for visiting heads of state, meeting only with Trump is a bit of a slight. it’d be like getting a meeting only with the Vice President.
you know you mean something to this administration if, like Modi, you get a one-on-one with Musk (or a one-on-one-ish with Musk and a bunch of his kids).
you know how chain restaurants make up their own clappy birthday songs to gather 'round a table and celebrate customer birthdays with?
if i still had local IRL friends, i'd want to make up a song praising federal workers, then get together and troupe from post office to post office to sing and celebrate them.
@BenRossTransit it's interesting how the left crunchy/new-age/sometimes-on-point/sometimes-conspiracist trends of the 1960s-1990s underwent a rightward convergence with 1950s-style fear of anything bigger or deeper than what one man can see and control. people who present as "hippie" are as likely now to be MAGA as not.
@BenRossTransit i think there's a real distinction between downscale and upscale wings of the coalition. the downscale part believes the conspiracy theories, was well portrayed in Dr. Strangelove. the upscale wing does not, but has its own motivations for pretending it might.
the nonfascist political coalition needs to become a bit more Christian in the sense of "whatever the fuck you've said or done in the past, however you've sinned, join us now in our worthy project and you will be welcomed and redeemed."
may the vote be our sacrament.
@ike it sure is! and i'm relieved. (i can see that 1.1.1.3 now resolves my domain. yay!)
i did fix the hole by which people were able to post unauthorized notes at notes.interfluidity.com. but the notes i found there were maybe a bit spammy, but not malware or nsfw. i still don't understand why i would have been blocked.
thanks again for letting me know about this, and figuring out who and how i was being blocked!
part of the fascist ethos is that the weak and disabled should die to render the larger community stronger and more beautiful. i think this explains some of Republicans' elite-level accommodation of anti-vax stuff. Republican elites know vaccines are safe and effective. 1/
the problem isn't that vaccines don't work or that they have side effects. the problem is that they do work, and interrupt a "natural" culling of the runts. 2/
the rest of us (well, looking in the mirror, the rest of you) are left with burdens of care and the economic cost of "accommodations". the weak and old should want to die for the greater good of the nation the young and strong would build and vigorously enjoy. /fin
i know Musk likes SF, so it's pretty cool that DOGE is like the governmental version of that story "Gambling Device" by Frank Herbert.
people think the “five questions” thing is about evaluating employees, or more cynically coming up with pretexts to fire them, but i think he’s trying to get government workers to generate data in order to train his AI.
one way to shrink the Federal government is by impeachment.
@N.Morgan @Phil are you repeating an article plainly represented as satire as if it were real? or am i just missing your dry sense of humor? https://dunning-kruger-times.com/doge-halts-2-6-million-annual-payment-to-obama-for-obamacare-royalties/
remember how they couldn’t endorse because they were failing to persuade the public of their neutrality and lack of bias, so it was essential to restore trust? https://social.marxist.network/@yogthos/114070829915547830
@ike (thanks for looking!)
@ike i would appreciate any help. to my knowledge my domain has never been used for anything nsfw or sketchy. i did recently have some kind of breach of my notes server, maybe there was something not-great placed there? in any case, i’d like to understand and remedy this.
i love it when organizations i’ve given money to write me to tell me it’s my last chance to give them more money.
Yes. It looks like 1.1.1.1 and 1.1.1.2 resolve me, but 1.1.1.3 resolves to 0.0.0.0. Not good! Do you know how whether there's some means to understand or appeal this kind of filtering? Thanks!
@ike that's very strange! thanks for letting me know. it's up for me. can i ask whether are you trying https://drafts.interfluidity.com/ or https://www.interfluidity.com/ or are both unavailable? (only) if you are comfortable saying so, where are you physically located?
Text: Although feeding dying babies should surely qualify for the vague foreign aid waiver issued by Secretary of State Marco Rubio, the salaries of the staff and the cost of the fuel to get the therapeutic food to hospitals like mine are not. Without USAID employees, nobody can open the warehouses where the life-saving packets from the American people are stored. In Burundi, it will take us three months to get new supplies into the country. We might have planned for this had we known we would be cut off. But we were given no warning when the programs that support the care of sick and hungry children were sacrificed on the altar of “efficiency” in one harsh, abrupt stroke. Seeming indifference, from the American people.
