That could be from the buzzing.

Proof is how I spend my time.

Here is a 30 part profile of Wikileaks, with sources on every page.

Profile In Focus | Wikileaks

An overview of the 2010 Wikileaks Document dump.

2010. United States. Wikileaks Document Dump.

A majority of a chapter on the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.

Russia Is A Terrorist State: Part 2 (2000s)

An overview on U.S. and Russia Intelligence that I'm working on.

Profile In Focus | United States Intelligence & Russian Disinformation (In Progress)

In addition to an overview on the 2016 Election that I'm also working on.

2016. United States Presidential Election Interference. (In Progress)

I'll be working on an overview of Assange directly in the next chapters, but the accumulating sources can be found in the middle of this page.

Russia Is A Terrorist State: Part 4 (2016 - 2019) (In Progress) You can CTRL-F " Profile In Focus | Julian Assange " to find them.

And here's a 37 part overview on the U.S. Green Party that I'm finishing up.

Profile in Focus | The Green Party of the United States (In Progress)

Again, sources are at the bottom of every part.

Proof asked. Proof offered.

#DeetsBringsReceipts

To be fair to the journalist(s), it could be a budgetary issue. It's a small town, and their 98-year-old mother was living with them.

Was.

The stress of the search killed her.

Meyer also blames the home raid for stressing his 98-year-old mother enough to cause her death on Saturday. Joan Meyer was the newspaper’s co-owner.

Oh... Fun Fact. I'm from KCMO where the Chief served for 24 years. Look up our gun violence rate (maybe you can't, I tried, and it looks like news agencies just stopped counting due to the frequency - the last one was just on Saturday) and our homicide rate.

And Missouri just voted to mandate that KCMO gives KCPD 25% of our municipal budget... While not even having full control of the force. Nothing like Civil War relics fucking us over in the 21st century.

KCPD has only solved 32 murders this year (as of June 28). As we're on pace for to make a new record for annual homicides

And, of course, Missouri has some of the loosest gun laws in the nation. And the State bans the city from passing firearm regulation.

So.. yeah, 24 years of service to a PD that is known to be corrupt. And misogynistic. And Racist. Very Racist.

If anyone is interested, I try to profile political events and figures. My Wikileaks profile can be found here. I plan to do a Julian Assange one in my next chapter, and I am currently finishing up one on The U.S. Green Party.

Basically, I'm trying to illustrate in plain language how Putin became the greatest threat to human existence.

Assange is a rapist (alleged) narcissistic psychopath. He uses everyone and throws them away. Chelsea. The women he raped (cough 'allegedly raped'), his own Wikileaks team. You name it, he's pumped it and dumped it.

Assange is a Putin puppet piece of shit who deserves to rot in a cell for the rest of his miserable life.

Assange gave us Trump. Trump gave us COVID disinformation. COVID disinformation gave us over one million American deaths.

So fuck Assange and fuck everyone and everything associated with him.

Then indict the fuck on espionage and threatening national security.

There's more than enough Russia collusion with Assange and Wikileaks to tie him up on one of Trump's many RICO cases.

I don't want to, but I'm thinking about switching to FF since Edge and Chrome have been having freezing issues for the past six months or so.

Native ad blocking via extension would definitely help nudge me over. Especially since I'm considering getting a OnePlus Open and a web browser would be a vital part of the Foldable experience.

Interesting bootlicker take amidst a content creator strike in Hollywood. Granted YouTube isn't under those Unions, but the power dynamics are quite similar (#YouTubeUnion)

Sponsors don't give a shit about creators, they are just an annoying necessity for the content creator.

Why give a shit about a sponsor who doesn't give a shit about the YouTuber you enjoy?

I was about to say something similar.

I have an Apple Watch Series 7. Average battery life is ~30 hours. Less if it runs on LTE instead of Bluetooth.

That watch is more expensive than the Galaxy Watch 4. At launch and second hand.

Now you can get a good/mint condition used Galaxy Watch 4 Classic 46mm LTE for around ~$150 on Swappa. The same tier Apple Watch Series 7 on Swappa goes for ~$225 on Swappa.

And the Apple Watch doesn't even have blood pressure like the Watch 4 does. Granted, you have to do some sideloading to get it working in the States until FDA clears it, but the hardware is still there.

Price will be the deciding factor between this and a Motorola Edge Plus 2013 for me.

OnePlus is ticking all the right boxes for me to invest in my first foldable. If they land the price (ideally the $1,399.99 or less that the Pixel Fold was rumored to be), it's a guaranteed buy for me.

From what I've read, OnePlus updates are slower than Samsung but faster than Motorola.

I agree about wanting the phone.

While the earlier renders were considerably sleeker, I'm fine with the added bulkiness look considering that they went with Samsung screens last minute, and it looks like it will have either a Time-of-Flight (ToF) and/or a LiDAR sensor in the camera.

It was a similar thing when they killed off their voters with Covid… Costing Trump his second term and derailing their own 2022 “red wave”.

Foresight isn’t exactly the GQP’s strong suit.

God forbid someone aggregates links to a link aggregation platform.

Oh, whatever shall we do?

Is there a list of community approved labels?

I’m not seeing one or a link to one on the sidebar.

1 in 30 American children were homeless as of 2013.

The report was released in November 2014 by the National Center on Family Homelessness at American Institutes for Research. Between 2012 and 2013, the rate of homelessness among children rose by 8% nationally. “That means that 1 in 30 American children—2.5 million—were homeless in 2013,” Dr. Bassuk, founder and former president of The National Center on Family Homelessness, said. “These are historically high rates.

Child Homelessness: A Growing Crisis - The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration April 6, 2022

Those were 2013 numbers. Pandemic numbers eclipsed those.

The United States:

"First world" nation or "shit hole" country?

We have everything we need to be the former.

Our (GOP) politicians religiously ensure that we remain the latter.

Same here and same phone. My 12PM has been starting to slow down increasingly for about the last 6 months, but my battery capacity has stayed steady at 89% throughout that time.

I'm torn between getting a Galaxy S23 Ultra when they get deeply discounted, a Motorola Edge Plus 2023, or a OnePlus open. I would have considered the Motorola RAZR Plus 2023 if it had the same SOC as the Edge Plus 2023.

The Galaxy Fold/Flip 5s seem to be barely iteratively better than last gen, so those are a pass until Samsung decides how it wants to handle competition from Google and OPPO.

The Pixel 7 Pro QC issues and the Tensor 3 still being based on Exynos while the Tensor 2 is slower than the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 have made me decide against the Pixel 8 Pro and the Pixel Fold.

I think I'm going to pick up a cheap Galaxy Watch 4 Classic to replace my Apple Watch until the Galaxy Watch 6 comes down in price in 2024 or hopefully the Pixel Watch 2 can compete.

Isn't that half of the point of a social link aggregation and discussion platform?

Lemmy is a selfhosted social link aggregation and discussion platform. It is completely free and open, and not controlled by any company.

Lemmy - A link aggregator for the fediverse

You can't separate the country from the pandemic, as I have previously proven.

A few articles to put this in context (listed chronologically):

The U.S. now has the most coronavirus cases in the world - FORTUNE March 27, 2020

COVID-19 Infections And Deaths Are Higher Among Those With Intellectual Disabilities - NPR June 9, 2020

Study Finds ‘Single Largest Driver’ of Coronavirus Misinformation: Trump - The New York Times September 30, 2020

Trump campaign rallies led to more than 30,000 coronavirus cases, Stanford researchers say - CNBC October 31, 2020

United States sets record for most Covid-19 deaths reported in one day - CNN January 12, 2021

A Tsunami of Disability Is Coming as a Result of ‘Long COVID’ - SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN July 6, 2021

Guidance on “Long COVID” as a Disability Under the ADA, Section 504, and Section 1557 - U.S. Department of Health and Human Services July 26, 2021

For COVID-19 vaccinations, party affiliation matters more than race and ethnicity | COMMENTARY - BROOKINGS October 1, 2021

2021 Progress Report: The Impact of COVID-19 on People with Disabilities - National Council on Disability October 29, 2021

Pro-Trump counties now have far higher COVID death rates. Misinformation is to blame - NPR December 5, 2021

U.S. Has Far Higher Covid Death Rate Than Other Wealthy Countries - The New York TImes February 1, 2022

Why the COVID death rate in the U.S. is so much higher than other wealthy nations - PBS NewsHour February 2, 2022

Vastly unequal US has world’s highest Covid death toll – it’s no coincidence - The Guardian February 6, 2022

COVID-19 Likely Resulted in 1.2 Million More Disabled People by the End of 2021—Workplaces and Policy Will Need to Adapt - Center for American Progress February 9, 2022

The number of Americans who say they won't get a COVID shot hasn't budged in a year - NPR May 10, 2022

Does US really have world's highest Covid death toll? - BBC News May 12, 2022

This is how many lives could have been saved with COVID vaccinations in each state - NPR May 13, 2022

How long covid could change the way we think about disability - The Washington Post June 6, 2022

Long COVID Could Be a ‘Mass Deterioration Event’ - The Atlantic June 15, 2022

Covid death rates are higher among Republicans than Democrats, mounting evidence shows - NBC News October 6, 2022

States With the Worst COVID-19 Vaccination Rates - U.S. News December 14, 2022

The Extent and Demographics of Long COVID Disability in United States - The Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) December 20, 2022

U.S. records 100 million Covid cases, but more than 200 million Americans have probably had it - CNBC December 28, 2022

As Emergency Ends, a Look at Covid’s U.S. Death Toll - The New York Times May 11, 2023

TL;DR: You might want to recalibrate your compass.

Original article from CNBC:

These are America’s 10 worst states to live and work in for 2023, and there’s a big surprise at the very bottom - CNBC July 14, 2023

MEDIA BIAS FACT CHECK rates CNBC as:

Overall, we rate CNBC Left-Center Biased based on story selection that leans left. We also rate them Mostly Factual in reporting rather than High due to two failed fact checks.

Further, U.S. News & World Report has multiple Missouri state rankings, with the majority holding rankings between # 30/50 and # 39/50, with an overall ranking of # 30/50.

Missouri | #30 in Overall Ranking - U.S. News & World Report

MEDIA BIAS FACT CHECK rates U.S. News & World Report as:

Overall, we rate U.S. News & World Report Left-Center biased based on story selection that slightly favors the left and High for factual reporting due to proper sourcing and a clean fact-check record.

However, if learning about people "jerking themselves off whenever some shitstick propaganda outlet runs an opinion piece that they agree with" is of interested to you, you may be interested in this article:

GOP's crumbling case against Biden on crime, immigration and inflation - AXIOS July 22, 2023

Words that have proven wise to live by:

https://lemmy.world/comment/1629983

I can relate.

A number of issues, not the least of which was my birther believing unironically that Obama was the Antichrist, led me to go no contact with my family for what will be an entire decade come this December.

Is that half of the point of a social link aggregation and discussion platform?

Is that half of the point of a social link aggregation and discussion platform?

For the "ThErE aRe WaYs To DiScHaRgE sTuDeNt DeBt!1!1!!" crowd:

I've been trying to get approved for SSDI since November 2020. I'm 36 and have an MBA with ~$156,000 in student loan debt.

I'm Autistic with PTSD, C-PTSD, Chronic Suicidal Ideation, Chronic Insomnia, Agoraphobia, Treatment-Resistant Depression, Multiple Anxiety Disorders, IBS-C, IBS-D, Fibromaylygia, Recurrent SIBO, potentially Sjögren's Syndrome (I had a saliva gland lip biopsy yesterday), Hypoglycemia, GERD, Anal Fissures, and the diagnoses keep growing.

I haven't been able to work since December 2019.

I received my FIFTH denial from SSA in late May (I took the first claim to the Appeals Council and started my second claim in October 2022 after the Appeals Council upheld the ALJ Denial). I'm currently trying to find a lawyer (again).

Granted, the above is anecdotal, but I have seen anecdotes like mine all over social media and IRL, especially with the pandemic and Long-COVID.

These "targeted student loan forgiveness options" are virtually impossible to receive, and you pretty much have to "spend" the equivalent of the student loan amount between lost wages and lawyer fees actually to have a chance to be eligible for them.

Student loan forgiveness needs to happen. It needs to be comprehensive and wide-ranging. It's not only the humane thing to do, it's the best chance of stabilizing our economy long-term (followed by climate change mediation and reversal).

1. I'm just getting started, but I'll become more active as I get used to Lemmy's interface.

2. I'm passionate about politics. I'm Autistic and you could say that politics is my special interest.

3. Well, we know what not to do after years of watching the abuse by the mods of r/politics. It should be open, simple, and reputable. Ban disinformation and hate speech, filter out tabloid sources, and focus on driving healthy conversations within the community.

4. It depends on your definition of "political views". Disinformation, hate speech, and anti-science propaganda that leads to people getting killed has no place in a civil community.

It's over the summaries of the books.

This is from The Verge's article:

In the OpenAI suit, the trio offers exhibits showing that when prompted, ChatGPT will summarize their books, infringing on their copyrights. Silverman’s Bedwetter is the first book shown being summarized by ChatGPT in the exhibits, while Golden’s book Ararat is also used as an example, as is Kadrey’s book Sandman Slim. The claim says the chatbot never bothered to “reproduce any of the copyright management information Plaintiffs included with their published works.”

If The Verge is correct and the lawsuit is over summaries, I don't see how the lawsuit would have any legal standing. But, then again, this SCOTUS hasn't really concerned itself with the legal standing requirement in lawsuits, so the lawsuit could hold but for the wrong reasons.

Under a sane legal system, the plaintiffs could only hope to get the summaries properly cited. But, we aren't exactly under a sane legal system.

I think a more appropriate comparison would be CliffNotes.

If they’re suing over summaries of their books and win, then the entire concept of the Cliff Notes company would be thrown into copyright liability, no?

AI does need to be regulated, but it needs to be regulated with common sense and forward-thinking. This lawsuit is not that.