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  • Don't tread on me

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  • Here is the actual article.

    In the midst of the escalation of prices, the proposal arose to market donkey meat, sold for about 7,500 pesos per kilo. Butcher Gonzalo Moreira, from Buenos Aires, described the effects of the crisis on the sector. "We are facing a major recession. I don't know a merchant who isn't going through difficulties. The sector is under a lot of pressure, even without major price variations. Everything is paid by card, pushed forward," he told Radio 750.

    It is industrial production and sale of donkey meat pushed by flesh merchants in cities like Buenos Aires, not poor rural smallholders eating their own donkeys for survival.

    Your interpretation of this is ignorant and frankly kind of racist. You think most Argentinians are destitute subsistence farmers plowing their fields with donkeys? Get a grip.

    Also I 1000% promise you that vegetables are significantly cheaper to obtain than fucking donkey meat. This is just butchers trying to stay in business. Making lame, ignorant excuses for industrial animal agriculture is gross.

  • Don't tread on me

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  • Here is the actual article.

    In the midst of the escalation of prices, the proposal arose to market donkey meat, sold for about 7,500 pesos per kilo. Butcher Gonzalo Moreira, from Buenos Aires, described the effects of the crisis on the sector. "We are facing a major recession. I don't know a merchant who isn't going through difficulties. The sector is under a lot of pressure, even without major price variations. Everything is paid by card, pushed forward," he told Radio 750.

    It is industrial production and sale of donkey meat pushed by flesh merchants in cities like Buenos Aires, not poor rural smallholders eating their own donkeys for survival.

    Your interpretation of this is ignorant and frankly kind of racist. You think most Argentinians are destitute subsistence farmers plowing their fields with donkeys? Get a grip.

    Also I 1000% promise you that vegetables are significantly cheaper to obtain than fucking donkey meat. This is just butchers trying to stay in business.

  • AI Layoff Trap - a game theory paper from UPenn + Boston University, indicating that AI layoffs can collapse the economy

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  • Great find, thank you for sharing this.

  • Economics @lemmy.world
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    DefenseScoop

    DOD officially launches new Economic Defense Unit to mesh military aims with global financial sway

    defensescoop.com /2026/04/10/dod-economic-defense-unit-edu-steve-feinberg-pentagon/
  • News @lemmy.world
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    Bloomberg

    Anthropic Hires Trump-Linked Lobbying Firm Ballard Partners

    www.bloomberg.com /news/articles/2026-04-13/anthropic-hires-trump-linked-lobbying-firm-ballard-partners

  • Viktor Orbán concedes defeat as Hungary's Tisza Party heads for election win

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  • Still a lot of work to do. His cronies still hold a ton of power and control much of the media.

    Magyar winning will get the headlines but Tisza getting a supermajority in parliament (which they seem on track to do but I don’t think is official yet) will be the much more important win. That’s where durable reform can be made.

  • Climate @slrpnk.net
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    Bloomberg

    New York, Washington Set to Swelter Under Record Heat Next Week

    www.bloomberg.com /news/articles/2026-04-11/new-york-washington-set-to-swelter-under-record-heat-next-week
  • News @lemmy.world
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    Pawn Shop Loans Spike as High Gas Prices Weigh on Americans

    www.bloomberg.com /news/articles/2026-04-10/high-gas-prices-drive-struggling-consumers-to-us-pawn-shops

  • [Bloomberg] War Has Caused Lasting Damage to the Dollar System

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  • These kinds of comments are frustrating to me.

    Yes lots of things are important, some more than others. What is your point exactly? That nobody should bother covering a story of great significance to the world economy and geopolitics?

    It is in fact possible to write about more than one thing and regard many things as important and worth discussing. The existence of an article about dedollarization does not erase the existence of many other articles about the death, suffering, and human cost of war. I assure you that you can find many such articles quite easily and are even free to post them here as you wish.

  • News @lemmy.world
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    Bloomberg

    War Has Caused Lasting Damage to the Dollar System

    www.bloomberg.com /news/articles/2026-04-09/war-has-caused-lasting-damage-to-the-dollar-system-macroscope-mnrlrgh4

  • U.S. has violated ceasefire agreement, Iran parliamentary speaker says

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  • Great find, thanks for sharing.

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    at least I got to be smug on the internet

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  • Well they get to feel pure and superior, of course.

  • World News @lemmy.world
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    The Economist

    The war in the Gulf could cause a global food shock: Soaring prices for fertiliser and fuel are sowing panic among farmers

    www.economist.com /finance-and-economics/2026/04/07/the-war-in-the-gulf-could-cause-a-global-food-shock

  • Trump warns a 'whole civilization will die tonight' if a deal with Iran isn't reached

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  • I’m with you on Russia but I don’t think the PLA would consider nuking Taiwan. They ideologically consider everyone on the island to be Chinese and they also certainly don’t want to blow it to ashes just to have to rebuild it from scratch.

    IMO the wind is blowing toward a political reunification where China takes it without a shot. The opposition party is already pushing that and the US is not a stable or reliable enough ally at this point for them credibly rely on if China actually invades.

  • Trump warns a 'whole civilization will die tonight' if a deal with Iran isn't reached

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  • How can they sanction us when global finance still overwhelmingly depends on the dollar though? It would certainly accelerate efforts to move to a new financial regime but it would still take years to accomplish.

    Maybe mass dumping of US treasuries could be a feasible immediate option.

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    Lenovo Ditches Windows (somewhat) For Linux [Video][18mins]

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  • Wasn't Lenovo caught shipping laptops with spyware a few years ago?

  • Trump has a plan to steal the midterms. It will probably fail. The nightmare scenario for American democracy is no longer unthinkable.

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  • The bigger the blowout is, the less marginal risk that any given precinct being fucked with can alter the outcome in his favor. Even greater reason to mobilize the vote as much as possible.

    The electoral college also has nothing to do with the midterms.

    It's important to identify threats, but it's also critical not to aggrandize their power and make them appear invincible. They are desperate to instill defeatism into the ranks of their opposition. But their bravado betrays their weakness.

    They absolutely rely on the obedience of various pillars of support throughout society to retain their power and legitimacy. Those pillars can be convinced and/or forced to cease their obedience and in some cases to actively provide support to the opposition. None of this is new or unique to America. Tyrannical regimes have been removed from power many time through nonviolent mass movements. We can learn from them if we choose to.

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    DuckDuckGo Pushes Back on Forced AI, Asks Users If AI Should Be Optional

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  • I completely get your skepticism, but I was being serious. Yes, at least one life within my organization has literally been saved with the help of an AI drug discovery tool (used by a team of geneticists). I'm not going to get into specifics because nothing from the case has been released publicly (I'm sure a case report will pop up at some point) and I don't want to get my ass fired, but it's not a joke that these tools can be incredibly powerful in medicine when used by human experts, including helping to save lives.

  • Teaching seems like a frustrating job

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  • They also clearly aren't holding the kid accountable for his actions. To me that's the larger problem. Trying to address root causes is fine, but you don't get to go around attacking people even if you aren't feeling well. Part of parenting is teaching emotional regulation and consequences for your actions.

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    DuckDuckGo Pushes Back on Forced AI, Asks Users If AI Should Be Optional

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  • I don't hate AI as a tool. Especially in narrow, high-impact use-cases.

    I work in medicine. I have already seen instances of AI, used as a tool by professionals, helping to literally save lives. The applications in medical research (and many scientific fields probably) are genuinely exciting. AlphaFold won a nobel for a reason. Insanely cool projects like the Human Cell Atlas wouldn't be possible without it.

    The problem is stupid-ass 'general' chatbots being forced down everyone's throats so corpos can hoover up even fucking more of our data and sell more fucking ads.

    Even these chatbots can be useful, but I won't use any that collect data or sell ads.

    In this regard I think DDG's approach is pretty reasonable. You can turn on or off, you can use it without an account, and all queries are anonymized before being sent to the model.

    I get that people have a reflexive "fuck AI" reaction because of the way it has been deployed in society. I truly understand it. But honestly that's more of a capitalism problem than an AI problem. AI is a tool like a hammer. Just because evil corporate pricks are using it to bash our heads in doesn't mean we should hate hammers, it means we should hate evil corporate pricks.

  • New photos from Epstein’s personal collection show Trump, Clinton and much more

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  • Capitalism is an economic system that literally incentivizes and rewards sociopathic traits and behaviors.

    This kind of shit is simply inevitable under capitalism.

  • World News @lemmy.world
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    Reuters

    Congo’s hidden victims: Child survivors recount gang rape, sexual slavery by M23 forces

    www.reuters.com /investigates/special-report/congo-security-rapes/

  • should I go back to my old job now that several people, some of them more knowledgeable than me have told me they don't understand my decision to quit it?

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  • You haven't done anything wrong at all. Just maintain your license though! There are SO many non-floor nursing jobs. Outpt, procedural, surgical, administrative, informatics, etc etc.

    The floor is hell. Basically everybody who leaves inpt will never go back. Other jobs are so much better.

    So all I'm saying is keep your options open. Don't go back to nursing if you don't like it, but if you let your license lapse you may regret it in the future.

  • With all those American attacks on European unity and identity, it's about time to ditch all those crappy clothes with American flags on it, and start wearing EUROPEAN flags. #EuropeTogether🇪🇺💪

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  • It was always so funny to me that Bezos saved that show. I wonder if he ever got the irony.

  • Why do .ml users get a bad rep?

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  • I've enjoyed piefed a lot so far. I think it's a good choice.

  • [ProPublica] Trump’s Own Mortgages Match His Description of Mortgage Fraud, Records Reveal

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  • politics @lemmy.world
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    ProPublica

    Trump’s Own Mortgages Match His Description of Mortgage Fraud, Records Reveal

    www.propublica.org /article/trump-mortgage-fraud-florida-principal-residences
  • Books @lemmy.world
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    Blown away by Richard Wright's Black Boy

  • Technology @lemmy.world
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    The New Republic

    Arrest Mark Zuckerberg for Child Endangerment: Shocking new revelations about Instagram in a lawsuit against social media companies should pave the way for an ambitious prosecutor t

    newrepublic.com /article/203610/instagram-child-endangerment-arrest-mark-zuckerberg
  • Privacy @lemmy.ml
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    Jacobin

    Citizenship by Algorithm: Narendra Modi transformed India’s biometric ID system from a tool for promoting social welfare into a mechanism of mass surveillance and disenfranchisement.

    jacobin.com /2025/09/citizenship-by-algorithm
  • World News @lemmy.world
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    Reuters

    Assad's exiled spy chief and billionaire cousin plot Syrian uprisings from Russia

    www.reuters.com /investigations/assads-exiled-spy-chief-billionaire-cousin-plot-syrian-uprisings-russia-2025-12-05/