[-] thallamabond@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

It has 132 million yearly active buyers worldwide and handled $73 billion in transactions in 2023, 48% of which was in the United States.

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

[-] thallamabond@lemmy.world 27 points 1 day ago

They don't make them like they used to. Because they literally cannot.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-background_steel

[-] thallamabond@lemmy.world 20 points 2 days ago

Early in the morning of July 8, 2025. Seal team 6 begins operation Orange Julius. At the same time, all around the country, under executive orders, sovereign citizens are rounded up and placed in immigration detention centers (you know why).

Maga Americans were swift to respond, but were no match for the US military, Joe Biden declared martial law, and made it a crime to wear red hats or raise the front of your truck only, even listening to Toby Keith could land you in prison.

...it could happen, to you

[-] thallamabond@lemmy.world 19 points 5 days ago

And even that was a monumental task. One vote away in the Senate, and that one guy got rid of the single payer option for the cost of his vote. Joe Lieberman if you want to look him up, the guy who started no labels political party (without a platform).

[-] thallamabond@lemmy.world 89 points 5 days ago

Such a good word to describe Biden. Tepid. Like a beer that's been sitting while i worked outside, or maybe the last sip of coffee. Not the best, but better than nothing.

[-] thallamabond@lemmy.world 56 points 2 months ago

"What are they going to do, protest?" ...this guy probably

Also just want to point out this is just a great example of incremental fascism

[-] thallamabond@lemmy.world 52 points 3 months ago

Just a massive gift to the for-profit prison industry at a time when evictions are at all time high.

[-] thallamabond@lemmy.world 61 points 4 months ago

People with families cost more, they always want time off to do 'stuff'. Truly dedicated employees forgo families, time off for 'stuff'. The best employees will spend a good portion of their money just to come back to the office, just because it's demanded.

Signed, Management

[-] thallamabond@lemmy.world 47 points 5 months ago

Al Gore won the popular vote, but there was some sketchiness down in Florida. During a recount, Roger Stone rallied the troops (Brooks Brothers riot) which caused the counting to be stopped, due to threats of violence. Setting up the supreme Court to decide Bush won Florida.

[-] thallamabond@lemmy.world 72 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Party of personal responsibility says the website has to stop THEIR children from watching porn.

"Law enforcement isn’t expected to police sites. Instead the bill set up a process for parents whose minor children are able to access pornography to sue providers."

https://www.wral.com/story/major-pornographic-website-blocks-nc-access-days-before-new-law-takes-effect/21213582/

[-] thallamabond@lemmy.world 139 points 9 months ago

"Biden officials pushed hard to make that program permanent but couldn’t overcome opposition from centrist Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), who argued the government’s spending was stoking inflation."

F@#& Joe Manchin!

[-] thallamabond@lemmy.world 47 points 10 months ago

I love this conspiracy, mostly because the 'why' factor.

Aside from sowing doubt in the world we live in, what's the point?

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SAG-AFTRA has gone on strike for many reasons, but one that stands out to me is an effort to make digital copies of extras and maintain the rights to use them in perpetuity. There are many implications of this, from people losing an opportunity to work, to Ethical implications ex:your likeness is used in a movie/tv show/commercial you would not want to be involved in.

I wanted to take a look at some of the past examples of entertainers likeness' being used posthumously.

Fred Astaire Vaccuum Commercial

Bob Ross Paints the Mountain Dew

Tupac Coachella Performance

Prince Posthumous Album

Whitney Houston Hologram Tour

Anthony Bourdain Voicover

Amy Winehouse Hologram Tour

Paul Walker Furous 7

Peter Cushing Rogue 1

Carrie Fisher Rogue 1 Turns out this is incorrect, Fisher passed after filming of Rogue 1. It was Rise of the Skywalker

There are definitly more examples out there, if you know of any, post them here.

On a personal note, I find this all to be deeply unethical without specific permission granted by the entertainer.

Some souces:

Actors are digitally preserving themselves to continue their careers beyond the grave

Dead celebrities are being digitally resurrected — and the ethics are murky

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WYSK: There funded by dark money PACS, but some good reporting has brought out these names: David Koch, Peter Thiel, Reid Hoffman, Mark Cuban, Harlan Crow, and Michael Bloomberg. Some of there members are most famous for stopping big bills. Joe Leiberman, for example, single handedly stopped the single payer portion of the ACA. Senators Joe Manchin and Kyrsen Simena kept the John Lewis voting rights act from passing, and famously kept the senate from repealing the filibuster.

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Had a good god run going, went to go change up some wands and this happened. I don't even know how many copies of things were made, 4-6 fps in this area made it unplayable.

I really like having a fresh start though, god runs get stale after a couple of days.

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