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gAlienLifeform@lemmy.worldOPto Technology@lemmy.world•Cops are deploying AI-powered social media bots to talk to people they suspect are anything from violent sex criminals all the way to vaguely defined “protesters”English8·25 days agoIf they spend weeks convincing you that you should do it, give you money or other resources to do it, or so on, then it can be entrapment.
Things like that should theoretically help you make an argument for entrapment, but it’s no sure thing
Also, if we had imprisoned everyone involved and seized all their assets Donald Trump probably doesn’t win in 2016
gAlienLifeform@lemmy.worldto Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•Listening to some old albums while reviewing my retirement savings3·1 month agoI love the concept and these song choices, I’m too lazy to make my own playlist but here are a few things you might dig
gAlienLifeform@lemmy.worldto Casual Conversation @lemm.ee•One of the things I like about Lemmy over Reddit is how unpopularopinion is not as popular here as it was over there. To me it always had a kind of bad flavor of just yucking somebody else's yum.English3·1 month agoI don’t think that’s inherent to the unpopular opinion format, a post could just as easily be a “I like this thing everybody else hates”. People can and frequently do use it just to troll, but that’s a problem with those people not the community.
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El P and Open Mike Eagle are like the better written versions of my own internal monologue
gAlienLifeform@lemmy.worldto Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•Forget politics and enjoy your life21·2 months agoDang it all, what is with all the intelligent comments here? I have been waiting all day for someone to make some stupid argument so I could go “heh, looks like you just took a side, hypocrite much” and then you go off and write something I can’t even jokingly disagree with
gAlienLifeform@lemmy.worldto Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•Forget politics and enjoy your life242·2 months agoLife is easier when you don’t take sides
No it isn’t
gAlienLifeform@lemmy.worldOPto Technology@lemmy.world•The 200+ Sites ICE Surveillance Contractor ShadowDragon is MonitoringEnglish51·2 months agoGood question I don’t have the answer to. I could speculate that this is all likely being sourced from some sort of marketing material that ShadowDragon put out where they just flatly say they’re gathering this information from Tesseract, and in reality they’re actually gathering any information they can on users who search for this software and download this software, but like I said I’m speculating.
If you’re really interested, I would say you should email the author of this article, reach out to Tesseract’s development team, or find a way to get a subpoena against ShadowDragon and/or ICE
gAlienLifeform@lemmy.worldOPto Technology@lemmy.world•The 200+ Sites ICE Surveillance Contractor ShadowDragon is MonitoringEnglish6·2 months agoSorry to hear that, try this one
gAlienLifeform@lemmy.worldto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•how do I tell my boss that I am not studying for a certification he wants me to get in my own time?411·2 months ago“Using my own time for work stuff is unacceptable to me, and I am prepared to quit this job and get a different one that doesn’t ask me to work off the clock if you press this matter.”
Don’t try to reason them into accepting your way of thinking, just state your position and what you’re willing to do to pursue it
Incidentally, if “I am prepared to quit this job” does not currently apply to you, you should not be having this conversation.
e; partial_acumen had a way better answer
“Using my own time for work stuff is unacceptable to me. It was not enumerated in the job listing when I was hired that off-clock unpaid work was required to keep this job and
I am prepared to quit this job and get a different one that doesn’t ask me to work off the clock if you press this matterif the company terminates me for refusing to work unpaid off the clock I’d be happy to raise that with the Department of Labor for a case of wage theft.”e2; this is all assuming you’re ok with losing this job and waiting through a lawsuit and several years to get what you’re owed by this employer
gAlienLifeform@lemmy.worldto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Disregarding "the American dream" what's some stuff about America that still makes you proud?111·3 months agoWe have had and currently have some incredible authors artists and musicians who make beautiful and brilliant things that reflect the spirit of the average American far better than the handful monsters who have power over us
That’s not to say other countries don’t also have fascinating and ingenious creators and cultures too, just saying that ours are the thing I like most about my country
gAlienLifeform@lemmy.worldto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Disregarding "the American dream" what's some stuff about America that still makes you proud?131·3 months agoLet’s not ignore all the efforts Republican governments have put into making it much more difficult for certain communities to vote
gAlienLifeform@lemmy.worldto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Anyone getting suspicious of the divisiveness and anti-American circle jerk on Lemmy?10·4 months agoI don’t think we’re the only land of hypocrisy out there (like, listen to Russia talk about how they’re the real protectors of human rights, or China say other countries are threatening their national security, or Mexico complain about cartel violence while letting their police do whatever they want, or Israel do so much shit I don’t know where to start), but, yeah, a lot of us are brainwashed as hell, and our government is completely full of shit whenever it’s scolding anyone else about human rights, international law, the climate, etc.
i find it beyond funny that we support israel because ‘they were there first’, but if you mention that maybe the american indians should rise up and take their country back you get very different responses.
Yep, and also the fact that there’s such a vocal anti-migrant movement here after almost all of our ancestors in immigrated here is completely absurd
gAlienLifeform@lemmy.worldto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Anyone getting suspicious of the divisiveness and anti-American circle jerk on Lemmy?8·4 months agoYeah, actually that’s a really important point, plus between the insane amounts of essentially anonymous propaganda that’s been unleashed on us through Citizens United and all the state government voter suppression laws that were allowed by Shelby County we’ve really only been a quasi-democratic society at best for most of this. Americans aren’t uniquely terrible people compared to the citizens of any other country, we’ve just got some incredibly shitty rich people who ran the table on political power.
e; forgot to rest of my thought
gAlienLifeform@lemmy.worldto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Anyone getting suspicious of the divisiveness and anti-American circle jerk on Lemmy?81·4 months agoHard disagree, Republicans wouldn’t do so much voter suppression bullshit if it didn’t have any effect. People who don’t vote are almost always being oppressed in a variety of different ways.
gAlienLifeform@lemmy.worldto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Anyone getting suspicious of the divisiveness and anti-American circle jerk on Lemmy?542·4 months agoAnd this isn’t even the first clown shitshow of a government we’ve voted in this century
Pretty sure you can listen to most radio stations online from anywhere
Also, it’s arbitrary and capricious - this is hitting everyone in the prison, regardless of their sentence, just because they happen to be incarcerated at the wrong place and time