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sobchak

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  • Then they will ask why nobody wants to use their payment cards

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  • Lemmy is quite left-leaning, and the impetus behind creating Bitcoin was right-wing Austrian school economics. Now, it's being pushed by literal fascists.

  • Woman protesting essential economic injustice of American capitalism, USA, 1930s

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  • Money is power. The rich collect political power and business equity and use it to shape society. And, more often than not, their wealth is made by skimming off the top from the labor of their much poorer workers (the exceptions are highly-payed athletes and entertainers, and even then, a lot of their wealth comes from investments, which are usually profits from other people's labor).

  • Slavery rule

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  • Marketing is a huge industry, doesn't really benefit society, and isn't really needed at all. Executives are mostly useless or even detrimental to their companies. A lot of the financial sector is just gambling.

  • I'm doing my part💪

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  • As I understand it, pedophilia is just attraction; not taking action. And many people who were abused as children themselves end up developing the condition. I think it is treatable, but probably not "curable" (maybe, IDK).

  • Silicon Valley AI Startups Are Embracing China’s Controversial ‘996’ Work Schedule

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  • Yeah, I've worked temp factory jobs that were 12 hour shifts, 3 days on, 4 off, 4 on, 3 off, ... Not 6 days/week though. It also seems stupid for software engineers, at least. Personally, my output craters when I work long hours. I'd probably get less work done on 996 than a regular 40 hour week. In the past, I've been in the fortunate position where I could just make my own hours, and I'm pretty sure I got about the same amount of work done doing 6 hour days as 8 hour days.

    Edit: Growing up my dad did 12 hour shifts 5 days/week, and 8 hours on Saturdays. Dunno how he did it, but financially needed to.

  • Well, we have the fucking camps opening. Luckily, plenty of terminally online leftists are ready to tell us how noble and moral not voting was!

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  • I understood the point, but had a particular issue with labeling the Dems as allies. I like to think of it as more as choosing your opposition. They mostly do not align on the issues that I align with, even the glaring social issues of respecting the trans minority, or funding genocides.

    Edit: All issues are important. Someone with a consistent moral compass would align with almost everyone on all issues. At the very least they could get behind the poor and homeless, because most of us are just an accident or disease away from being the same. Woman rights are another issues that everyone should be on board with, because half the population are women, and everyone else has a close relationship with at least one woman.

  • Well, we have the fucking camps opening. Luckily, plenty of terminally online leftists are ready to tell us how noble and moral not voting was!

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  • The establishment Dems are only "allies" on some issues, and cannot be counted on for keeping their stances on those issues or actually doing much about them at all. For the most part, both parties are captured by and depend on corporations and the wealthy. Most politicians have no principles, because the profession attracts and rewards the kind of people who don't. Newsom is obviously being set up to be the next presidential candidate, and it already seems he's beginning to throw trans people under the bus (and is actively hostile to the poor and homeless). I do agree that harm reduction should be practiced; it's necessary, but not sufficient. Getting involved in progressive Democrat candidate campaigns, and voting in primaries is probably the best way forward electorally. It will likely take decades to right the ship though.

  • Some of y'all are not ready to hear this...

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  • She campaigned on fairly substantial changes, such as $25k downpayment assistance, $10k tax credit to first-time home buyers, and a lot of other housing reforms and subsidies. Not that I particularly liked her, but she did campaign on that kind of stuff (which people/media mostly ignored, IIRC).

  • any other dry herb vape fans here?

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  • Yep, feels a bit different (better) than liquid vape to me. Could just be in my head though. I use Dynavap or Tinymight (usually with a glass adapter and little bong).

  • Canada finally reveals the results of its universal basic income experiment

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  • Because, as the research found, it improves health, housing stability, and social relationships? There shouldn't be any need for charity, IMO. The patchwork of different social programs have tons of cracks for people to fall through if they don't meet all the specific requirements. I'm sure if offered guaranteed and safe housing, no strings attached, most of the people on the streets would take it, and their lives and society would be better for it.

  • true friend

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  • I sometimes make it at home. Just sliced avocado with salt and pepper on toast is pretty good and simple. Avocados are only $0.50-$1 where I live, so I never got the "buying a house" statement, but I'm guessing avocado toast is more expensive at coffee shops or something.

  • I've honestly never quite realized up until now how utterly ridiculous it is that people (especially in the US) regularly demand that their food be chauffeured to them.

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  • Yeah, I don't think I've ever had anything delivered by motorcycle. Wouldn't be much less sluggish though, except in very dense cities with grid-locked traffic. I've heard motorcycle costs are about the same as a car, due to more maintenance being needed (frequent tire replacement, gear replacement, etc). Some cars approach about the same MPG as motorcycles too (and EVs surpass motorcycles with MPGe). Many US cities are very spread out and a lot of travel is done on highways, requiring 700cc+ motorcycles, and stuff like lane-splitting is illegal in a lot of places.

  • Choose wisely

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  • Yeah, but it influences the job market; there probably are jobs you or your colleagues can get from US companies, and some may take, which results in a healthy job market.

    You are correct that I'm a generalist and that may be hurting me; I have designed and implemented ETL pipelines, but I'm more of a "jack of all trades master of none" kinda guy. On the other hand, being a generalist can be beneficial at a Staff level (on another foot, US companies are all about "efficiency" right now, and purging their more senior, expensive employees).

    To be clear, I'm not really upset about offshoring to most of those countries. It kinda sucks for me, but it's fair game if you can do the job better than me. I can live in most of the US fairly comfortably with Spain salaries. The offshoring to India is what upsets me, because they pay and treat them like shit. One company I interviewed with "assured" me that the Indian teams worked US EST, and that's just ridiculous to force software engineers to work night shift for such little pay or reason. And I can't really live comfortably in most places in the US for what they pay Indian engineers (could make similar money as a fast-food worker in the US).

  • Plus The Infinite Other Things

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  • If you successfully move people over with puritanical talking points, the party or whatever will get more puritanical. It also makes it easier for the other side to dismiss or counterattack if the other side is not puritanical. In this situation, it would be better to commend her "sex-positivity" or alternative lifestyle, relying on the other side's dissapproval of such things, instead of framing it as "bad," which kind of concedes that point.

  • And tonight, we feast. Is the spell finally lifting?

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  • Is this just because many prominent right-wing influencers/propagandists/social media platforms are also not with Trump on this Epstein stuff? I.e. they're still just being manipulated? I also wonder if this is the result of monied interest turning on Trump (i.e. Musk and others being hurt by tariff shenanigans and all the other crazy stuff).

  • Irish tourist jailed by ICE for months after overstaying US visit by three days: ‘Nobody is safe’

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  • Key word is "serious." Overstaying a visa visit is a civil offense, not even a criminal misdemeanor where the punishment may just be a small fine.

  • Choose wisely

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  • Being in Spain kind of explains the difference. There's a big push for offshoring US software engineering jobs right now, and I know Spain is one of the countries where some dev jobs are being offshored to (along with Eastern Europe, LATAM, and India). I've interviewed with a few startups, and their dev teams were in India, and they just wanted a US tech-lead/manager.

  • sigh

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  • I'm skeptical. I just skimmed the paper, but most of it seems to be taking a financial/macro-economic perspective without too much analysis on individual resources availability and the damage just current levels of output are causing to our environment/resources. I've seen other research that claim we are already over the carrying capacity of Earth, some say by a large margin (e.g. carrying capacity is 2 billion people). I'm pretty sure humans are already using (and degrading) the majority of Earth's arable land, for instance.

  • Choose wisely

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  • Problem is students treat traditional 4 year colleges like job training, which they aren't, and employers require degrees when they're not needed.