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@ Firefly7 @lemmy.blahaj.zone

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I just like the fediverse and hope it does well.

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  • A 'US-Made iPhone' Is Pure Fantasy

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  • I thought it was Arizona that the Taiwanese company was building in.

    It’s actually interesting as a sort of exception-proving-the-rule because with the chip factory they discovered they simply couldn’t run its creation without having a bunch of skilled workers come over from Taiwan. which in turn caused culture shock/clash issues between the Taiwanese and American workers.

  • More than 1,000 ‘Hands Off’ anti-Trump protests hit cities across the US

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  • Theyre broadly supportive of worker rights, trans rights, etc, and so they’re on the left of the political spectrum, but many are also fairly close to the Democratic Party, and they are a mixed bag when it comes to Israel, alongside being reformist rather than revolutionary, which places them in the center-left imo. Out of the organizations listed on the Hands Off website, the DSA was the furthest-left one I saw, and the DSA is itself a big-tent socialist organization that includes reformists and Democratic Party supporters. The Hands Off rally in my area had milquetoast Democratic congresspeople as speakers.

    There’s a stark contrast between the sort of rhetoric and political position you’ll see at Hands Off versus at a pro-Palestine protest or a socialist reading group.

  • More than 1,000 ‘Hands Off’ anti-Trump protests hit cities across the US

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  • 50501 is one group in the coalition running Hands Off. Hands Off is primarily run by a center-left group called Indivisible, but is endorsed/supported by a lot of other center-left to left organizations like the AFL-CIO, ACLU, HRC, DSA.

  • It has now been 15 years since the federal minimum wage rose to $7.25

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  • The math is not right. Percentages don’t multiply like that.

    A change from 0.25 to 7.25 over 71 years means an annual increase of about 5%. That 5% annual change, starting with $7.25 15 years ago, would take us to around $15 today.

  • Conservative Bots and Bad Actors Are Swarming R/Millenials Right Now

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  • I think “convinced of” is more correct, but both phrases work. Could also say “convinced on”.

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    A cool guide to Early warning signs of facism

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  • Most fascist dictatorships have had large privatizations and all have favored corporations in economic policy. You act like business-state collaboration under fascism was unique to the nazis, but it was also central to fascist Italy, Francoist Spain, and right-wing dictatorships like those of Pinochet or the military in Brazil.

    Fascism happens when capitalism is in crisis because it’s better for the corporations than socialism would be. Both Italy and Germany had strong socialist movements in the years before fascists came to power, and fascists are consistently funded by a business community that fears losing everything it has. The fascist emphasis on the state, nationalism, and war, is only because it’s required to suppress organized labor.

  • "America First" foreign policy: JD Vance wants to abandon Ukraine but bomb Mexico and Iran

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  • “Poor Mexico, So far from God, so close to the United States.”

  • Amazon workers narrowly reject union in historic vote

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  • This is where it’s important to remember who exactly is writing the laws for union recognition. Many countries have laws that nominally support the formation of unions but moreso exist to reduce union support or funnel unions into polite, legal activity.

  • About the us election

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  • I don’t understand this political strategy in the long-run. If the left always unflinchingly votes for the leftmost candidate then the optimal strategy for the DNC is always to choose someone just 1% to the left of whoever the Republicans are running.

    The trumpers aren’t strong because they always vote. They’re strong because everyone knows that, if Trump isn’t on the ballot, they won’t turn out to vote nearly as strongly.

    Combine this with the fact that basically every business interest wants right-wing politics and you get the perpetual rightwards slide of the Democratic Party.

  • Columbia University community 'shattered' after police raid

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  • The second wave of arrests was almost entirely students, because Columbia has been on lockdown and it’s been increasingly difficult for non-students to get in in the first place. The “outside agitators were at fault” narrative that Columbia is pushing is at odds with this.

  • Removed

    The new show

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  • Nearly 30% of Gen Z women identify as LGBTQ, Gallup survey finds

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  • It includes transgender women, but I don't think doing so skews the numbers. AFAIK in the US there are about the same number of trans women as trans men, so any increase in the queer percentage from trans women would be balanced out by the decrease from excluding trans men.

    I'd expect an AFAB-specific poll to have a slightly higher queer percentage, since it would include nonbinary people while this poll excludes them.

  • Announcing Ibis, the federated Wikipedia Alternative

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  • Not sure what the use case is for a federated wiki. It lets you... edit a different wiki with your account from your initial one? View pages from other wikis using your preferred website's UI? Know which wikis are considered to have good info by the admins of the wiki you're browsing from?

    This is presented as a solution to Wikipedia's content moderation problems, but it doesn't do much against that that wouldn't also be done by just having a bunch of separate, non-federated wikis that link to each others' pages. The difference between linking to a wiki in the federation network, and linking to one outside the federation network, is that the ui will be different and you'd have to make a new account to edit things.

    I suppose it makes sense for a search feature? You can search for a concept and select the wiki which approaches the concept from your desired angle (e.g. broad overview, scientific detail, hobbyist), and you'd know that all the options were wikis that haven't been defederated and likely have some trustworthiness. With the decline of google and search engines in general, I can see this being helpful. But it relies on the trustworthiness of your home wiki's admin, and any large wiki would likely begin to have many of the same problems that the announcement post criticizes Wikipedia for. And all this would likely go over the head of any average visitor, or average editor.

    I don't know. I'm happy this exists. I think it's interesting to think about what structures would lead to something better than Wikipedia. I might find it helpful once someone creates a good frontend for it, and then maybe the community can donate to create a free hosting service for Ibis wikis. Thank you for making it.

  • xkcd #2897: Light Leap Years

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  • This one made me laugh. Most I just find to be novel, silly, or interesting, but a fair few are pretty funny to me.

  • People using 'less' when they should be using 'fewer'

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  • You all are going to give me Homestuck flashbacks.

  • Experts: No Way to Truly Know if Redditor You're Arguing With Is Bot or Child

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  • It’s from The Hard Drive, which is another satire site. The sidebar for this community mentions that other satire sites are okay to post.

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    Instances that didn't block facebooks- thread.net

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  • No. Extend is the part where they add their own proprietary features to the protocol that create interoperability problems with the rest of the services using the protocol.

  • Campaign to unionize automakers in America picks up pace rapidly; Honda starts anti-union campaign

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  • Stuff like “Unions aren’t guaranteed to give you a raise, or any other benefits,” “Unions just want you to join so you can pay dues to them (think about all the things you can buy with 1% of your income!),” “Unions get in the way of workers having a healthy relationship with management,” “Unions make things less efficient, so we may dip into unprofitability and have to close down the factory…” Employers also often hire “neutral third parties” to tell employees that unions can be good, or used to be good, but aren’t at [employer].

    Joining a union is the sensible thing to do, but employers fighting tooth and nail and breaking every slap-on-the-wrist law on the books is also the sensible thing for them to do, so they do everything from anti-union pamphlets to one-on-one intimidation meetings to calling ICE on their pro-union immigrant workers

  • Top comment decides next move, legal or not | day 64: The smoke from the explosion clears and we see a crab rave and the git man page is now in background

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  • Two of the crabs begin to play chess among themselves

  • Oneshot @lemmy.ml
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    Alula plush now available at Fangamer!

  • A fat chance and a slim chance are the same thing

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  • No - semantic satiation is when you read or hear a word so much in a short timeframe that it stops feeling like a real word, and briefly feels like just a jumble of letters/sounds.

  • Fediverse @lemmy.world
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    Could the Fediverse handle money?

  • xkcd @lemmy.world
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    xkcd #2813: What To Do

  • Blahaj Lemmy Meta @lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    Blahaj is complete!

  • Blahaj Lemmy Meta @lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    Shonk progress update!

  • Fuck Cars @lemmy.ml
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    The War On Cars podcast episode about Cars' effects on wildlife

    thewaroncars.org /2023/07/18/108-traffication-with-paul-donald/
  • LGBTQ+ @beehaw.org
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    Aromantic adults: how has your aromanticism affected your life and relationships?

  • Excellent Reads @sh.itjust.works
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    The Anxiety of Influencers (2021)

    harpers.org /archive/2021/06/tiktok-house-collab-house-the-anxiety-of-influencers/
  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
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    How many people here never used Reddit?

  • Not Just Bikes @lemmy.ml
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    Olivia Chow Elected New Mayor of Toronto

    www.nytimes.com /2023/06/26/world/canada/mayor-toronto-election.html
  • Fuck Cars @lemmy.ml
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    Suggested readings?

  • Not Just Bikes @lemmy.ml
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    Suggested readings?

  • 196 @lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    Rule