darkcalling [comrade/them, she/her]

I can see it now. Trump calls in gravy team 6 to break him out, they kill a ton of cops in a firefight while rescuing him, once back at the white house he drone strikes the judge and prosecutor responsible and he spends the next couple years vindictively attacking Democrats and their prosecutors and dismantling the justice department while battering the hell out of NY with federal antagonism that’s not really legal further pushing the idea of a breakup of the states into the mainstream. Democrats promise to jail him after he leaves office but he dies days before the election after finishing a Big Mac for dinner and Vance issues a sweeping pardon for Trump’s family and associates for all activities to which Democrats tut tut but have to respect the institutions and so go on to face-plant in the next election as well despite it being “the most important election of our lives”.

Well I should point out I could easily see between high hundreds of thousands and over a million Trump people simply dying because A) a lot of them are old B) Covid which they deny and had 4 years to die from it.

I could also see a million or so being disillusioned with Trump, either Q people who thought he’d do different or people who saw something else in him that he didn’t live up in his new campaigning. Also a lot easier to just check the box to re-elect the president for a certain amount of Americans who may not even be consistent Republicans but just people who thought he did a good enough job giving them free money during Covid and deserved to continue. So those numbers are if anything low and suggest IMO he probably gained some voters as well between losing people to dying and disillusionment and such.

So then the discussion must go towards those Democratic voters, they must have really alienated them, they must have really lost the enthusiasm and angered them. Sure we can discount a couple million as racists who voted for Biden because he was a white man with ties to anti-busing and crime legislation and KKK leadership but not nearly all of them. There’s still a significant chunk, millions and millions you have to account for.

I really question this. Unless your food is very, very frozen (deep in the freezer for days) and dense and has enough water to keep it frozen and cold for like 8+ hours without serious risk of bacteria growth and toxins being produced leaving food in a place like that all day seems like a recipe for disaster. Certainly I wouldn’t do it for frozen cut up tofu or meat. I suppose if you work in a way that allows you to come home for lunch that might allow it to work but most Americans don’t. (CDC says I believe 4 hours is the maximum frozen food that needs to be cooked should be left in the danger zone above freezing/refrigeration temps but below 160+ degrees F)

Given the ideal way to use an air fryer is to expose the contents to the air to get the full benefits of convection cooking which also thaws them more quickly and lets bacteria proliferate or get in it just seems like a poor candidate for it. And if you’re doing something like a side like fries that are probably safe to leave all day you still have to make the main meal and fries take like 5 minutes so I question the utility of saving yourself waiting that little time with such a function.

All in all modes like that, remote start works for things like washing machines or clothes driers or coffee machines or pre-heating a conventional oven given that unlike an air fryer can take 10+ minutes.

I think the more likely explanation is it’s just more IOT connected nonsense. People buy it, it sells so it gets made and the manufacturers can off-set the costs by selling data profiles on what time people eat meals by gathering that data as well as types of modes used and how long to for example identify people who have midnight snacks or meals, those who work off hours, etc.

Are we comfortable asking farmers on another continent to sacrifice their livelihoods for the sake of other nations’ unwillingness to reduce CO2 emissions? Should we be comfortable with that? Who even is “we” here?

Would we go to war to stop this from happening? Would we go to war to make this happen, should we decide it’s in our national interest? Either way, the implications are deeply troubling.

I truthfully believe this is part of a kind of hybrid warfare against China by the US and if the modeling shows it will devastate them while hurting the US significantly less then they’ll go ahead with it. The resulting famines and other issues are ripe for exploiting to overthrow the CPC or at the very least seriously injure their aspirations for surpassing the US and hobble them and set them back by a decade or more. The US is also the one most likely to believe that China won’t use nukes to prevent this kind of a plan and to be willing to gamble even if they’re unsure as it has a chance of ensuring another century of hegemony in their minds. Climate change in general I believe has largely been allowed to continue not just because of capitalist interests but because the models show the US will be among the most resilient to it, it represents an incredibly powerful form of hybrid warfare to wage on and destabilize the rest of humanity to allow US hegemony to continue. Your mentioning that a single actor could do this also worries me. The US would love the plausible deniability angle of using a US corporation to do this and when China threatens them they claim “wasn’t us, hey you can’t nuke us for the actions of one of our companies without our knowledge”.

Suddenly, all that warming that they’ve been masking is back, only instead of seeing 4+ degrees warming spread over a century, we see it spread over 24-36 months.

I assume as do many others you mean if this were started and continued for decades, those at the end of that line would have no choice. Not that if this were started and allowed to run for say 6 years that we couldn’t stop it and we’d only reap the normal amount of warming we’d have gotten anyways (not 4 degrees C over that limited span) though which could still be bad as the change in temperatures would be harmful to various ecosystems I’d imagine and the stress of going from warm to cool to even warmer again could be devastating to a lot of things.

Dick and Liz Cheney and now these ghouls too? Really making me hope for a Trump win.

Acceptance is meaningless.

Democrats accept it yet they also are trapped within the confines of what is possible in a liberal capitalist empire which means nothing is done. So they protest, they ensure that the fact it is an issue is /SEEN/ and that they are /seen/ being on the right side of it but do nothing or enact plans that were supposed to be enacted 30 years ago to actually work and are far too little, too late now.

So yes eventually even reactionaries will accept it but then they’ll pull the Google CEO move which is to say well it’s too late now so might as well double down on AI and other pollution and hope some technology of ours magics up a solution for us and then when that doesn’t work in 20-25 years and the worst of it is hitting they’ll say we had no way of knowing and blame China and various bad guys and a few token dead white people who are beyond the reach of any justice.

We’re heading over the cliff, we’re over the cliff and one of the drivers insists it’s just a dip in the road while the other horrified is scolding them for driving off the cliff but insisting they needed to take that turn they missed when they headed over the cliff, they’re insistent that they take it at the next opportunity despite that option of course being long past.

Where I live they’d own Albertsons, Food 4 Less, Ralphs, Vons, pretty much everything except Target, Walmart, Whole Foods/Amazon Fresh, and some smaller and specialty grocers like Aldi/Trader Joes.

Also, last I checked, there are two Aldi corporations (Aldi sud/Aldi nord), one of them owns Trader Joes, the other one runs US Aldi stores, they’re not the same entity (though there is a history there) and though they often seen to share a fraction of product ideas I can say the same product at the two stores are often noticeably different and almost certainly made by different suppliers.

No they couldn’t have. Several people quit, they cried about Bezos blocking them from endorsing Kamala, other news outlets reported it.

All Bezos could have done in that situation would have been to say nothing but people would absolutely have been the wiser about it being blocked by him and they’d probably lose as many subscriptions as from this. I doubt his statement wins or loses him any meaningful number of subscribers, it’s just cover so he doesn’t have to come out and say actually he’d rather stay on Trump’s good side in case he wins and/or maybe he thinks Trump is better for his interests but of course would prefer associating with someone so uncouth.

It’s predicated on the old racist trope that Chinese steal everything and cannot invent anything of their own because both they are asiatic hordes and also communism no iphone. So it holds that if we hadn’t invented them, they couldn’t have stolen it and raced ahead of our plodding efforts and our existing advantage in ICE would be too great (by decades) for them to overcome from their starting position. Which is of course wrong, laughably so.

Any links to this actual interview to save for later?

Oh fuck the lemmy.ml thread is full of scratched liberals screaming about Russia bad and Russians bad and this is good actually. .world and .shitworks continue to be a mistake.

They’re claiming onions.

so he can’t do anything.

Can’t do anything that isn’t imperialism and the acceptable levels of cruelty on the border, with police in cities, against pro-Palestine protestors, etc, etc.

They will almost certainly send him a bill that forces colleges to expel pro-Palestine protestors, threatens their funding if they don’t clear demonstrations and encampments within hours, classifies anti-zionism, anti-isnt’real activism as hate speech against Jews, and designates anyone against the zionist entity as a terrorist meriting watching by the FBI, extensive searches at airports and immediate termination from any federal job or job with a federal contractor who can be leaned on to fire such people.

Fact is Democrats are happily building the apparatus of repression under the guise of fighting “Russian disinfo”. Shutting down alternative media, arresting people, harassment, and it’s only going to get worse, they’re going to use it on pro-Palestine factions, the imperialism-skeptical left, etc.

For profit company in capitalist country tries to sell products to different markets including the lavishly funded police state. It does this obviously by highlighting how such products can be used by that particular segment and wining and dining them at conferences with free swag to influence those who hold the purse-strings.

People here for some reason:

This is almost certainly no different than Apple hosting a little thing at a store showing people “hacks” like replacing an alarm clock with the clock app. It’s just marketing and with how well the police are funded it makes sense. I mean they’re foolish enough to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on Musk’s Bazinga-mobile for “outreach” so obviously Apple wants some cash from selling cops half-baked solutions using their products that may not even be as good as purpose-built solutions currently on the market and theoretically might take away business from cop-specific businesses.

I can’t say critical support or anything but it’s nothing to get worked up about.

I mean I’m not sure what people expect? For Tim Apple to say fuck the police? Apple is one of the most valuable companies in the world.

Not to excuse many awful things they do but from a privacy perspective, Google is in much, much, much deeper with the intelligence, police, surveillance state. They own at least one company in “isreal” founded and run by zionist intelligence officers. They regularly collaborate with the zionists and the US military on multiple projects including building purpose-made equipment specifically for them and hold conferences so regular it’s not even of note. And Microsoft… they’ve been in bed with the feds for decades and do great things like automatically back up Windows encryption key to the Microsoft cloud where it can be subject to warrants by default. Apple at least on a surface level seems to do more, even if it’s just for its image and marketing.

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It’s not practical. I looked into it once on a related matter and unless you’re a US state dept employee or member of the military, the fees and taxes on importing and registering a car bought outside the US are astronomically high, like the cost of the car all over again, tens of thousands of dollars. The US has very specific and nit-picky safety standards. It’s not a matter of meet or exceed, it’s a matter of meet and don’t exceed the limits imposed by law or regulation so you can’t buy and bring over a European car that has better safety features if they don’t meet US standards, so in that case you have to pay a specialty mechanic to adapt your car to US standards. And even if the standards are met exactly there are huge taxes and fees on it to discourage people importing cheaper cars. This is not the first US rodeo with protectionism for US car companies, they did this whole thing with Japan in the 90s and the Japanese eventually just did bulk importing and then later set up US plants for making the cars to get even lower costs.

Those for whom it might be practical would represent a few hundred thousand, maybe a million or two people who live very close to the Mexico border and don’t just not registering in the US and dealing with the Mexican paperwork regularly.

Also, the better example is the SuperMicro accusations.

I dunno why the feds targeted a Taiwanese company. Maybe they didn’t play ball and they got the stick.

Possible but the US is a gangster state. They’ve done shake-downs and disruption of French companies, Japanese companies, etc. It may be they were just trying to injure it to benefit US based competitors who would for example allow them to put their own spy-chips in server hardware bound for China or Japan or France or Germany. But as you say they may have been trying to get something and they wouldn’t cooperate, perhaps the US tried to bully them into moving some production to India or the US or some place further afield from China’s grasp and they refused and that would be enough. Heck the US has targeted and ruined US companies for not playing ball. There was a telecom called Qwest or something with a Q, they wouldn’t cooperate with the NSA bulk gathering illegal wiretap program and the government pulled all contracts from them and ruined them. So simply refusing a request with these gangsters is enough for them to at the least fire a shot across your bow as a threat if not try to take you out entirely.

the KMT doesn’t represent Taiwan so calling Taiwan fake-China is absurd.

I was doing a thing since, you know the territorial claims and anti-China liberals like to talk nonsense. Fact is they were to much of the world “real China” for years at the UN and elsewhere until getting unrecognized so they kind of are now the fake one, the pretender in every way. I think I see what you mean though.

Lots of people saying that Oct 7, Palestine, the genocide kicked this off.

I disagree. It kicked it into over-gear but what made it palatable for liberals was the Russiagate hoax and the concept of disinformation they’ve been so successfully sold from 2016 onward. That there is this cartoon villain or villains like Putin and China and so on who just have these armies of bots and trolls who conjure out of thin air as if evil sorcerers the dread disinformation which creates people (again out of thin air) who want to vote for Trump or who hate the covid vaccine, or who deny modern medicine, or who reject the imperialist narrative on Ukraine. And on and on. It broke enough brains to really get things moving. These liberals are in total denial that anything is wrong in the US, it can’t be that we’re in an atomized society with many left behind, with corporate lies all over, with an inconsistent, hypocritical political/economic system that breeds conspiratorial thinking or that we’re founded on white supremacy and structural racism, it must be those dastardly outsiders and their false narratives and propaganda that have created all this trouble and if we get rid of them we can go back to brunch and the problems will be normal problems again like they were before.

And this is not new. I think James Baldwin was the one who said “when the south has trouble with their [black people] they blame the north, when the nation has trouble with them, they blame Russia” it’s just that back then the information control was simply controlling the TV news and newspapers and there was nothing they could practically do about word of mouth campaigns, about discussions between people happening on college campuses and in various public places. But now with most discourse online and centralized behind gatekeepers the opportunity presents itself to actually institute some control.

So they were already moving this direction with the Russiagate hoax narrative and the anger and accusations towards social media for not censoring enough, it’s just that Oct 7th and the loss of control of the Palestine narrative has not only panicked them but it’s gotten the GOP zionists who were of course skeptical if not outright derisive of this campaign when it was just an anti-Trump thing onboard now with the need for control and a crackdown. The loss of control of the narrative on Ukraine in the global south has also significantly propelled this as we see as these arch imperialists are very frustrated with RT as Russia hasn’t collapsed or been as isolated as they’d like and the war is going south in Ukraine so now it’s time for blame and power-grabs.

Governments in practice enjoy immunity from private lawsuits.

The only way for this to have any meaning would be if his government sued them on their behalf, won, then seized some of those government assets from the zionist state under their jurisdiction or moved to have them frozen by friendly nations who complied and handed them over or to arrest relevant officials and extradite them. Needless to say the west will NEVER do this to isn’treal or its intelligence agents, certainly not for fake-China which is only kept around for use as fodder and unsinkable aircraft carrier against real China.

This company is fucked (well maybe, they’ll probably just rebrand) but this won’t be the end of western fuckery. Let’s not forget the hardware spy implants the NSA put in Cisco gear shipped to China in the early 2000s to mid 2010s (and potentially elsewhere as they were spying on Germany and other “allies”), Cisco protested, might have even launched a lawsuit but there was nothing they could do to stop it or to get compensation from it.

Interesting but the US could just bully Musk into turning off all the Starlink stuff in a given region half an hour before air operations start. Of course the fact the US military pays for a special version of it complicates things but nothing of theirs relies entirely on it so far and they have existing systems they can use if it’s off.