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  • Accelerationism

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  • my covid test is positive

    "COVID is the problem"

    "I've got norovirus"

    "That doesn't matter"

  • Discomfort with modern technology shapes Gen Z's desire to live in the past

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  • except in the context of managing withdrawal symptoms

    Seems like one hell of a caveat

  • 40 years after Chernobyl, Stasi files reveal scale of Soviet misinformation

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  • Compared to Western, modern designs

    When was the last time the US built a reactor successfully?

  • 40 years after Chernobyl, Stasi files reveal scale of Soviet misinformation

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  • It's weird to see this much of a cover-up of the mismanagement of a nuclear facility while people insist we need to build more, bigger, and less regulated facilities.

    I wonder what the Polymarket on Chernobyl would have looked like if it existed back then.

  • Accelerationism

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  • Democrat does not equal liberal.

    Oh, you scratched yours, didn't you?

  • Aint no way 😡

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  • Austin went this way back in the '00s.

    The city leadership decided throwing tons of events would boost business in the city. So you took this kinda quiet college town and juiced up with an endless parade of car races, festivals, and corporate events without ever building out public infrastructure.

    On top of that, downtown kept expanding well past the point that the traffic can accommodate it.

    So you just get these nightmarish jams all through the city constantly.

  • Aint no way 😡

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  • The fundamental difference between a resident who is getting priced out of their home town and a landlord who is looking to maximize seasonal rents.

  • Sabastian Sawe breaks fabled 2-hour barrier in the marathon to shatter world record by 65 seconds

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  • Chinese Robots on notice.

  • People in Israel were searching for cole allen 12 h before the attempt

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  • Might be how a country/regional service date stamps its metadata relative to how Google Analytics converts it to a result. Exactly 12 h sounds more like a conversion issue.

  • Accelerationism

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  • most scientists agree it is too late

    I mean, "too late" for what is always the question. Folks keep insisting The Apocalypse is next month. And then it doesn't come, and we get a wave of "I guess nothing actually ever happens" during a new record heat wave.

    if it takes the entire world falling apart to make the realities undeniably apparent, then so be it

    The world is a big place. It's not clear what "falling apart" is even supposed to look like.

    I'm seeing people predicting a 4% drop in population because of a particularly harsh El Nino this year. I've been hearing about a looming economic crash that's at least ten years overdue.

    At the scope of a human life, all of this is still very gradual change. You're going to be living in the middle of it and not realize how much has changed because you never knew subzero weather in St. Louis or glaciers in Montana were normal.

    The talk is of some kind of sharp sudden drop, and not the further churn of a 30,000 year old global extinction event.

  • Accelerationism

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  • Thankfully I stopped voting after Biden, so my bad luck 🍀 has peaked.

    I mean, you joke. But folks really do seem to believe there's a karmic curse on people who "vote wrong". That's the entire theory of Leopards Eating Faces, anyway.

  • Accelerationism

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  • Accelerationism

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  • “Did we ever think we would see the day when we would say, ‘Please bring back George W. Bush’?” House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said during an interview with Evan Smith last week. “We really did work together.”

  • Accelerationism

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  • "Capitalism caused all these ecological problems"

    "Okay what about the same problems occurring outside of a capitalist framework"

    "Those don't count"

    Shrug

    You've got to move beyond the ideological and address the material. Ecological harm isn't predicated on privatized profit.

  • Accelerationism

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  • You aren’t going to find liberals venerating Reagan, Bush, and Clinton

    How Democrats Came to Feel Nostalgic for George W. Bush

    “Did we ever think we would see the day when we would say, ‘Please bring back George W. Bush’?” House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said during an interview with Evan Smith last week. “We really did work together.”

    Why Do Democrats Keep Embracing George W. Bush?

    Former Democratic Representative Katie Hill tweeted, “In a million years I never thought I’d be crying watching this, thinking how much better we’d all feel if Bush were president today. Wtf.”

  • Colombia hosts talks on exiting fossil fuels as global energy crisis deepens

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  • Trump single handedly doing more to end fossil fuel addiction than the last five presidencies combined

  • Federal Surveillance Tech Becomes Mandatory in New Cars by 2027

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  • Why would I do that?

    Presumably because you have a hagiographic understanding of your nation's police and courts, and you really do believe civil rights are delivered from a benevolent judicial priesthood.

    You stating that someones vehicle is public is quite literaly 180 degrees from the legal opinion.

    Whose legal opinion?

  • Accelerationism

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  • The problem is capitalism.

    The Soviets were shit on environmentalism for a long time. We didn't see a serious environmental movement in China until the early 2000s. We've never really seen one in the USSR, prior to its collapse.

  • Accelerationism

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  • humans are just another parasitic and unchecked species that is probably going to learn about their own environmental limits the hard way.

    Humans are the exception precisely because they can see the axe falling and move out of the way.

    Outside of the fossil fuel dominated US/Saudi sphere, we've seen an enormous collaborated effort to curb greenhouse gases. Not everyone is ignoring the risks and consequences.

    What we have the capitalist West is a conscious choice between short term profit and long term survival.

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    Your Own Personal Jesus

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    Everyday Israelis Express Support for Genocide to Abby Martin

  • AI @lemmy.ml
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    Is the future looking bright?

  • Technology @lemmy.world
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    Chinese carmaker Seres patents voice-controlled "in-vehicle toilet"

    www.bbc.com /news/articles/c1l92yv4mydo
  • World News @lemmy.world
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    First deportees from US arrive in Congo capital, sources say

    www.reuters.com /world/africa/first-deportees-us-arrive-congo-capital-sources-say-2026-04-17/
  • Movie News and Discussion @lemmy.ml
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    Skeletor at Coachella

  • politics @lemmy.world
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    Warfare in a Box: The making of the modern mercenary

    thebaffler.com /salvos/warfare-in-a-box-fogel
  • politics @lemmy.world
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    Trump and Iran Are Both in Impossible Positions

    talkingpointsmemo.com /edblog/trump-and-iran-are-both-in-impossible-positions
  • World News @lemmy.world
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    UK seeks to jail Palestine Action for 'terrorism' amid UK media blackout

    thegrayzone.com /2026/04/12/uk-jail-palestine-action-terrorism-uk/
  • News @lemmy.world
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    Trump Friend Asked ICE to Detain the Mother of His Child

    www.nytimes.com /2026/03/20/us/paolo-zampolli-ice-melania-trump-epstein.html
  • World News @lemmy.world
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    Iranians form human chains at bridges and power plants

    www.bbc.com /news/videos/c4g5j33p6vno
  • Today I Learned @lemmy.world
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    In Israel, a rabbinical judge can force couples into divorce if the wife dresses indecently

    web.archive.org /web/20181118131819/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/israel/7919501/Israeli-rabbis-clamp-down-on-burka.html
  • News @lemmy.world
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    Jonathan Majors Fell Through A Window On Daily Wire Action Flick, Leading Crew To Walk Off Set; Producers Say They “Don’t Negotiate With Communists”

    deadline.com /2026/04/jonathan-majors-falls-through-window-crew-strike-daily-wire-1236773038/
  • politics @lemmy.world
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    Thirst Traps Over Think Tanks: Dems Want Hotter Candidates on the Ballot

    www.thebulwark.com /p/thirst-traps-over-think-tanks-democrats-want-hotter-candidates-beauty-attractiveness
  • aww @lemmy.world
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    Happy Work From Home Day to those that celebrate

  • World News @lemmy.world
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    US-Israeli strikes destroy tallest bridge in the Middle East

    www.telegraph.co.uk /world-news/2026/04/02/iran-war-latest-news-trump-speech-israel-strait-of-hormuz/
  • politics @lemmy.world
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    Texas Railroad Commission Candidates Bo French calls for deportation of 100 million people

    www.texastribune.org /2026/03/27/texas-cpac-bo-french-islamophobia-muslim-railroad-commissioner-deport/
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    Federal trial over insufficient AC in Texas prisons starts

    www.texastribune.org /2026/03/30/texas-prison-ac-trial-heat-deaths-allegations/
  • Technology @lemmy.world
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    Building Tanks While the Ukrainians Master Drones

    mezha.net /eng/bukvy/https://www.theatlantic.com/national-security/2026/03/who-needs-tanks-age-drones/686540//
  • World News @lemmy.world
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    Russia took satellite images of U.S. airbase in days before Iranian attack, Ukraine's Zelenskyy says

    www.nbcnews.com /world/ukraine/russia-us-base-american-troops-zelenskyy-rcna265612