It's raining.
We tolerate the rain because it makes living things grow.
There is a payoff for our tolerance.
Keep this in mind when people pervert the meaning of tolerance.
It doesn't mean being nice to fascists.
They won't grow flowers in the spring.
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I want to point out that there still is a way Republicans can win in November.
By now, everyone is used to Republicans suddenly reversing positions on every imaginable topic, and that is the secret to victory.
All they have to do is reverse their position on Israel.
Come out as anti-genocide and anti-Israel, and Republicans will be able to defeat all but a handful of Democrats, who will 100% continue to express their support of Israel and genocide, thus pissing off both Democratic and a surprising number of Republican voters.
Democrats have already made it very clear that they would rather lose elections than stop supporting Israel.
Poll after poll shows that Democratic voters overwhelmingly oppose genocide and are no longer buying into the little narrative the US mainstream media spent decades selling us on.
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"Is the democratic party afraid to say 'no oligarchs' instead of 'no kings' bc so many of the donors paying their leadership and consultants are oligarchs?"
Yes.
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Ugh. It's been a day already and it's only 9:30am.
With a layoff at my now former company, lots of us have been impacted, including me. The good news is my calendar is now free and clear.
I have no idea what comes next but if you know of any #InternalCommunications roles in #Massachusetts, I'd really appreciate the heads up 😃
My LinkedIn is: linkedin.com/in/shartlen/.
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Avete visto Ben Gvir festeggiare di nuovo la reintroduzione della pena di morte in Israele (che era un paese abolizionista di fatto)? Aveva distribuito dolcetti, ora avrebbe brindato al voto definitivo.
Ceto, Ben Gvir è Ben Gvir, che si presentò in parlamento con una spilletta col cappio (a proposito ve li ricordate i nostri leghisti?).
Ben Gvir ne ha di strada da fare per arrivare ad essere all'altezza di un R. Akiva. Mi spingo al punto di dire che IMHO non lo sarà mai.
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They Trump regime still thinks allies (we) don’t understand that the greatest threat to us right now is not Iran, it is the US. But we do. We already know the US can’t be trusted or counted on (see: Ukraine, Greenland, delusional maps of “Greater America”) so why on earth would any NATO country make itself a target of Iran for the US? Pure nonsense.
Everytime a US “patriot” missile is lost at sea a baby Canada goose flies around the lake.
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Today is rough in this world for so many.
Israel has voted to start exterminating Palestinian prisoners.
I refuse to CW this post.
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And Trump bombed Iran for that POS Netanyahu.
There are no negotiations ongoing or in the future with Iran and if anyone believes that they are delusional.
Jensen Huang of Nvidia
Peter Thiel of Palantir
Mark Zuckerburg of Meta
Larry Ellison of Oracle
Tim Cook of Apple
Jeff Bezos of Amazon
Sundar Pichai of Google
Sam Altman of Open AI
Elon Musk of X(it)
All of these things have contributed and continue to contribute to the downfall of democracy and the murder of innocent people on this planet.
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add a coupla Filipino Box Springs and a barrel of BBQ sauce and you gotta party
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Listen to the full album: http://bit.ly/33iL2LM"Filipino Box Spring Hog" by Tom Waits from the album 'Mule Variations'LyricsWell I hung on to Mary's stumpI d...Tom Waits (YouTube)
meanwhile gamers: Haha that's just Jensen. What do you mean that's abuse?
A haha no that would make me an abuse victim...
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Understand something, the super rich will pull out all the stops they can to make sure that data centers their precious totalitarian surveillance system, gets all the energy and water and resources they need. Data center construction is probably about 10% of what headline numbers you see, but even these numbers are unrealistic as the supply chain falls apart.
Remember that billionaires are an extinction cult they want the world to fall apart
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@lori
They have every kind of moral abomination justifying their accelerationism.
Extinction cult is apt. (Taylor Lorenz's appellation for them)
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And to think, if you were to openly wish bad things on these people equal to what they do to others, there would be grounds to have your post removed.
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Designers Haley Dermenjian and Lindsay Mens of TOM Design Collective turn a tired Toronto fourplex into an elegant family home.Moyo Lawuyi (House & Home)
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If your ISP can be liable for huge amounts of money for not terminating your access to the internet because of accusations that you—or someone in your household or college network—has committed copyright infringement, that is dangerous.Electronic Frontier Foundation
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The following thought has not been fully thought-through.
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I'm Black. I love being Black. I take pride in the achievements of other Black people
But being Black is different from all my other identities: Nigerian, British, woke, F1 fan.
Being Black is not an identity I picked for myself or inherited by birth, it's one that was given to me by people who hate me (and those who look like me). I'm Black today cos 400 years ago someone wanted to enslave my ancestors.
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heavy stuff.
respect for sharing the big thoughts. gives us all a bigger perspective.
So there is a WH app? Go figure that is raises security issues: instagram.com/reel/DWaWZdjDit6…
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The Trump administration's new app demands extensive hardware permissions, raising privacy concerns and sparking calls for deletion.Aiza Moraña (International Business Times)
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if people stopped giving all these corporations their age or id/kyc info and just canceled their subscriptions or accounts for 4 months we'd see how fast they stop asking once those next quarter results show up.
governments would wake up pretty fast with less VAT, GST, and Tax revenue, too. you give them an inch and they will take a mile. cut that inch and cut their source of revenue, and they will all fall in line.
that is the only solution to all these stupid laws.
Valve: “We need a credit card on file to prove you’re 18”Me: “My account is 23 years old”
Valve: “That just proves your account is old”
Me: “A credit card just proves you know someone with a credit card”
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Analysis: "Suez was the death knell for the British empire. Hormuz may do the same for the US."
It "risks repeating the 1956 Suez crisis, which hastened the end of sterling as a global reserve currency & forced imperial retreat".
"Empires decline when their military reach outpaces their political strategy..their economic foundations weaken..
.."& when the people they seek to dominate endure long enough to outlast their overwhelming force."
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As confrontation with Iran escalates, Washington risks repeating the 1956 Suez crisis, which hastened the end of sterling as a global reserve currency and forced imperial retreatMiddle East Eye
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Dear UK,
Israel thanks you for supporting their genocide. Good chaps, wot wot!
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As much as you can,
Stop burning oil
It's literally war fuel
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I had to be a downer, but it would be a very big collective mistake to think that even retaking both houses of Congress will fix our MAGA problem. At best they will provide an opportunity for reforms to prevent some conservative excesses in the future.
Unfortunately Liberals are better at identifying long-term problems then they are at solving them. And conversative extremists and their media cohorts have proven extremely resilient. And they never quit. They will take a midterms defeat as …
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Ah, but of course #github enables LLM access to my repos by default.
There's nothing like consent, eh?
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Please write a new cell phone operating system that excludes data collectors.
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If you must see a Harry Potter story, watch "Weird" (2022) instead.
It has the same actor who played Harry Potter. His character still starts out as a kind of child prodigy. And it's actually funny.
Plus, it has Conan O'Brien as Andy Warhol. That's not exactly magical but it's worth seeing just for the bizarreness of it all.
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@cubicgarden *yes but* most social media platforms are also unhealthy for adults.
Social networks are offline too.
Blue Bottle (Nestle) has refused to negotiate a contract for over a year. Please join #BBIU and boycott Blue Bottle until Nestle signs a contract. (My daughter is a barista at one of the #Boston stores, so you'd better believe this is personal to me.)
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For a year Blue Bottle baristas have been negotiating for a strong contract with our Nestlé-owned employer.Blue Bottle Independent Union (Action Network)
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From a Canadian friend:
"Reopening the Strait has emerged as the main objective of the war—an issue that was caused by the war.
So we are negotiating concessions to fix a thing we broke at the cost of 2 billion a day .... and at a personal cost at the gas pump"
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Anexado: 1 imagem Até o time dele não aguenta mais🍥MEU REFÚGIO NERD🍥 (Mastodon Brasil)
And I think you know that the energy prices are the tip of the economic iceberg. Oil is broken down into a number of products many of which our feed stocks were agriculture and mineral extraction and processing.
Helium is produced in the Middle East. It is an essential ingredient for chip manufacturing. I hope it’s an important component of even a GPU that go into data centers.
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The bill would ban using personal data to charge customers different prices for the same goodsCarmine Starnino (The Walrus)
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This is something many economists would also want - the magic of the invisible hand only works* if prices are generally knowable. If everyone has their own price and can't know anyone else's price, you don't have a free market.
*in theory
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[A story from the internet of yore.]
An American was visiting Australia around the time the Clinton/Lewinski matter was first in the news in the late 90s.
The Usian asked an Aussie what they thought of the whole thing. The Aussie replied:
"I'm glad we got the criminals & you got the puritans."
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Elon in America, England and Germany. This fucker, Sterin, in France.
All the billionaires need to go. Nationalize all wealth of 1 billion and more.
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Wow. Respect.
"65 years after the assassination of Congo's 1st PM, a Belgian diplomat will face trial"
"More than six decades after Congo's beloved first prime minister Patrice Lumumba was abducted and murdered by Belgium-backed secessionists, a former Belgian diplomat will stand trial for war crimes in connection to the assassination."
I hope the current US gov cosplayers are paying attention. Justice will be waiting.
This man is 93.
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Spiritual Annie ☮️
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