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Sadly, statistics sort of tend to back up at least a few of those claims, even if it is a silly cartoon. Even if people do not like to admit it. Example, in 2018, 69% of black mothers are single mothers. But people never want to speak about reality because they have been told that speaking about reality is somehow racist, which is not. No problem ever gets fixed if people refuse to look at it, honestly.

"In 2011, 72% of black babies were born to unmarried mothers,[5][6] while the 2018 National Vital Statistics Report provides a figure of 69.4 percent for this condition." The stats have not gotten better since then.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/African-American_family_structure

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“This script is fantastic. Let’s get Julia Roberts to play Harriet Tubman.”

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The last Samurai is not played by Tom Cruise. He plays a guy who gets to know and grows to respect the last Samurai and Japanese culture.

Ken Watanabe as Lord Moritsugu Katsumoto, he plays the eponymous "Last Samurai."

Clearly you have not even watched the damn movie. Or what is your point?

But we are all good with a black woman playing the real life British Anne Boleyn?

Man, can't wait until we find out which white actor will play Barack Obama in his biopic. I mean, diversity is our strength.

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Plant-heavy ‘flexitarian’ diets could help limit global heating, study finds

You know what would really help? More so then cutting actual food intake?

How about halfing the number of golf courses? Stop using grass and let more natural plants for lawns, stop the use of private planes and also just kill or reduce the Cruise ship industry to a miniscule amount. Plus other shit rich people use that has a disproportionate huge carbon footprint. Find it funny that I never see the news --or rich, holier than thou morons-- pushing for this. Nah, they go after our food. Rich people do not care, they can eventually make beef the price of caviar per weight? Because fuck you and all of us. Why? Well they do not care. They can always pay. Easily.

For example: Bill Gates is the largest farm land owner in the USA now, he and his buddies and his rich clients will all get all the natural milk, beef, pork, chickens, lambs, veal they can eat. You? Eat lentils and maybe crickets or give his lab grown biomilq, to your kids or eat his lab meat, like a good and compliant serf. Don't think, just comply and consume. 'Cause I am sure he ain't touching the stuff himself or is his family. He is not going to be the long term guinea pig. I wouldn't either.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/03/13/biomilq-artificial-breast-milk

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/bill-gates-backed-lab-grown-195311408.html

Carbon footprint of food production in the USA is 9% of total. Beef is about 3% of total. So 9 for both beef and crops.

Just the cruise ship industry, for example, is about 3.3% of the world's total carbon footprint. Let's kill that. Also private jet use. They can fly Business class, if they are not hypocrites.

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Looking at the post at face value, and joke aside, it sounds that it was a one way conversation for 30+ minutes, non-stop.

Esoteric knowledge can be interesting. A sure-sell selling point about you to a stranger on a first meeting it ain't.

"Hi, how are you? ...Good? Great. Let me go on for 30min. on a topic you may care or not about and do so uninterrupted, and if you don't like it, I will make a quippy post online about it, okay? Like, for sure people will take my side. Win/win."

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Reddit is so untrustworthy. r/modcoord thread purges all pro-fediverse comments, then r/redditalternatives removes the thread exposing it.

Of course they are. Mods there in general are ridiculous. Remember when less than 20 supermods had a huge hand in controlling hundreds of the top Subs?

Or, how they talked about standing up during the API change with the blackout and then almost immediately folded when even the whiff of their imaginary sense power was threaten? Never have seen such incredulous mass backpedaling.

Screw that platform. Too much over centralisation, anyway. Fediverse is the way.

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Minneapolis just called Uber’s bluff — other cities must follow their lead

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True. But they did that. Anyway. That is technically Anti-Trust. Thus in essense illegal. That is why uber tried shilling that they are not an employer but merely a service as to seem that they were skimming the Law that they knew they were breaking in Spirit. They aren't stupid. But know many are, so why not exploit them? If we are smart, they thought, they could drive Taxis out of business, be the big dog in the sector and surge price their way into profit. At will. It is not like this type of shit has not been attempted before.

Also, Uber simply transfered the costs of running its fleets, upkeep, maintenance, including most liability and litigation to its drivers. Not to mention that love it or hate it Taxi drivers need to pass some basic level of proficiency, for uber you could be a blatant rapist and as long as you can click on a form for 5 minutes, you are good to go.