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- Comment on How is the Stock Market keeping it's value after *points to everything*? 1 day ago:
It was dumb speculation until he took down all regulatory apparatus, and grabbed the national checkbook while trump made himself a puppet king. Now any money not in Tesla is crazy.
- Comment on How is the Stock Market keeping it's value after *points to everything*? 1 day ago:
Divorced from reality? Teslas CEO controls Treasury payments as of a week ago.
I cannot think of an easier bet than on a dictator’s personal interests rising. Trump is just a sock puppet for a bit. Musk, Vance, etc. are the next Gen of uglier.
- Comment on DOGE Claimed It Saved $8 Billion in One Contract. It Was Actually $8 Million. 2 days ago:
And by vulture venture capitalists you mean nearly every publicly traded company, which is almost every company you’ve ever heard of. It’s why you have to constantly be on the defensive even when buying a pack of gum. Is it full of poison? Too much sugar? Do they use slave labor to produce the product? Are they funding genocide in central America? Why is the price 3x last year?
By welding insatiable, unregulated capitalism as the sole way of operating our economy, we guarantee that quality and human-positive outcomes are eaten up, taken over, destroyed, monetized, privatized or enshittified.
I just want to buy a pack of gum in a reasonable world that doesn’t need to support CEO levels of wealth and all the horrific downstream practices and cost cutting that comes with it
- Comment on A troll (https://lemm.ee/u/shinigamiookamiryuu) is a new moderator of AskLemmy on Lemmy.world. What can be done about this? 1 week ago:
I reported that tool to another mod in AskLemmy, got nowhere. Same mod you mention posted an AskLemmy question, I commented, he removed my up voted comment and then deleted his down voted, nonsensical one. I asked why and he was super weird. I’ve had maybe 1 comment removed by a mod in 15 years of reddit and 1 of Lemmy.
It’s a bad look for Lemmy, get rid of the dumbass.
- Comment on Is anyone planning on doing anything about trump creating a concentration camp at guantanamo bay? 3 weeks ago:
If you truly haven’t connected the dots as to why the slide to the right of Democrats enabled Trump to win, and win again, I pity you.
Throwing labels at me because you can’t refute the point is always the mark of someone on the correct side. Rest easy!
- Comment on Is anyone planning on doing anything about trump creating a concentration camp at guantanamo bay? 3 weeks ago:
He allowed extra-judicial torture practices there against UNHR and any humanitarian objections. He didn’t do what Trump is going to, but he allowed it to normalize and continue despite the power to stop it, and makes it less of a leap for a right wing freak to make something like this happen. It’s not a “thanks Obama”, but people down voting holding Obama to account for keeping it open want Dems to be blameless despite complicity in the neoliberal bullshit dating back to Clinton as the party swung for corporate interests and abandoned their humanity.
- Comment on Is anyone planning on doing anything about trump creating a concentration camp at guantanamo bay? 3 weeks ago:
Obama didn’t, even with a supermajority in the Senate. This is the problem with me liberalism taking over the D party. Trump certainly isn’t going to.
- Comment on Nikola Jokic buries nearly full-court buzzer-beater for Denver - ESPN Video 4 weeks ago:
“I just thought I was tired and decided to not run more and shoot from there. What?!?”
- Comment on Canva charges you to make a circle 5 weeks ago:
You catch on too quickly.
- Comment on Canva charges you to make a circle 5 weeks ago:
You can no longer choose the shapes, AI hallucinates them for you. If they don’t fit your desired shape you can pay-per-side-polygon to have a fixed number of sided shape added. mS pAInt
- Comment on Hollywood Doesn’t Make Movies Like ‘The Fugitive’ Anymore 1 month ago:
I read an article about how the Atlantic, owned by Steve Jobs widow, employs a leader who is ex-israeli military and that their coverage of the conflict in the last year has been one-sided and horrific. It was damning.
“The reason it’s called the Atlantic is that it belongs at the bottom of the ocean” was the title. I was convinced and disappointed, I remember them having interesting articles back in the day but am done reading them.
- Comment on Lebron with the lefty dunk 1 month ago:
And it looks like he was also back to make the steal off the outlet pass. Just wow at his age. The decision was what 15 years ago?!?
- Comment on There's fucking ads in board games now 1 month ago:
-you won’t believe this shit
- Comment on There's fucking ads in board games now 1 month ago:
Sounds like a money maker. Now just as AI to it and you’re set with your 2025 business model
- Comment on There's fucking ads in board games now 1 month ago:
Just wait until toilet paper real estate starts being used.
- Comment on Opinion | Enough With the Land Acknowledgments 1 month ago:
“might have outlived their usefulness.”
As they were mostly non-commitment, no-cost virtue signaling without any benefit to the harmed, of course they never had any usefulness other than allowing the opioid of having run the progressive gauntlet of ideas and become somewhat fashionable so as to rid consumers of horror, guilt, doubt and the complex feelings that should be associated with genocide.
There is always a place for education about horrors committed, but as an also-ran, a brochure cover footnote or something read before a Drunken Shakespeare play you are out to see on a Friday night, they are all offensive to the tragedy of what happened.
- Comment on Amazon adds Dirk Nowitzki, Blake Griffin to NBA studio coverage: Sources 1 month ago:
Interesting personalities. Blake can take up a whole stage himself, will be interesting to see how he would share it long-term with others. Course I guess if Shaq managed it somewhat, Griffin might make it.
- Comment on Elon Musk makes 23 posts urging King Charles III to overthrow UK government 1 month ago:
Patience with people trying to overthrow governments is not advised.
Ironically, An American
- Comment on Opinion | Is America Just Going to Abandon Its Towns Falling Into the Ocean? 1 month ago:
Of course not, America has a rich history of allotting tax dollars to wealthy enclaves near coasts. Now if you’re poor…yeah you’re fucked.
- Comment on [Beck] Heat suspend Jimmy Butler for seven games. 1 month ago:
PG has more miles left on the tires and can also be a #1 offense and defense guy on a playoff team as he showed just 2 years ago with probably the strongest showing of his career.
There is definitely a market for Jimmy though; someone who can get a bucket and isn’t afraid of any moment will always have a spot as a 5th/6th man on a playoff winning team, and I think yo be fair to Jimmy he’s more than only a 1-dimensional Jamal Crawford type.
- Comment on Maybe, just maybe, a company that refuses to give you time off if you have a bullet inside of you is a really really shitty company 1 month ago:
Appropriate, as Amazon is one of the major companies trying to have the NLRB,which gives unions a modicum of pushback against corps, declared “unconstitutional”. Id expect a full press on that in the fist year if successful, id expect major portions of the NLRA itself to be targeted.
Lots of blood and sweat and tears of the 19th and 20th century being washed away right now that will have to be shed again to get these rights back.
- Comment on Has the USA turned into an oligarchy? 1 month ago:
Late 19th century. There was some pushback, some anti-trust laws with teeth, and then decades of bloody union battles to secure rights workers and their elected officials have thrown away for 50 years.
The concentration of wealth and influence of 10-16 people trumps that of hundreds of millions and is as bad or worse than it was during the robber baron era.
Political representatives are bought and paid for which means the poor have no voice against the wealthy.
We have a justice system that is incapable of prosecuting the wealthy and powerful, when it isn’t being stocked by ideologues.
Meritocracy is dead; Birth has much greater correlation to wealth and power.
Media is fully captured by the wealthy; they own the vast majority of media consumed: TV, film, news, social junk.
Nice country you got here.
- Comment on Jimmy Butler Remains Away from Heat amid Trade Rumors, Illness; Status TBD vs. Hawks 1 month ago:
Butler would be a massive upgrade defensively to toro Beal but he’d be the only one playing it.
- Comment on Jimmy Butler Remains Away from Heat amid Trade Rumors, Illness; Status TBD vs. Hawks 1 month ago:
Suns would be a waste…he’d be an upgrade from Beal sure, but Suns would still have the same problem, lots of talent and no plan or strategy. If I’m Butler I’m not sure if that’s a better situation though maybe better than carrying a whole team oneself.
- Comment on Jimmy Butler Remains Away from Heat amid Trade Rumors, Illness; Status TBD vs. Hawks 1 month ago:
So where does Jimmy go/fit?
- Comment on Why The Long Kiss Goodnight is a great alt-Christmas movie 1 month ago:
I have always loved this movie and never understood why it wasn’t as big or even more than die hard–even for dudes who can’t deal with a badass woman, Samuel L is still awesome, just doesn’t make any sense it wasn’t more popular.
- Comment on Shams: Jimmy's Xmas wish - out of Miami before trade deadline 1 month ago:
Yeah, they’ve been coasting on fumes for a few years since he frigging carried them to the finals. They didn’t get anything around him and I wondered how long he or they were going to keep running it back when the finals was way over-delivering. Milwaukie upgraded, Boston, Cleveland…Miami has been sliding because others have improved. Miami’s just older.
- Comment on Fear of job loss hits its highest point in years—but workers won’t accept less than $81,000 1 month ago:
starting to feel?
Pacific is a puddle of water then eh?
- Comment on Nuggets searching for offensive help via trade, eyeing Bulls’ Zach LaVine: Sources 2 months ago:
OOTL–did Murray fall off or get injured again? Haven’t watched much in a year or so, surprised to hear his name being bandied about.
- Comment on Uber for Nursing: How an AI-Powered Gig Model Is Threatening Health Care - Roosevelt Institute 2 months ago:
There isn’t a struggling industry that venture capital money and lobbying can’t make much worse.