US is becoming a banana republic
becoming? past tense is more like it. also Google your own term in Wikipedia to see the history of it.
Phyllis Fong, who was investigating Neuralink, "forcefully removed "
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Re: Phyllis Fong, who was investigating Neuralink, "forcefully removed "
#232Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not everyone's standing by I've been working on hardened long range communications for cheap so the people that need it can have it. But thats just me, there's tons of people fighting back but those stories don't tend to make the news because it spits in the face of the prevailing narrative that people want this.
Have any more details on this?
https://piermesh.net/
But the basics are we're using Meshtastic as a base to run a decentralized lightweight alternative internet that's run by the people using it. I've managed to squeeze a lot of juice out of one of the compatible esp32 boards so that for $15+ (what the board costs from Lilygo) an sd card you can run a web server on the board as well.
Re: Phyllis Fong, who was investigating Neuralink, "forcefully removed "
#233https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/technology/tech-news/phy... hmmm. let's see ... $ echo "Phyllis Fong, who was investigating Elon Musk's brain implant startup Neuralink, "forcefully removed from office" after refusing termination order" | ... oh, never mind. I'm too lazy to write the regex for getting this output from the above input: Elon Musk's brain implant forcefully removed after termination order
echo "Phyllis Fong, who was investigating Elon Musk's brain implant startup Neuralink, "forcefully removed from office" after refusing termination order" | sed -E "s/Phyllis Fong, who was investigating (.*) startup Neuralink,(.*) from office(.*) refusing/\1\2\3/"
there may be a bug in your sed
Re: Phyllis Fong, who was investigating Neuralink, "forcefully removed "
#234Our government is literally falling in a matter of weeks. It's being assaulted, and we're all just standing by.
The people spoke very clearly in November: they wanted this.
> The people spoke very clearly in November: they wanted this.
49.8% of the people who voted wanted this.
50.2% wanted someone else to be president (but did not pass the threshold for someone other than Trump).
Re: Phyllis Fong, who was investigating Neuralink, "forcefully removed "
#235Earlier quoted context omitted.
For the majority of people, the ACA just meant "insurance has an excuse to raise premiums without end (far more than the number of new people covered)". There was some corporate trickery involved, but that doesn't matter to the individual who's paying more.
The majority of people are very grateful of the coverage. The ACA is very popular if you call it something different (to move away from the propaganda) and explain the details.
The ACA is popular, it is ObamaCare that is unpopular.
Re: Phyllis Fong, who was investigating Neuralink, "forcefully removed "
#236Earlier quoted context omitted.
The ones that didn’t vote are ok with what the voters choose, otherwise they would’ve voted
"Spoke clearly that they wanted $X" != "Didn't take the opportunity to express any opinion." Those are fundamentally different.
By deciding not to vote, you’re actively saying that either option is fine. So you’re ok with the outcome.
Re: Phyllis Fong, who was investigating Neuralink, "forcefully removed "
#237Are there any good blogs that are chronicling the USA Federal gov's slow descent into facism and overt corruption, just collecting and archiving pieces like this with a classiciation/categorization etc.? I think it's an unprecedented opportunity to record the history of a downfall using modern tools, and future generations might benefit enormously. When I learned about the disruption of the Weimar Republic in highsch…
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So, you're saying you can recall a 2 week period in executive branch history that could hold a candle to what we've just witnessed? This idea of just keeping track of it all is real.
I marvel at the project management task that Trump & crew are maintaining in this flood-the-zone period, just to prevent duplication of effort and running into each other. There's already been a lot done to the DoJ, but its just started at the FBI.
Follow the firings -- and just hope you can keep up with who they're being replaced with. That's the real encroachment. We could be on the edge of real abuse when our law enforcement agencies fall under fascist control like this.
Re: Phyllis Fong, who was investigating Neuralink, "forcefully removed "
#238Earlier quoted context omitted.
The people spoke very clearly in November: they wanted this.
Americans are desperate. May not be felt among the HN crowd, but standards of living in the US have been declining consistently for a long time [1]. Remember that Trump was not re-elected to a second term initially specifically because he failed to deliver on his promise of "MAGA". He instead did a Jeb Bush presidency, complete with Wall Street (Mnuchin) and the CIA (Pompeo) running the country exactly as would have…
Not a mention of 'COVID' anywhere on this page (thank you Ctrl+F). Surely, it had a role in how we got here, at least inflation-wise?
Has it slipped so easily from the face of History? Let's just hope its not a new pandemic that provides that final false-flag style push into fascism, as an excuse for suspending democracy. Those Republicans who will say one final time that we aren't a democracy ("we're a republic!") will be sorry for the seeds they have sown.
Re: Phyllis Fong, who was investigating Neuralink, "forcefully removed "
#239Title makes it sound like she was in an Neuralink office and physically shoved out the door. The non-clickbait version is that she is in the same agency that started a Neuralink investigation (due to perceive conflicts of interest in its board) and her dismissal has zero substantive connection to neuralink or elon.
Re: Phyllis Fong, who was investigating Neuralink, "forcefully removed "
#240Nice truncating the title and removing context. If you got fired from literally any private sector company and refused to leave your office, security would escort you out immediately.
Title was trimmed to fit into the character limits imposed by HN. I did my best to preserve meaning.