I don’t think this is helping us at all. It’s letting our own corporations go elsewhere for lower taxation. It helps their investors. And Ireland or wherever their tax havens are now is probably pretty happy.

I find all the added Mastodon cruft in Lemmy posts annoying. The added @ tags take up space and turn into pointless links, and hashtags disrupt the flow of reading. Beyond that, they’re different forms of communication with different purposes. Just use both pieces of software for their intended use. I have both Mastodon and Lemmy accounts.

Unsurprisingly, employees are almost universally against RTO mandates.

So we’re doing the thing disliked by almost everyone who actually makes the business do whatever it does, because some worthless leeches want the other thing. There are more of us than there are of them and unless it’s a startup the business is already paying for itself.

Or she was in on the coup and Trump’s initial statements about her running things for him weren’t just a product of the kakistocracy.

Public statement: “We will not bow down to US imperialism!”

Trump: “What the fuck, we had a deal, I’ll kill you.”

Private statement: “Jesus, do you not understand that I need to say that to rally support to take over?”

Trump: “I don’t understand anything at all, say the secret deal publicly or I’ll kill you.”

Public statement: “We look forward to giving our nominal enemy everything they want.”

Move sparks praise but chain says hotel independently operated and cancellations ‘not reflective of Hilton values’

I thought official press statements were supposed to cast the brand in a good light.

“Hilton’s position is clear: Our properties are open to everyone and we do not tolerate any form of discrimination.”

Words just don’t mean anything anymore, do they?

Not to disagree with anything you said, but be careful applying American exceptionalism to the problem of fascism. This shit is international. We attract the worst people from around the globe to push hard here, but everywhere in the English-speaking world is backsliding under the same influence campaigns, and they see and support their fellow fascists in non-English countries. Many of our worst influences are foreign born (Musk, Thiel, Murdock) and hold no devotion to the US. It’s just the most profitable market to capture. But they won’t stop here.

You went through the bullshit to give the federal government a photograph for their facial recognition database associated with high quality identifying information.

Literally every document can be faked. Passport? Fake. Birth certificate? Fake. The supposed point of REAL ID was to be a reliable document. You can fly with one, but if a Temu Nazi making a “targeted” random stop says it’s a worthless piece of plastic you lose an hour of your life. For living your life in your home country after doing everything the government asked. If the organization who certifies the IDs won’t accept them, why did we go through the effort of making a national ID system that verified lawful status?

And if this was a case about California ID, maybe their fuck up would be relevant, but this is a filling for a case where a US citizen with an Alabama ID was detained.

Turns out all you need to do to ignore the Constitution is change your word choice.

I don’t think anyone should be surprised that the all-white party in the two party system was racist to the core, I’m just surprised so many people in the nominal middle have accepted that as just an acceptable political stance to hold openly rather than as lightly concealed dog whistles. This should be a single issue deal breaker that triggers immediate and increasingly vociferous opposition, not just one issue among many that’s not important if some college student asks you for your pronouns.

Are they planning for a siege?

He literally hired teenagers when lives were at stake.

His companies have been found multiple times to be incredibly racist. Among people who all make decent money. Sometimes you can’t just class-reduce every problem.

He also doesn’t know anything about “qualifications”. He dropped out of school and won the dotcom capitalism lottery so now he thinks school and qualifications are for chumps. He hired teenagers to purge the federal government. He’s the last person anyone should listen to complain about “qualifications”.

For someone who talked about the need for speech and courage, Obama sure has spent a lot of time out of the public eye not using his speech and not being courageous.

It does seem kind of early to be boosting Vance for just a regular primary.

I’m surprised Newsome let this through.

For a task like this you don’t need throughput, you need reliability. You don’t want it to break down while there are still people in line.

Jeffrey Epstein is alive and set up a secret moon colony. Get on this rocket or you’re a beta peasant.

I’m pretty sure we haven’t needed AI for the economy to be managed toward short-term gains at the cost of quality of life and the environment.