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Nonilex , to random
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#Trump spreads #violent rhetoric by suggesting migrants should be pitted in fights for entertainment.
During a speech to #Christian #conservatives on Sat afternoon, & AGAIN at a rally in Philadelphia that evening, Trump claimed he told his friend Dana White, pres of the UFC, that he should start a spinoff competition featuring migrants, as part of his riff on restricting #immigration.

#racism #WhiteSupremacy #Dehumanization #HumanRights #BidenHarris2024
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/06/22/trump-christians-migrants-violence/

unlucio ,
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@Nonilex I'd pit billionaires, power-hungry politicians, and sociopaths alike.

Nonilex , to random
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The , Dr. , announced on Mon that he would push for on platforms advising that using the platforms might damage ’ .

Warning labels —like on tobacco & alcohol— are one of the most powerful tools available to the nation’s top ofcl, but…requires approval by .


https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/17/health/surgeon-general-social-media-warning-label.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb

unlucio ,
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@Nonilex the whole world needs a health warning on anything ADV or marketing.

futurebird , (edited ) to random
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A student asked me “If I really wanted to do something about climate change & all this injustice do you think I should just try to become a billionaire so I’d have real power? Or should I be a judge so I can make the big decisions? or president? Who has the most power? who can fix it?”

me: Listen if I knew the answer to all that I would tell you. I think it matters what you are good at? What you think you can do well.

student: whatever it is I need to do well I will learn it.

unlucio ,
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@futurebird IMHO a huge part will be played by what happened during their journey.

If he's fine with explaining to others the "billionaire" route is probably the one that might give them the better platform at the end, but what happened in between?
Will becoming a billionaire make them slide deeply into capitalist indoctrination thus rendering a sociopath and thus forgetting why he set off to be one in the 1st place?

Nonilex , to random
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#Trump 2nd term #mandatory #military service
#ChrisMiller, Trump’s last #DefSec who led the #Pentagon during the chaotic closure of Trump’s tenure in Washington & author of the [#MillerMemo], is among a cluster of fmr admin ofcls & #GOP lawmakers who are proposing a #NationalServiceMandate & other measures as part of #Project2025, the #conservative #HeritageFoundation’s govt-wide game plan.

#conscription #draft #BidenHarris2024
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2024/06/10/trump-military-draft-mandatory-service/

unlucio ,
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@Nonilex I wonder how much money he got from weapons manufacturers and warmongers with financial interests in pointless massacres

futurebird , (edited ) to random
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Normally I take the bus. It takes 40min, but since it’s rush hour it would take 65min. So, I’m walking to the subway. When my leg was injured I’d have no choice but to be late — the subway is too far and too many stations aren’t accessible.

The major avenues into the city are like parking lots. Millions of New Yorkers leave hours early to avoid rush hour. My work is less than 3 miles away but it might as well be on another planet.

If not congestion pricing then WHAT will ya’ll do?

unlucio ,
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@futurebird I don't understand why do people still pile up in NYC

unlucio ,
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@futurebird I'm not sure I understand, it sounds like a line from a cheap musical about someone spending their life waiting for a "breakthrough" and it never happens.

Every time I got offered a job in NYC I turned it down for 2 main reasons:

  • the USA doesn't have a healthcare system
  • I'm not going to pay 4k/mo to live in a shower.

It's a pretty roomy planet, plenty of options besides NYC

unlucio ,
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@futurebird NYC is hardly the center of the universe.
If NYC feels like the center of your universe, may I suggest you expand your horizons? :)

Considering how the expansion works the center of the universe should have plenty of space, so no reason to sacrifice decent living space.

ElleGray , to random
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ai has entered its roast era. large scale mockery signals the beginning of the end. good. 🙂

unlucio ,
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@ElleGray Once again humans show pretty well how shortsighted we are:

"AI" is not gonna take jobs, entrepreneurs are gonna choose machines over humans because they're cheaper.

We need to fix the horrible culture of systematically dehumanizing and cheapening humans until they're squeezed for all they can produce and paid as little as possible so they can keep being squeezed.

The problem is not technology, the problem is that our current model raises greedy psychotic bastards to the top.

rms , to random
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https://www.levernews.com/corporations-are-weaponizing-free-speech-to-wreck-the-world/
https://stallman.org/glossary.html#corporationsunited
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#13_August_2014_(Businesses_allowed_to_vote)

Corporations are weaponizing "Free Speech" to eliminate safety notices regulations. This is a consequence of the Corporations United decision which ruled that human rights apply to corporations, even though those are not in fact human.

unlucio ,
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@rms I never understood why corporations can leverage on free speech:
free speech is for people, and corporations aren't people.

breadandcircuses , to random
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Now THIS is the ultimate in capitalist greenwashing.

A series of three photos stacked one on top of another. First photo shows a vacant lot in a town with a very large tree growing in the center of the lot, and with a big truck and workers cutting the tree down. Second photo shows the same vacant lot with the tree removed and with outdoor advertising signs now up in its place. Third photo shows a closer view of one of the billboards in the vacant lot. It's a picture of a little boy, hugging a tree. (The writing on the billboard is too small to read clearly.) Captions on the photos say: "The tree is cut down to open space for outdoor signs of a kid hugging a tree."
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    unlucio ,
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    @breadandcircuses this is a bit insane indeed

    EU_Commission , to random
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    We've opened formal proceedings against Meta regarding the protection of minors on Facebook and Instagram.

    The systems of both platforms, including their algorithms, may stimulate behavioural addictions in children, as well as create so-called 'rabbit-hole effects’.

    More: https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_24_2664

    unlucio ,
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    @EU_Commission yes! And please don't stop!

    remember these companies have a "fines fund" ready to cover their asses.
    Please fine both Meta and Zuck, so much it hurts!
    Until that, they'll never learn.

    GottaLaff , to random
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    A video filmed during Donald 's New Jersey rally on Saturday has shown "thousands" of people leaving while the former president was still talking.
    https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-new-jersey-rally-crowd-walks-out-speech-video-1899832

    unlucio ,
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    @GottaLaff oh wow, seeing like this he looks even more like a blithering idiot.

    How do people listen to him is is one of the great mystery of our times.

    EU_Commission , (edited ) to random
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    📣 Young Europeans are not only ready to vote but are engaged and active in policy and decision-making

    Our latest on Youth and Democracy shows:

    🗳️ 64% of young Europeans intend to vote in the next European elections on 6-9 June;
    🤝 64% have participated in youth organisations' activities in the past 12 months;
    📣 48% had taken action to change society including signing a petition or participating in a rally.

    Find out more about our findings: https://europa.eu/!XPtmnC

    unlucio ,
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    @EU_Commission 64% means 34% will most likely be alienated.

    We need a voting system that fosters everybody's opinion, even of those that do not find anyone worth their vote. Not voting should be counted as a negative vote for everybody.

    1st-pass-the-post is failing us, we need something better and most of all stop considering low percentage a win.

    TatianaIlyina , to random
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    Just learned that a very promising early career scientist in my discipline has left academia, not seeing a desired career future for herself here. That company is lucky to get her. Yet, it saddens me enormously that it is often the most dynamic, brilliant, curious once, who are challenging status quo, committed to diversity and making our world a better place, who are leaving .

    What are we doing wrong to make academic careers so unattractive for the best young minds?

    unlucio ,
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    @TatianaIlyina publish or perish and others.
    Sabine Hossenfelder's video nicely illustrates some of them:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKiBlGDfRU8

    randahl , to random
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    If someone had told me 10 years ago, US politics would fall apart because a spray tanned criminal, who swears, rapes, and engages in extramarital sex, would manage to convince religious voters, he was chosen by God…

    … I would have thought they were insane.

    unlucio ,
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    @randahl really?
    I'm from the '80s and Obama aside I don't recall a US presides being much different. Starting from that Reagan with his ludicrously criminal ideas that just plastered the road to all the problems my generation now has to suck up all other the world
    Idk, from outside the US we always saw you guys worship that kind of people
    Yes, bigotry got a bit worse, but the base ideas seem still the same:

    1. fuck the poor, they deserve it
    2. individualism to the max, and fuck everything else.
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