Step 1: Remove filters in Reflecting Pool because Obama put them in.
Step 2: Give your criminal neighbor who runs "Greenwater Services" a $20 million no-bid contract to paint the pool.
Step 3: Fill the pool with water from the Potomac River, the phosphates from which cause algae blooms.
Step 4: Freshly sealed pool and extreme heat result in a super scum event
Step 5: Direct National Park Service to dump hydrogen peroxide into the pool which causes the paint to peel.
Step 5: Deploy US National Guard to stop people from taking photos of the swamp as a perfect metaphor for the administration.
Step 6: Blame someone else.
Remember when Crunchyroll bought Funimation and people lost whole digital libraries? they wouldn’t even let them download a digital copy of what they purchased. This can arbitrarily happen at any time, you can never convince me that digital is better.
Remember kids, if you need billions of dollars for a healthcare system that isn't straight dogshit, that's communism, and you need to figure your shit out. But if the nothing factory needs billions of dollars, that's freedom.
won't be taking any prime minister seriously until they lay out a plan to make england better for people born post-1990. it's tiresome being expected to foot the bill for literally everyone else and getting increasingly little back for it
The home of Danish privacy activist Lars Andersen was raided by masked police forces after he published his 'two favourite numbers', a 10 digit and a 8 digit number, spelled out in letters; it were the social security and phone number of Mette Frederiksen, the Prime Minister of Denmark, who wants to ban encryption (CSA) and introduce mass surveillance.
"Rules for thee, but not for me..."
"Blame the password sharers" yes blame the common man!! Fight one another!!! Be at odds with your fellow human while the big bosses and ceo's pocket all the cash!!!
Wanting media that can be censored by the state to be broadcast on the internet that will be ID locked by the state.
So this is how democracy dies. With a bunch of terrible parents going "it's about time".
banning youtube of all sites bums me out on two levels
i've been on youtube since i was 13. it's the foundation of my career and most of the technical skills I still rely on. it's STILL the best free resource out there once you cut through the noise. the quality and volume of free tutorials has never been higher
also, i doubt they think it'll even work. its more likely an excuse to comfortably extend surveillance online
if the UKs apathy weren't so far gone it might have been worth pushing back on
(2/3) I despise this increasingly common notion that queer characters CANNOT be bad people under any circumstances. If a queer character is anything other than a morally righteous cardboard cutout, they’re “bad rep”.
They don't want people to figure out that if they just get off their arse they can fix their own community in 2 weeks. They want you to keep paying them taxes so they can fix your community for you. In 3 years. Maybe. Probably not.
So let me get this straight.
A woman in her young twenties, new to Los Angeles, agrees to meet a guy after talking online under the impression he’s roughly her age. Instead, a significantly older man, looking around 35 shows up having already misrepresented himself.
She immediately notices abnormal behavior, he walks into the bar scanning the room instead of engaging with her, hyper aware of his surroundings, acting visibly strange enough that alarm bells start going off.
Then, within minutes, he pivots into telling her he manages influencers and OnlyFans girls, which in practical terms often means acting as a pimp and then he starts aggressively pressuring a young woman he barely knows to start doing sex work, move to Miami with his help, and let him grow her brand.
So from her perspective
Lied about who he was.
Showed up significantly older than expected.
Displayed bizarre hyper vigilant behavior.
Immediately introduced sexualized financial exploitation.
Began attempting to recruit an isolated young woman new to a major city.
And your conclusion is,
“HAHA WOMEN SAY THEY’RE STRONG BUT THEY CRY.”
No, dipshit.
What you just watched was a woman recognizing, in hindsight, that she had likely just encountered a predator.
Women don’t spend their lives learning situational awareness because the world is full of good hearted entrepreneurial alpha males.
They do it because men like this exist.
And after escaping a high adrenaline situation, the nervous system processes the threat afterward. It’s called a delayed stress response. Fairly basic neurobiology, though admittedly concepts above a 7th grade reading level tend to struggle in manosphere circles.
What’s genuinely fascinating is how men who spend every waking hour screaming about protecting women are almost always the first ones mocking women for correctly identifying dangerous men.
Which tells us the quiet part out loud.
You don’t actually hate women being emotional.
You hate women recognizing predatory male behavior before men like that can benefit from it.
But sure, Richard. Tell us more about female irrationality while publicly demonstrating why women have to develop situational awareness in the first place.
Outstanding work.
When Mamdani got in, my landlord started doing things he was supposed to be doing for years because he knew Mamdani was with the tenants, not the landlords. For example, monthly extermination hadn't happened in the 7 years I've been in my building until literally this year.
Right on cue. They've VOTED to come for your VPN.
The minute people reached for their VPNs, the government's own side moved against them. Remember when they SWORE this was only about protecting the children?
This January the House of Lords voted 207 to 159 to ban VPNs for under 18s. Same night, they backed scanning software on every phone and tablet in the country. While you were told to think of the children and it never stops at the children. It never does.
Because you cannot age-check one child without age-checking every adult behind them. The Open Rights Group said it plainly. To use a VPN, you'd hand your ID, your face, your passport, to some unregulated company you've never heard of. Just to use the tool meant to keep you private.
Then they handed the minister the keys to the lot. Any website, any app, any game, shut down on a whim. No vote. No debate. Not a shred of proof a single child was ever harmed and now Kendall pops up to say there's more landing in JULY. Of course there is.
This was never about a child getting around a ban. It was about making sure YOU never get around them.
July isn't an update. It's the next brick in the wall they're building around you.
Trust in news just hit a new record low, which is a good thing for everyone who is not rich. The news is not meant to inform the public. It is meant to condition the public to obey the very system that is rigged against us.
Quite a coincidence that every country in the western world is simultaneously proposing similar censorship agendas over the internet at exactly the same time