Read the Jesus parts again. Would Jesus like that?
Mostly okay. Slow discussion building on why test scores are dropping and are they still dropping. Is it COVID (immeidate shock), Long COVID (long term health issues), or nearly all course work and books being on tiny laptop screens (money showed up for a wholesale transfer to Chromebooks during COVID. They were actually helpful during lock-downs, but were kept after.).
People have different levels for what they consider that other “people realized the truth”. Many communities are full of people that know the truth and when they act to change things get knocked down.
As the Saint George Carlin once said “Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.”
There are a lot of really, really stupid people out there. Poverty, stress, hunger, etc make people even more dumber.
No OP, but with Snowden, a lot of the general outline was already known by those that pay attention. The specifics were new, but also largely filtered with “the government’s side”.
Sure. Please get the aggressors in wars to stop and only generate nudes.
This is all true.
Plus the pointless murdering of humans.
Europe is supporting Ukraine in an existential fight for their lives.
This is far different from wanting to generate a false naked picture of some person.
People have protested the military industrial complex for decades and centuries. Possibly even millennia.
YOU not being aware of it is different from it not happening.
Stop the false equivalency and whataboutism.
On Lemmy? The local Lemmy communities for the communities most impacted. Currently, most of what I see if on https://midwest.social/c/usa@midwest.social.
Outside of Lemmy?
mastodon.social
This is where I have found most raw footage, plus stabilized and slowed footage.
The local news stations for that area has the more verified info plus overviews.
Snapchat map for that area show some of the improvised barricades and troop movements.
A number of the the troll farms and ai bot farms are paid work. Cut out of pay, and the employees will do other things.
How does one do that? Take out the sources of money, of which there are likely a few.
I dislike it.
I have been surprised at the coworkers with that stream their daily activities.
Seems to be a symptom of a failing economic system (i.e. too many people have access to too little money). The minimum wage needs to go up.
Looks like the USA is running it pretty well so far. Lots of videos of violence in Venezuela.
Maybe we should make Venezuela a territory and its people citizens. Then at least they could have rights. (USA running it like Iraq and Afghanistan were run by the USA will cause more people to flee, possibly to the USA.)
Local news covered it in MN. Multiple of the identified day cares were inspected this year. A few haven’t had licenses are not known to be operating. (All daycares are inspected annually.) No one knows what the fuck the YouTuber is on about, and they did not share any methodology. (I.E. Could have filmed over a weekend. No one knows.)
Edit: Daycares are now being broken into and records of children stolen.
Interesting! FYI, not all Doctors require the constant monitoring, so some people can keep using the same machine longer.
Great headline. I appreciate the total being included! (Because we criticize the bad headlines, we should also highlight the good headlines.)
FYI, this is the same family as the article from the summer. I was uncertain as I had expected they had last been in Russian longer than a few months.
A snopes article. https://www.snopes.com/news/2025/07/22/derek-huffman-russia-war/
People just don’t notice the quiet ones. There are dozens of us.
Lotteries avoid issues with the deciding committee handing these to their friends.
To an extent, it also can provide better data on outcomes. Instead of biasing for the most motivated, it includes a wider pool, so of whom may otherwise be seen as “unworthy”. Then people do people things.
For those wondering…
The body of a man missing for 28 years
Trumps tariff moves are nearly all counter productive to American manufacturing independence.
Things are not normal. It is like a lot of people are waiting for the next shoe to drop.
Resistance is legal, so long as it does not go “too far”. I am near an “ICE” city. When empty cars with cut seat belts started showing up, there was an added level of horror film unease. The kidnapping by random “not ICE” didn’t amount to much, though we have yet to truly know who was kidnapped by “not ICE” (likely few). The murders have on not been good, but are at least fairly public.
No one is arming, as a shooting war on American soil will get everyone killed. There were days I wondered if we would be bombed. So far the “keep calm, and resist.” Crowd is making progress, which helps keep tensions from boiling over.
Elections are coming up, which is providing an outlet for energy. Real voting won’t be until November, and zero changes will happen until January 2027. Expect crazy shit to ramp up.
America is huge though. For any trend in one location, the opposite is happening elsewhere.
This is a very good time for the privileged to take a “mini-vacation”. It both slows production and gives one a chance to enjoy their last days on Earth.