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America joins Russia…

The world is topsy turvy at the moment. There are a lot of things being done by Trump and Musk that sicken me and frankly should outrage any American worthy of being called a citizen. But if there is one thing I have to pick that angers me the most it is how the U.S. is now treating the Ukraine and Russia.

Apparently the Ukraine is to blame for Russia illegally invading them, destroying Ukrainian cities, and killing tens of thousands of innocents. If I understand correctly, they are guilty of not surrendering their home and land to the Putin dictatorship. Oh, and Putin isn’t the dictator: Zelensky is.

Why is the leader of the U.S. parroting Russian propaganda lies? And how can any ‘peace’ negotiated by this toddler possibly be considered ‘fair’?

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Read more about the article Swasticar (Tesla) sales plummet

Swasticar (Tesla) sales plummet

The world right now seems to be a bit of a mess from my perch here in Canada, what with the ongoing MAGAt dumpster fire south of the border. It sometimes seems like there is no justice, no type of consequence even for the most deliberately toxic behaviours.

But sometimes, not as often as I’d like, there is a small glimmer of justice. Someone occasionally pays a price for their cruelty, arrogance, and corrupt behaviour. This is one of those times…

https://www.thedailybeast.com/elon-musks-far-right-politics-are-tanking-tesla-sales

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Read more about the article Dealing with the news
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Dealing with the news

I use an RSS reader and subscribe to a number of traditional news feeds like the BBC, Reuters, and CBC. I also have a collection of blogs and gaming related sites whose feeds I follow- but I’m focusing on the traditional news for the moment.

Lately I’ve been carefully curating which stories in my news feed I actually read, and I occasionally feel rather guilty for my choices.

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Read more about the article An abysmal social media dystopia

An abysmal social media dystopia

A lot of social media content is pure fakery. Accounts are created and posts generated entirely to attract eyeballs either for revenue generation, political manipulation, or simply because it is ‘entertaining’ to certain people. The algorithms amplify much of this content towards more and more extreme viewpoints because that is what keeps most of us engaged. This is true because humanity, in the larger sense, is horrible.

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Read more about the article Retrograde decisions

Retrograde decisions

Humanity has made a mess of the world over the last couple of centuries or so. We’ve also experienced an unprecedented amount of progress on many fronts. Halting our destruction of the environment is mandatory if we want to continue surviving on this planet, but halting all technological progress is also not the outcome I’d like to see.

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Read more about the article Email accounting
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Email accounting

I can tell when a holiday is near based on the volume of spam email in my inbox. I receive twenty or so spam emails per day throughout most of the year: this is the curse of having a 20+ year old email address. But when the taps open wide in holiday season.

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Read more about the article Not the end of the world… hopefully

Not the end of the world… hopefully

Trump has won the presidency again. The American people have proven once more that they are, in the majority, outrageously poor judges of character as well as full of hate, fear, and bigotry. The Republicans now hold the Presidency, the Senate, the majority of state Governorships, and the Supreme Court: the House of Congress is almost certain to end in their hands as well. I am, to put it mildly, disappointed.

So what now? What can we expect in the upcoming four years starting in January of 2025? I have no crystal ball, but I have some thoughts. And think it might be interesting to look back on this post in a few years, assuming I survive to 2028, to see how many things I worried about came to pass. My thinking here is based on what Trump has said, the contents of Project 2025, and my own speculation.

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Read more about the article Jeff Bezos is a pathetic coward

Jeff Bezos is a pathetic coward

There is a lot of anger and anguish pouring out on the internet over the past 48 hours. The Washington Post, a bastion of the ‘old guard’ news media, has chosen to be silent on their recommendation for the 2024 U.S. election.

Their stated position is that this is a ‘return’ to historical political neutrality. But they haven’t been quiet about their recommendations in previous elections for the past several decades. Why the sudden shift? Because Jeff Bezos is a narcissistic and pathetic little pissant coward. The editorial staff of the Washington Post had an endorsement of Kamala Harris ready to print, but Bezos stopped it. One of the richest men in the world is cowering under his $200 billion dollars of wealth against the possibility that the Almighty Trump might win the 2024 election.

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Musk sues to try to force advertisers to use X…

There was a time several years ago when I actually had a bit of respect for Elon Musk. But any respect I once had is quite simply gone. The man is a bizarre combination of megalomaniac, conspiracy theorist, and troll merged with obscenely rich techbro. He just keeps rolling out insanity after insanity.

Now he is suing advertisers for not buying ads on Twitter / X. I just can’t make this stuff up and it makes me angry, particularly given what Twitter once was.

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