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  • Uh, Fry's Electronics? The Fry's Electronics that have been out of business for like five years?

    Not that I doubt this list, but listing long dead companies as current donors does not add to the legitimacy.

  • All these posts, and not ONE person mentioned The Animated Series. No, not that one, the older one.

    It's unorthodox, sure, but it's also a pretty low stakes and less uh, of-its-time, way to enjoy some TOS before going into TOS, which is 100% where you should start.

  • No, it's not. At this point, it's entirely clear that 1/3rd of the country is terminally stupid, 1/3rd is too lazy to do anything about the terminally stupid, and 1/3rd too busy screaming at each other over purity tests to do anything to convince the lazy that they shouldn't default-allow the stupid to lead everything.

    I've reached a point where, frankly, I don't care anymore. This year is going to be about me, and frankly, screw whatever other people want or think.

    I've done some minor things: I carry now, got a motorcycle license and a bike, am spending rather a lot more time and energy around getting laid.

    Long term, though, I cannot see a way that the US is going to survive in it's current state, and I also cannot forsee me ending up as involved in things as I have been becasue it's absolutely crystal clear that unless we magic up a way to solve stupid and lazy, this is going to be the default going forward.

    And, just for clarity here: the 'default' does include Team Blue winning the occasional election, because it's basically just being told the Stage 4 cancer that's going to kill you is in remission, but probably only for 2 or 4 years and at random intervals. At some point the cancer WILL kill you, and the occasional moment of pauses in the destruction are not saving anyone or anything.

    And yes, I know this is absolutely coming from a position of privilege: I may be gay, but I'm also white, cis, and can absolutely pass as straight, and while not being rich, I have a house, a reasonable nest egg, and the absolute unqualified glorious privilege of not needing to work 40 hour weeks to pay my bills.

    But, well, I've paid for that privilege over the last decade of working 60 hour weeks, and I cannot see any reason why I shouldn't exploit the shit out of it and stop making some corpo shareholder richer while I sit there stressed and upset over shit that does not matter. (I worked in IT: none of it matters, at all.)

  • Ignore and move on.

    Literally the solution to every single 'THERE IS SOMETHING I DISLIKE ABOUT LEMMY AND THUS YOU SHOULD ALL ACCOMODATE ME!' post.

    If you don't like someone's shit, block them. There's not a limit of how many people who make you upset you can block, so go hog wild.

  • quickly and completely corps change their minds

    What pisses me off is how utterly willing any given minority is willing to boot-lick a corporation because of a rainbow avatar or 50 word statement of support or whatever.

    Corporations will, at best, pretend to be your friend until it's no longer convenient for them to do so, then your ass is out on the street.

    Don't fall for it when they change their mind again, because they are at very best minimal-effort dont-rock-the-boat-too-hard temporary performative allies.

  • I'm wagering they don't do anything at all anywhere. The absolute most might be a 'happy pride!' page buried somewhere.

    But, honestly, as a gay dude, I don't care. This was all performative nonsense anyways. It was, at the very best, just some virtue signalling bullshit marketing thought might sell another car or book or potato or whatever the fuck, and never ever actually meant support or willingness to stand on principles or even get fucking involved in anything - though, I'll admit, there were a very few exceptions to that.

    There's lots of shit needed, but an avatar picture that's just fucking marketing from trillion dollar companies ain't it, boss.

  • I'd argue that using dummy account is mandatory, not a preferrential choice.

    If you have a phone on you with ANY of your personal data on it and a cop takes it, you should simply assume every single thing that the phone could access will end up in the hands of the proescutors to use against you.

    Don't log in to ANY accounts that have ANY personal data on a phone you're taking to a protest, and sure as shit don't log in to any account that have ANY political/sociologial discussions or plans that could be used to paint you in a bad light in court.

    Make new accounts for everything, and only install and log in to the very very bare minimum. This includes using your google or apple account when you set the phone up, too: google and apple have an enormous amount of data about you and if they get a subpoena for it, and there's anything anywhere that might be damning, you can bet it'll get used against you.

    (As a side note: don't use anything electronic to do illegal shit either, because your other accounts could also be subpoenaed if the cops have reason to think your real google account has what they need, and most JPs will just rubber-stamp shit cops ask for anyways. If you MUST do illegal things do not use electronic devices. Meet in person, don't make notes/videos/recordings/post it on tiktok/wahtever.)

  • And frankly, in any case, posting someone's name online in correlation to a public job isn't doxxing.

    Too many people have gone 'posting anything online about anyone is doxxing!' which is just stupid.

    If you work for the government, then yes, your name is (unless you're doing some classified shit) is public. So is/was your salary.

    Don't want your shit public, don't work for the public. Very simple.

  • I'd be a little nicer: there's at least one if not two generations now who have never communicated outside of these walled gardens.

    Like, I'm entirely certain some of my niblings have no fucking clue what a text message is, since they grew up on snapchat and whatsapp and facebook messenger.

    Perhaps a reasonable outreach that's not just 'u suck for using nazi shit!' (which uh, I do agree with) might be a little more useful in capturing anyone under the age of like, 30.