City hall seems like the obvious answer.

Honestly, I would be very much down to see this on Lemmy too. “This account was registered from country X” “Last post from country Y” (Or alternatively, “Last post from known VPN” so you at least know it’s happening.)

It adds some interesting context at the very least.

https://friendi.ca/

Mind you, I have never in my life tried to use it, but my understanding is that is the Fediverse equivalent of FB. I’m mostly on Mastodon or Pixelfed, which are the equivalents of Twitter and Instragram.

It’s always projection, lol…

Never use the app when there is a website version available?

Probably about 1 year’s worth of dial-up per month of Starlink, if not more…

I mean I don’t have the amount of time necessary to go into how dirty past presidents have been and I certainly don’t have the knowledge at my fingertips. But also, I think the stuff like Watergate and Monica Lewinski is barely a blip on the chart when you put Trump on it too. Which is not to say I condone the behavior of those presidents or seek to normalize their behavior. Just that from a numerical perspective it barely registers.

Like an order of magnitude worse?

• No sitting president before him has been a convicted felon.
• No sitting president before him has been involved in the sheer volume of sexual scandals from assault to cheating to being implicated in possible pedophilia.
• No sitting president before him has refused to return literally boxes and boxes of classified documents which he kept as trophies (or possibly as items for sale) while storing them in extremely inappropriate ways. (This is extremely different from Biden, btw, who promptly returned a few accidentally retained documents. Trump was playing shell games with them, repeatedly swearing he had returned them all while doing things like loading them on planes to move to other locations, etc.)
• No sitting president before him has attempted to overthrow the government when they lost an election.
• The level of bribery and corruption in his administration is off the charts.
• The number of lies he tells has always been off the charts. (“I’ve never heard of Project 2025!” while having given a speech to its members and now following its plans to dismantle the federal government.)
• His department heads have all been picked to dismantle the departments they’re in. (Project 2025 again)

And then of course there is the christofascism angle, which is extremely disturbing because he definitely plans to never leave power again. He’s currently trying hard to normalize use of military force against US citizens so he can seize control of the elections to make sure they go his way.

As far as I know, there still aren’t any non-WebKit engines for iOS, even though the possibility is theoretically there as of 17.4… (It may need to be EU-only? I’m not clear on that part.)

Box-ception

Oh no. Anyway.

I mean… it’s hilarious that people still use Chrome when it has been a known back actor for years and years. Firefox is an excellent option and the more people that use it, the more it encourages companies to keep supporting open web standards.

Likewise, if you set an iPhone to use Advanced Data Protection, it’s probably quite a bit more secure from intrusion than a similar Android phone. (And definitely more secure from subpoena.)

Thank you. Glad to know I am not the only one that got triggered, lol.

Yep, when it’s all staged, you want your actors standing around on-stage not off-stage…

One thing I will say is here in the desert, we don’t actually want them either. Water is already an issue. Power costs are already an issue when you’re cooling your house all summer/heating it all winter. Data centers provide minimal jobs for the amount of resources they use in a community and the downsides have been discovered in a number of places around the country too (ranging from noise to increased costs to resource shortages). Keep your data centers off our cactii!

If it’s anything like our city, they literally come in and try and get it through under complete NDA such that the city officials aren’t allowed to discuss who they are doing the project for. And they had obviously co-opted the city manager somehow—he fought valiantly to get it passed in the face of the entire city council and mayor. Plus, a third party does all the brokering to act as a further shield from knowing who the ultimate client is. We got wind of it here in time and just stopped Project Blue for AWS here in Tucson by all showing up at all the meetings (the idea of a massive data center that uses like 2k acre feet of water a year in a desert in a drought is hilariously terrible and dystopian).

Also, I should add that the actual result of us stopping them in Tucson is that they will now try and get it passed in either unincorporated Pima County or in a smaller satellite city somewhere around us. So it remains to be seen if they still manage to ram this extreme water and power usage through in spite of the wishes of the residents or not…

(And I should also add, this is a pretty heavily Democrat-leaning space—about the only one in AZ. Republicans hardly even try and run here some years.)

Huh. Doesn’t change the fact Trump is in the Epstein files. Investigate them both!

This really says it all. I don’t give a crap who’s in the Epstein files—they should all be investigated.

I literally choose all my books sight unseen from library website or online shop websites based solely on recommendations or prior author experiences. The cover art plays zero role in my decision to buy.

But unlike Google’s version, Claude can accidentally regurgitate the entire text or passages from it, yes?

So it’s not really internal and this judge is an imbecile, correct?

(I know that previous “AI” engines have been tricked into returning the original paintings and faces of people that they had ingested, so I assume this is also a possibility for this “AI” too.)