Since it seems you’re asking a question in good faith I’ll try to answer. I’m not the person you replied to but here…

I think the main thing that has changed is the disappearance of Elon Musk. Last time around there was what I consider to be valid concern that Musk would pay his flunkies out of pocket to keep working and tearing apart the Federal government during the shutdown. With most Federal employees going home during a shutdown, it would leave very few at the helm to be able to stop DOGE in their iteration at the time. Musk was making hay at the time of how they could do things on weekends because no one was there to stop them, and it was very reasonable to consider that he would personally pay his flunkies to tear shit apart while people were furloughed during a shutdown. As frustrating as it was, and as much as I fucking loathe the likes of Chuck Schumer and his corporate cock sucking ilk, I personally did see Musk as a legitimate threat if the shutdown occurred last time around. Musk is gone and there is no one to pay DOGE employees to keep working while everyone else goes home, so it stands to reason that you might actually maybe get these old chucklefucks on board for doing something right for once. Not making any promises, though, as I agree with another poster that characterized Schumer as a last minute pants pisser.

Google in the pocket of extremists and helping them wipe their sordid history from the internet.

He was an asshole before that though.

I am very likely to be one of those deaths when the Medicaid rules change on January 1st, 2027.

Washington state minimum wage is pretty high and increases based on cost of living every year. The income cutoff for Medicaid is pretty low.

I will have to be working at least 20 hours a week in 2027, and there’s a significant chance that in doing so I will end up making more than the Medicaid limit and be forced to pay for health insurance that won’t cover nearly as much of the $18k a month without insurance meds that I very likely may have to take for the rest of my life to stay alive.

To not have to do this I would need to give up working and apply for disability. Even though I have cancer I would need legal disability status to avoid the work requirements since I don’t have children. Even though I am in my forties I am considered one of those “able bodied young men abusing Medicaid to stay home playing video games.”

It’s fucking sickening and I am furious about it.

The Fall

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fall_(2006_film)

Singh stressed the importance of on-location filming and lack of special effects, as he found that modern techniques would not age well in comparison.

When shooting scenes of the blue city in Jodhpur, Tarsem provided locals with blue paint to refresh the paint on their houses. This alternative to post-production effects resulted in the vibrant blue of the city in the film.

This entire film is practically a love letter to early film practical special effects. Is it the best story? No, the story is flat in many respects. Yet the film to this day is visually stunning, and stands as one of my favorite films due to it’s visually captivating presence. The film surely does have small amounts of modern special effects, but by and large Singh worked very hard at producing mostly practical effects.

This is the internet, maybe build it yourself instead of demanding others do the work for you?

You could also just as easily only paste in the encoded part and put the decoded bit back into the link yourself.

I don’t trust corporations OR law enforcement officers.

They both have interest in their own stories being true, both for PR purposes.

Unfortunately vast swaths of the justice system are in the Heritage Foundations pocket and can and will make those soldier’s lives an absolute living hell while they’re trying to fight and prove it was an illegal order.

Remember, the system was built to defer to power (like how the words of police are always considered trusted and of the highest quality by courts) and to only allow those with infinite amounts of money to be able to appeal obviously bad decisions. While waiting on justice, they may spend years inside a cell for refusing to follow a legal order.

Unless it happens en masse with the majority of the Guard doing it all at the same time, the first individuals who choose to say no will suffer greatly.

I remember Joe Biden claiming he wrote it. (C-SPAN video)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omnibus_Counterterrorism_Act_of_1995

Much of its rejected proposals were ultimately recycled as the USAPATRIOT Act of 2001 with Joe Biden’s vocal endorsement.

“Mysteriously” why not check the mod log? News@lemmy.world has rules that they have to be actual news sources, not the MeidasTouch post on Meta’s Threads app.

I posted on that same one, but I looked at the modlog and the mod who removed it asked to use an actual news source or just post that source in a more appropriate community.

This kind of conspiratorial thinking doesn’t help us.

News rule in question:

From the modlog:

I only upload photos from the web interface. They all always become webp.

I thought the whole point of Signal was so the messages could disappear?

EDIT: For real though, you can always just hotlink embed the source like this (provided the source site allows hotlinking):

Example: ![](http://my.image.url/image.gif)

This specific image: ![](https://www.maxim.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/ibjtdug-imgur.gif)

If you’re looking for somewhere to upload files with clear limits which are explained, I suggest catbox.moe

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/File_System_API

The File System API — with extensions provided via the File System Access API to access files on the device file system — allows read, write and file management capabilities.

Uhhh, what? Firefox uses Chrome’s API to do the same stuff? Am I missing something here?

Rocko: Night shift is a very dangerous shift.

Riker is a hoopy frood who always knows where his towel is.

The case for a shutdown is this: A shutdown is an attentional event. It’s an effort to turn the diffuse crisis of Trump’s corrupting of the government into an acute crisis that the media, that the public, will actually pay attention to.

No offense Ezra, but this is where you’ve lost me. The media, including the paper you have chosen to present this opinion piece in, has largely done massive amount of sanewashing for Trump. Anytime Trump does something he clearly does not have the authority to do, the media dutifully goes “it’s not clear whether he has the authority” even though it is crystal fucking clear that he does not.

The media is complicit and it basically does not matter how well the Democrats plan for a shutdown, the media is going to paint their response to it however the oligarchs who own the media decide is the best message to support their goals. As a reminder, their goals do not align with the goals of the average citizen. This argument that we just need the media to report on a good message by the Democrats is missing the point. The media has ignored and twisted Democrats messages since the Dubya era, if not longer. The media does not give a damn. I know you have faith in them because you’re still technically part of that traditional media apparatus, Ezra, but you can make demands of Democrats to have a better plan and message all you want, it won’t matter until the suits in charge of the media decide their goals align with the public. That’s just not happening anytime soon.

“Stop Acting Like This Is Normal” is what you should be screaming at the staff of places like the New York Times and the staff should be walking out and starting their own media organizations if they are being forced to report a certain way.

Janeway on Tuvix: “There’s two people in there and I don’t like it.”