The term I most see thrown around is “adjudicated rapist” <-- IANAL, so not sure if that applies or not.

I agree with you. I’m not saying the EU isn’t doing better on substantially every level like education, social services, policing, well being, worker rights, etc. I’m saying the EU is at risk and it’s it goes beyond just the US and global tech corpratism to authoritarian & oligaritarian influence of (soft and hard) compaigns to shift the EU far right. I am saying I hope the EU can hold on to what they have and push back further!

On a side note, the Nazi’s borrowed a lot of their eugenics from the US and our deeply ingrained racism, so I’m not 100% sure this is new

I’ll continue to equate the right wing with far right extremism until they give me evidence to conclude otherwise. You can call that a code for “out of power” if that’s your way of thinking, but it’s not mine and I certainly didn’t use it that way. I believe it’s the reality of the ratcheting overton window for 50 years.

I dunno, and this sanity check is coming from someone who’s visited over a dozen times and loves it there… EU is not all fun and games, they are going to enforce chat control, apparently bowing to pressure on GDPR, has enforced facial recognition to enter, and right wing parties are growing in multiple countries including the big economic houses: Germany, France, UK. We’re all over here looking at you folks to show us the way and if you blink in your resolve, you’re going to end up where we are.

On a positive note, Drumpf’s policies are hitting a wall of awareness, resistance and resolve. Our recent elections are giving some hope. His pedophile protecting tight grip is loosening it’s hold as his desperately unpopular and catastrophic policies are forcing “masks off” upping of their rhetoric and abusive policies. This shows their real racist nazi agenda to everyone and it’s only dropping their approval. We’re worried they will cook the books next November, but the hope is we can reign in the insanity and undo the damage in the coming decade. It’s going to take that long and we will need to start with our dear friends in Canada).

I’ve considered this - I would like multiple sources on my receiver though, so this as you say requires at least a universal or 2 remotes to swap back to the reciever. My projector (current one) only has 2 HDMI Ports. Perhaps in the future this can be my setup.

You seem knowledgeable, Mr. Vandelay. Perhaps you deal with imports and exports… if so on the topic of audio on DisplayPort, are you aware of any Receivers that will split the signal to send audio to speakers and video to your projector or monitor (TV but there are few)?

Serious question about the receiver if you do know of any - it’s come up in the last week while seeing the Valve HDMI news on Lemmy. I found some projectors that have DP, but no receivers and hoping someone here can!

I wonder what the ‘alpha’ MAGA crew think about Trump’s participation trophy.

AI friends?

You’ve never heard of ADP? OK, I’ll bite because we should all know more and you can be one of the lucky 10,000 today!

They process payments around the world for many of the largest (and smallest) companies. They either integrate with ERP systems of record to do so or directly provide the tax calculation, union dues, deductions and local country/state laws applicable, not to mention calculate what you should be paid in the first place. Some places have insanely complex payroll requirements. Global companies even more so as they have to typically pay thousands or 10’s of thousands across dozens of contries (and their laws). They are a massive company and Publily Traded as ADP. There’s no secret deep state corporation here. In fact they are helping with transparency in an unprecedented government move to hide results of catastrophically poor leadership of our economy. So you are absolutely correct that we should be getting these numbers from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics (and I believe GAO for congress and the like). Trumps administration is blocking numbers being released as they have been done for like 50+ years.

Edit: Oh! I almost forgot… they literally are a payment processor for companies, so they are sending direct deposits to worker’s bank accounts as an authorized agent of their business customers or cutting direct checks (literally mailing them, or sending to a store or office to be handed out) and handling all the bank transfers and financials reporting for those companies.

The top brass who aren’t full on MAGA, but didn’t leave now have clear proof that they are expendable and will be scapegoated to protect Trump and his croneys. Honestly showing their hand at this stage gives me a lot of hope that any coup won’t happen now and resistance will be strengthened from within. I smell leaks coming!

Formerly known as anonymous?

Ukraine is still in Europe no matter how you spin it. Russia has also invaded NATO aligned airspace, cut infrastructure lines in the ocean, likely blew up a critical fuel pipeline, continues aggressive cyber warfare, bombed a railway in Poland, and pays for bots and misinformation campaigns and supports right wing fascism in the US and EU. They rattle their nuclear sabre constantly and have also had illegal incursions across borders like Finland… Tell us again how Russia isn’t a nascent threat to all Europeans after invading a sovereign country twice, downing passenger jets and sending proxy ships for covert unconventional warfare? The EU is under attack already and at least Poland is awake to it.

“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!” Upton Sinclair

Yah, it was a joke (perhaps not a great one) and /s was implied. https://lemmy.world/u/Hawke has it correct - the martinis were fully implied by “business lunch” often known as a “liquid lunch”. No apology necessary internet friend - it was strictly in jest and not being snarky to you or your comment.

Isn’t that just repeating what OP said?

Oof - that reminds me - I have a LOT of scanning / digitizing to do.

Yah… that’s enough internet for me for the day.

I think I needed that. Thanks!

Groan… Upvoted… now GTFO

1000x yes!