We call both localization, because what you’re doing is branching out controls, formats, and such to a locale, which is not necessarily a location or a region. You could have en-us, en-ca, en-us, en-uk, en-au, en-sp, or you just have en to translate it to English and call it a day

How about legal bribery lobbying

Okay, but like… How does it work?

Trump: I declare the department of DOGE

Now what happens? Elon starts introducing himself as the head of DOGE? Congress sets the budgets, so they’re not going to get public funding. They’re not public officials, and they have no authority, so Musk is just going to show up at the department of education and order them all to go home?

No one is going to go after Elon or Trump about it, but if they start printing up their own badges, do you think random people will be immune to the law? Especially after Trump repeatedly showed how he doesn’t hand out those promised pardons most of the time

It’s basically just a think tank at that point, and Trump could act on everything they recommend… But Trump would have to do it. It would probably get in the way of golfing and watching fox while live tweeting

I will say, lately lemmy has been in uncharacteristically confrontational. It’s been a rough year so far, hopefully things chill out

I think everyone should read the gospels, themselves with no commentary. They’re not very long, and the takeaway is very different when you don’t have someone going “Jesus was saying you should pay your taxes here, definitely not proposing dropping out of the Roman economy as a means of resistance”

No, make the story even more ridiculous. Tell them how you mistook lube for body wash at the store, and while cleaning your ass in the shower your finger accidentally slid inside, surprising you and causing you to slip on the lube, kicking the shampoo bottle into the center of the shower. And in desperately acting to remove your fingers, your stretched your butt cheeks right as you came down on the bottle

Yes, they know what happened. But the least you can do is give them an absurd story, really play it up. Bonus points for giving them all relevant information as another unlikely accident leading up to the event

They’ll eat it up, they’ve seen enough of this to not really care. But a great story will give them joy for years to come

Um… I think Gaza is already that

Well that’s a whole lot of things I didn’t say

Elementary school through high school, and they taught socialism to basically be when the government runs services or really does anything someone else could be making money off it

I think healthcare was a big sticking point for the label, but they basically described any social safety net as socialist.

It not have been in your curriculum, but teachers watch mainstream media too…

I don’t think that’s true. At least in the US, we’ve gotten so used to compromise and small wins that we celebrate things like the growth of renewables, but most people rarely ever talk about how emissions have only risen higher. They don’t want to hear how we crossed a major tipping point this year, or that our models are starting to look overly optimistic… They want to go about their lives and not worry about it too much

There’s no compromising with climate change, we’re still driving off the cliff. It’s okay to celebrate turning the wheel a bit, but sometimes we do need a reminder to look up and see the big picture

Half power, double time

Oh, I’m one of those people. And behavioral activation + removing yourself from bad life circumstances + limiting abstract stressors is literally the best cure we know of

We’re not the problem, the insane world of “adulting” is the problem… Being able to retreat to somewhere where we can just live is a lifeline most can’t afford.

Woah, woah, don’t start spreading misinfo. It’s someone else’s money they’re protecting, for pennies on the dollar. Buying politicians is a great ROI

I’m trying to think what shattered the illusion for me… Weirdly, one of the first ones was when I was in high school, my Spanish teacher told me that in Spain, they had hardly any computers (she had just visited that summer). I told that to a friend of my dad, and he was like “uh… No, pretty much everyone has them”. Which wasn’t propaganda, but I think they was the first time I felt ashamed of my ignorance

Then in college, I was having a discussion about politics with someone from Paris, and mentioned offhand how it’s different because they’re a socialist country. He laughed and said “what? We’re not socialist”. That was pounded into me since elementary school, that the UK and France were socialists.

The guy owned a business, and I knew this and the fact he was fairly wealthy due to said business… And that’s when the illusion completely shattered, and I realized I was repeating shit I’d been taught without evaluating the information

Propaganda works. On all of us… It works less if you’re aware of it and examine your own beliefs, but that shit creeps in through the cracks. It’s insidious

That’s fascinating, I assumed it would be the default business to business debt, where most companies would basically hold onto the money until they’re asked for it, and just make damn sure they’ve accounted for it

I’m not a money guy, I just remember hearing some project managers talk about it and thought it was an interesting thing I’ve never considered, so there might be more to it

Can you tell me a bit about the legality of it? Is it just a matter of balancing your books to avoid getting in trouble, or is it different for individuals than businesses, or am I missing some piece of context and jumped to the wrong conclusion?

Just in general the motivation for you to do it that way for my own edification, I had no idea this kind of process existed

I just don’t know with this guy…

Like 4/5 things he says make me think “holy shit, yes! The science has been clear for decades, highly processed food is the primary cause of obesity and probably more, but no one has been willing to actually take a stand against it”. Even stuff like the camps for mental illness… Yeah, it sounds bad coming from an administration of fascists, but having a place where you can just exist as long as you need while doing chores is actually a sorely needed safety net that would genuinely make an enormous difference, depression, anxiety, ADHD, and many disorders are effectively treated by just letting people exist while doing basic labor

Then I get to the fifth thing, and I realize “holy shit, this guy is just actually insane”. It recontextualises the first 4, because if you get rid of highly processed food by killing the FDA people are just going to get straight up poisoned. And the mental health retreat turns into a work camp if it’s no longer completely voluntary

All in all, I don’t know how to feel about the guy. Like, vaccines are probably going to become a mess of proprietary bullshit if we cut regulation and stop pushing for heard immunity… But they’re probably going to become unaffordable and suffer the same fate with a replacement pick anyways

But I think he actually believes what he’s saying…I just think his brain is broken. Would it be better or worse to have someone who just wants deregulation because they were paid off? Would it even make a difference if the rest of the administration is going to use everything for the worst outcome through execution anyways?

I just don’t know how to feel about the guy… He’s insane, but I’m certain I won’t be on board with the replacement. He’s a real wild card for sure… Who knows what he would achieve in either direction

If banning tik tok ends up galvanizing demand for healthcare reform I’m going to laugh my ass off

So I’m not crazy? I could’ve sworn I looked into it, and it was basically just a credit score where you also get dinged for police interaction or living with someone who committed a crime

If they actually cared, just publish a standard that sites declare their minimum age range. Then make apple and Google add a “child mode” that filters this at the DNS level when you set up a device. As it’s opt-in, sites would be responsible for what they’re declaring

Tech savvy kids will probably be able to get past it, but let’s be honest… Nothing would stop them

Honestly, I’d even support something like this, and I think you’d get voluntary adoption. Advertisers would like this, it’s not very burdensome technically, and it would give a safer legal framework for everyone

But of course, this isn’t really about the kids…

That’s actually brilliant