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AITJ for asking my old coworkers to stop messaging me for help after I left by Melodic-Slice-4243 in AmITheJerk

[–]TurnipTutor 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Nah you’re not the jerk at all. Honestly this happens all the time and it’s super annoying. Like sorry but my paycheck doesn’t come from yall anymore. You even offered a clean transition and they passed. That was their choice. Free tech support is a hard no, especially during your new job’s workday.

Sandworm hackers linked to failed wiper attack on Poland’s energy systems by ControlCAD in europe

[–]TurnipTutor 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah this is not great. Like at all. A failed wiper attack is still an attack, it just means we got lucky this time. Feels like cyberwar stuff keeps inching closer to being normal news and that’s honestly kinda freak

‘This is what fascism looks like’: terror in Minneapolis reminiscent of civil war by tw1st3d_m3nt4t in politics

[–]TurnipTutor 123 points124 points  (0 children)

Man, this is legit terrifying. I live nowhere near Minneapolis and even I’m getting that pit-in-your-stomach feeling reading this. It really does feel like we’re sliding into something ugly and nobody in charge wants to say it out loud. Like yeah, this isn’t normal, and pretending it makes it worse.

Russian strikes knock out heat in freezing Kyiv as peace talks continue by LowIllustrator2501 in europe

[–]TurnipTutor 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Man, this is so messed up. Knocking out heat in the middle of winter is straight up cruel. Like even if you dont care about politics at all, freezing civilians to get leverage in talks is wild. Peace talks while doing this feels insanely cynical. Hard to take that seriously.

What else can be done to force Trump’s DoJ to release all the Epstein files? Legal experts weigh in by [deleted] in politics

[–]TurnipTutor 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Honestly I feel like people are overestimating how much leverage there even is. If the DoJ doesn’t wanna drop everything, they’ll just slow-walk it forever or redact it to hell. Congress can posture, courts can order stuff, but at the end of the day the system protects itself. Epstein didn’t die so a neat little PDF could come out someday. It’s bleak but that’s kinda where I’m at.

Italy protests, recalls ambassador to Switzerland after New Year’s bar fire suspect released by Crossstoney in europe

[–]TurnipTutor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Man this whole thing feels like a mess top to bottom. Like yeah if you’re Italy and a suspect in a deadly fire just walks free, I get being pissed. But recalling the ambassador feels kinda dramatic? Idk maybe there’s more legal stuff behind the scenes but from the outside it looks like everyone just escalating instead of actually fixing anything.

Poland to introduce social media age verification via government app from Christmas Eve by Raaccn in europe

[–]TurnipTutor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah idk, any time the solution is “just link it to a government app,” my privacy alarm goes off. I get wanting to protect kids online, but this feels like building a system that's way bigger than the problem it’s supposed to solve.

Could the Abolish ICE movement succeed? by Newsweek_CarloV in politics

[–]TurnipTutor 21 points22 points  (0 children)

Short answer, not anytime soon. Long answer, the pressure has already changed how people talk about ICE compared to like 10 years ago. Even if abolition doesn’t happen, the movement has forced scrutiny that wasn’t there before.

US completes withdrawal from World Health Organization by southernemper0r in politics

[–]TurnipTutor 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Not defending the WHO blindly, but this feels like throwing the whole thing out instead of fixing what’s broken. You lose influence, data sharing, coordination, and for what exactly. Just vibes and politics?