Lost some. Won some.
The only way this wouldn’t be supremely disappointing would be if they were keeping all staff and only introducing this for lower-importance sequences to reduce the famously insane workload. But yeah, I know I’m only kidding myself to even entertain that idea.
The two matters aren’t mutually exclusive and ultimately their motives don’t matter as much as the effect. Getting riled up and indignant about some people’s racism is useless and even counterproductive-- especially compared to focusing on the source.
Racism being systemic means there are barriers to overcome at every income level. Everyone has already bought into it at varying levels, so you can’t just go “See, look, they’re racist!” Outside of a few like-minded people, the typical response would range from shoulder shrugs to annoyance at best. Many will even perceive the accuser as acting superior.
If we’re talking about racism on a systemic level, exposing that there IS someone who benefits is necessary to get people invested in societal healing. Most people are constantly tired and from their perspective, don’t have the energy to care about what they perceive as other people’s problems. Make it their problem too, and maybe something will change.
Campaigns and general influence by wealthy people who want poorer folks attacking their fellow poor folks and not them. Same as racism in general.
I thought so too at first, but then got to this part and learned it’s not the first time:
Luigi Mangione is getting the Roxie Hart treatment.
The accused murderer will be the subject of a new musical set to premiere next month in San Francisco, titled Luigi: The Musical.
Also appearing as characters in the musical will be two of Mangione’s fellow inmates at the Metropolitan Detention Center - Sean “Diddy” Combs and Sam Bankman-Fried.
The play is already sold out for its entire run.
The premiere comes 99 years after Hart - a fictional character based on accused murderer Beulah Annan - made her Broadway debut in Chicago.
Annan, like Hart, was ultimately acquitted of murder.
They don’t want Gemini, so they stated probably the best way to avoid having Gemini. It’s a privacy-minded comment. Despite being Google’s own phone, Pixels may be the only phones you can unlock to flash with a different ROM (GrapheneOS) and then be able to lock again after for security.
Yay! Please stick with this, EU! I hope this spreads globally. 🥂
Looks neat. I’m in. So we can all get there from our own instances, could you maybe use this link format?
[email protected]
I was just making an abstract sci-fi joke based on how cold fusion has been presented like a Holy Grail in the past. Obviously a better source of energy isn’t going to solve all our problems, no matter how good it is.
Maybe if it runs longer, we all get to jump to a better timeline. 😅
Yeah, it’s probably those conflicts of interest I had in mind.
I could have sworn at least 3 of the companies he pretends to run were under investigation by different agencies.
I thought the tech for imitating voices was already essentially available. There are cases of fraud that have been based on this.
Jesus and Early Christianity did have important roles for women actually. If I’m not mistaken, it was when the canon was decided on and authority of the church was institutionalized that they would have snuffed that out.
She also probably wasn’t a sex worker (and this was more something being thrown at her as an insult by certain individuals who wanted to suppress gnosticism) based on interpretations I’ve heard in the past. (But if she was, I’m sure Jesus wouldn’t care.)
True, a lot of sources are mixing in more and more auto-generated stuff.
Not not the Onion… (surreal!)
On a more serious note, that’s disappointing.
This isn’t a new thing. It’s not the first time they’ve prohibited people from celebrating their loved ones’ release. That’s a regular practice on their part. The folks (often kids at time of capture) they let go are also typically dehydrated and emaciated.
This post specifically says you can’t (without the bypass many won’t understand how to do).
This was a well-placed reference by @[email protected], but I’ll push a bit harder: a link friendly to other instances somewhere in the post or up top could help instead of only using the link that’s for our instance: [email protected] :)