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Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•We're living in a utopia... It's just not ours.English
1·1 year agoWalking away from Omelas?
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News@lemmy.world•Fear in undocumented communities over Trump’s mass deportation threatsEnglish
1·1 year agoThe people who grow our fucking vegetables, causing food shortages and starvation and even higher prices
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Technology@lemmy.world•Elwood Edwards, the man behind the voice of AOL's 'You've got mail' greeting, dies at 74English
2·1 year agoI hated the file’s done. He sounded like such a goober on all of em, but that one was extra special annoying
There are plenty of Black cops too.
People like to take pride in their work, even when their work has the effect of harming people they care about.
Zombie apocalypse
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Technology@lemmy.world•Claude AI to process secret government data through new Palantir dealEnglish
6·1 year agoWe’re surrounded by assholes
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Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.world•"The American experiment endures," Biden said. "We're going to be OK."English
3·1 year agoThe neville chamberlin of america
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News@lemmy.world•Elon Musk joined Trump call with Ukraine’s Zelensky after US electionEnglish
1·1 year agoI think this is unlikely but is still the most likely way he could be contained or even removed
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NonCredibleDefense@lemmy.world•Considering last night's results, I don't expect NATO to be credible 4 years from nowEnglish
7·1 year agoIt was, as it always is, and as Clinton said over 30 years ago, “the economy, stupid”.
People who do not pay attention to politics vote like someone pressing random buttons on an elevator. They push the up button, no elevator comes, then they push the down button, no elevator comes, and all they know to do is to keep pushing buttons randomly hoping an elevator comes one way or another. And no elevator ever comes.
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Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•Making friends mostly at work causes a lot of consensus bias related to economics because it means less exposure to people who didn't get as lucky with any part of the process of getting that jobEnglish
4·1 year agoPlus, people quit and get fired, all the time.
In one sense, there’s no point in getting attached to them, because they, like you and me and all of us, are expendable cogs in a capitalist machine.
On the other hand, those networks of “work friends” do tend to get each other jobs when they quit or get fired, so there’s some value in making those connections if you plan to stay in the business.
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Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•Americans will ruin America for Americans.English
6·1 year agoI have said for years now: the USA is the best possible place to be rich or to get rich. But if you aren’t, and have no plans or ability to be, then it’s the worst in the developed world.
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Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•We might be living the final moments of not being terrified what the US President is going to doEnglish
234·1 year agoRacism and misogyny. That is all it is.
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World News@lemmy.world•Arrests, a gag order and a leak that could've harmed hostage talks: Gaza intel scandal sends shockwaves across IsraelEnglish
31·1 year agoI’m sorry, I read that as “incel leak scandal” and wondered how they got involved in this.
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News@lemmy.world•How some states turn pregnancy loss into criminal cases against womenEnglish
4·1 year ago300 years ago they’d have been burnt at the stake for witchcraft. This isn’t much of an improvement.
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News@lemmy.world•Gen Z voters are mobilizing more than past generations, motivated by issues like abortionEnglish
21·1 year agoGen X is running for fucking president and vice president, yo.
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Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•When I was a kid in the 80s, "computers will teach your kids in school" was one of those future utopia predictions. Now the thought of a computer teaching kids is horrifying to me.English
1·1 year agoIt is also a bullshit highway, and bullshit can travel faster since it isn’t held back by understanding, logic, or even thought.



And that there are any more elections