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[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I wonder how long it will be before the Amateur Radio (ham) spectrum allocations are deleted? After all, that allotment is a set-aside for the good of the public, and we can't give handouts like that to the commoners any more. Loafers and degenerates, make them PAY for their bandwidth, make them earn it.

With enforcement deleted and existing public-use bands sold off to the highest-paying (or best-politically-connected) grifter, I hope high-power, not-exactly-legal mesh networks can get a foothold.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

legal residents are abducted from their houses for saying genocide is a bad thing

And tortured, with impunity, by government agents.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

All right out of Stalin's playbook. First you arrest them, then you hold them indefinitely in jail without contact with the outside world. During this time you torture them until they confess to whatever made-up "crime" you accuse them of, and preferably falsely rat out others who the torturers want to give the same treatment to. Then you sentence them to decades of "hard labor" in a remote camp, and to more torture. Sentencing done by a non-judicial, non-accountable administrative tribunal whose primary job is producing "guilty" verdicts in order to meet their quotas.

Apply this method to the weakest first, and then to the working classes (including veterans) and then to the middle- and upper-classes (administrators and engineers and military leaders and especially "intellectuals"), rinse and repeat, until you've got yourself a society composed of individuals who live in utter terror of Uncle Elon and Tusk, and of being arrested themselves. Members of that society will never step out of line, will never be a threat to the regime.

Here's a first-hand description of how it works : https://archive.org/details/TheGulagArchipelago-Threevolumes/The-Gulag-Archipelago__vol1__I-II__Solzhenitsyn/

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

The memo also proposed IRS detail a dedicated group of several dozen senior IRS auditors to launch investigations into companies suspected of hiring undocumented immigrants.

I guess I better step on the gas and get work done on my house right now, before the (mostly-MAGA-voting) contractors can no longer get any workers. Probably a good time to stockpile food too, before crops are rotting in the fields because of a lack of workers.

I guess I'd better put a halt to getting old too, before long-term care facilities run out of staff and shut their doors.

Within minutes of showing up, a twenty-something software engineer dispatched from DOGE began demanding access

I'm in software and I can guarantee you these punks are absolutely reveling in the feeling that they're the "elite" because Leon likes them and picked them to do all this world-shattering demolition work. He wouldn't have tapped them if they weren't elite, if they weren't 1% hackers, right? Oh and they'll surely be in charge of the design and implementation of the Leon-approved Government 2.0 systems, work that only they, the best of the best, could possibly do! Incel no more!

The new IT stuff, assuming it's ever implemented, will all collapse. I can't wait for MAGA/Leon to kick them to the curb once he's done using them for wrecking and intimidation and they get to go back to unemployment and incel-hood.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago

Streisand effect time. I would never known about the book if not for this bit of news, but now I see that my library has it in their catalog though it's not yet available. Hold placed.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 weeks ago

I'm looking forward to seeing Indian tech companies outsourcing their tech work to formerly Elon-employed punks in the US, for pennies on the rupee. The punks are auditioning for it right now, and clearly their work will be shit but at least it'll be cheap.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

5'9" and 68 lbs, that's just mind-blowing. He's got to be just a skeleton, no fat at all, no muscle left anywhere. I weighed more than that in grade school. I wonder if he can even walk? Holodomor vibes.

Well, she's decided to prominently display that she's a Christian with that cross there. So I guess we're supposed to understand that she's by definition a Good Person. Give her a slap on the wrist, admonish her to not be naughty, and let her go. Whatever she did is God's Will after all.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

FWIW the term was in common use in Vermont when I was growing up, and was used to refer to Vermonters who wintered anywhere in the U.S. south. It was kind of a generic term though and could have referred to Canadians too, and to people with other southern nesting sites outside of the U.S.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

edit to add: pluto was discovered the same year the diagnostic rules for autism were established, too. so pluto, the planet, causes autism.

So autistic people are from Pluto? Illegal aliens? Pluto is covered with ICE, that must be how they got here. Deported.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

A couple of terms that need to be resurrected and put into common use during this MAGA Occupation:

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

No need to grind when they have soft, very-white underbellies.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

I might add, this cemetery is about a quarter mile from a VA hospital too, one that's already seeing cuts. Convenient, once the patients get kicked to the curb to die, they can be disposed of quickly and easily.

 

Thomas Preston, C. O. Johnson distinguished professor of political science at Washington State University, said in an interview Friday that Baumgartner’s position was “shameful” and the administration’s actions that morning were “disturbing.”

“It’s just an utterly disgraceful comment, and it seems that very few Republicans have any sort of courage or fortitude to actually stand up to what is clearly just a vile and disgraceful performance that we saw today in the White House,” Preston said.

Preston characterized the mineral rights proposal as grossly transactional – pay to use Trump’s fire hose or he’ll let Ukraine burn down – and ultimately a “smokescreen” meant to give Trump an excuse to pull out of Ukraine altogether. He argued acquiring the minerals is significantly more uncertain than Trump has claimed and that there appear to be few guarantees for the security for Ukrainians if they sign a deal.

 

“Super pigs” wreaked havoc on the U.S.–Canada border; after a second deadly attack, pigs in Piedmont, Alabama, were put down; and a grand jury recommended the abolition of the Hanceville, Alabama, police force after determining that the department, of which every officer is currently on administrative leave, represents “an ongoing threat to public safety.”

 

Musk wrote he was acting “consistent with President @realDonaldTrump’s instructions,” apparently referencing a social media post Trump shared earlier Saturday encouraging the billionaire to be harsher in his efforts to slash the federal workforce.

Trump posted on Saturday morning to Truth Social, his social media platform, commending Musk for doing “A GREAT JOB,” but adding, “I WOULD LIKE TO SEE HIM GET MORE AGGRESSIVE.”

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This is kinda regional, but also not, as the Grand Coulee Dam produces a tremendous amount of power for the US.

The third powerhouse ("Nat"), completed in 1974 to increase energy production, makes Grand Coulee the largest power station in the United States by nameplate capacity at 6,809 MW (Wikipedia).

And now the Regime is firing the people who run it.

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Non-Linear (www.monbiot.com)
 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/26300141

Though we might find it hard to imagine, we cannot now rule it out: the possibility of systemic collapse in the United States. The degradation of federal government by Donald Trump and Elon Musk could trigger a series of converging and compounding crises, leading to social, financial and industrial failure.

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Non-Linear (www.monbiot.com)
 

Though we might find it hard to imagine, we cannot now rule it out: the possibility of systemic collapse in the United States. The degradation of federal government by Donald Trump and Elon Musk could trigger a series of converging and compounding crises, leading to social, financial and industrial failure.

 

From Bernie Sanders (video).

The President of the United States is aligning himself with the dictator of Russia, Vladimir Putin, to undermine the independence of Ukraine and its democracy.

 

The law criminalizes being outside with “camping paraphernalia,” like sleeping bags or cookware, without written permission from property owners or the city. It includes a provision that anyone “causing, permitting, aiding, abetting or concealing” violations is subject to up to six months in jail and a $1,000 fine.

“[The mayor] claims no service providers will get arrested, but ultimately, the law prevails,” said Vivian Han, CEO of the nonprofit Abode Services. “This is for all time, not just while he’s mayor.”

Greg Ward, a minister at Mission Peak Unitarian Universalist Congregation, said his church hands out “blessing bags” of food and clothing.

“Putting [them] in the hands of the unhoused could be aiding and abetting,” said Ward. “That could make us criminals.”

 

The previous Sunday, the workers spoke with a supervisor at Lamell, Jimenez said, telling him that they wanted a meeting with the company’s president, Ronald Lamell, Jr., to speak about the raise issue. The workers also wanted to discuss what they said were times company superiors entered employer-provided housing without permission. The group asked to have this meeting before they returned to work on Monday, Jimenez said.

The company did not agree to the meeting, and the supervisor indicated there would be “punishment” if the workers did not show up the following morning, Jimenez said.

The workers then commenced a work-stoppage on Monday morning. A manager entered the employer-provided home where Jimenez lives, he said, banging on doors and telling the workers they were fired if they did not show up for work.

The company then offered individual workers their jobs back at a lower wage, $14.50, according to Jimenez — a move he described as “humiliating.” The company also told the workers to vacate their employer-provided homes adjacent to the company’s sawmill, Jimenez said.

At the protest on Friday, the group marched to Lamell’s office with banners and drums, hoping to ask the company’s leadership for their jobs back — with a raise. Though employees could be seen inside through the office’s windows, none came to the door.

Instead, a fleet of Essex police vehicles pulled down the snowy road to the office.

 

Handing the organ to nurse Tammy Nelson, Shaknovsky told her to mark it “spleen,” even though it weighed at least 10 times as much as the average spleen and was clearly a liver, according to Bryan’s lawsuit. Nelson allegedly did as she was told.

Within minutes, other doctors and hospital higher-ups swarmed the operating room, the suit states. All of them allegedly recognized the organ that had been removed was a liver but nevertheless covered up Shaknovsky’s mistake by documenting on official records that he had cut out Bryan’s spleen.

Shaknovsky allegedly tried to persuade hospital staff members that it was the spleen. He repeatedly left and returned to the operating room to tell people that Bryan had died of a “splenic aneurysm,” the suit states. In informing Bryan of her husband’s death, he allegedly told her the cause was a spleen so diseased that it had swelled to four times the normal size and shifted to the other side of his body.

Ascension nurse Kathleen Montag chased Bryan into the parking lot and lied about how her husband had died to get her signature agreeing to forgo an autopsy, the suit states.

The cover-up fell apart when the district’s medical examiner performed an autopsy and determined that the organ that had been removed was Bryan’s liver while his spleen was untouched and in the normal position, state disciplinary records show. The medical examiner ruled Bryan’s death a homicide caused by bleeding to death and having his liver removed.

 

According to testimony at his trial, Nelson ignored his training and moved to arrest Sarey by himself, resulting in a scuffle that ended when Nelson shot Sarey in the belly at point-blank range. Testimony and video showed that as Sarey slumped to the ground, Nelson cleared a malfunction in his handgun, looked around and then shot Sarey a second time in the head.

“Using unnecessary violence was nothing new for Nelson,” Eakes wrote, noting Phelps had already concluded during an earlier ruling that Nelson had a pattern of using violence “during routine and nonthreatening situations when someone showed him disrespect or failed to acknowledge his authority.”

Sarey was Nelson’s third fatal shooting as an Auburn officer. The city has paid about $6 million to settle claims against Nelson, including $4 million to Sarey’s family.

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