anarchy79

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[–] [email protected] 105 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Let's not give this absolute nobody media space please...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I think it's really more of the case that people feel no kinship, we've been programmed since birth and since basically centuries to only see ourselves as islands, working only for ourselves and to "get ours", believing the lie that if only everyone fends for themselves then everybody will benefit in the end... Somehow.

Nothing can or will change as long as we are shackled by capitalist rule.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Not the first totalitarian government people have felt like that about...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

They develop IC on iPhones?!!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (3 children)

"The whole point of a Doomsday Machine is lost if you keep it a secret!"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Half the passengers want to do just that and install a captain who is hell-bent on chasing a white whale and wants to institute forced cannibalism for anyone on board with navigational skills

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Like these for example:

* Lowest unemployment numbers since 1969, economy seeing strong growth in GTP, wages, stock market returns, household net worth
* Expanded overtime guarantees for millions
* Established the Office of Gun Violence Prevention awarding $286 million towards student mental health
* Made transition to green electricity a priority and accelerating approval of renewable energy projects
* Sealed nationwide Infrastructure deal for $1.2 trillion for roads, waterlines, broadband networks, airports, et c
* Opened for over-the-counter birth control pill (in stores in 2024)
* Issued a sweeping crackdown on junk fees and overdraft charges from banks
* Effected anti-redlining frameworks preventing discriminatory mortgage lending
* Forced Chinese companies to open their books
* Issued the Inflation Reduction Act, authorizing funds to jump-start the transition of American agriculture toward less carbon-intensive practices
* Helped broker a deal to save the Colorado River
* Signed an executive order directing agencies across the government to promote competition and take on monopolies
* Loosened federal restrictions on cannabis
* Instituted penalties for college programs that trap students in debt
* Enacted the CHIPS and Science Act, offering more than $50 billion to subsidize construction of new microchip facilities in the U.S
* Aligned U.S trade policy with antitrust actions against big tech firms
* Brokered a deal to halt conflict between Rwanda and Congo to stall impending Cobalt crisis
* Released a new national cyber strategy, strengthening international cyber diplomacy, securing emerging critical technologies and taking more aggressive steps to disrupt hacking groups
* Countering China with a new alliance between Japan and South Korea
* Reinvigorating cancer research to lower death rates
* Making medication more accessible through telemedicine initiative
* Installed union-friendly allies on the NLRB board who have adopted positions that boost workers in confrontations with businesses
* Issued a national radio frequency spectrum strategy to fix 5G chaos
* Empowered federal agencies to monitor AI
* Strengthening military ties to Asian allies
* Creating a new agency to investigate cyberattacks
* Forcing airlines to pay up when flights are delayed or canceled
* Expansion of Benefits and Services for Toxic Exposed Veterans
* Stood up against Russian aggression by direct support for Ukraine
* Protected marriage rights for LGBTQ couples
* Historic student debt relief for middle-, working-class families
* Implemented aggressive climate and environmental justice agenda
* ...

Sources: https://www.vox.com/politics/24094752/biden-trump-strong-economy-2024-inflation https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/02/02/joe-biden-30-policy-things-you-might-have-missed-00139046 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_policy_of_the_Joe_Biden_administration#:~:text=His%20Inflation%20Reduction%20Act%20was%20enacted%20in%20August%202022.&text=Biden's%20first%20year%20in%20office,the%20pandemic%20recession%20of%202020. https://www.whitehouse.gov/therecord/ https://edition.cnn.com/interactive/2021/politics/biden-executive-orders/

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Joke's on you, they were already depressed!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Current state of the world: "Should we build another boat, or should we take the train instead?"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

This guy plugs holes.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

This is how you combat bullshit like a pro- "don't answer the question you get, answer the question you wish you had gotten".

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

"Look, in a democracy we also have to give a platform to the people who want to abolish it"

 
 

According to a tweet from Flightradar24, approximately one hour into the flight, the aircraft was in cruise flight at 29,100 feet when it abruptly lost altitude, entering a steep descent. The aircraft appeared to recover briefly at approximately 8,000 feet, then it reentered dive.

Some sources claim the sudden nose-dive was intentional because of manual crew input, but to me it sounds like the crew reacted to something extremely strange happening and tried to correct it ("let's click the AUTO button and get some rest. Oh shit."), especially since the aircraft "appeared to recover briefly at approx. 8,000 feet". Sounds a lot like all the other Boeing 737-x crashes where the pilots were surprised by the sudden nosedive, wrestled manual control back, only for the systems to kick in again into a dive.

I post this not as news, but as a point of interest for me personally.

 

Too tasty?

 
 

As in did you hear that beat??

It was ROTUND!!

 
 

I don't exactly find a bunch of lemmy communities for WSB. Is there an expat community I don't know of?

Peace

 

at first I read that one header as "We're Not Changing"

 

Got this from (allegedly) Twitter

So right off the bat I can tell for sure that it ain't me trying to log on to that shite, but it doesn't leave me much choice either now does it?

(red blotches mine, for privacy, and dramatic effect)

(solve the captchas to win a free tshirt!)

 

Those are lethal amounts of heebiejeebies

 
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