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But the underlying Pentagon leadership hasn’t significantly changed between Biden and Trump (or Bush and Trump, for that matter). Its all the same neoconservative think tanks writing variations on Project For A New American Century for the modern government.

That isn’t congress or the president. Pentagon leadership doesn’t declare war. Congress has the power to declare war which hasn’t happened for some time and since then the president has basically done so, although arguable that it’s been a “formal” declaration of war.

This is what people voted for, up and down the ballot. US voters put Trump at the top and yes men in the house and senate.

Vote better next time, I guess.

Thank god we didn’t elect Dems. Can you imagine?

I knew Lemmy would find a way to make this Biden’s fault.

Probably everything over the next 4 years, honestly.

they’re for profit

From my subscription cost, yes. This aligns my privacy goals with their need for income which is not the case for “free” advertising-supported products.

Reading helps.

In mid-2022, the lawsuit alleges, the Seattle-based online retailer imposed what it called a delivery “exclusion” on two low-income ZIP codes in the district — 20019 and 20020 — and began relying exclusively on third-party delivery services such as UPS and the U.S. Postal Service, rather than its own delivery systems

They had attacks on their drivers.

DC wants them to warn customers that that can’t get the full service depending on zip but imagine what the next headline reads. Probably something like: “Amazon’s racist policy disproportionately excludes black zip codes from Prime delivery service”.

Fucked if they do, fucked if they don’t.

My Mastodon experience is far more pleasant than that of Lemmy.

My sense is Mastodon is far less left leaning (but still left of center) but it may just be a product of who I’m following and the tags I’m following.

The search problem is largely due to not being the actual customer.

Look at me. I’m the customer now.

lol “our detection system can’t tell the difference between you talking on the phone and you singing so we need you to keep the data clean by not singing”

Fuuuuck you.

What does a hard fork get this author that blocking meta’s domains from their account not get them?

This is exactly what comes to mind when some fedi people want to block all the search engines.

Good answers from real people are what drove everyone to start appending “Reddit” to the end of searches. The rest of the results are SEO trash.

I’d like to see a lot of that traffic move to lemmy and other fedi stuff and I think letting indexers do their thing is positive.

That and trackmenot.

It searches random shit in the background.

https://www.trackmenot.io/