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Unfortunately, Roger Stone would probably get off on it.

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We're witnessing the end result of decades of baked-n American Exceptionalism and "rugged individualism": a bunch of selfish pricks literally willing to kill themselves and others out of some bizarre form of oppositional defiant disorder.

This is the American Dream, folks.

Hamas Wants Guarantees Ceasefire Will Actually Happen, While US Says Hamas Is Rejecting the Proposal ( truthout.org )

Following the UN Security Council vote to approve a three-phase ceasefire in Gaza, U.S. officials and other international allies of Israel are cynically placing blame on Hamas for a stall in current ceasefire negotiations — even as Israel has insisted on indefinitely continuing its massacre in Gaza and Hamas has said its main...

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Read the sentence before it.

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They said,

Hamas are not good guys by any stretch

and then you say,

How the hell Hamas are the good guys [...]?

Not only a straw man, but you're literally acting like they made the complete opposite argument. Bad faith, dude. Bad faith.

Not even going to get into the whole, "they pushed Israel for so long that it finally snapped" thing. Just a complete historical revisionism.

Do people actually buy this shit?

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Short Cuts is amazing. Altman changed the game in many ways. I believe he changed the entire way we record dialogue because the way we did it before just didn't work for him.

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Seriously, it's always been the dumbest fucking premise of all time.

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Damn, Jackie Brown is great

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I've recently come to terms with the fact that I guess I've just grown out of Star Wars. When you strip away all of the nostalgia, I don't think any of the originals (or prequels) hold up at all. And the newer ones have just been trash.

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I've only ever seen Short Cuts (loved it), the Player (liked it a lot), and McCabe and Mrs Miller (ehh....). How do you think I'd feel about his other films?

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Thanks, I've saved your comment and I'll add them to the list.

Study finds 1/4 of bosses hoped Return to Office would make staff quit ( www.theregister.com )

HR software biz BambooHR surveyed more than 1,500 employees, a third of whom work in HR. The findings suggest the return to office movement has been a poorly-executed failure, but one particular figure stands out - a quarter of executives and a fifth of HR professionals hoped RTO mandates would result in staff leaving....

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Have you tried taking your laptop to a library or coffee shop or something?

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KoF 2002 is the correct answer if you're looking for a "non-modern" KoF.

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Ok, but let's try to be fair here... Those were the children of slaves. Yes, perhaps the slaves that Jefferson raped, but what is he going to do, not enslave them? Lol

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    This is (presumably) people's personal health care information. Please don't fucking do this, Jesus Christ.

    If not just because it's a really shitty thing to do, I'm pretty sure it's also at least one felony.

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    The Communist Manifesto was basically a pamphlet written to be understood by mostly uneducated workers... There's not much reason to have never read it at this point, regardless of personal politics.

    We're not talking Atlas Shrugged or Das Kapital. It's like 30 pages or something.

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    Why does Stalin "rule"? This is a question from a fellow "leftist."

    Either ignorant, or you're just a really bad person. Just such a stupid fucking thing to say. Take a step back from the Internet and read a book. Saying "Stalin rules ✊" doesn't make you cool, it just makes you look like an idiot.

    Stalin was a paranoid, murderous dictator responsible for the unnecessary deaths of countless millions of people. Or does it not count because he didn't murder them himself?

    Can't wait to hear about how the holomodor wasn't his fault...

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    Lo fucking L

    They will destroy the planet before allowing that to happen.

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    Yeah I’m all for dismantling corporate hierarchy, but even as a socialist, I concede that people managers can be workers. They can be valuable.

    You're describing the work of middle (or probably more likely, lower level) management. You know, the people actually interacting with the workers.

    This stuff about the price reductions after 4 years of blatant gouging is really freaking me out

    I mean, that’s 4 years of our lives taken! 4 years of opportunities that were more challenging because they wanted a number on a computer to go up! 4 years of feeling worse than necessary about my finances and management of them and general personhood because i felt like i couldn’t afford anything because everything was...

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    95% of all dollars in existence were “minted” (digitally, ofc) in the last couple of years.

    No way this is true. Anyway, the act of printing money isn't the problem here.

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    95%, 20%.... whats a 400%+ difference amongst friends on the internet, right?

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    They could have claimed that a dozen or so years ago, yet for some reason they kept terrorizing Gazans while being almost entirely immune to any type of "conventional" (and proportionate.... Which lol because this isn't a word the Israeli government is familiar with) response. Also even "conventional" is a stretch given the apartheid reality makes it nearly impossible for Palestinians to even formulate a "proper" response.

    It's almost like 10/7 was out of complete desperation for an untenable situation where these people see there friends and family murdered by the IDF for no reason, or have family in The West Bank where settlers from New Jersey who have never been out of the US are literally storming Palestinian villages with AR-15s in the middle of the night and forcing them to leave so they can literally steal their property.

    I am by no means justifying the events of 10/7, just like I would never justify the events of 9/11. But I would be ignorant and foolish not to learn anything from the event about how decades of policy like this creates terrorists and they will fight back when you corner them for literal decades.

    Anyone old enough to remember 9/11 and didn't just read Bin Laden's "manifesto" or whatever you want to call it last year, we remember when it happened and, to many of us it make complete sense. Shit, Obama almost lost in 08 because he was seen with some black preacher once or twice who had a recording of an old sermon where he (correctly) said 9/11 was our "chickens coming home to roost".

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    True, if the Israeli government has shown us anything, all they really want is peace, right? Not the land. Not complete control of the people in an open-air prison. They'll just stop all that if they, "no longer feel threatened."

    You cannot be this naive.

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    Ha! Say what you will about Obama, the man has a sense of humor.

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    "See guys we're totally not Nazis"

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    mayo & mustard soup

    Are you a Mayostard or Mustardayonaise home?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRntutn8udw

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    Vagina dentata

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    You're getting downvotes because we all want it to succeed... It hasn't been great for me.

    I do use Yandex sometimes, especially if I'm searching for a torrent or streaming show or something since they don't seem to care about filtering pirated stuff. But in general the results seem better than DDG.

    Yes I know it's Russian or whatever. Oh well.

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    Can't forget to mention that those Walmart employees usually turn around and use those food stamps and government assistance at Walmart due to whatever meager employee discount they get.

    So now Walmart not only gets to pay their workers far below a living wage, they also get reimbursed by the government for all those food stamps their own employees spend at their stores. These corporations are the biggest "welfare queens" the world has ever seen.

    Reminiscent of owing one's soul to the company store, eh?

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    Yeah if only they had their own secular, democratically elected leaders. And maybe those leaders could even decide to nationalize their oil.

    What could possibly go wrong for them?

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    Make sure you've got a spare DVD/Blu-Ray player somewhere that works without needing an internet connection.

    Oh, you mean when the discs themselves no longer contain the data.... Yeah...

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    A male bald eagle that believes it's a female? This is like prime Fox News outrage fuel.

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    Lead poisoning

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    Good response, but just to let people know: Alanon is run by The "Church" of Scientology. An abusive cult that trafficks humans and ruins people's lives.

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    I see nothing in your quote that mentions the police.

    I have chronic sleeping problems therefore I love(d) taking naps but waking up afterwards is absolute hell. What should I do? **Edit: I have found a short-term solution**

    I am currently struggling heavily with depression. Which impacts my quality of sleep. Sleep now has never been a talent of mine. So I generally make up for it by napping. I used to absolutely love it. Both the initial and the waking up (feeling well rested). But lately the waking up part is getting more and more difficult. It...

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    Try to time your naps so that you are waking up at the correct part of your sleep cycle... I think the average time of a full cycle is ~90 min for most people, so if you set an alarm for 1.5 or 3 hours (or any other increment of 90 min) it shouldn't feel as bad to wake up.

    Same thing goes for sleeping at night as well.

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    I look forward to a fresh new round of backlash about this from angry conservatives looking for things to be mad/scared about. And no, I don't mean being mad or scared about the actual science, but rather the scientists that dare tell them their findings.

    Honestly, I fucking wish the Democrats would have the balls to pass laws to regulate things like this...

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    Cool.

    Children don't deserve to have asthma because you think "there's something satisfying about fire that makes it worth the increased pollution exposure." Though I'm glad that you believe you get to make that decision for them.

    Fuck off.

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    Where did I say I drew a line? I'm just saying it's fucking stupid and selfish to be so upset and up in arms about potential regulations to make everyone healthier because they like fire.

    You must be worn out after fighting all those straw men. Do you think "regulations" means "we're coming to take away the gas stove from your sad divorced dad studio apartment"?

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    If you think this didn't have a name before, then you may need to read up a bit on the history of capitalism.

    It's rent seeking.

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    Exactly this. It is not new, it's just a form of rent seeking.

    Nearly 75% of journalists killed in 2023 died in Israel’s war on Gaza: CPJ ( www.aljazeera.com )

    Seventy-two of the 99 journalists killed worldwide in 2023 were Palestinians reporting on Israel’s war on Gaza, making those 12 months the deadliest for the media in almost a decade, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ)....

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    The fact that Israel is evil doesn’t make Jews everywhere evil. That needs to be said.

    I know it needs to be said (because if you don't, the conversation will get derailed), but does it really need to be said? I feel like this rule only applies in this situation.

    When else does this need to be said in order to not be considered a racist or terrorist?

    It should be self-evident, and it's fucking frustrating that decades of equating criticism of Israel with antisemitism has worked this well.

    Kristi Noem says the story demonstrates her willingness to "do what needs to be done." ( lemmy.world )

    She decided to kill the 14-month-old dog she was training to hunt birds when it attacked chickens, an understandable mistake for a young dog IMO, and bit her once when she grabbed it's collar (no word on how seriously). She killed a goat by shooting it twice because she didn't like it, calling it mean and smelly. Apparently...

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    Literally a fascist signalling to other fascists that she will be ride or die for them.

    She'll do whatever it takes, including being thrown under the bus when needed.

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    I agree, I hate it.

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    Didn't John Cale write a ton of extra verses? Or am I misremembering

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    I like the Jeff Buckley version best

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    Aside from Jimi's version of All Along the Watchtower (and maybe Mr. Tambourine Man by The Byrds), what Dylan songs fit this description?

    It's ok not to like the guy's voice or whatever, but let's not rewrite history here. Dylan was a legend and stood entirely on his own (and alone).

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    I wonder if I should be happy that lemmy has grown to be large enough for the IDF to consider it a legitimate target for propaganda, or just bummed out that nearly every single thread seems to be infected by this trash.

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    Yeah totally. And your comment (quoted here verbatim) totally makes sense:

    How percentage of faculty who protested removal of the tents by police has any relationship or relevance to antisemitism on the same campus?

    This is how your comment reads:

    Have you ever been so far even as decided to use go want to look more like?

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