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  • This is liberal cope.

    I've seen tons of Bernie people from 2016 become Trupists. Several have become full-on groypers. The reason is clear: Bernie got curbstomped and these people are still looking for some other solution because they're still precarious.

    Liberals are still clinging to the basket of deplorables. They want to think that not being a liberal is a moral failing, or a sign of weak breeding or something. They can't admit that all the punching left they've been doing over decades while scolding, preening, etc and sucking up to corporate elites they serve has created the terrifying right-wing moment that we're in. And they'll going to be smugly declaring themselves to be on the right side of history as they get thrown into the camps with the rest of us.

    EDIT: by the way:

    Leor completed her PhD as a Gates Scholar at the Department of Psychology

    Yes, that is the "Gates" you're thinking of.

    Also she's probably a criminal:

    Leor was listed on Forbes 30 Under 30

  • Yeah that went great.

    One crazy outcome was that the Royal Mail's enforcement division (mall cops) were still legally real police even though their job was now to protect the company's revenue. This ended up enabling them to convict thousands of employees of theft and then railroading them through the court system after botching accounting software screwed up their books:

    https://www.bbc.com/news/business-56718036

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    A moral conundrum

  • Historically Tesla's security is as bad as DOGE's. They got hacked a while back because they had an unsecured kubernetes control plane exposed to the internet. Apparently being owned by a [edit: seagull managing] drug addict isn't good for opsec.

    EDIT: I incorrectly used a medical term to describe Elon's management style. Sorry everyone.

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  • I'm going to refuse to agree to the TOU when they try to force it on me. If they block me from using FF without the TOU then I will switch to something else. I think everyone should consider waiting until they try to force a TOU and then rejecting it, if you want to send a strong message.

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    They Scared

    Canada @lemmy.ca
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    U.S. Ambassador says Canadians are consuming an ‘unhealthy’ amount of American news

    Is it weird to be an American interested in Canadian news?

    Memes @lemmy.ml
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    Picard refines his prompts

    Memes @lemmy.ml
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    Jeff's magic money machine

    Chicago @midwest.social
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    Proposed Archer, Kedzie bike paths would be a big step forward to improve traffic safety on the Southwest Side

    Memes @lemmy.ml
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    Crypt force one.

    Memes @lemmy.ml
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    Citroën did it better

    Michigan @midwest.social
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    Feds Declare WAR On UAW Over Gaza Ceasefire

    Chicago @midwest.social
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    Logan Square landlord evicts tenant for flying Palestine flag

    The scumbag also owns the Logan Theater.

    Memes @lemmy.ml
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    Just a few specs of rust

    Chicago @midwest.social
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    You know what our city needs?

    Chicago @midwest.social
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    Chicago @midwest.social
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    Good news! CTA is fixed! (According to the CTA)

    CTAction noted that the agency boasted of improvements to the the percentage of scheduled rail and bus run delivered, but failed to mention this was due to scheduled service being cut by 21 and 13 percent, respectively. "The total number of trains dispatched per day has not increased at all since August of 2022. The CTA continues to call this "schedule optimization," insulting the intelligence of riders who know that service has been cut."

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    More overtime was credited to NASCAR than any other special event so far this summer except the Pride Parade, for which officers were credited with 31,297 hours. The 2023 Pride Parade crowd estimate was nearly a million people; NASCAR projected it would attract about 100,000 attendees over the course of the weekend.

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    Is the Chicago reddit getting astroturfed by NASCAR?

    Currently there are five PRO nascar posts:

    • I invite everyone to turn on the NASCAR TV broadcast
    • NASCAR crew members help fix a car's bumper after it was involved in a fender bender across from the garage area on Lake Shore Drive
    • Unpopular Opinion, but i think the NASCAR races will be awesome
    • OK Chicago,this Nascar thing is fun, Now do Formula 1
    • This checks out…(Randy Sax guerilla marketing link)

    and three ANTI nascar:

    • Meanwhile, we’re doing 15mph on 90/94
    • Worker dies while setting up Chicago NASCAR race
    • Chicago’s Nascar Weekend Offers Headaches, Little Economic Gain

    Two of the pro-nascar posts are obvious guerilla marketing (the "LSD pit crew repair" post and whatever that Randy Sax thing is). One of the Anti-articles is just news about an unfortunate event.

    I think Nascar has hired social media PR/sock puppet groups to astroturf Chicago reddit. I wonder if it's the same people Paul Vallas hired...

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    What's with all the gun spam?

    My main midwest.social stream is current full of ads for guns and gun parts. Did I do something wrong?