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Cake day: September 20th, 2023

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  • Worth reading. Other Ds & Rs have debt. Also this…

    Some high-profile candidates saddled with debt get creative.

    Democrat Hillary Clinton, for one, paid down $22.5 million in campaign debt from her 2008 campaign through a multi-pronged approach that included selling leftover campaign trinkets, offering face time President Bill Clinton and renting the personal information of her campaign supporters to other Democrats and private data brokers. Clinton’s 2008 committee paid off its debts by 2013 — just in time for Clinton to announce another White House run in the 2016 election cycle.

    (emphasis mine)







  • Wow, I hope she won.

    “Policing Selects Bastards” reaffirmed then. As an optimist I have to believe that at any given time at least 1/1000 of 1% of officers* are in the midst of being dismissed for whistleblowing. “ACAB” includes whistleblowers so “Policing Selects Bastards” keeps me on their side.

    *(math = 7.2 officers in the US, but I mean to say at least one officer is in limbo for whistleblowing, and yeah I’m too literal but 🤷‍♂️ )

    PSB!

    Edit: btw that lady sounds [temporarily] DISRUPTIVE to their badge-shielded crime, neat



  • (She wanted to fix policing by example)

    Might be possible to whistleblow against one corrupt officer if you play dumb until getting hired? Which would be an acceptable use of time for some, though perhaps (or “super likely”, w/e) activism elsewhere has greater ROI

    Edit: hey scale this up. Every Lemming plays dumb and gets hired. We each report one rotten apple. Wouldn’t this at least annoy some sleaze out there and cause a very slight delay as they reshuffle their cops?

    (Obvy you need a despicable crime on video and luck etc)



  • Sweeeet desktop first, that’s the gap cuz Voyager iOS is SO good


    Right after posting, I changed my mind about the proxy guess… (sounded wasteful to have to kinda [briefly] mirror so much Lemmy) Thinking direct API calls. Oh yeah indeed client-side rendering, so like:

    A Lemmy instance (Lemmy.World, etc) maybe is like kinda a pump station, while Alexandrite is like a high-end faucet. It’s not actually producing or storing water but it sure makes it much better to use than simply having an open pipe.

    Well at least perhaps we know the phrase “client side” out of all that!

    (One final analogy attempt: we can download a Lemmy app from an App Store and use Lemmy pretty much directly. What if the app was hosted somewhere but nothing else changed? That’s Alexandrite in my mind.)

    Thanks 😎