here is a link to the @DropSiteNews tweet which this post is a cropped screenshot of

(please refrain from making posts which consist solely of unattributed screenshots)

Democrats like yourself insisted that this wasn’t a big deal

lol! you obviously have me confused with someone else

Maybe,

why maybe and not obviously yes?

but Democrats are running an 80 year-old conservative

they’re also running a 41 year old murder enthusiast who is larping as a progressive, and they’re bolstering his credibility by pretending to fear his policies. it’s called hedging.

His problem is he never expected to run for office and therefore didn’t delete his socials.

You think the problem is that he didn’t delete is socials? (He actually did delete them and hoped to get away with it, it’s just that reddit archives exist and someone leaked his username to CNN.)

I think the problem is actually that (in his own words) he “wanted to have an adventure and kill some people. Joined up in ‘04, did Fallujah and Ramadi, and managed both.”

The primary is still seven months away.

Platner says some good things, but given his absurd lies about his lack of knowledge about his nazi tattoo, and his vague downplaying of these murder-loving reddit comments as being “a long time ago” (without even actually disavowing anything specific) despite them reaching all the way up to 2021, it’s difficult to believe anything he says.

Since Maine voters do seem to have an appetite for the actually-progressive policy positions he’s endorsed, shouldn’t someone more credibly holding those positions run?

No, what’s Trumpian is literally aligning with Trump to defeat progressive candidates.

The Washington Post is owned by Jeff Bezos so I certainly wouldn’t suggest that anyone should pay them for anything.

I do often use archive.is (which, FWIW, is “privately funded” by a person unknown and in 2025 still says in its FAQ “With the current growth rate I am able to keep the archive free of ads. Well, I can promise it will have no ads at least till the end of 2014.”) and it is certainly useful but via Tor or a VPN it often requires solving multiple recaptcha (google) captchas so it is not my first choice for bypassing paywalls.

I am curious why @rossome@lemmy.ml got redirected to the MSN home page though; for me (with ads blocked by ublock origin) the page is loading just fine.

I linked the MSN syndicated version because the washingtonpost is often paywalled or broken in other ways. (When I load this article there currently I am getting only the first paragraph of the article, with no indication that there is actually more.)

I clicked to confirm my guess that this would be a David Brooks piece, and, of course it is.

As a reminder, this is the kind of stuff he was writing in in February 2003:

But suppose we are confronted with a problem of courage? Perhaps the French and the Germans are simply not brave enough to confront Saddam. Or suppose we are confronted with a problem of character? Perhaps the French and the Germans understand the risk Saddam poses to the world order. Perhaps they know that they are in danger as much as anybody. They simply would rather see American men and women–rather than French and German men and women–dying to preserve their safety.

Bespoke is a synthesizer first but “like a DAW in some ways, but with less of a focus on a global timeline. Instead, it has a design more optimized for jamming and exploration.” (youtube trailer, wiki, wikipedia)

“But you can’t copy with Ctrl+C, it’s…” - You can. When something is selected It copies selection to clipboard, otherwise it sends SIGINT.

What terminal emulator are you using where ctrl-c copies instead of sending SIGINT when text is selected? In every one I’ve ever used, ctrl-c still sends SIGINT even with text selected (and one must must use ctrl-shift-C/ctrl-shift-V to copy/paste).

I don’t have any suggestion for getting the behavior you’re asking for, but besides the normal ctrl-(shift)-C/V clipboard FYI you also have two other types of clipboard-like things: one which works anywhere (not only in the terminal) and is actually always automatically copying anything you select and lets you paste from it with middle click (this originated with X Windows but i think most Wayland compositors have also implemented it by now), and another which is found in GNU Readline (used by bash and numerous other REPLs) called the “kill buffer” which can be pasted (or “yanked”) from and cut (or “killed”) to using Emacs keyboard shortcuts (which also include various cursor movement controls).

Notes:

• the kill buffer is local to a given readline context, it’s not shared across different shell windows.
• the list of emacs keybindings in that wikipedia article i linked is currently confusingly referring to the kill buffer as “the clipboard”
• you can drastically reconfigure your readline keybindings and other behavior by editing your .inputrc file, but you cannot achieve what you were originally asking for because there is no concept of text selection in readline.

HTH!

update

If they don’t use a bank, how are they pulling money out for it to be tracked?

One example I mentioned in my comment you’re replying to is check cashing services. Millions of people in the US receive money via things like check or money order and need to change it to cash despite not having a bank account to deposit it in; this usually involves identifying themselves.

See also payday loans, etc.

See, none of it makes any sense lmfao.

I assume you didn’t click (and translate) the link in the comment prior to mine which you replied to?

If you do, from there you can find some industry news about Serial Number Reading (SNR) technology.

I don’t know how widely deployed that technology is, but there is clear evidence that it does exist and is used for various purposes.

I ONLY give other people cash, all my other purchases are debit/credit.

If you always use card payments whenever it’s possible, it obviously isn’t necessary to analyze your cash transactions to learn where you are because you are already disclosing it :)

Like MOST people and stores since Covid

There are close to 2 billion unbanked people in the world. In the US, it’s less than 6% nationally, but over 10% in some states.

Many people who are not unbanked also often avoid electronic payments for privacy/security and other reasons.

The cash serial number tracking being described in this thread is useful for locating the neighborhoods frequented by someone who (a) avoids using electronic payments, and (b) maybe obtains cash from an ATM (or perhaps check-cashing service, in the case of an unbanked person) in places other than the neighborhoods they live in or frequent.

At launch (in 2021) the FireTV was not on the list of Sidewalk-enabled products, but given the fact that Sidewalk was enabled without user consent on many existing devices (and has been found to re-enable itself after being disabled) combined with the fact that FireTV devices all have at least the necessary bluetooth radio (even if not the LoRA part, Sidewalk can use both/either) and thus could become sidewalk-enabled by a software update in the future… I would still say that Sidewalk is a reason (among many) to boycott FireTV along with the rest of Amazon’s products.

The takeaway that Amazon built their own mesh network so that their products in neighboring homes can exfiltrate data via eachother whenever any one of them can get online is not false.

Social graph connections can be automatically inferred from location data. This has been done by governments (example) for a long time and is also done by private companies (sorry I can’t find a link at the moment).

“I can no longer reconcile my role with the direction the paper has chosen, including its increasing willingness to promote partisan materials, publish demonstrably false information, and manipulate the reporting of its ground staff to shape the worldview of our readers,” Mr. Thornebrooke wrote.

coming from a person who made the choice to work for Falun Gong’s QAnon newspaper, this is hilarious