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GooseFinger@lemmy.worldto No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•What do you see that you wish others saw?4·1 year agoDo you see new, unique colors, or are you more sensitive to what’s already there?
Yep, we just gotta vote in people who will legislate it. Which means normal people who don’t take
bribesdonations from corporations will need to run for office and beat those who do.So basically we’re doomed. We either need a modern day Teddy Roosevelt or we need to start building guillotines.
GooseFinger@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.ml•Your Car Is Spying on You for Insurance Companies1·1 year agoThere’s gotta be a way to disable telemetry. My first thought is to cut whatever antenna is used to transmit your data to the corporation. It could be the same antenna used for radio, but I’d go without radio in a heartbeat if it meant Ford, Chevy, or whoever can’t spy on me in a car I paid $15,000+ for.
Of course, we shouldn’t have to do this. My first choice is to not give any of these car companies a dime of my money, but literally every single brand is doing it. This disgusting trend of spying on people should be illegal. It’s rapist behavior.
GooseFinger@lemmy.worldto News@lemmy.world•Arkansas airport executive killed in shootout was under investigation for weapons sales3·1 year agoThe ATF said that people at Waco and Ruby Ridge shot first too, turns out that was a lie.
We shouldn’t believe a word they say about this case yet, wait for an investigation to take place. For some ungodly reason, they have a track record of fabricating gun charges against people, surrounding their home with armed men, and claiming they were shot at first when stories like this hit the news.
GooseFinger@lemmy.worldto News@lemmy.world•Arkansas airport executive killed in shootout was under investigation for weapons sales3·1 year agoI wouldn’t trust what the ATF has said yet. They fabricated evidence that people at Waco were selling machine guns and explosives to justify their standoff and raid there, turns out all of that was a lie.
They have all the incentive to take control of this story now so public opinion takes their side. Not unsurprisingly, they did the same thing after Waco and Ruby Ridge.
Even if everything the ATF said here is proven completely true, I agree - fuck the ATF, there was no reason to surround this person’s house and start shooting. We should all expect much more out of our government than this. Disband these thugs.
GooseFinger@lemmy.worldto News@lemmy.world•Kentucky: New bill eliminating work break rights rings alarm bells6·1 year agoAnyone else have a stroke trying to make sense of the title?
Looks like Kermit’s cracked out cousin and some beat down teledruggies.
GooseFinger@lemmy.worldto News@lemmy.world•Trump supporters target black voters with faked AI images134·1 year agoThere’s no evidence that suggests these photos were posted by Trump’s campaign, and BBC didn’t mention who posted them despite having talked to them.
I doubt it’s just me, but when I read the headline, I assumed that Trump’s campaign posted these photos. How else would it be news worthy? “Trump supporters post AI generated photos of Trump in an attempt to garnish support for Trump” is a normal Tuesday activity for these loons.
This “journalism” is just rage bait, in my opinion.
GooseFinger@lemmy.worldto 3DPrinting@lemmy.world•Want a 3D printer in New York? Get ready for fingerprinting and a 15 day waitEnglish2·1 year agoSure, but only if the purchase adheres to state laws where the resident lives in. You can’t leave your state and buy a gun that’s illegal at home. Here’s the ATF’s explanation.
GooseFinger@lemmy.worldto 3DPrinting@lemmy.world•Want a 3D printer in New York? Get ready for fingerprinting and a 15 day waitEnglish21·1 year agoThat’s a myth - It’s a felony offense for gun stores to sell guns to non residents of the state they’re in.
GooseFinger@lemmy.worldto 3DPrinting@lemmy.world•Want a 3D printer in New York? Get ready for fingerprinting and a 15 day waitEnglish61·1 year agoJust to clarify, the FOID approval process is effectively performed in every state for any gun purchase. It’s not like the FOID background check carries more scrutiny or anything. If a Texan resident can buy guns in Texas, they could get a FOID card if they lived in Illinois.
And it’s federally illegal to sell guns to non-residents of the state the sale is made in, so Chicago residents can’t buy guns in neighboring states. Indiana and Wisconsin residents could bring guns into Chicago, but that alone is highly illegal too.
GooseFinger@lemmy.worldto 3DPrinting@lemmy.world•Want a 3D printer in New York? Get ready for fingerprinting and a 15 day waitEnglish4·1 year agoWhat exactly do you have in mind?
GooseFinger@lemmy.worldto 3DPrinting@lemmy.world•Want a 3D printer in New York? Get ready for fingerprinting and a 15 day waitEnglish462·1 year agoIf they cared more about making our society safer, they’d pay teachers more, build more homes, quintuple minimum wage, make education cheaper or free, actually tax the rich, reign in corpos, reform the police, abolish for profit prisons, make healthcare affordable and accessible, remove money from politics, just to start.
But nah, virtue signaling is way easier and is clearly enough to get them re elected, so let’s ban 3D printers baby!
GooseFinger@lemmy.worldto News@lemmy.world•Man charged with beheading father carried photos of federal buildings, bomb plans, DA says13·1 year agoAmerica takes awful care of its citizens, some other countries certainly do better. I wish we’d focus more on addressing the root cause issues that push people to commit violence instead of superficial actions like banning weapons, though. Even if all guns disappeared overnight, the conditions that incentivize violence would still be around.
GooseFinger@lemmy.worldto News@lemmy.world•1 dead, 21 others wounded in shooting following Chiefs Super Bowl celebration rally, officials say | CNN3·1 year agoI mean, “mass shooting” used to colloquially mean a random act against the public. I feel like people still think it means that when they see stats like this, but practically all the shootings in this stat are from gang violence and organized crime. A drive-by is a mass shooting.
Not to downplay the severity of it, but I hope people aren’t thinking that there have been ~45 Kroger type shootings this year already. Solutions that address crime like this are different than addressing sick, politically motivated domestic terrorists. Not to say we don’t need a lot of both, though.
GooseFinger@lemmy.worldto News@lemmy.world•1 dead, 21 others wounded in shooting following Chiefs Super Bowl celebration rally, officials say | CNN3·1 year agoBernie wasn’t much of an anti-2A advocate until he ran for the Democratic bid in 2016. Align with party values or get out.
Our country is sick. Healthcare is inaccessible and right out unaffordable, the Bible belt vilifies science, education is both piss poor and stupid expensive, we’re the richest country on the planet but a tiny handful of grubs are hoarding all the wealth, something something preaching to the choir.
People wouldn’t commit politically motivated domestic terrorism if living here wasn’t made intentionally shitty by the people in charge. I want our planet to stop burning, but they’re only focused on revoking trans rights or whatever fabricated problem they’re whining about this week. Americans need to wake the fuck up and stop being so complacent.
GooseFinger@lemmy.worldto News@lemmy.world•Man charged with beheading father carried photos of federal buildings, bomb plans, DA says3·1 year agoI interpreted Donjuanme’s comment as sarcastic, where “no way a background check would’ve stopped this” implied that they thought a background check wasn’t performed, but if it would’ve been, this murder wouldn’t have happened.
Not everyone who commits a violent crime with a gun has a previous record of doing that, or other indicators that would fail a background check for that matter. Not a lot of anti-gunners seem to remember that though, which is partly why I interpreted the comment that way.
You can’t trust Amazon reviews either though.
* Sellers frequently farm good reviews by including cards in their packages that state “give us a 5 star review and get a full/partial refund!”- Sellers update their listings with good reviews with different pictures, descriptions, etc. which effectively creates a different listing while carrying over a large review count.
* Amazon doesn’t allow reviews after 30 days (?) from purchase, so items poor durability will not have that reflected in their reviewsIt’s a damn shame, but between this broken review system and their incredibly low quality items and quality control, they’re not worth the money or headache to use. Especially since most of their products are no name Chinese garbage that are exclusively available on Amazon. They’re basically Wish, Tubi, or Alibaba.
Edit: Amazon must’ve updated their review policy since I’ve last used them, 2+ years ago. They explicitly ban monetary rewards for good reviews, and I don’t see a mention of review deadlines either. The only references I found about their review deadlines is a few Reddit posts from a year ago. So my bad!
If nothing’s changed though, they still sell hot garbage.
Their recent ToS update: “We bricked your TV until you ‘consent’ to waiving your right to sue us if we do something illegal. Also, we won’t tell you what you’re consenting to up front, instead we’ll make you spend hours reading through pages and pages of legal garbage to find where we buried this statement.”
They know that nobody would agree to this if they put it in big bold letters right above the “agree” button, so they bury it behind hours of tedious reading so that people cave in and just “consent.”
If you roofy someone’s drink and pester them until they “consent” to sex, you would get thrown and jail and probably shanked in the liver. If Roku bricks the TV that you purchased and won’t let it work again until you consent to something that you’re nearly guaranteed to miss or not understand by design, their profits go up because people can’t sue them.
This capitalism hellhole can’t burn down fast enough.