#blame-game — Public Fediverse posts
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Oh no! 😱 X Corp's cutting-edge solution to AI psychosis was to disable JavaScript and blame your browser. 🚫 Brilliant! Why fix AI when you can just blame the user, right? 😂
https://twitter.com/mitchellh/status/2055380239711457578 #AIpsychosis #JavaScriptFail #XCorp #BlameGame #TechHumor #HackerNews #ngated -
🖥️ So, a "seasoned pro" thought adding nonsensical warnings was a genius move, and when things imploded, did they fix it? 🤔 Of course not! They opted for the classic 'ignore and blame' strategy. 🏆 Complete the task? Nah, let's just break everything! 🤦♂️
https://yosefk.com/blog/all-means-are-fair-except-solving-the-problem.html #techfail #blamegame #softwaredevelopment #codinghumor #projectmanagement #HackerNews #ngated -
RFK Jr. Wipes His Hands Of This Whole Measles Outbreak Thing
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Wow, breaking news: Politicians ignoring #experts leads to predictable #disaster. 🚀 Who could have seen this coming? 🤔 But, hey, at least we get to point fingers in #hindsight and play the blame game. 🎯
https://www.theatlantic.com/national-security/2026/04/iran-war-intelligence-failure-trump/686694/ #politics #blamegame #accountability #HackerNews #ngated -
🧐 Ah, yes, the age-old quest to blame someone for our #misery. This time, it's Robert Trivers, because why not? 🤷♂️ Meanwhile, the rest of us are still trying to figure out how to #unsubscribe from this existential newsletter. 📩🚫
https://quillette.com/2026/03/25/the-many-roots-of-our-suffering-reflections-on-robert-trivers-1943-2026/ #blamegame #existentialcrisis #RobertTrivers #HackerNews #ngated -
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Oct. 24, 2025 · by Amy West
Current Status
It’s the 23rd day of the government shutdown. Most federal employees, whether still working or furloughed, have begun to miss paychecks. The House has been out of session since September 19 and shows no sign of returning to do any of the work for which they continue to be paid.
The Senate comes in a few days a week; votes on a few nominations and re-votes on the House’s continuing resolution. When it fails, as it has every time so far (along with an alternative bill from Sen. Johnson which has also failed multiple times, most recently October 23), they head out for their usual 3 day weekends.
The President apparently isn’t concerned about the shutdown given that he’s leaving town for a week, but more importantly, the Senate has become passive as described by Semafor. The President’s trip also means that even if a bill passed next week, the shutdown still wouldn’t end until he returned to sign it.
Procedural Note: It’s possible for a bill to become law without a presidential signature but it requires a lot of time and for both chambers to be in session for that time period, so for all practical purposes, assume any continuing resolution that gets passed will need the President’s signature.
What’s the Standoff About?
During the Biden Administration, the Democrats used their majorities pass more extensive health insurance premium subsidies for people who pay for their own insurance (as opposed to employer provided insurance or medicare, etc).
The catch was that the subsidies were temporary. Why wouldn’t they make them permanent? Maybe they couldn’t get agreement from enough of their own members at the time, maybe it was the price of Republican votes or maybe it was a cynical political ploy as described by the New York Times.
Those subsidies will expire at the end of this calendar year. Democrats have made the extension of these subsidies their primary demand in exchange for their support in the Senate for the House’s continuing resolution.
Republicans have refused, so Democrats have refused. To apparently everyone’s surprise, but especially Republicans’, Democrats have held their ground on this demand.
So here we all are and here we’ll stay for at least one more week. FYI, if you are one of the people who pays for your own insurance, you should probably start talking to your insurance company now about what to expect in premium costs for next year, because it does not look like the subsidies will be extended.
Effects of the Shutdown So Far
So far, most essential federal employees have continued to work despite not being paid. Thus, air traffic controllers are at their desks, weather is monitored and so on.
Federally funded cultural institutions in D.C. have closed to the public including the National Zoo, the National Gallery and the Smithsonian museums. (Yes, the zoo animals are still receiving care – the zoo staff are working without pay just like most other federal employees)
Members of the military got paid on Oct. 15, apparently by shifting around unspent funds originally allocated for other purposes. In this, the Trump Administration is spending funds in ways not authorized by Congress and the legality is unclear. It’s also not clear how the military will be paid on Oct. 30.
ICE Officers are being paid. This too represents using funds authorized by Congress for other purposes and is of dubious legality.
People who need food aid will not get it after November 1 if the shutdown is not resolved before then. It’s unclear why, if other agencies can repurpose funds (legally or not) to fill gaps from the shutdown, the Department of Agriculture isn’t also working to protect poor Americans.
The House simply isn’t doing anything at all. They aren’t working on regular appropriations bills, they aren’t holding hearings, they haven’t sworn in a new member elected in September, nothing except for introducing new bills that will see no action any time soon. NOTUS wrote about frustrations in the House and Senate over Speaker Johnson’s refusal to allow the House to do its work.
Predictions
Steven Dennis, a Congressional reporter for Bloomberg has a series of posts on standoffs that go something like this one from 2022:
How the omnibus came together: NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO YES TO FRAMEWORK NO NO NO NO NO DEAL! HAS ANYONE TALKED TO MIKE LEE, RAND PAUL? NO NO NO TIME AGREEMENT LOCKED IN 68-29
The point being that public statements may or may not accurately reflect efforts to find compromise behind the scenes and you don’t know about it until after the agreement is made when things suddenly move quickly to resolution.
Right now, the public stance of both parties is still firmly in the “NO NO NO NO NO…” stage. There’s no evidence of negotiations behind the scenes, but perhaps we’ll get a surprise “YES TO FRAMEWORK” next week even if not an actual resolution.
See you next Friday for the next update.
Editor’s Note: There’s a lying phoney page from Trump (.gov), about blaming the Democrats for the shutdown. Talk about blatant lying to the American public. Anyway, ignore the lies at:
https://www.whitehouse.gov/government-shutdown-clock/Continue/Read Original Article Here: You Are Here – GovTrack.us
#2025 #America #BlameGame #Congress #DonaldTrump #Education #GovTrack #GovTrackUs #Health #History #Libraries #Library #LibraryOfCongress #Opinion #Politics #Resistance #Science #Shutdown #Trump #TrumpAdministration #UnitedStates
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NCTC Discovers That Online Gaming Platforms Have Chats, Image Sharing
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Trump administration's official shutdown guidance: Blame Democrats
https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/trump-shutdown-guidance-blame-democrats-emails-rcna235021
The blame game, it is what Trump does best. But as it is the future voters are watching, and it is an ugly sight, of hate, revenge and getting even. Trump is unfit to be the president of the USA, so much is clear, dividing and hateful...
Steals from the poor to give to the right, that's the spirit.
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🎭 Breaking news: US government throws its bi-annual tantrum, Democrats and Republicans play their favorite blame game while the rest of us grab popcorn. 🍿 Meanwhile, nothing gets done, but at least politicians get a free vacation. 🌴
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/01/us-government-shuts-down #politicaldrama #blamegame #governmentshutdown #popcornpolitics #politicalvacation #HackerNews #ngated -
Ah, the classic blame game 🏥💸: insurers, drug companies, and your boss all conspire to turn your wallet into a gaping void. Who knew health care #costs could double as a world-class finger-pointing championship? 🤔👉💼💊
https://www.npr.org/2025/09/12/nx-s1-5534416/health-care-costs-soaring-blame-your-employer #blamegame #healthcare #insurance #healthcareindustry #fingerpointing #HackerNews #ngated -
🚨 Oh no, the #F-Droid site certificate expired! Quick, someone at #GitLab, start the ceremonial blame shifting shuffle dance. 💃💻 Meanwhile, users are left scratching their heads wondering why they need a degree in #cybersecurity to download a free app. 🙄🔒
https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroid-website/-/issues/883 #appdevelopment #blamegame #HackerNews #ngated -
Ah, the latest management buzzword bingo: "Bi-Directional #Accountability." 🎯 Finally, a way to hold everyone accountable without the theater! Except, isn't it just everyone blaming each other? 🎭 All that without the "bullsht"—because who needs that when you've got endless newsletters to subscribe to? 📬
https://www.alnewkirk.com/bidirectional-accountability/ #BiDirectionalAccountability #ManagementBuzzwords #BlameGame #NewsletterOverload #HackerNews #ngated -
Ever notice that people who caution against playing the 'blame game' are the ones who deserve the lion's share of the blame?
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@publictorsten Mir stellt sich die Frage, wie die Werbeindustrie es immer wieder schafft, die Cookie-Banner als Versagen der EU/Regierenden/Verordungen zu framen.
175 Tracking-"partner" bei Spiegelonline? WTF?
Wir hätten keine Cookie-Banner, wenn sich Webseiten-Betreiber auf die technisch notwendigen Cookies beschränken würden. Diese erfordern kein Banner und eine Erwähnung im Impressum/Datenschutz-Statement reicht.Mir sind Tracking-Banner (das wäre die richtige Bezeichnung) und die Informationspflicht noch nicht nervig genug. Ich bin dafür, das jedes Tracking-Banner in 20pkt-Schrift damit beginnen muss, dass dieses Banner nur notwendig ist, weil der Betreiber es so will und das muss 20sek stehen bleiben! So!
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When somebody is BS-ing you with "NATO-Expansion is at fault for Russia's war of aggression"... go and read:
Ukraine: the history behind Russia’s claim that Nato promised not to expand to the east
https://theconversation.com/ukraine-the-history-behind-russias-claim-that-nato-promised-not-to-expand-to-the-east-177085#Ukraine #Russia #NATO #Geopolitics #BlameGame #PutinPropaganda + Some US #Historians #BS
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The #Republican Party loves pretending that #Trump wasn’t president during #COVID.
Unfortunately for them, we aren’t all amnesiacs.
Duffy: "By the way, during covid, when people weren't flying, that was a perfect time to fix these problems."
#idiocracy #disinformation #BlameGame #FactCheck #TrumpLies #propaganda #trumpaganda
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Now eagerly awaiting the first vicious blaming of #DonaldTrump by James McGrath for the unfolding rout of the #LNP
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Ja, @truls46 - und die #Bundestagswahl2025 wurde wiederum überhaupt erst notwendig, weil die #Ampel aus #SPD, #Grünen und #FDP zerfallen ist.
Wir können hier durchaus weitere Zeit mit dem ewigen #BlameGame vergeuden. Ich halte jedoch nichts mehr davon. Stattdessen wünsche ich mir endlich eine politische #Kultur, in der Dialog, Leistung (Infrastruktur!) und Glaubwürdigkeit belohnt werden. Wenn Du das auch möchtest, könntest Du bei Dir selber damit anfangen. Oder eben nicht. Deine Wahl. 🌞📚☕
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/s When the price of eggs started to rise, it's Joe Biden's fault. It wasn't mine." - Trump
https://youtu.be/_fifAwzxIz8?si=pQ2BZNZ0-s8dipFd
#EggPrices #BlameGame #TrumpVsBiden #PoliticalMemes #TrumpBlaming #EconomicIssues #USpolitics #MemeCulture #Sarcasm #PresidentialBlame #EggWars #FoodEcomomics #TrumpSupport #BidenCritics #PriceHikes #PoliticalSatire #EggNomics #TrumpMemes #BidenBashing #EggPrice
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🚀 Breaking news: Someone made a CLI tool to point fingers in Git at lightning speed! Because clearly, what we needed was industrial-grade blame allocation instead of, you know, writing better code. 👏🎉
https://github.com/sinclairtarget/git-who #CLItool #GitBlame #CodeQuality #TechNews #BlameGame #HackerNews #ngated -
Musk blames Ukraine for X outage..
"Musk said on Fox Business Network’s Kudlow that the attackers had 'IP addresses originating in the Ukraine area' without going into detail on what this might mean. Security researcher Kevin Beaumont said on Bluesky that Musk’s claim is 'missing a key fact — it was actually IPs from worldwide, not just Ukraine'."
https://apnews.com/article/x-musk-twitter-outage-california-0268a8b035aaa277c0287e7c82b6081e
