Hegar

There are stages to escalate through and multiple channels to apply pressure through at the same time.

Large-scale peaceful demonstrations are an important first stage, and are still required as more intense channels are opened up.

It’s a matter of “Yes, that and more” not “No, something else”

a broader shift in military strategy away from Europe and counterterrorism

Putin is pulling US troops out of Europe. This will allow the US military to focus on it’s one consistent strength: making the world hate the US.

He paid people to vote, that’s just very clearly what he did.

It’s already illegal. Unless the rich do it, of course.

I presume it’s 4 days to live without medical intervention. The article quotes her father as commenting:

“Virginia my daughter, I love you and [am] praying for you to get the correct treatment to live a long and healthy life.”

It could definitely be true that doctors said she’s got 4 days to live … without dialysis. That could have been made clearer in the article. I suspect someone is being a little overly dramatic - to be expected of headline editors and to be forgiven of a recently car-crashed victim of sex trafficking.

When we kill CEOs it’s domestic terrorism. When they kill us it’s suicide.

I’m not racist, some of my best slaves are black.

This decision is an abuse of the legal system. It’s not a legitimate judgement and greenpeace should refuse to comply.

Through UCLA’s Technology Transfer Group, which transforms brilliant research into global market products, the scientists have co-founded a medical development company called Pelage Pharmaceuticals

In case you were curious how this publicly funded research is going to be turned into private profits.

I feel like a plate could withstand a knife stab

As a klutz who grew up without a dishwasher I can tell you it cannot.

Capitalism can’t innovate.

I imagine it would make fake-account-driven influence operations much harder, and it might drive down total online time.

This is a troll account with a post history of straight trolling. Report and block is the only appropriate response.

Grifters and thieves control the FTC now, there’s zero chance that GM needs to comply with this. Worst case, FTC finds out they never stopped and GM has to pay a tiny percentage of the profit they made as a bribe to some of the criminals in charge of the government.

Google encourages “protecting your business against costly state regulations”

Just remove the ‘y’ from ‘your’ and the sentence goes from lie to truth.

This kind of system is how you get the consistency and excellence that microsoft are known for.

Unless they’re axing the top 5% of the org chart, they’re not cutting the lowest performers.

statistically significant amount of whistleblowers are actually just liars … When their lie catches up with them … decide to end it all"

This is a very unlikely situation.

These stories of nefarious liars abusing poor defenseless corporations would be publicized widely if true. We’d have prominent, well known examples.

This needs people who think the threats and reputational damage of being a whistleblower are worth it for the ‘recognition’, who are smart enough to construct a believable sounding claim but not smart enough to see the inevitable consequences. That specific kind of person is going to be much rarer than people who work for a legitimately shitty company and don’t like it.

It’s not outside capital that leads to enshittification, it’s leverage that enshittifies a service.

A VC that understands that they can force you to wreck your users’ lives is always in danger of doing so. A VC who understands that doing this will make your service into an empty – and thus worthless – server is far less likely to do so (and if they do, at least your users can escape).

Incredibly clear article pointing out that no individuals will ever be able to resist enshittifaction pressures indefinitely.

The only way to prevent people with power from emiserating others is to structurally remove any benefit to doing so.

It’s just a lie. I don’t think it’s meant to hold up to scrutiny, it’s just meant to be repeated.