I would also say many of the settlements from news organizations are them sucking up to Trump. They chose to pay in private agreements instead of fighting frivolous lawsuits that would easily have been won. That’s a way of paying the bribe while claiming you’re just setting a lawsuit.
I don’t find the New York Times to be of much use either — their view from nowhere approach serves to normalize extremism and they’ve been happy to platform attacks on vulnerable minorities as well.
They attempt to report as though they don't have a point of view on the issue in pursuit of objectivity, which leaves them to position themselves in the middle of two perspectives which may or may not be extreme but, by doing so, they make both position seem reasonable.
They can't or won't call out racism and extreme action by the Trump administration because they'd forfeit their right to that faux objectivity. Perhaps they'll report the facts, but their unwillingness to call something what it is makes that thing appear to be acceptable.
(1) Excessive stridency about "racism" is a magic spell that makes blacks vote Republican. I mean, a lot of Black people there is a lot more to being Black than being the descendant of slaves and they are personally offended by the further fringes of "systematic racism" talk
(2) Many people are not excited about threats to "Democracy" because they see it is for "them", see
why care about norm violations if those norms are unjust and lead to what looks like bad outcomes (and certainly capital-D Democrats seem to care less about outcomes than about following broken processes and never annoying donors)
(3) I was really burned out by talk of "fascism" ten years ago. Like yeah, Donald Trump is definitely flirting with it today but after years of left-wing "anti-fascists" who hate fascism but love the footwear, who will other with with the worst of them and seem to be jealous, who call Keir Starmer a fascist, who call your local police chief a fascist, I think it is a magic spell to bring fascism into the world but if you have a dialectical theory in which you get meaning out of saying you fight fascism maybe that's what you secretly want.
(orthogonal, but to the broken processes and sucking up to donors)
Because telling your buddy that they don't know what they are talking about is the kindergartner's^W^W rationalist way of building solidarity /s :)
Strangely, a variant of the same stance works for "fascists" ;) I think it's bc they have fewer hangups --re: dialectics-- about looking like a tool (vs leftist "rationalists")?
>jealous
Ps: just belatedly realized I was expected to weave peptalk about "envy" into "enby"
Like most infrastructure in LA, it's always under construction and yet never improving. We lived there for about 5 years and it took them as much time to add a mile of carpool lane to the 405.
>Which banks do you use? I’m looking to switch away from Chase (which does this).
Do you mean SMS codes or a Chase Bank App?
I have to deal with the former because I auto-delete cookies when I close tabs and use Multi-account containers on Firefox.
I've never been required to install any application (Chase branded or otherwise) on my phone in order to use the Chase website. I'll note that I've been a Chase customer since they acquired Chemical Bank in 1996.
Am I missing something important here? If so, I'd love to hear about it.
They're all going to move that way - it's sort of fundamental to PassKey. It can be done with just a laptop and their built in hardware but I suspect that since everybody has a mobile phone the UX will be built around that more often than not.
I quite like it though. At one of my banks I don't even use a password. My browser has the right material (from a prior authn) and then it pushes a validation request to my phone and with FaceID I'm in.
Within the EU, there is a law that mandates accessibility without a smartphone. The banks will sell you some proprietary dotcode scanners then which are all manufactured by the same crappy UK company (as a sidenote).
But the upside is: they work offline, and makes your 2FA app unhackable because it's not an app and instead a physically separate device.
If you're as serious about your opsec as I am, I heavily recommend to not use apps on smartphones for banking.
Maybe they should investigate why the idiots in ICE tried to get into the Ecuadorian consulate in Minneapolis and then threatened staff when they were denied access.
What I can tell is ICE starts to open a door, and a clerk immediately stops them and ICE shut the door a second later. The clerk opens the door to further tell them they are not allowed to enter. The ICE person states they will not try to enter and if the clerk touches them, they will yank the person out of the building. ICE then leaves.
I'm not ok with what ICE has been doing. But, it feels like a bit of a stretch to call this threatening staff, to me. Saying what will happen if the other party escalates feels like a different axis than threatening. Def taken as another data point in a sea of overreach however.
> The ICE person states they will not try to enter and if the clerk touches them, they will yank the person out of the building.
I'm not sure what the agent has to do to qualify as a threat to you, but at the very least this is thuggish behavior. The embassy is Ecuadorean sovereign territory where the staff have immunity from US laws, threatening to yank someone out of there is like extracting someone from Ecuador by force. It's highly offensive.
If you tried that at a US embassy you'd probably be shot, but it's generally impossible because they are all heavily secured and fortified.
I don't think that it's reasonable to see this behavior as anything but threatening given the location and the ample context provided by ICE's behavior up to this point.
> The ICE person states they will not try to enter and if the clerk touches them, they will yank the person out of the building.
> “The brand new agents are idiots,” an experienced ICE agent assigned to homeland security investigations told me.
> The new ICE officer continued: “I thought federal agents were supposed to be clean cut but some of them pass around a flask as we are watching a suspect,” observing as well that the new guys “have some weird tattoos.”
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