WTYP podcast did an episode on the Killdozer guy. The main argument was apparently over an illegal septic system he had installed, that didn't work and he was pumping the waste out into a stream behind his property. He's not the folk hero people think he is, but I gotta admit the story is still pretty entertaining and I still wanna root for him.
Also he screwed up his design because the bulldozer ended up overheating.
Back in the age of sail the Royal Navy would hang an admiral every so often "to encourage the others."
Norman Mailer once said "the dark cloud of fascism is forever descending on America but it only ever lands in Europe."
South Korean military personnel are required to answer to US generals as a higher authority than their own.
I've actually heard that the SK soldiers attached to the US military are mostly failsons of powerful people who pull strings to get them put in US formations for their mandatory service, because it's considered a cake-walk compared to the SK military.
How many American bases in Israel? 🫠
Cats are fucking weird man.
I guess this is the purpose of pulling in North Korean troops.
Russia could theoretically do another mobilization, but the last "partial mobilization" went poorly politically and they seem reticent enough to do another that it may not be politically possible.
Very similar to the Lemmy tankies arguing that Russia was forced to attack Ukraine by the Ukranian crimes of protesting and voting.
On the one hand I can believe that people are getting more anxious because things are getting more bleak and it's an op to get the whole thing blamed on social media.
On the other hand, it also feels like an op from social media companies to insist that their algorithms aren't preying on people.
I read Chris Webber's essay and I kinda agree. Bluesky is really just another twitter.
That being said I think we are entering into an era of diversification, not perhaps how we would like (through federation) but rather, through people understanding finally that the platform itself is making a choice in what kind of content it serves. We used to have this idea that the platform was just a "neutral third party" like a phone company. But in fact, it's a publisher with its own editorial line. It pushes that line through algorithms and what voices it wants to amplify or suppress.
As people understand this more, they are going to be much more critical of not just "the media" but also "the platform" and why it chose to show that media to its audience.
I hate TikTok but I hate even more that the ban seems to have been successful this time because of Israel. Lots of people (Romney, etc) have said that TikTok must be banned because it's the reason why young people don't support Israel's genocide.
I don't like CCP propaganda being fed to Americans, but let's be real, CCP propaganda about Israel is way more honest than domestic American propaganda.
While I'm on the subject, Facebook, Google, etc, are pretty near equally as evil.