I feel really bad for the 25% of Palestinians who don’t like Hamas.

Never stood a chance of wiping out the Jews? Good.

False narrative.

We have less than a dozen morons here. They don’t represent anyone but themselves.

Meanwhile we have entire factions of the Republican party at war with themselves from the Lincoln Project to the infighting in the House just this week.

The left has always had its share of morons.

Well-meaning morons, but morons nonetheless.

The issue is that the centrist and right wing media latch on to the narrative of these fringe weirdos and pretend that they represent the entirety of the left wing, even though there are WAY MORE lefties who find them disdainful.

So, in other words the FBI must have had tons of specific information that this insurrection was going to happen … Yet we had very little law enforcement there or on standby.

This is the part of Jan 6 that has not received nearly enough attention. Either law enforcement was grossly incompetent, or they were deliberately held back to allow the insurrection to succeed. In other words: a coup.

That there wasn’t a single mainstream Republican who stood up to Trump during his presidency.

I mean, come on. Who wrote this?

We’re supposed to believe that EVERY SINGLE REPUBLICAN in government went from taking about how unfit Trump was when he was a candidate … to standing behind him 100% even when he cozied up to Russia, paid hush money to a porn star, and lied about a Presidential election?

George Burns died 27 years ago.

I’m guessing this comic was written before 1996, when George Burns died at ~100 years old… his last movie was in 1994.

This is akin to the Betty White jokes being told up until her recent death.

I go to lemmy first, but it doesn’t have nearly enough content to replace the endless scrolling of Reddit.

Yes.

I mean, I’d be very bored with that content, so I’d see it more as getting paid 10k to stop consuming media for a year.

It would be a good excuse to do more writing, and getting out and socializing.

Like people don’t lose their saving in the market anyway? But when your 401k goes in the tank, your broker doesn’t have the legal obligation to fund your retirement.

401k plans are a scam not because of what they are, but what they replaced.

Companies used to offer pensions. These were retirement benefits that were handled by the company, and the company bore the risk of underperforming markets.

For a number of reasons, pensions were much better for workers. Now, only some unionized workers get them.

Yuuup.

It’s just a lack of posts and comments. It’s not busy enough here to allow for endless scrolling.

At the most basic level, what you need to understand is that each user of a service creates a key pair. A PRIVATE key that DECRYPTS messages and the matching PUBLIC KEY that ENCRYPTS data.

So if I give you my public key, you can use it encode your messages to me.

When data is encrypted with a public key, it undergoes a mathematical transformation. The specific transformation is designed so that the data can’t be feasibly reverted (decrypted) using the same public key. Only the private key, due to its unique mathematical properties, can reverse this transformation.

Senators are (with few exceptions) extraordinarily wealthy. When climate change is destroying crops and making some areas uninhabitable, these senators’ families will still be living very comfortably.

As if someone like Trump would even give a second thought to sending his kids off to war?

How about a new rule that if you vote for a war, you are automatically enlisted. And if you’re ineligible to enlist you must either abstain or vote no.

Not necessarily. You can put safeguards in place. For example our appeals courts don’t ever decide fact. They make rulings about the law.

You can also have bipartisan panels that oversee this, with extremely limited power unless they rule unanimously.

You also have congressional oversight adding another check.

If the original inception and scope of all these things is cleverly drafted, we could see a lot of new media pop up that is vastly superior to the crap we have now.

Absolutely. And a new version of the Fairness Doctrine, and guidelines that take into account everything we’ve learned since then about media malfeasance.

I think it would be great to publicly fund journalism. And make public funding contingent on whether news sources accurately represent the full substance of their source material, practiced evidence-based fact-checking, and had rules to prevent the selective application of either of those first two conditions, and by omission bias their audience.