to lodge their head in a deeply recessed part of their own anatomy.

I’d love that, but I don’t think (at least here in the US) that there will ever be a meaningful change to how killer cops are managed legally, especially after there was zero accountability for Uvalde.

This is way more common than people realize.

LLM chatbots were integrated into company websites with so few guardrails, it can be laughably easy to get a good discount. I learned this when I bought a new mattress from Mattress Firm three years ago. YMMV, but these tips may help:

• Ask about a specific item or service. I asked if they could give a bigger discount and free delivery on x mattress.
• Try to target a weekend that’s already got a sale running. (For me it was Presidents Day)

I got an extra 25% off the sale prices and it was glorious.

There are only two ways to fix this that I see:

• Settlements need to be paid out of the cops’ pension fund.
• Send more cops to prison.

Neither of which the US is going to do, because here, the cops and law enforcement are a civic religion. Therefore the best most Americans can do is keep their heads down and avoid the bastards as best you can manage.

Jesus, this cartoon is a gut punch.

My brave browser still blocks everything. Very pleased.

Yeah, useless middlemen are kinda a thing in the US economy.

At least for the last year, the only thing that has tempered Donald’s worst impulses is markets.

So in a way, these kinds of movements and deals are essential to international security.

No shit, Sherlock.

This is why I am glad that social media is slowly becoming age gated in other countries.

As they should.

It’s a bummer the extent to which influencers and careless people have ruined travel.

Absolutely, especially when other capitalist countries are doing universal health care and college.

without voter intimidation

I don’t follow. Their entire campaign of aggression has been against Democrats and Democratic areas.

It is voter intimidation, and not only did it backfire, it destroyed their own coalition. They’re losing by double digits in both red and blue districts, and I don’t see how voter intimidation works when both sides have turned on you.

Yes, the Georgia thing looks bad now, just like all the EO’s that took weeks and months for the courts to invalidate. Checks and balances are working, they just don’t work instantaneously.

I still have nightmares about the old lady scene.

It Follows is superb. I think their willful decision to make it as timeless as possible really helped it resonate.

As Above So Below got me for similar reasons: the underground inescapability and claustrophobia. Parts of it felt a tad liminal too.

Oh yes. :)

Always fun that Lemmy shows that people I’ve blocked replied too. I always hope they’re sitting there waiting for a response that’s never going to come.

The regime is acting like popularity is irrelevant, and that only approval from their base matters.

The key word here is ‘acting’.

And, at the same time, ignoring all evidence to the contrary, resulting in the recent bloodbaths at the polls. I’m fine with them shooting themselves in the foot in their refusal to approach electoral politics like grownups.

Voter intimidation only works if you know who to intimidate, and clearly, they do not. It’s why they stopped with the crazy overt gerrymandering.

If nothing else, go on record for posterity.

I also think sending ICE to intimidate voters is likely.

He can try, but there’s no reason to think the 2026 elections won’t be a repeat of the 2025 elections, where two dozen red districts flipped in several states, many of which Donald won by double digits in 2024. ICE doesn’t have the manpower to handle that level of unpopularity, and dialing up the violence will only exacerbate Donald’s unpopularity further.

The registration and comment system is, unfortunately, a little cumbersome to use, but I encourage you all to take a few minutes today and submit a public comment if you can. Maybe mention Musk’s many failures and broken promises, and how you don’t want him to be able to integrate his companies further into our governing infrastructure.