2024-09-06T19:05:53Z https://yabu.me mekka okereke :verified: https://yabu.me/npub1ay2kzqh4g6g42p40jsux865gsdr058uym8clmx0jskhaz2xken2qq7exel https://media.hachyderm.io/accounts/avatars/109/387/221/377/173/266/original/01fe80e29bf8f643.png https://media.hachyderm.io/accounts/avatars/109/387/221/377/173/266/original/01fe80e29bf8f643.png https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsqhlqtr4wmjuq0c7pe44hahf563jqvyv3n8wx6x5g6zx0uaztgr6qzyr532cgz74rfz4gx472rscl23zp5d7slsnvlrlve72z6l5fg6mxdg99fk0a In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsz0ygaurazzgekjnr5qtc5330ecvz6vtwdyk9tzsgk0hlm7g2q9lglmx6sd'>nevent1q…x6sd</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Yup.<br/><br/>European friends often say, quite correctly &#34;We have racist people in Europe too. Quite a few actually!&#34; and that is true. Individually, there&#39;s not much difference. 🤷🏿‍♂️<br/><br/>But systemically? The US has racist systems at such a scale and level of horror, that they have no equal in Europe, or anywhere on earth. Civil asset forfeiture is one of those systems. $68 billion stolen between 2000 and 2019. Most victims are poor and Black. 2024-09-08T19:29:05Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqszqj560whscrvfcyr5whf4ztzvuegf7yvf28qmfmm0x5uxmjuhxtczyr532cgz74rfz4gx472rscl23zp5d7slsnvlrlve72z6l5fg6mxdgnvj7cj In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs2vytu9j7xt930mvqt025kufre59a9u3j3585pudekv87a06pftqgn27na5'>nevent1q…7na5</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>🤦🏿‍♂️ I&#39;m about to block you, because you&#39;re the worst kind of wrong: loud and wrong.<br/><br/>I&#39;m talking specifically about police in the US pulling Black people over and having the legal right to take their money without a criminal charge. Not other forms of asset forfeiture that existed before that, even in the United States, as part of RICO.<br/><br/>🤔You&#39;re either intentionally trolling, or you really are going off half-cocked in my mentions about a topic you know nothing about. 2024-09-08T05:10:24Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsxkvlg459g5cm6jaqtypl93evrutaytfawmrskexay9lrrpt4hjhszyr532cgz74rfz4gx472rscl23zp5d7slsnvlrlve72z6l5fg6mxdgvaknvs In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsqwvmkhwhv9rya62esay8w5a3s46mj78684unyclu39puken5925cmguwh5'>nevent1q…uwh5</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Civil asset forfeiture in particular has been going on since Biden started it. Let me be super clear:<br/>There was no such thing as civil asset forfeiture before Biden invented it. Then he invented it, and passed legislation making this theft by cop possible. Now we have it, and it&#39;s terrible.<br/><br/>But yes, it&#39;s been going on for decades. Because Biden is old as dirt. And he&#39;s been passing legislation like this, that&#39;s genocidally harmful for Black people for most of his political career. 2024-09-08T04:02:02Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs0lm2h3kef5nvu3ufa7za92e7sz30g3dhges5mg5v2wqmzhydfwxqzyr532cgz74rfz4gx472rscl23zp5d7slsnvlrlve72z6l5fg6mxdgqw6xql Big props to Jeremy Saulnier who wrote and directed Rebel Ridge. Recommend.<br/><br/>The film covers so much of what is wrong with US policing, in an action packed drama movie. It also covers the evil and racism in the system vs the individual. I don&#39;t think a cop calls a Black person the N-Word once in the whole movie.<br/><br/>*Civil asset forfeiture<br/>*Cash bail and prison violence<br/>*Why Black folk don&#39;t give statements<br/>*The power of sheriffs in small towns<br/>*Violence of the war on drugs<br/><br/><a href="https://youtu.be/gF3gZicntIw?si=rn_1NYGSB1zUS8Im">https://youtu.be/gF3gZicntIw?si=rn_1NYGSB1zUS8Im</a> 2024-09-08T02:45:53Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsgz58564qdjyu3yxf728vaaktf6m44lefzacqjynw6pe2jc4vektszyr532cgz74rfz4gx472rscl23zp5d7slsnvlrlve72z6l5fg6mxdgfhuaml Me when running a service:<br/>Oh no. One of our back-end services is down. This is causing latency spikes on the front-end and in the mobile app. Users don&#39;t understand what&#39;s happening, so they keep hitting reload. This is adding even more load to the server and making things worse. Only technical users know to just wait a while, and then try again later.<br/><br/>Me when using a service:<br/>What the hell?! This should&#39;ve loaded already! Why so slow?! I&#39;ll click reload a few more times! *ReloadReloadReload* 2024-09-07T00:08:42Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsdw6d6esrfcf36u6rg2x9emtfrptascq2qqdgu8p7700utq49ea9szyr532cgz74rfz4gx472rscl23zp5d7slsnvlrlve72z6l5fg6mxdgnftsys It&#39;s September 5th! <br/><br/>Hey US people, please remember to check your voter registration every *5th* between now and November! <br/><br/>✅ July 5th<br/>✅ August 5th<br/>✅ September 5th<br/>⬜ October 5th<br/>⬜ November 5th<br/><br/>Check your voter registration for free online here:<br/><br/><a href="https://voteamerica.org">https://voteamerica.org</a><br/><br/>You can also request your mail in ballot, so that you don&#39;t have to stand in line for hours or miss work on voting day.<br/><br/>Why check every month? Because some of y&#39;all have been de-registered.😮<br/><br/>Re-register! 2024-09-05T14:58:58Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsfpj4wdmhr2yp8cjqslefx6gd008cl86y8s55v3xvdnn0p9n7a0vqzyr532cgz74rfz4gx472rscl23zp5d7slsnvlrlve72z6l5fg6mxdgxkl4ph In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsq2yej0zhqtsamunwww62jqlxvxpzuxpke3vrhqdwvtg3qgzz5e8grh46sv'>nevent1q…46sv</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Yep. <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub19r2tuule098208u80kee76te0rt62gnrj3r35cdm7nwpq55vuvtszzcahj" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>Rob Ricci</span> (<span class="italic">npub19r2…cahj</span>)</a></span> nails this perfectly.<br/><br/>Which is why we see a few things:<br/><br/>1) Black people that work to reduce racism in the real world in the US, really dislike this movie.<br/><br/>2) Nazis that do the US racism, feel that this movie helps them recruit.<br/><br/>3) White people that don&#39;t know how to reduce racism, remain convinced that this movie reduces racism. Because they don&#39;t listen to the Black people in &#34;1,&#34; and remain absolutely convinced that they know best how to reduce racism.<br/><br/>🤷🏿‍♂️ 2024-08-29T14:11:54Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqspmwn2yr6p3jls4u9a0emxdrh8a2cqxggafjawdygmkz09mcv98uszyr532cgz74rfz4gx472rscl23zp5d7slsnvlrlve72z6l5fg6mxdgz0qtfp In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsvvyvmur04hr83s7k7n0whpuzm6cj3hxhpmhlep27uwwx9skkvjcqptttjr'>nevent1q…ttjr</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>The reality is that the portrayals of Black people in that movie were trash.<br/><br/>The total number of times in US history that a Black student has shown up to a school with a gun and shot a white student, are astronomically low. That&#39;s not a thing that happens. It&#39;s a thing that racist 2A gun nuts pretend happens.<br/><br/>The portrayal of Black people as violent, stupid, or hapless, is a big problem.<br/><br/>I hated that movie, and was not surprised that it recruited more nazis.<br/><br/>2/2 2024-08-29T03:50:21Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs0tk06qxhvnn2yherre772ft0ypyz0ejkw7fh6537vrtscacxdn2qzyr532cgz74rfz4gx472rscl23zp5d7slsnvlrlve72z6l5fg6mxdgpffnj5 🤔 Fascists love Star Wars. Even though the whole point of Star Wars is that fascists suck, and that the universe would be better without them.<br/><br/>🤔 Billionaires love Star Trek. Even though the whole point of Star Trek is that billionaires suck, and that the universe would be better off without them, and that once we get universal basic income and solve SF homelessness, and end the very concept of billionaire, humanity will usher in a real age of technological advancement. 2024-08-28T21:32:50Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsy77qs27y0tv7zl22gtwa05xamzlhpq4dsqfv69n8t7n8p3ptw5fqzyr532cgz74rfz4gx472rscl23zp5d7slsnvlrlve72z6l5fg6mxdgkdsa5g The whole Ray Gun breaking situation:<br/><br/>A talentless rich white lady scammed her way into the Olympics, scored zero points, embarrassed the athletes that did have the talent to be there, and became the focus of attention.<br/><br/>Academics who know absolutely nothing about breaking are jumping out of the woodwork to defend her, because as I mentioned, she&#39;s a rich white lady, and a credentialed one at that.<br/><br/>The conversation is now not about breaking, but about &#34;Are people being too mean to her?&#34;<br/><br/>1/N 2024-08-13T02:25:46Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsd8af3y6tlmwqe9jfaf95ytqp7mpwav464nkkxfkfezhzgyre667qzyr532cgz74rfz4gx472rscl23zp5d7slsnvlrlve72z6l5fg6mxdgh4udyn 🤔Anti-woke guy starts a crusade against plagiarism, not realizing that this would destroy his wife&#39;s academic reputation.<br/><br/>🤔Anti-woke guy starts an inquiry into Walz not going on deployment, not anticipating that this re-opens the conversation on his running mates&#39; draft dodging and insulting gold star families and POWs.<br/><br/>🤔 Anti-woke guy starts an investigation into crowd sizes, not anticipating that people will point to his many empty stands.<br/><br/>They&#39;re genuinely surprised by equal treatment.🤷🏿‍♂️ 2024-08-12T00:15:53Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsz2etaqhzs7yz93yc3e47k7u37nxk5td3w90wlmxs4yfy3exnt3xszyr532cgz74rfz4gx472rscl23zp5d7slsnvlrlve72z6l5fg6mxdg89826k In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsgck8jh3c5a0wvjhegfekchq8qt7qdrrl28wgl2zjgy82v5rdps3gcz6rt3'>nevent1q…6rt3</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Right?<br/><br/>There are some people in the world who are *the best* at researching these servers. Maybe they&#39;re not good at writing code, or Linux system admin, or User Experience Design. But they are *excellent* at determining if a server is a bad faith Mastodon instance.<br/><br/>That should be a job that those people can do full-time, on behalf of thousands of admins on Mastodon. As an admin, I should be able to subscribe to a service that provides this.<br/><br/>The tools need to support that. 2024-07-27T21:11:19Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs04yj9mhfgjx4378x5fjjhllazta5z20lzttdf69jzdwezy2prgtgzyr532cgz74rfz4gx472rscl23zp5d7slsnvlrlve72z6l5fg6mxdgpjcry6 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsf73sha5vmueetkt44x85sejh78mhzt70ne3uefr47rrhwlpw466spvev22'>nevent1q…ev22</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>If you are an admin or mod of a mastodon instance, do you have any Black women members on your instance? If so, are you curious about which instances attacked Kim? Are they just known trollish instances? Should they be blocked by you? Are they blocked by you? <br/><br/>What if I told you that these instances are already blocked by mastodon.social, hachyderm.io, and others?<br/><br/>How many new troll servers pop up daily? How much time do you want to spend curating your own block list? 2024-07-27T19:16:27Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsf73sha5vmueetkt44x85sejh78mhzt70ne3uefr47rrhwlpw466szyr532cgz74rfz4gx472rscl23zp5d7slsnvlrlve72z6l5fg6mxdgptfzut <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1nau0hyws3uwckkt3zpaf5yjjzw2e0vrt87nh4fdg6dye44lhe7nqt5d9fd" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>Kim Crayton ~ Her/She</span> (<span class="italic">npub1nau…d9fd</span>)</a></span> is one of the people that I&#39;m bringing with me to my convo with <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1zu5wnva84a0qupw80ekd9zjfv5pr4nnpytuecva5zrx85nwh8dcsn4pytj" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>Renaud Chaput</span> (<span class="italic">npub1zu5…pytj</span>)</a></span> . <br/><br/>Context:<br/><a href="https://dair-community.social/@KimCrayton1/112854600825016604">https://dair-community.social/@KimCrayton1/112854600825016604</a><br/><br/>* She should not have to experience this<br/>* It should be easier for admins at DAIR, and across the whole Fediverse, to prevent this<br/><br/>The content that drew the harassment was simul-posted on Mastodon, BlueSky, Twitter, and other social networks. Only Mastodon drew this level of racist replies. I need you all to believe Black folk when we say that Mastodon *is* the nazi bar. 2024-07-27T19:11:47Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqspxn9hz8twk4npujrh3fl882jhl4juudqc5k3kppefudrvel8q55szyr532cgz74rfz4gx472rscl23zp5d7slsnvlrlve72z6l5fg6mxdgpwkdwp In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsv3ljdhaqeqjf0kg3dnj3jx0pnpezfk6lqj57lhsrj2a9ryxw72xcvanjyv'>nevent1q…njyv</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>People did not switch political allegiances because of yesterday. No one saw yesterday, and said &#34;You know what? I&#39;m fascist now!&#34; That&#39;s not a real thing that happens.<br/><br/>What did happen (besides increasing the potential for more unnecessary political violence), is that his base became galvanized, and will turn up at the polls at a higher rate than if yesterday had not happened.<br/><br/>Meanwhile, the dems are still suppressing their own turnout, with more self-owns.🤡<br/><br/>You&#39;re worried about debate gaffs? 2024-07-14T15:51:22Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsv3ljdhaqeqjf0kg3dnj3jx0pnpezfk6lqj57lhsrj2a9ryxw72xczyr532cgz74rfz4gx472rscl23zp5d7slsnvlrlve72z6l5fg6mxdgvyx3yg In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqszpqruygmaxaf9a4qxtth0v0anlscazf7djnzs99tjf6rdtsv3yyg6feqdd'>nevent1q…eqdd</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>🧔🏼‍♂️&#34;Black people will like Trump more now that he has sneakers!&#34;<br/><br/>🧔🏼‍♂️&#34;Black people will like Trump more now that culture vulture rappers endorse him!&#34;<br/><br/>🧔🏼‍♂️&#34;Black people will like Trump more now that he&#39;s a convicted felon!&#34;<br/><br/>🧔🏼‍♂️&#34;Black people will like Trump more now that he&#39;s been shot!&#34;<br/><br/>🧔🏼‍♂️&#34;We are all MAGA now!&#34;<br/><br/>No. Y&#39;all are exhausting.<br/><br/>🧔🏿‍♂️&#34;Some Black people, especially men, are sick of Biden too. Because he prioritizes the people who say this type of stuff, over Black people that vote for him.&#34; 2024-07-14T15:23:41Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqszpqruygmaxaf9a4qxtth0v0anlscazf7djnzs99tjf6rdtsv3yygzyr532cgz74rfz4gx472rscl23zp5d7slsnvlrlve72z6l5fg6mxdg4sysrp *sigh* If you&#39;re looking for me to denounce political violence (again), then please go look at what I&#39;ve already said about:<br/>* The attempt to kidnap and murder Gretchen Whitmer <br/>* The bomb placed in DC that didn&#39;t go off<br/>* The RV bomb in DC that did go off<br/>* The increase in bomb threats at HBCUs <br/>* Pelosi hammer attacks<br/>* Asian hate (including mass shootings at train yards, massage parlors, and at the border)<br/>* Armed &#34;poll watchers&#34;<br/>* Jan 6<br/>* Proud boys and Bugaloo boys<br/><br/>Y&#39;all are exhausting. 2024-07-14T15:03:11Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsrncvwslp5vphlcpscrgjyukje80zeg0776awl506fv676y0u2rrgzyr532cgz74rfz4gx472rscl23zp5d7slsnvlrlve72z6l5fg6mxdgrz8ck7 Happy 4th of July!<br/><br/>More US history they won&#39;t tell you:<br/><br/>The US national anthem only exists because British troops offered slaves a chance at freedom if they fought against their captors. Seriously.🤷🏿‍♂️<br/><br/>You already know how that went. Hunting ain&#39;t no fun when the rabbit&#39;s got a gun.<br/><br/><a href="https://hachyderm.io/@mekkaokereke/109574942472956736">https://hachyderm.io/@mekkaokereke/109574942472956736</a><br/><br/>The US forces getting dog-walked by freed slave soldiers, forced General Washington to make the painful decision to &#34;allow,&#34; Black soldiers to fight for the United States as well.<br/> <img src="https://media.hachyderm.io/media_attachments/files/112/728/656/313/752/865/original/8072ea02d42ae84a.jpg"> <br/> <img src="https://media.hachyderm.io/media_attachments/files/112/728/657/541/693/825/original/e71a3b5cd107751c.jpg"> <br/> 2024-07-04T14:23:06Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs092a73307d7gacydq4xgr49u43custmu973lcvujz05shh60savgzyr532cgz74rfz4gx472rscl23zp5d7slsnvlrlve72z6l5fg6mxdgnakqf7 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsp0kcp472pejr6c40hcr5kg2tg6m5lfztmfqyj8d583rrzhtezrzstafwvj'>nevent1q…fwvj</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Our choices:<br/><br/>1) Climate disaster.<br/><br/>2) The world stops using fossil fuels. But the US under-invests in green tech. China *becomes by far the largest and most important economy in the world. They build an insurmountable lead in batteries, solar, wind, grid, transportation and storage.<br/><br/>3) The world stops using fossil fuels. The US adequately invests in green tech. The US remains the largest and most important economy in the world.<br/><br/>We&#39;re waffling between 1 and 2.🤷🏿‍♂️<br/><br/>(*Some say we&#39;re already here). 2024-07-03T12:10:30Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsp0kcp472pejr6c40hcr5kg2tg6m5lfztmfqyj8d583rrzhtezrzszyr532cgz74rfz4gx472rscl23zp5d7slsnvlrlve72z6l5fg6mxdg5fu7ek In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqszvhutmzdszeps44ajnsq6x82dfffpe85mq6mrqfuap4q62wt054qh3zjls'>nevent1q…zjls</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>If green investment is so bad for the economy, then why is green investment double fossil fuel investment already? Why are so many US fossil industries saying that they can&#39;t compete with China now (fuels, automotive, transportation, etc). That seems like pretty good ROI for a few years of subsidizing green industry, but hey, I&#39;m no economist.<br/><br/>🤔 Wait, don&#39;t Venture Capitalists tell us that we&#39;re supposed to cheer when old industries get disrupted by tech and subsidized pricing?<br/><br/>3/N 2024-07-03T11:57:16Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqszvhutmzdszeps44ajnsq6x82dfffpe85mq6mrqfuap4q62wt054qzyr532cgz74rfz4gx472rscl23zp5d7slsnvlrlve72z6l5fg6mxdgcpmcqt In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqswpjallj5agskk8pyxlg80x2ayxc9vay6me7vch5u89f896lar3ygqwmzfa'>nevent1q…mzfa</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>How the hell am I the so called &#34;climate doomer,&#34; when I&#39;m the one that believes that transitioning the world to Green energy is not nearly as hard as we pretend that it is? I&#39;m the optimist. The people that think that we can ignore racism are the pessimists.<br/><br/>China invested $317B in clean energy. We invest $44B just in buying Twitter, to be anti-woke. It&#39;s silly.<br/><br/>Imagine if instead, the US was pushing as hard as China. Where would the world be now?<br/><br/>2/N 2024-07-03T11:50:50Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqswpjallj5agskk8pyxlg80x2ayxc9vay6me7vch5u89f896lar3ygzyr532cgz74rfz4gx472rscl23zp5d7slsnvlrlve72z6l5fg6mxdgxxazep CBS News reports that the &#34;Global shift towards Green Energy is Accelerating!&#34; Yay!😀<br/><br/><a href="https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6fKfaJheWbk">https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6fKfaJheWbk</a><br/><br/>Isn&#39;t that a good thing?<br/><br/>CBS cites the International Energy Agency report. But they don&#39;t say the word &#34;China,&#34; much...<br/><br/>But if you read the report, you see that:<br/>* Most of the green investment is from China<br/>* Most of the rest is made possible by cheap solar, batteries, and EVs, also from China<br/>* The US and EU are working to... slow this green investment.😮<br/><br/><a href="https://www.iea.org/reports/world-energy-investment-2024/china#abstract">https://www.iea.org/reports/world-energy-investment-2024/china#abstract</a><br/><br/>1/N<br/> <img src="https://media.hachyderm.io/media_attachments/files/112/722/341/648/829/222/original/fadf5eea6462271c.jpeg"> <br/> 2024-07-03T11:42:20Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqspd3h94lzpwtcjed5ep90q8wvhfpeskuk52m3mtkpvnearg7n5fwgzyr532cgz74rfz4gx472rscl23zp5d7slsnvlrlve72z6l5fg6mxdgktee9u In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs2artd9qktghr0acrc7m66d4mxfpcd22z7ef8rln5l0xsp37qrdjsm0nxke'>nevent1q…nxke</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>We make this unnecessarily dramatic. We do this to ourselves. Because we don&#39;t want to do the tiniest things to help Black people.<br/><br/>There are like 5 or 10 very easy decisions that could have been made in the past 4 years, to avoid us getting to this point.<br/><br/>Even on Mastodon, you can see us progressing through these steps of the cycle, from dem voters ignoring and rejecting what Black folks are asking for, being in denial about the very real risks... and then jumping straight to despair. 🤷🏿‍♂️ 2024-06-29T15:23:13Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqswpz3glejuhwq0040vdu04hrqrz86942w2jqn5ssqrvduypnud5wgzyr532cgz74rfz4gx472rscl23zp5d7slsnvlrlve72z6l5fg6mxdg7wj37j Still true: Biden&#39;s age, isn&#39;t about Biden&#39;s age. Biden&#39;s age, is about Kamala&#39;s skin.<br/><br/>There are millions of Americans that unironically think that stopping Trump is the most important thing in the world... but also think, &#34;Wait a minute! If Biden can&#39;t finish his term, that Black woman gets to be president!&#34;<br/><br/>🤔So I guess stopping Trump is only the second most important thing in the world. 2024-06-28T11:39:07Z