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- Comment on US will allow truckers to drive 16 hours per day instead of the previous limit of 14 hours 1 week ago:
I didn’t defend or promote it as a good thing, I just stated a fact. Pretending like it doesn’t exist just because you don’t like it or pedo-nazi Elmo doesn’t change the fact that it does…
- Comment on US will allow truckers to drive 16 hours per day instead of the previous limit of 14 hours 1 week ago:
Has been on the road for years and they’re expanding to Europe next year… Nothing close to original promised specs, but there’s videos on YouTube just asking their drivers what they think, they mostly like them.
- Comment on When the Democrats regain power, their centrist leadership will claim, "We can't do anything because...". Don't be fooled. We need to get the corporate centrists out and real progressives in! 1 week ago:
I’m Palestinian. Israel stole my Homeland and I’m no longer allowed to go there. I’ve lost family in the nakba, I’ve lost family fighting in the Palestinian/Jordanian military fighting Israel, and I’ve lost family in the recent genocide. Biden’s genocide that Trump is continuing.
Fuck all these psychopaths that want to pretend Biden was against the genocided when to this day his short period of overseeing it still caused the vast majority of killing, destruction, racist rhetoric, and ethnic cleansing, just because they want to go back to the status quo of ethnic cleansing Palestine while having domestic stability.
I have not once, not ever, defended Trump. This ghoul keeps bending reality to defend Biden. He deserves all the pain and suffering Trump brings him, and we (Palestinians) consider him the same as any Zionist, because their end goal is the same. Let us all die or become refugees, as long as they don’t hear about it.
- Comment on When the Democrats regain power, their centrist leadership will claim, "We can't do anything because...". Don't be fooled. We need to get the corporate centrists out and real progressives in! 1 week ago:
I’m done arguing with you, you’re extremely stupid, or more actually a genocide apologist.
I’ve broken down the numbers for you, and you’re insisting your understanding of the charts is the correct one. You’re insisting numbers going down means they went up, you’re insisting slope that literally goes down sharply actually goes up, you’re a lying moron.
This is what you voted for.
Literally didn’t. And I don’t support Trump or defend him, criticizing Biden and not denying what he did isn’t support for Trump. You pointing out what he’s doing today isn’t evidence Biden wouldn’t have done the same…
Netanyahu was outraged at Biden
Shut up already… Nobody outside of the DNC cult still believes this “bibi was so angry” bullshit narrative! What do you define as pressure? Biden gave him everything he asked for, bypassed Congress twice to send more bombs, gave him all the diplomatic cover, let police attack American students protesting it, and once again the majority of deaths to this day have occurred in the short period of the genocide under Biden.
Stop denying Democrats’s (and specifically Biden/Harris) involvement in the genocide, your kids might be proud of your memory one day.
- Comment on When the Democrats regain power, their centrist leadership will claim, "We can't do anything because...". Don't be fooled. We need to get the corporate centrists out and real progressives in! 2 weeks ago:
wrong flavor of progressive
This asshole is calling genocide progressive.
I probably criticized the support for Israel earlier than you and more vocally than you.
And he’s going around claiming Biden and Harris were anti genocide, and flat out lying about casualty numbers to defend them.
insufficiently pure Democrat
Genocide is sufficiently pure to him.
And your purity check isn’t even about their real actions and words
Says the genocide apologist claiming Biden and Harris were anti genocide.
- Comment on When the Democrats regain power, their centrist leadership will claim, "We can't do anything because...". Don't be fooled. We need to get the corporate centrists out and real progressives in! 2 weeks ago:
Your fucking receipts shows the slope increased in 2025
They don’t, you lying piece of shit.
- Comment on When the Democrats regain power, their centrist leadership will claim, "We can't do anything because...". Don't be fooled. We need to get the corporate centrists out and real progressives in! 2 weeks ago:
You disgusting ripe banana brained piece of shit.
At no point during the Trump presidency did the rate of killing go higher than the first 150 days of the genocide under Biden. And we’re still not counting the excess unreported deaths that primarily occurred during the first 150 days, when Israel cut all power to the strip and rained bombs at night.
The data is right there, and you’ve been repeatedly informed how you’re misunderstanding it, but now I think you’re just counting on people just believing your lies.
We don’t support Trump, you moron. You’re defending democrats as a “lesser evil”, and in this demonstrable case, they actually are the “bigger evil”. They’re only better domestically, and that’s what bothers liberals (or straight up Zionists pretending to be progressive), that Trump affects your cushy life. Fuck you.
You can’t just condemn the democrats for committing genocide, you have to gaslight everyone and pretend like you give a shit about Lebanon or Iran just to say “look, republicans are the only baddies.”
In case it isn’t clear to your two braincells, we don’t support Trump, we didn’t want him in power, and we didn’t vote for him. But you not only voted for genocidal KH (presumably), but you’re still defending them despite the data showing clearly what they did.
- Comment on When the Democrats regain power, their centrist leadership will claim, "We can't do anything because...". Don't be fooled. We need to get the corporate centrists out and real progressives in! 2 weeks ago:
Observe the acceleration under Trump statista.com/…/monthly-gaza-fatalities-injuries/
That’s cumulative you moron. The slope clearly drops after Biden did the majority of the damage. You can’t even comprehend the information you’re using, or you’ll do anything to twist reality to justify your support of genocide.
Under Biden, until 19th of January 2025, 47,724 killed. This number does not include the bodies never recovered or accounted for because they were vaporized, are still under rubble, or the entire family line was wiped off and noone was left to report them gone. The Lancet estimated 75 200 violent deaths between 7 October 2023, and 5 January, 2025 (www.thelancet.com/journals/langlo/…/fulltext). But we’ll stick to the official number that Biden over and over called untrustworthy. 47,724
By the time Biden was out of office, over 90 fucking percent of housing in Gaza was damaged or destroyed, you ghoul.
As of 10 September 2026, the official number is 74,784. That’s only 27,060 under Trump.
If you want the daily rate under both that’s 101.3 killed ever day under Biden (again way under reported) and 44.95 per day under Trump.
The recent slowdown in Gaza is caused only by increased killing in Iran and Lebanon, which does not play in your favor
Are you suggesting Biden, who bypassed Congress twice to illegally send them bombs to destroy practically all of Gaza, almost all hospitals and clinics, and almost all farmlands while gaslighting us, lying about seeing beheaded babies, callously licking ice cream while stating there are “none” chances of a ceasefire, who’s administration had members of the press dragged out in cuffs for asking about it, who framed the terrorist pager attack in Lebanon as heroic, or Kamala who went on national television and said she can’t think of a single thing she’d do different, would have stopped Israel from carrying on their stated objectives of greater Israel from day one?
Fucking clown.
- Comment on When the Democrats regain power, their centrist leadership will claim, "We can't do anything because...". Don't be fooled. We need to get the corporate centrists out and real progressives in! 2 weeks ago:
Are those charts in the room with us, asshole?
I bring receipts: data.techforpalestine.org
Under Biden, until 19th of January 2025, 47,724 killed. This number does not include the bodies never recovered or accounted for because they were vaporized, are still under rubble, or the entire family line was wiped off and noone was left to report them gone. The Lancet estimated 75 200 violent deaths between 7 October 2023, and 5 January, 2025 (www.thelancet.com/journals/langlo/…/fulltext). But we’ll stick to the official number that Biden over and over called untrustworthy. 47,724
By the time Biden was out of office, over 90 fucking percent of housing in Gaza was damaged or destroyed, you ghoul.
As of 10 September 2026, the official number is 74,784. That’s only 27,060 under Trump.
If you want the daily rate under both that’s 101.3 killed ever day under Biden (again way under reported) and 44.95 per day under Trump.
LOOK AT THE CHARTS, asshole.
- Comment on When the Democrats regain power, their centrist leadership will claim, "We can't do anything because...". Don't be fooled. We need to get the corporate centrists out and real progressives in! 2 weeks ago:
The killing factually decelerated under Trump.
That’s not to defend him or his plans of turning Gaza into a beachfront resort, but factually, the killing is no where near as bad as it was under Biden.
You predicted it on 2 seconds, we lived through the live steamed genocide from day one, you’re wrong, and it’s disgusting how smug you are about it.
- Comment on When the Democrats regain power, their centrist leadership will claim, "We can't do anything because...". Don't be fooled. We need to get the corporate centrists out and real progressives in! 2 weeks ago:
You clearly live in a world where suffering of others is negotiable as long as it benefits you, and you call that a colorful world.
What a weird way to attempt to insult me, yes genocide and imperialism are bad and their supporters are bad, there’s no room for gray in there.
- Comment on When the Democrats regain power, their centrist leadership will claim, "We can't do anything because...". Don't be fooled. We need to get the corporate centrists out and real progressives in! 2 weeks ago:
They don’t say “it’s too expensive”, they say “republicans won’t let us do it”.
But they let republicans do anything they want, including stupid petty distractions like renaming places. They are not on your side. Also they committed the majority of the genocide in Gaza. Democrats are not your friends, very few of them are decent humans.
- Comment on For-Profit Health Insurance is a major cause of death in America. 2 weeks ago:
They had a baby, and American health insurance killed him.
- Comment on Min wage in most states is so sad 3 weeks ago:
Do you expect the already wealthy to represent you? To not take bribes and enact laws that benefit them?
- Comment on Min wage in most states is so sad 3 weeks ago:
$300/month 😂😭😢😐
- Comment on the trump agenda is working 4 weeks ago:
lol fuck your society. It’s built on destroying the rest of the world, your empire is due to collapse. I’ve escaped when I realized my neighbors will watch me beg for my life as ICE dragged me away for being too brown and they’ll yell at me that it’s my fault because I didn’t vote for Kamala “most lethal military” Harris.
First they came for the communists and all that.
- Comment on the trump agenda is working 4 weeks ago:
Why the fuck would I vote for a republican if I think the “lesser evil” democrats are too evil?
The problem is voters insisting that there are only two options and continuing to vote along party lines. There’s only two options because you only vote for the two options, you refuse to build an alternative.
I refuse to participate in your game of choosing of my neighbor will be put in a concentration camp or a Palestinian child will be shot by a tank with 355 bullets while on the phone with emergency services begging for help. You support one and blame those who refuse to support either when the other side wins.
- Comment on Republicans are arguing over if trans people can play sports while the world laughs at us 4 weeks ago:
What? Paying a mortgage payment monthly for the privilege of having a $10,000 deductible isn’t good enough?
- Comment on Every payment option has a fee 4 weeks ago:
All insurance companies are evil and will do everything they can to deny any claim.
- Comment on Waiting and getting treated is better than waiting and going bankrupt 4 weeks ago:
I went to the ER in the US for an infected gallbladder full of stones, it was so bad I had to be hospitalized for almost a week. I was in the ER waiting room in the fetal position for literally hours after a nurse took my vitals before a doctor saw me, there were a couple other people in the waiting room. I nearly died. Over $20k bill after insurance.
I’ve also gone to the same ER with relatively mild UTI, I peed blood and fainted from the sight but otherwise didn’t really need the ER. They saw me immediately, and it was very busy.
Triage is a thing, whether they do it properly is another thing.
- Comment on An American city has been without power for 2 weeks, unacceptable. 4 weeks ago:
The rankings are determined using six objective indicators of academic and research excellence. Key metrics include the number of alumni and staff winning Nobel Prizes and Fields Medals, alongside a university’s per capita academic performance.
Publication records also play a critical role in the evaluation. The agency tracks the number of articles published in Nature and Science, the volume of articles indexed in the Web of Science’s Science Citation Index-Expanded and Social Sciences Citation Index, and the number of Highly Cited Researchers identified by Clarivate.
That criteria is weighed at 40% of the ranking.
The number of US universities that switched to “research university” and the pressure on all academic staff to publish publish publish probably has something to do with the rankings…
Is the ranking rigged? No, it’s published by a Chinese university. I’m saying US universities are gaming it.
Is doesn’t judge quality of published work, just quantity of published works and number citations. GIGO? It’s hard to tell on a short term.
From Wikipedia: “The ranking has been criticised for “relying too much on award factors” thus undermining the importance of quality of instruction and humanities.”
In a report from April 2009, J-C. Billaut, D. Bouyssou and Ph. Vincke analyse how the ARWU works, using their insights as specialists of Multiple Criteria Decision Making (MCDM). Their main conclusions are that the criteria used are not relevant; that the aggregation methodology has a number of major problems; and that insufficient attention has been paid to fundamental choices of criteria.[27]
The ARWU researchers themselves, N.C. Liu and Y. Cheng, think that the quality of universities cannot be precisely measured by mere numbers and any ranking must be controversial. They suggest that university and college rankings should be used with caution and their methodologies must be understood clearly before reporting or using the results. ARWU has been criticised by the European Commission as well as some EU member states for “favour[ing] Anglo-Saxon higher education institutions”. For instance, ARWU is repeatedly criticised in France, where it triggers an annual controversy, focusing on its ill-adapted character to the French academic system[28][29] and the unreasonable weight given to research often performed decades ago.[30] It is also criticised in France for its use as a motivation for merging universities into larger ones.[31]
There’s more criticism. Take the ranking with a cup of salt.
- Comment on Rich people don't understand us at all. 4 weeks ago:
I get that
I don’t think you got it.
They’re saying the guy thinks you have roommates because you can’t afford rent, not because you need someone to do chores. You make your own bed in his world, but making the bed and other domestic chores are so time consuming that you cannot work enough to make enough money to not have a roommate.
That is, he thinks if you don’t have chores then you can work more, earn more, afford no roommate.
It’s super out of touch as you said, but he’s not suggesting roommates do your bed.
- Comment on the trump agenda is working 5 weeks ago:
“just vote blue no matter who”
~ your self-righteous idiotic peers and why nothing will change
- Comment on Damn straight! 3 months ago:
I don’t know how being in a union would stop my brain from thinking about a problem I haven’t solved in my work day… It’s not my employer dictating it, it’s my brain.
- Comment on Damn straight! 3 months ago:
We take our work home because we’re thinking about the problems and how to solve them all the time, some of my best solutions came to me in the shower.
I have a home lab and I often carry what I learn from my lab to work, I’m not working my job when I’m working on my lab, but there mental overlap is there.
I can’t imagine I’ll be solving many burger flipping problems in the shower.
- Comment on Astronomers seek global ban on space advertising 3 months ago:
But they won’t even strike over gas prices…
- Comment on Astronomers seek global ban on space advertising 3 months ago:
They bomb kids daily and you’re complacent, you’re telling me if they added more ads you’re gonna finally revolt?
I don’t buy it.
- Comment on The rich convinced us that taxing them is too complicated but everyday people can be taxed pretty easily 4 months ago:
Stocks also already get taxed, just at different moments rather than annually: capital gains when you sell, dividends when paid, corporate income tax on the underlying company, estate tax at death. The argument against an annual wealth-style tax is partly that the system already takes its cut, just not on a recurring basis.
Yeah, that’s sort of the whole point of the post. If I buy a stock for $1 today and still it for $10 tomorrow, I pay taxes on the gains tomorrow.
If I buy it for $10 today and sell it for $1 tomorrow, I claim it as a loss.
If I buy a house for $100k yesterday, I’m paying taxes on $400k property today, and $900k tomorrow. Even if tomorrow I sell it for $200k.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
They’re referring to 32 hour shifts, these are the extremes for certain occupations (nurses are notable example). It’s common to work 12-14 hour daily shifts for months at a time without any days off, though.
And capitalists would love nothing more than to apply it in the US, they see you as lazy leeches, not as the labor that makes their shitty business work.
- Comment on Are there any story ripoffs that are actually good? 6 months ago:
Popular != Good