smayonak

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[–] smayonak@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

People forget that Manson was a total narcissist who got off over getting other people to do murders. His murderer pals made him feel small for never having gotten his tiny hands dirty. So he is more than likely lying about having committed murders.

Imagine being such a pathetic piece of shit that you lie about murdering people to fit in with other tremendous pieces of dookie.

[–] smayonak@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago

That's a great point. The Trump team tried to get all voter information from all states in 2020. Ostensibly to verify voter fraud. But this data was probably used to create such voter suppression systems as Eagle AI.

So they know who you voted for.

[–] smayonak@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If they live in swing states they are.

Ideally third party candidates could get concessions from either Republicans or democrats in exchange for an endorsement. Kennedy got some completely insane concessions from trump for example.

But Stein hasn't been reported to have asked the dems for anything. Which means the green party is trying to get trump elected. My guess is that Stein got concessions from trump to stay in the race.

[–] smayonak@lemmy.world 24 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Lots of people probably aren't aware that Trump's crew has published a manifesto saying they will eliminate the FDA.

[–] smayonak@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The reason she won't is because of aggressive redistricting and roll purging by de santis. The polls are of likely voters. The thing about roll purges is it means people who thought they were registered to vote won't be able to.

In fact most states in which trump's minions have established control over the election apparatus will have a strong red shift away from the polls.

[–] smayonak@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

For men you have a white power gang in almost every federal and state lockup. But because gangs like the Aryan Brotherhood are patriarchal institutions, women are not permitted to be full members. As such, when a female white supremacist ends up in jail, she is far less likely to find a group which shares the same political views.

[–] smayonak@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The only person who did anything helpful got sent to jail (reality winner)

[–] smayonak@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

They kept the war on drugs going and started smuggling drugs into black neighborhoods to fund anti democratic despots overseas

[–] smayonak@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

You are completely right. There's an entire ecosystem of right wing propaganda channels out there but most people get their news from their friends. It's the key phenomenon behind influencer culture. And that's how most of the damage is done.

If someone has one friend who is considered knowledgeable on current affairs and that one friend watches Fox, chances are that none of his associates will have an accurate understanding of any given topic. And that's by design. The kind of tripe spread on fox news is inflammatory and salacious. The sort of noxious trash you'd share with friends in private conversation.

I realize this is what TikTok and facebook maximize: The friend effect. People learn from their friends. The kind of lies spread by right wing networks is magnified by social media and Russian bot farms.

[–] smayonak@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

When narcissists become triggered they have a fight or flight response. Trump is having that same response every day of his life. He was having it during the coup, he was having it when he was raping, he was having it when he got convicted. The observation that Trump is mentally crumbling is true. But it's something that he does daily.

Just think how contorted someone's thinking must be I'm order to derive their self worth from a poll.

[–] smayonak@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

I think you're right and that I've horribly misunderstood how this data is collected and used. According to their yearly report, mozilla's advertising revenue is explicitly not drawn from user data and is only related to tiles and default search engine sponsorships. The fact that they are not selling this information is heartening and it inspires confidence that they have not flipped on the ad money spigot.

[–] smayonak@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I appreciate your informed response but no system other than advertising-abstinence is fool proof.

Im saying this as a supporter. My browser of choice is firefox and I send them money regularly. And I understand their need to generate more revenue. But there has never been a company who has sold customer data discretely. My understanding is that every piece of data that's sold can be de anonymized when combined with other data sets. And the data is horsetraded until it gets into some very marginal actors' hands.

Mozilla's need for money is largely driven by massive mismanagement. It should have been fully funded in perpetuity through establishing a foundation that operates off interest payments but they decided to try and build a headquarters in Mountainview. They also operate offices in some of the most expensive cities in the world. They have made expensive software aquisitions. These are not necessary and have only whetted mozilla's thirst for other revenue sources. It's guaranteed that they will look for more customer data to sell because that's the path of least resistance.

I wish them luck but I also wish they'd not chase advertising money.

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