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If you buy a formerly stand-alone product that requires a connection to the Internet to use it -- such as a car in this example -- you are increasingly asking for trouble.

Believe it or not, it is legal for a company to brick a car -- to turn it, as one "owner" said, into a "lawn ornament".

The people who write the laws are as responsible for this as the scumbags who run/ran the bankrupt company.

https://www.teslarati.com/fisker-bankruptcy-approved-tech-support-deal/

‘Vengeful’ Trump withheld disaster aid and will do so again, ex-officials warn - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/13/trump-disaster-funding-warning "Former administration officials say Trump deliberately denied funds to states he deemed politically hostile which is why he lies that dems are doing it, as deflection

‘He gives them the green light’: #Trump’s rhetoric revives hate groups across US - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/13/trump-anti-immigrant-racism-hate-white-supremacy-springfield "Republican’s lies about immigrants eating cats in Ohio leads to swell of far-right extremism in Springfield – and beyond" lies have consequences

When something horrible, but wacky, happens with #JDVance or #Project2025 people often say "The jokes write themselves."

But nobody says "The editorial cartoons draw themselves!"
It takes time & talent to make good cartoons.

So today I upgraded my monthly subscription to @jensorensen because she turns the horrible, bizarre & wacky news into funny, insightful cartoons.

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Latest comic - Just a few of the horrors of Project 2025

#cartoon #uspol #USPolitics #election #lgbtq

Proud to say I work for an org like this 👇😂 (though in a totally different field...no pun intended).

“I think people either got to get big or get weird,” Josh Payne said. “We chose to get weird.”

https://investigatemidwest.org/2024/10/11/regenerative-farming-practices-require-unlearning-past-advice/

I'm going to be trying out Hubzilla a bit more.

If you'd like to connect, you can find me at @dynamic@hub.netzgemeinde.eu

MTG with this week's quack forecast. https://www.dailykos.com/story/2024/10/11/2276110/-Cartoon-Congress-s-climate-quack

If you materially support a genocide, what does that make you? How about if you pledge political allegiance to the people who are providing material support for a genocide? Questions that would keep me up at night if were I a different kind of person.

‘Ankle deep in sewage’: English spring water village suffers supected unlawful spills - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/oct/13/sewage-english-spring-water-village-suffers-supected-unlawful-spills "Water firm #SevernTrent accused of being in breach of environmental permits over pollution near Malvern Hills"

‘Very concerning’: BP dilutes net zero targets as global retreat from green standards gathers pace - https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/oct/13/very-concerning-bp-dilutes-net-zero-targets-as-global-retreat-from-green-standards-gathers-pace as things get worse, the ghouls want to make it even worse #ClimateChange

#Israel orders more evacuations in Lebanon and threatens medics who treat Hezbollah members - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/13/israel-orders-more-evacuations-in-lebanon-threatens-medics-who-treat-hezbollah-members "Military spokesperson demands that medics ‘avoid dealing with Hezbollah operatives’ and claims ambulances used to transport weapons" and so #lebanon becomes #gaza 2.0

If capitalism works so well, why is it so hard to find a paying job doing labor that is actively beneficial to society, or at least not actively propagating harm?

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Point being: people make mistakes. Even people who really, truly should know better.

You might be tired.
You might be unwell.
You might be distracted.

You might click the link.

And so might people you're tasked with helping and protecting.

Keep that in mind. It's never just the person's fault.

Design systems and policies in a way that takes this into account, always. Add a little friction, it really helps.

Because… people make mistakes. Even people who really, truly should know better.

Migrant workers living in a caravan encampment in #Bristol raided by immigration enforcement officers have accused the Home Office of targeting the victims of labour exploitation rather than companies profiting from the hidden economy.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/oct/12/calls-for-investigation-of-uber-eats-and-deliveroo-after-raid-on-bristol-caravan-camp

#Deliveroo #Uber #GigEconomy

Translation sessions for #Forgejo and #AESminetest server are starting now. Join via https://lecture.senfcall.de/ott-78d-3o5-z9o

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If you can, consider spreading the word and advocating for software translation outside of the free/libre tech bubble.

Getting started with software localization can be easy, get started here: https://codeberg.org/Codeberg/translathon-2024/#for-translators

Looks like the only solution that might work is to modify the actual DNS records to redirect specifically to "https://www.eviscerati.org/comics" . I have no idea how to do that, or if it's even possible (honestly I've only ever seen domain names point to ip addresses). I barely know how to modify .htaccess, and it usually requires my site go offline for hours while I figure out how to fix whatever it is I initially tried to do.

So for the moment all I can do is be annoyed. So I am annoyed. 3/fin