I’m getting a lot of miles out of Orwell these days.

This process of continuous alteration was applied not only to newspapers, but to books, periodicals, pamphlets, posters, leaflets, films, sound-tracks, cartoons, photographs – to every kind of literature or documentation which might conceivably hold any political or ideological significance. Day by day and almost minute by minute the past was brought up to date. In this way every prediction made by the Party could be shown by documentary evidence to have been correct, nor was any item of news, or any expression of opinion, which conflicted with the needs of the moment, ever allowed to remain on record. All history was a palimpsest, scraped clean and reinscribed exactly as often as was necessary.

• 1984

Just another politician doing the wrong thing and then acting like they didn’t understand it later. Because there aren’t any consequences.

“They don’t believe us? Uh oh, now what do we do?”

I’d be careful with this. The NRA blamed Walz for essentially inciting the shooting. I don’t have much hope that republicans calling for investigations would not try to spin it to blame democratic officials.

You can say whatever you want on social media, they don’t control what you see! - Lemmy, complaining about censored w*rds in social media copypasta here.

Only if you’ve been asleep and ignored the bots, troll farms, social media subversives interested in clicks (paid or otherwise), international interference using the same tools, billionaires pushing the media to tell lies or hide the truth.

What a useless article. We’re already overwhelmed with lies and half-truths. The only thing that’s going to happen is that a few troll farm employees are going to be out of work when they get replaced by AI.

More feels before reals. They’ll follow a completely fake person as long as it reinforces their echo chamber.

What they say they saw. What they see is the same thing as everyone else. They lie.

He did have a gun. Officials have commented he legally was allowed to carry a gun.

He was not threatening with or brandishing said gun, as some outlets have stated.

Cheaper to ask forgiveness later than permission up front.

Damn, nothing stands in the way of these companies anymore.

People need to stop treating it like a source, one stop shopping for info, like copypasting AI search results.

Both of them require the reader to dig further into the information to find corroborating information and also to attempt to look for any information objectively critical of the result; and definitely check the source, hopefully being something reliable and objective as possible.

Generically.

I’m really tired AF of authority figures pointing out the obvious and doing absolutely fuckall about it.

Yes. I’ll do the math:

I’ll assume iron-based absorbers. 1 300cc absorber packet is enough to absorb 99.9% of the oxygen in one gallon volume of air. So, ( this is going to be fun with US measurements). A 10x10x10 foot room is 1,000 cu ft, that’s 7,480.5 gallons. 7480.5x300cc = 2,244,150cc, which is 592.84 US gal, or 79.25 cu ft of absorber to absorb most all the oxygen. So about a 9.5" thick layer of absorber over the 10’x10’ floor.

At sea level pressure you would feel off after the oxygen dropped to 19.5%, be impaired down to 16%, hypoxic at 14%, life threatening hypoxia at 12%, below 10% loss of consciousness and death.

It would take about 4-ish days, given adequate surface area, for the absorbers to take up most of the oxygen. But wait, we have to include respiration, and we use about 4.5% of the oxygen we breathe at about 390 cu ft a day, so that increases the rate of consumption. You’d feel crappy on the first day pretty quick, second day hypoxic and probably dead before the end of the day. If you increased the airflow over the absorber and accessible surface area you’d probably run out of survivable oxygen on the first day.

I probably screwed something up in the math going from cc to liters to cu ft to inches or whatever, but I tied to keep it sane.

This process of continuous alteration was applied not only to newspapers, but to books, periodicals, pamphlets, posters, leaflets, films, sound-tracks, cartoons, photographs – to every kind of literature or documentation which might conceivably hold any political or ideological significance. Day by day and almost minute by minute the past was brought up to date. In this way every prediction made by the Party could be shown by documentary evidence to have been correct, nor was any item of news, or any expression of opinion, which conflicted with the needs of the moment, ever allowed to remain on record. All history was a palimpsest, scraped clean and reinscribed exactly as often as was necessary.

Orwell, 1984

“This is UNACCEPTABLE. Why is Hilton Hotels siding with murderers and rapists to deliberately undermine and impede DHS law enforcement from their mission to enforce our nation’s immigration laws?”

And the hotel apologized. Lick that boot harder.

Nadella, stop trying to make ‘AI’ happen, it’s NOT going to happen!

Under that smile “Mother fucker…”

Hopefully some cheap hardware.

The proof is that the entire upper tier of the Executive Branch has completely lost its shit and is crewed by morons. Last time around there were adults in the room that reeled in his worst impulses even though he’d sneak a gainer in once in a while. This time? They’re a clown car stuffed with ideologues, racists, and fools with the brake pedal ripped out.