pinkdrunkenelephants 9mo ago • 100%
pinkdrunkenelephants 11mo ago • 100%
pinkdrunkenelephants 11mo ago • 100%
Doubtful. Putin for example has been in power for decades. Stalin ruled Russia with an iron fist for the rest of his natural life after rising to power. Unless they're overthrown, that's what dictators do. That's the whole point of dictatorships, to make the leaders the new kings.
There's nothing stopping that dude from suspending elections and just ruling indefinitely.
pinkdrunkenelephants 11mo ago • 100%
Okay, let me explain something to your dumb hypocritical ass before you make a fool out of yourself any further:
You're clearly the only one being an asshole and a bully here.
You're the one being the -- how did you put it? "authoritarian we should try to avoid", and you're the one being a worthless hypocrite on top of it.
This is me talking to you via an alt account, an account I have because most people on Lemmy have at least 2 or 3 by virtue of federation.
You did nothing but take a cheap shot at some innocent dumb fuck who stuck their oar in because you wanted to hurt me and my feelings. And judging from the rest of your account activity, you very blatantly do the exact same thing you accuse me of doing, all the time, non-stop. And you have zero self-awareness at all.
So why would you even come here all offended at me in the first place, unless you yourself were just @FlyingSquid's dumbass alt? I guess we're all alts here, moron.
It's okay though. You're acting just like me and I'm here for it. 👏
pinkdrunkenelephants 1y ago • 100%
Truth. Facts.
pinkdrunkenelephants 1y ago • 100%
🎼 'Cause I'm proud to be an American 🎵🎶🇺🇲🦅
pinkdrunkenelephants 1y ago • 100%
Lol someone's mad they were wrong, and it ain't me 😄 You can try to downplay the meaningful alternative I use all the time and am letting you know about if you want, it won't change the fact that it's there and it won't take away the foolishness you pay for when you drop $120+ a month to pay for a phone you don't really even own or control.
I can only lead you to water, I can't and have no need to make you drink. You've got to deal with dehydration on your own. Ciao~
pinkdrunkenelephants 1y ago • 100%
sigh Fine, let me go through my system specs. Give me a minute
Mine is a Moto G Power. Oh shit, that's right, I forgot I upgraded a couple of years back. That's why I bought it. :P Anyway, on these, you can pop the battery out the back; here's a shitty Youtube video showing how. I can't record myself popping out the back of mine for obvious reasons.
Anyway, you can buy these unlocked and the prices are not bad, in all honesty.
I really, REALLY don't get why you all are stupid enough to sign onto contracts to put yourselves into debt for machines you don't really own and can't take apart and control yourselves. Like what do you do if the battery goes kaput? AND you wind up paying upwards of a thousand dollars for them when a Moto G Power like mine costs only $300 at most?
That is crazy. That is batshit fuck nuts.
pinkdrunkenelephants 1y ago • 100%
It's an off-brand, not Samsung, that's why. I don't even think about such things because the fundamental way I approach such things is different than anybody else. I don't need brand name shit, I need shit that is functional and works, so it doesn't matter what the name of the brand of phone is I use. All I have to know is that I can waltz into Best Buy, go to the unlocked phone section, and pick between two or three of them, and I'm straight.
Tell me why knowing the name of my off-brand phone would actually matter for anything
pinkdrunkenelephants 1y ago • 25%
I meant Lemmygrad, but the admin came to the thread and said "fuck you, I want to boost my numbers up, the tankies are staying" so it doesn't actually matter. 🤷
pinkdrunkenelephants 1y ago • 50%
Yeah, I am pretty sure the All feed is intended to show content from a variety of instances, not to be dominated by a few shitty ones.
pinkdrunkenelephants 1y ago • 66%
That shows how badly they need to travel. There's a literal epic fuckton of cool things you can find across the country. I traveled cross-country a few years ago and I saw lots, things you wouldn't even necessarily find in books. 🤔 Things that really need to be in books, come to think of it...
pinkdrunkenelephants 1y ago • 80%
We ought to fork Lemmy and include features it's badly missing, like the ability for users to block whole instances, and to better enable admins to block brigadeers and spammers who make alts.
pinkdrunkenelephants 1y ago • 91%
They don't get that what repulses people is them, because other people know what they're peddling is a pack of obvious lies.
Like, who the fuck honestly thinks the Tianamen Square massacre didn't happen? We have pictures EVERYWHERE. Motherfuckers in China who saw it or had relatives killed are still alive.
Next they're gonna argue the fucking Holodomors weren't real or not actually genocides.
🤦🤦🤦 I tripped and fell down a rabbit hole of abject scumfuckery the past 24 hours. Someone help me up.
Also hi, I'm the one who found that thread and bitched up a storm about it on lemm.ee yesterday, how's it going? Glad for the invite. Glad I'm not the only one who noticed it, either
pinkdrunkenelephants 1y ago • 66%
I could go on for days on how unconscionably fucked up it is for them to deny the Holodomors (fun fact: there were actually 2 of them).
pinkdrunkenelephants 1y ago • 66%
What was that guy even mad about?
pinkdrunkenelephants 1y ago • 100%
🤔 How about redfash? Associate them with something they hate and is universally hated?
Tanktards also works. Exploit their weird hypocrisy with name-calling.
pinkdrunkenelephants 1y ago • 100%
What derogatory term should we use then?
pinkdrunkenelephants 1y ago • 42%
Probably best to not try to scrape the bottom of the barrel when defending authoritarians pushing lies and propaganda. Like, if you're going to go for a red herring, you could at least tone police me; that would at least be more plausible and less petty. Step your game up
pinkdrunkenelephants 1y ago • 50%
There are several brands of Android phones you can buy unlocked in my neck of the woods where you can pop out the back and replace the battery. I forget which brand mine is but I just checked and verified mine is battery - removable. It's fucking inconceivable to me that you all put up with such garbage.
You can try Amazon or maybe Temu and look up unlocked Android phones and you should be able to find some that are repairable in that sense.
TO THE ADMINS: [Read this thread](https://lemm.ee/post/3773461) and give me one good reason why federating with toxic, propaganda spreading tankie loons is a good idea. No one wants those fucks, or the alt right dipshits for that matter, around, and they're spreading blatant lies, yet I see they are here. Does lemm.ee only care about boosting its numbers and is willing to sink to new lows to do it, I wonder? 🤔
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WARNER ROBINS, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – A former Warner Robins Police Chief is facing child sexual abuse charges in Houston County. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation arrested 79-year-old George Johnson, of Warner Robins on Thursday. On Wednesday, July 26th, GBI agents secured arrest warrants for Johnson for the following offenses: - Sodomy - Sexual Exploitation of a Child Monday, July 17, 2023, the Houston County Sheriff’s Office requested the GBI’s assistance following a complaint filed with the Houston County Sheriff’s Office. The complaint involved allegations that Johnson abused a teenage female victim. A preliminary investigation indicates the incidents happened in Houston County and Pulaski County since 2022. Both Houston Sheriff Cullen Talton and Pulaski County Sheriff Danny Brannen requested the GBI conduct the investigation since the incidents involved two different judicial circuits.
The German prosecutor’s office found messages of illegal content, including Nazi symbolism, in chats involving five officers from three different police districts. These violations were uncovered during investigations in the North Rhine-Westphalia region. According to Annet Milk, the lead prosecutor in the investigation, these five individuals, aged 22 and 25, are suspected of exchanging Nazi symbolism in chats and possessing child pornography during their training. Three of the accused belong to the police department in Recklinghausen and one each to the police departments in Kleve and Borken. Milk stated that the chats were discovered during an investigation involving a sixth suspect. The prosecutor’s office has charged a former police officer with exchanging far-right extremist symbolism in chats and with possession and distribution of child pornography. He had worked at the police headquarters for some time after completing his training. Searches were conducted at the homes of three police officers last week.
The German prosecutor’s office found messages of illegal content, including Nazi symbolism, in chats involving five officers from three different police districts. These violations were uncovered during investigations in the North Rhine-Westphalia region. According to Annet Milk, the lead prosecutor in the investigation, these five individuals, aged 22 and 25, are suspected of exchanging Nazi symbolism in chats and possessing child pornography during their training. Three of the accused belong to the police department in Recklinghausen and one each to the police departments in Kleve and Borken. Milk stated that the chats were discovered during an investigation involving a sixth suspect. The prosecutor’s office has charged a former police officer with exchanging far-right extremist symbolism in chats and with possession and distribution of child pornography. He had worked at the police headquarters for some time after completing his training. Searches were conducted at the homes of three police officers last week.
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — After days of silence, NASA has heard from Voyager 2 in interstellar space billions of miles away. Flight controllers accidentally sent a wrong command nearly two weeks ago that tilted the spacecraft’s antenna away from Earth and severed contact. NASA’s Deep Space Network, giant radio antennas across the globe, picked up a “heartbeat signal,” meaning the 46-year-old craft is alive and operating, project manager Suzanne Dodd said in an email Tuesday. The news “buoyed our spirits,” Dodd said. Flight controllers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California will now try to turn Voyager 2’s antenna back toward Earth. If the command doesn’t work — and controllers doubt it will — they’ll have to wait until October for an automatic spacecraft reset. The antenna is only 2% off-kilter. “That is a long time to wait, so we’ll try sending up commands several times” before then, Dodd said. Voyager 2 rocketed into space in 1977, along with its identical twin Voyager 1, on a quest to explore the outer planets. Still communicating and working fine, Voyager 1 is now 15 billion miles (24 billion kilometers) from Earth, making it the most distant spacecraft. Voyager 2 trails its twin in interstellar space at more than 12 billion miles (19 billion kilometers) from Earth. At that distance, it takes more than 18 hours for a signal to travel one way.
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — After days of silence, NASA has heard from Voyager 2 in interstellar space billions of miles away. Flight controllers accidentally sent a wrong command nearly two weeks ago that tilted the spacecraft’s antenna away from Earth and severed contact. NASA’s Deep Space Network, giant radio antennas across the globe, picked up a “heartbeat signal,” meaning the 46-year-old craft is alive and operating, project manager Suzanne Dodd said in an email Tuesday. The news “buoyed our spirits,” Dodd said. Flight controllers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California will now try to turn Voyager 2’s antenna back toward Earth. If the command doesn’t work — and controllers doubt it will — they’ll have to wait until October for an automatic spacecraft reset. The antenna is only 2% off-kilter. “That is a long time to wait, so we’ll try sending up commands several times” before then, Dodd said. Voyager 2 rocketed into space in 1977, along with its identical twin Voyager 1, on a quest to explore the outer planets. Still communicating and working fine, Voyager 1 is now 15 billion miles (24 billion kilometers) from Earth, making it the most distant spacecraft. Voyager 2 trails its twin in interstellar space at more than 12 billion miles (19 billion kilometers) from Earth. At that distance, it takes more than 18 hours for a signal to travel one way.