They aren't ghouls, they're victims. They can be, and often are, victimizers as well. Most people join the military because they're broke and desperate. Have some class solidarity.

Now the people who join the military just to go shoot someone in the Middle East (or soon South America maybe), yeah, they can get thrown into the meat grinder.

Bluesky is also owned by a corporation and, like Twitter, could sell to a fascist billionaire whenever they find it profitable to do so.

X vs Bluesky is a great microcosm of American team-sports politics. Mastodon is something actually new.

Phrased in another way, it's equivalent to if you had $1,618 in the bank and were fined $0.30.

Imagine working 2, 4, 8, whatever number of years, then you get to a night meant to honor your accomplishments.... then you have to sit through a billionaire performing autofellatio in the form of an advertisement

Yeah uBlock Origin has worked fine through every single one of these "adblockers are broken!" articles I've seen

I don't mind, it's still good to raise awareness about Youtube's bullshit - especially since I'm getting ads for Border Patrol, OpenAI, and the fucking Melania movie now when I do see them (when I am lazy and using my Roku TV instead of HDMI). But it hasn't been a problem for me yet.

I care about jobs far less than I care about our environment.

AI must fail.

People don't like to hear it but Israel is just a young, technologically-accelerated America, with Christofascism swapped for Zionazism. American families used to have block parties underneath the lynched bodies of black people.

He vetoed legal psychedelics, unemployment pay for striking workers, repeatedly ignored COVID restrictions, maintained a relationship with AIPAC, and did photo ops throwing out the only possessions of homeless people.

He's the "Diet Republican" brand of Democrat (most Democrats are but especially him), and people have already shown repeatedly that they arent interested in that.

People who want a Republican will vote for the real thing. People who don't want a Republican will vote for someone else. He's pandering to a crowd that doesn't exist in any significant size.

Did you read the article? They were renting a car. A car rental place isn't going to let you just not show your ID.

oh phew this clear joke almost fooled me

USA is a special kind of stupid, but a majority still oppose war with Iran and... you know... raping children, so Hegseth isn't too popular on the home front either.

Motorola gets a little bit of love from me because they were (maybe still are?) the only ones who allowed me to shout "COMRADE MOTO!" to wake my phone up

I will not say "Hey Google" in a million years. I refuse.

Maybe, just maybe, if Israel wanted the world to be a safer place for Jews they would stop associating a genocide with Judaisim

You probably already know this, but Israel wants the world to be a more dangerous place for Jews to justify Israel's illegitimate existence and aggression. That's why they conducted terrorist attacks against Ethiopian Jews, to convince them that they needed to move to Israel as it's the only safe place for them... where they're then met by deep-rooted racism.

I think by "foreign from Palestine" they mean that her grandparents were not from the land of Palestine (sometimes improperly referred to, in part, as "Pissrael")

It's gonna suck for the working class WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY more than the people who will lose their fortunes as a result of the bubble popping

sorry

it always does

Michael Saylor, one of the biggest owners of one of the other "doesnt actually do anything" bubbles - Bitcoin - is a great example. He made a fortune during the dot com bubble.

With that said, if I have to eat hard tack and canned beans and use leftover charcoal from the park BBQ grills instead of toothpaste in order to never have another AI bullshit feature shoehorned into my existence, it might be worth it

Unironically a foundational tenant of the entire country.

Some of us have just done a better job of moving past it. (Dems enabled Gaza genocide so I'm not talking about Dems, at least not the politicians. I mean some individuals.)

Nature's laws remain.

One of the most insightful comments I've heard, iirc from thecollectress on Instagram (hope I got her username right, it's been a while), is that the emphasis on maintaining a non-confrontational nature is a core component of white supremacist thinking (and by extension, capitalist thinking). That it's more important not to upset anyone than it is to argue for righteousness.

"The obnoxious peace which is the absence of tension, rather than the righteous peace which is the presence of justice" and all that.

Oi, beltalowda