Except Beyonce literally didn't perform for Harris?

Yes, this is not uncommon in US politics.

Here's what Wikipedia has to say about it:

In U.S. politics, the period between (presidential and congressional) elections in November and the inauguration of officials early in the following year is commonly called the "lame-duck period".

A president elected to a second term is sometimes seen as a lame duck from early in the second term, since term limits prevent them from contesting re-election four years later. However, not personally having to face the electorate again makes a second-term president more powerful than they were in their first term as they are thus freer to take politically unpopular actions. However, this comes with caveats; as the de facto leader of their political party, the president's actions affect how the party performs in the midterm elections two years into the second term, and, to some extent, the success of that party's nominee in the next presidential election four years in the future. For these reasons, it can be argued that a president in their second term is not a lame duck at all.

So while you're right that the assertion the author is making is misguided, it's a fallacy that is made often enough that some might conflate it with reality.

It's not much but they try a whole lot more than most.

Thank you. I'm going to restate your explanation to be sure I've got it:

• authorities want platforms to comply with legal requests
• when Signal gets a subpoena, they open the key locker and show that it's empty. They provide the metadata they can (sign up date and last seen date, full stop) and tell authorities they can't do better.
• when Telegram gets a subpoena, they open the key locker and show all the keys, then slam it shut in the face of the investigator, telling them to get bent.
• conclusion: it's easier to never have the keys in the first place than to tease the government with them

I'm no authority on it but from what I've read it seems to have more to do with the social features of telegram where lots of content is being shared, both legal and illegal. Signal doesn't have channels that support hundreds of thousands of people at once, nor media hosting to match.

They may be coming from somewhere other than Lemmy (Mastodon?) and this format is more acceptable and/or normalized for them. One of the quirks of the fediverse.

Not just for the joy of pissing Russia off more, but I'd recommend the game for fans of tactical strategy games. The overall story arc is pretty interesting too, especially when you remember that it is based on a true story.

Good news for the used car market. Lots of new inventory about to become available.

Bad news for American car manufacturers, who are already struggling while they're in limbo between ICE and EV and can't commit to either, but certainly will help to correct used car prices.

It certainly isn't a paid role, but in my experience those who seek to marginalize often do so with a whole lot of ignorance involved.

You continue to be under no obligation to help educate the blind, but if you knew going into this that some people would have comments and questions about the impressive number of labels you've applied to yourself, it just feels like you're setting yourself up to get mad on the internet at this point. Otherwise why bother including them in your post at all?

This political action group sent out a survey to everyone who subscribes to their newsletter and the folks who are engaged with this anti-establishment political organization are gasp against the establishment candidates.

Calling this a survey is an insult to statisticians; at best this is a straw poll and doesn't provide any meaningful information about how these sentiments might be shared more broadly. Yes - Arabs mad, Biden bad, we know this with or without the survey, but it doesn't survey a representative (randomized) sample of Arab-American voters, so it's impossible to extrapolate the results at a state or national level.

Link for the lazy

Russia isn't producing less because of some domestic calamity that is preventing them from pumping more oil, they're doing it because if you keep supply low and the demand remains fixed, prices increase.