btaf45

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[–] btaf45@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

To jump go to ur profile and hit export then make a new account in a different instance and do import.

Wow didn't know you could do this.

[–] btaf45@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I modded about 30 sub’s, mostly niche subs just to keep the spam and hate speech at a minimum.

Then you were doing it right. Thank you for your service. But there were lots of bad mods passing out rando-bans left and right.

 

President Trump’s shifting positions and outright lies have presented the American public with dueling narratives at every turn.

“He says so much, you can’t really pin him down,” said Julian E. Zelizer, a Princeton history professor and editor of a book of essays about Mr. Trump’s first term. “The point isn’t to have a contradiction, the point is to have cover.”

Tony Schwartz, the ghostwriter of Mr. Trump’s book “The Art of the Deal,” has said the president has one goal. “His aim is never accuracy,” Mr. Schwartz wrote in an opinion essay during Mr. Trump’s first term, “it’s domination.”

Experts say the dissonance can become dangerous. “Once you undermine consistency, the shared sense of reality, you’re undermining the basis of democracy,” said Jason Stanley, a Yale professor who has written books about propaganda and the erasure of history. “If there’s no shared sense of reality, we can’t collectively make decisions. So the only decision maker will be the disrupter in chief.”

Mr. Stanley said Mr. Trump’s contradictions boil down to a simple truth.

“If you’re constantly contradicting yourself,” he said, “you’re constantly lying.”

 

Canada’s initial retaliatory tariffs against the U.S. will remain in place despite President Donald Trump postponing 25% tariffs on many imports from Canada for a month, two senior Canadian government officials said.

Ontario Premier Doug Ford, the leader of Canada’s most populous province, also said Thursday that, starting on Monday, the province will charge 25% more for electricity shipped to 1.5 million Americans in response to Trump’s tariff plan. Ontario provides electricity to Minnesota, New York and Michigan.

Ford said Ontario’s tariff would remain in place despite the one-month reprieve from Trump.

“The only thing that’s certain today is more uncertainty. A pause on some tariffs means nothing. Until President Trump removes the threat of tariffs for good, we will be relentless,” Ford posted on X.

British Columbia Premier David Eby also said his province will introduce legislation in the coming days that would give it the ability to levy fees on commercial trucks traveling from the United States through the province to Alaska. He said Canadians won’t let up until the tariffs are taken off the table.

[–] btaf45@lemmy.world 8 points 5 days ago (11 children)

My general rule of thumb is that any software update has a 50% chance of making the software worse. So I don't update anything without a good reason. That includes not just device updates but things like phone apps.

[–] btaf45@lemmy.world -5 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (6 children)

Urgent security fixes are gonna go unpatched

I don't understand why a printer would ever need an "urgent security fix". Or a software update for that matter.

[–] btaf45@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

Dotard Musk comes from a South African Afrikaner background. Those same people literally ran a white supremist government and jailed Nelson Mandela for decades.

[–] btaf45@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago

Will there be meaningful software updates for your Kia EV6 in 2028? Absolutely not, no way.

I just got a new electric Kia and I don't give the slightest shit about updates. In fact I would prefer no updates for fear it would make the great car I have worse. And no way in hell will I ever give Dotard Musk any of my money,

[–] btaf45@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Whether the people at Google who did this knows they are evil or thinks they are not evil doesn't really even matter. Having a phone app that automatically scans all your photos should scare the shit out of you. At the very least it wastes your battery and slows down your phone.

[–] btaf45@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

LMFAO! Dude I am not the person who equated Stalin and Hitler's imperialist joint military invasion pact with the UK's appeasement agreement. That was you. You are a Hitler/Stalin apologist. Who both killed tens of millions of people.

[–] btaf45@lemmy.world 0 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Clearly I know more than you do, since you didn't know the difference between a Military Invasion Pact that Hitler and Stalin made, and an appeasement agreement that the infamous fool Neville Chamberlian made.

[–] btaf45@lemmy.world 0 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

Here’s one example that took place a year before the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact

Yes, we all know about the infamously foolish appeasement of Hitler. That wasn't a defense pact like Hitler made with Stalin.

[–] btaf45@lemmy.world 0 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

The Nazis had pacts with literally everyone.

Nope. With only with Russia, Axis nations, and a few small countries.

Stalin literally made a pact with Hitler to participate in the imperialist invasion of Poland.

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