When this fantasy of consequences comes around, they should raid his computer systems with a SWAT team like he’s a hacker.

Blago was the other guy. He pardoned him this time around. In his first term Trump commuted his sentence.

Always make them do illegal stuff and make it expressly clear they’re doing illegal stuff. It may not stop them, but it’s much worse if we just cynical ourselves into letting them do it because we’ve already decided nothing matters.

You don’t need an offshore camp with nebulous legality for deporting immigrants. There’s already somewhere to send them and you don’t care if they go free. Pretty damn useful for domestic opponents though.

I think the “freeze all federal spending” from a couple weeks ago could also qualify.

If you read the paper this is based on, there’s little reason to think this. It’s just supposition by the authors in an unpublished arXiv paper.

Google already has tracking cookies for advertising all over the place. Capturing behavior on a captcha challenge is of little extra utility.

Not LLMs, self-driving cars. Ever noticed how most of the challenges are things you need to recognize while driving?

I think a middle ground is possible where you deface the organization’s advertising link before sharing.

They don’t seem to actually identify the cookies as tracking (as opposed to just identifying that the account can bypass further challenges), just assuming that any third party cookie has a monetary tracking value.

It also appears to be unreviewed and unpublished a few years later. Just being in paper format and up on arXiv doesn’t mean that the contents are reliable science.

This is a nonsense attempt at a gotcha. I have nothing to withhold from the NCAA and thus no leverage to apply. What answer would you even expect here?

I’m going to keep bringing this up, because you’ve no doubt heard this poem many times in your lifetime, but what do you think “They Came For” is about? Because your answer to all of this just seems to be “it’s too hard, no one should do anything unless they’re personally impacted”. And it’s good you’re getting out, but you don’t need to justify it by pretending no one can do anything and no one should take any risks for their fellow man.

If my profession was something the NCAA cared about, I would absolutely be rallying my coworkers to take action.

There’s nothing easy about striking or protesting, and there will be some people who simply can’t, but you seem to just not believe in resistance at all. There is no no-risk path, but “First They Came” isn’t a message about just hiding out because standing up for someone else is risky.

What do you think employment is? Strikes aren’t about rules and contracts, they’re about power. You don’t get fired because at a certain critical mass, the bosses can’t run their business without you.

And students have been risking their scholarships, enrollment, and even visas for Palestine all year. Resistance and moral stands aren’t without personal risk.

Self-labeled no less!

They do it so the current president can ask them questions on stuff that would benefit from their knowledge. But Trump would clearly never do that, so this is pretty irrelevant.

This sub is run by a single person who frequently breaks its own rules and who censored you on a self post. It’s not really a general progressive sub so much as Boomer’s personal playground.

But it’s Lemmy, we should just make an alternative community.

At what point was US “control” even attempted for you to reach that conclusion.

Good on the AFP for being willing to put the critical context in the headline instead of just trying to present bland data.

And remember one of their defining features is incompetence. These aren’t technical masterminds, they’re relying on the people they purge to dutifully help set things up for them on the way out. The Musk Youth aren’t in that job because they’re peak performance wunderkinds, they’re there because they’re the right mix of impressionable and sycophantic. No one hires a 19 year old for an important job if they have other options.

FYI, “the Ukraine” was the label Russians (and Risk) used for the region. It’s just Ukraine now.

Wow, so I guess they’re really gonna try.